There is talk around the South that the Atlantic Sun Conference will be adding football.

Jacksonville
Lipscomb
Mercer
Kennessaw State
East Tennessee State
Stetson

All of them already have programs or are in the talks about bringing back or adding a football program.

Joining the Great West today is a sextet of universities — Utah Valley, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas Pan American, Houston Baptist and New Jersey Institute of Technology.

Chicago State and Seattle are expected to follow soon into the Great West Conference; Cal State Bakersfield, Longhurst and Savannah State are said to have declined their invitations in hopes of aligning themselves in other conferences.

Officially announced Feb. 25, 2004, the GWFC's six charter-members universities were Southern Utah, Cal Poly, UC Davis, Northern Colorado, North Dakota State and South Dakota State. The latter three have since moved or announced intentions to move to other conferences.

Action 4 Sports now has a date for an important athletics announcement from the University of Texas-Pan American.

The Rio Grande Valley university's athletic program has gone without a conference affiliation for the past decade.

But UTPA administrators have changed that.

They recently joined the Great West Conference.

The Broncs are now expected to hold press conference to discuss their admission on July 11 at 10 a.m.