According to news reports today, six Arkansas Division II schools are still moving toward breaking away from the Gulf South Conference and forming a new conference, still unnamed. The main motive is the growing cost of travel. They have to travel to George, Mississippi, and Alabama as well as to Florida for non-football schools. They can't just put their teams on an airplane and go.

It must be the season for schools to change athletic conferences. Arkansas schools that are part of the Gulf South Conference are talking about bolting to join another conference or to start a new one. The usual reason is money and in this case they want to save money. Arkansas schools travel all the way to Alabama and Georgia to play games. See here to identify the member schools.