Liberty may go independent....they may find it as much of a fiasco as Florida A&M's ill fated and short experiment with FBS was...
Timing is everything. Sometimes the jump goes smoothly, as it has for Appalachian State and Georgia Southern. Sometimes you stumble out of the gates, like Florida International or Western Kentucky.
And sometimes it goes to hell like at FAMU....
And then at FAMU....."
Before 2004 was over, the university saw this had been a mistake. The athletic director who conceived and fast-tracked the idea had resigned. The school had a new president. Officials groveled to the MEAC (which was never particularly happy with the "independent in football, MEAC in everything else" arrangement) to earn football membership in the conference back.