Eastern Kentucky has been open about its desire to move from the Football Championship Subdivision to the Football Bowl Subdivision. At present, an invitation from the Sun Belt Conference appears to be the only viable path for EKU to enter the FBS. New Eastern Athletics Director Steve Lochmueller said Tuesday he expected to hear “sooner rather than later” what the Sun Belt will do about expansion.When the Sun Belt officials left Richmond in July, Lochmueller said, Eastern had the impression they liked what they had seen.”We showed them our facilities,” the AD said. “Those that we feel like need to be improved, we told them what our plan was. In our particular instance, we need to improve our baseball and softball (facilities). The Sun Belt is a big baseball and softball league. And we have a plan in place to, we have the financing and the funding, to do both softball and baseball.”Should Eastern receive the Sun Belt nod, Lochmueller said, the school has a five-year projection that sees its athletics budget growing to “about $20, $21 million.” – Mark Story, Herald-Leader Read More
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