HBU Sues NCAA over Membership

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HBU has filed a lawsuit against the NCAA for adding three years to their membership transition period. HBU feels that the NCAA did not properly notify them of a change like this and that it puts them at a large competitive disadvantage.

Obviously, the Huskies are hoping to be full Div I members by the end of three years due to the moratorium and all the changes that are expected to come with it as far as conference memberships go...
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Houston Baptist University filed a lawsuit against the NCAA on Friday, claiming the agency violated its constitution by adding four years to the school's transition period to full membership.

The school applied to become a provisional NCAA member in March 2007. It had been affiliated with the NAIA since 1991.

Houston Baptist said the NCAA accepted the application and the school expected to gain full NCAA membership in three years. But according to the lawsuit filed in state district court in Houston, the NCAA informed the school in April 2007 that it would have to wait seven years, not three.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/sports/5602400.html

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The latest, HBU is now going federal...
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Houston Baptist University filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against the NCAA alleging it has violated the Sherman antitrust act in its dealings with the school.

Houston Baptist filed a lawsuit in March against the NCAA in state district court in Houston alleging it had violated its own constitution by making the school wait seven years instead of three to gain full membership.


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