Sunbelt adds App State plus three

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http://www.sunbeltsports.org/splash.aspx?id=splash_16

NEW ORLEANS – Four schools joined the Sun Belt Conference today as Appalachian State, Georgia Southern, Idaho and New Mexico State officially joined the league as part of its expansion effort originally announced on March 27, 2013.

Louisiana-Lafayette and Louisiana-Monroe are part of the Sun Belt Conference.

"The additions of Appalachian State and Georgia Southern along with Idaho and New Mexico State put the Sun Belt Conference in a great spot in the national landscape of college football,” Sun Belt Conference Commissioner Karl Benson said on Tuesday. “Expectations will be high this season after the SBC had its best football season in league history last year, and I know expectations and excitement will be at all-time highs for Appalachian State and Georgia Southern with their jumps from FCS to the FBS level.”
“While Idaho and New Mexico State are both undergoing a rebuilding process, I am very confident it won’t be long before the Vandals and Aggies are going to bowl games and contending for the Sun Belt football championship,” Benson said.
Appalachian State and Georgia Southern join the Sun Belt Conference as full members while Idaho and New Mexico State join as football-only members. The additions bring the Sun Belt Conference’s all-sports membership to 11 schools and its football membership also to 11 schools. Appalachian State and Georgia Southern will be immediately eligible to compete for Sun Belt Conference championships in all sports but will not be eligible for bowl games until the 2015 season.
For Appalachian State and Georgia Southern, July 1 marks the completion of their first years in a two-year transition from the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) to the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS). Both schools feature rabid fanbases and a storied, rich and most importantly winning tradition surrounding their football programs. Appalachian State (3) and Georgia Southern (6) have won nine combined FCS national titles since 1985. This includes Appalachian State’s back-to-back-to-back national titles from 2005-07 and Georgia Southern’s back-to-back titles in 1985-86, 1989-90 and 1999-2000.
Idaho and New Mexico State are familiar partners with the Sun Belt Conference as both begin their second affiliations with the league. Idaho was a football-only member from 2001-04 while New Mexico State was an all-sports member from 2000-05.
The Sun Belt Conference begins its new era with additional members as well as new bowl affiliations in 2014. The Sun Belt Conference holds primary bowl tie-ins with the R+L Carrier New Orleans Bowl and GoDaddy Bowl while it adds the Raycom Media Camellia Bowl in Montgomery, Ala., to its list of primary bowl tie-ins beginning in 2014. The Sun Belt also adds the Cure Bowl in Orlando, Fla., to its primary bowl tie-in list beginning in December 2015. In addition to these bowl games, the Sun Belt Conference is also part of a coalition that will send teams to the Miami Beach Bowl and the Bahamas Bowl on a rotating basis beginning in 2014.
The future is bright for the Sun Belt Conference as beginning in 2014 it becomes an exclusive member of the College Football Playoff. Not only will Sun Belt Conference teams be eligible to compete for college football’s ultimate title, but one spot is guaranteed in the College Football Playoff’s six non-semifinal bowl games for the highest-ranked champion of the Sun Belt Conference or its four peer conferences (American Athletic Conference, Conference USA, Mid-American Conference and Mountain West Conference).

[GoApps70]

Why would they talk about the four new conference members then have a line of:

Louisiana-Lafayette and Louisiana-Monroe are part of the Sun Belt Conference.

Then not say who else are conference members or explain why they had that line.
Sounds like from a Louisiana newspaper. Maybe that was the conference release to
La. papers.

[asu66]

Why would they talk about the four new conference members then have a line of:

Louisiana-Lafayette and Louisiana-Monroe are part of the Sun Belt Conference.

Then not say who else are conference members or explain why they had that line.
Sounds like from a Louisiana newspaper. Maybe that was the conference release to
La. papers.

It's from, "Town Talk" aka New Orleans Online!