Debate Intensifies Regarding the Makeup of NCAA's Division I

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As an increasing number of schools reach for the college sports summit, debate intensifies regarding the current makeup of Division I.

And the firsts aren't confined to the gridiron. On Nov. 11, the men's basketball team will host Nevada in the inaugural game at 10,000-seat UCF Arena, a new multipurpose campus venue, thus distinguishing the university as the first ever in Division I to open new facilities for both football and basketball within the same academic year. If that weren't enough, both venues and their student-athlete occupants are sporting new Knights logos in 2007-08. Says Bill Carr of Carr Sports Associates, a Gainesville, Fla.-based consultancy that assisted the UCF athletic department with its strategic planning, "I have never seen a school where more is happening all at once. It's just extraordinary."

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