I found this article about Liberty University. It sounds like they may be the most qualified FCS team available to move up into FBS. They're apparently ready, but can't get a conference to accept them. Interesting read.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/sport...lames-fcs-fbs-development-expansion/14299979/
LYNCHBURG, Va. — In December 2011, Turner Gills at in the plush presidential suite atop Liberty University's football stadium, on the verge of accepting the school's head coaching job.
But as he peered out from a brand new five-story tower onto the program's practice complex just beyond the North end zone, Gill, the former Buffalo and Kansas coach, had another question for school president and chancellor Jerry Falwell Jr.
"Would it be possible to add one more practice field?" Gill asked.
"Sure," Falwell replied. "We can make that happen."
In the current climate of NCAA uncertainty, where smaller Division I athletic departments are more concerned about their future viability than getting into the facilities arms race, granting such a request with a snap of the fingers is practically unheard of.
But at Liberty, a private evangelical school suddenly flush with cash and immense athletic ambitions, there is almost no amount of dirt they won't move or concrete they won't pour these days to help break into the big-time.
In the middle of a $500 million makeover of this campus, which sprouted up from the Blue Ridge Mountain foothills in 1971 under the name Lynchburg Baptist College and endured nearly 40 years of financial hardships and political controversies attached to its late founder Jerry Falwell Sr., are a sparkling set of new athletic facilities that touch nearly all of Liberty's 20 varsity sports….
http://www.usatoday.com/story/sport...lames-fcs-fbs-development-expansion/14299979/
LYNCHBURG, Va. — In December 2011, Turner Gills at in the plush presidential suite atop Liberty University's football stadium, on the verge of accepting the school's head coaching job.
But as he peered out from a brand new five-story tower onto the program's practice complex just beyond the North end zone, Gill, the former Buffalo and Kansas coach, had another question for school president and chancellor Jerry Falwell Jr.
"Would it be possible to add one more practice field?" Gill asked.
"Sure," Falwell replied. "We can make that happen."
In the current climate of NCAA uncertainty, where smaller Division I athletic departments are more concerned about their future viability than getting into the facilities arms race, granting such a request with a snap of the fingers is practically unheard of.
But at Liberty, a private evangelical school suddenly flush with cash and immense athletic ambitions, there is almost no amount of dirt they won't move or concrete they won't pour these days to help break into the big-time.
In the middle of a $500 million makeover of this campus, which sprouted up from the Blue Ridge Mountain foothills in 1971 under the name Lynchburg Baptist College and endured nearly 40 years of financial hardships and political controversies attached to its late founder Jerry Falwell Sr., are a sparkling set of new athletic facilities that touch nearly all of Liberty's 20 varsity sports….
