"We budget basically where we were the past year, kind of conservatively," McDonald said. While ULM does anticipate the annual windfall when preparing a budget, this year's payout will be higher than expected. "In this case, 10 teams in the Sun Belt Conference will receive the payoff from the College Football Playoff." "Your payoff is distributed based on your standing as a conference and then the conference distributes that to the football playing schools," McDonald said. ULM, a charter member of the football conference since its inception in 2001, is one of 10 member schools who will receive a share. Our standing as a Sun Belt Conference, we're clearly playing much more competitive football than those other conferences." "As we've moved past the Mid-American Conference and Conference USA clearly, we continue to improve. "In fact, we were closer to first than we were to fourth. "We were very close, just scant points behind second and not that far behind first," ULM interim athletics director Scott McDonald said. The Sun Belt is set to receive $17.2 million from the College Football Playoff, third among the Group of Five conferences behind the Mountain West ($20.4 million) and the American Athletic Conference ($18.8 million) and ahead of Conference USA ($15.6 million) and the Mid-American Conference ($14 million). – Sun Belt Conference football is on the rise and the proof is in the payout. I would like to invite you learn more about Georgia Southern’s move to the Sun Belt conference and the FBS by visiting We will be posting updates about the move at this location as we go forward.Īs always, thank you for your support of Georgia Southern University.By Paul Letlow, Online Columnist Paulson Stadium and build a new Football Operations Center in the east end zone. Ground will also be broken in a few weeks to add 6,300 additional seats to Allen E. That fee will be collected starting in the fall. The move to FBS comes after 65 percent of Georgia Southern University students voted to pay $75 a semester to support the move to a new level of competition for Eagle Athletics. Since the Sun Belt does not field a men’s soccer program, Georgia Southern is negotiating to find a conference home for the team. With the exception of men’s soccer, all other Georgia Southern teams will begin Sun Belt play in 2014 and eligible for the conference championship. In 2015, Georgia Southern will become a full member of the conference and be bowl eligible. The Eagles will begin playing Sun Belt games and will be a revenue sharing member of the conference in 2014 and eligible for the Sun Belt conference title, but will not be eligible to play in a bowl game. The Eagles’ football schedule for this fall will not change however, Georgia Southern won’t be eligible for the FCS playoffs. Georgia Southern’s football team has been part of the Southern Conference since 1993 and won ten conference titles during that time and six national championships since 1985. We invite the entire Eagle Nation to stand up and join us on this journey. As our Athletics Director, Tom Kleinlein said today, we have built our reputation around a focus on the student, and this move will allow us to partner to provide our student athletes with the opportunity to compete on a national stage. This morning, I was pleased to welcome Sun Belt Conference Commissioner Karl Benson who welcomed us as we formally accepted the Sun Belt invitation. I am equally excited about the opportunity that it will provide Georgia Southern and the more than 75,000 alumni that make up the Eagle Nation. The Sun Belt will provide our student athletes with an outstanding opportunity to compete at the highest level, and we are excited to contribute to the conference’s success both on and off the field. As I told the standing room only crowd in the Williams Center during the official announcement earlier this morning, this decision was made with the long-term interest of our University in mind. This is a milestone day for Georgia Southern University, and we are very excited to be joining the Sun Belt conference. Georgia Southern University has announced it has accepted an invitation to join the Sun Belt Conference. One of the most dominant teams in Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) history is making the move to the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS). Join the Journey: Eagles move up to Football Bowl Subdivision Georgia Southern University Joins Sun Belt Conference Home > Current Newsletter > Newsletter Archive > March 2013: Special Edition March 2013: Special Edition Research at Georgia Southern University.Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health.College of Behavioral and Social Sciences.
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