Liberty University to jump to FBS in 2019

This is out of the blue; they will be coming in as an independent as no conference will have them. They also hired disgraced-former Baylor AD, Ian McCaw, to be their AD and word is that they believe they can be the Baptist BYU or Notre Dame.

https://pilotonline.com/sports/columnist/harry-minium/c-usa-rebuffed-liberty-s-generous-offer-to-join-but/article_4aef1fa8-6614-58ea-97f4-25805187fa70.html

Liberty even offered to open its checkbook. Sources told me that in 2016, Liberty offered Conference USA millions of dollars more than the usual $2 million admission fee for an invitation.

How many millions more? One source pegged the offer at $24 million. The offer coincidentally came at about the same time C-USA was learning its TV revenue would soon crater, going from paying $1.1 million per school annually to about $200,000.

But C-USA presidents, who had the final call, were unwilling to invite a private, evangelical school with conservative values and a sometimes controversial chancellor. That left the Flames to chart their own course.