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At this point in time, The Sports Network hosts one of few columns on the Football Championship Subdivision. They recently got a new columnist, David Coulson, and not everyone is overly thrilled. College Sporting News has another batch of FCS columns, but there's still not enough. When there's not a lot of product out there, then there's not much competition and the quality suffers. The current FCS columns haven't been bad, but they haven't been great either. Well, there's another FCS column coming down the pipe. It's from the random vastitude of the internet, but trust me, it'll be good and possibly great.

Let me give you some background, the writer is Scott Garner, who back in 2004 wrote a column for I-AA.org. During that time he voted for the I-AA All Americans, the Walter Payton Award and other postseason awards. He now writes a blog titled The Lanier Drive Institute of Higher Thinking.

Here's his description of the future column:

Despite all the changes in how plugged in I am to the sport, I'm going to strive to post a weekly "Cult of I-AA" column. It will focus mostly on Georgia Southern and the Southern Conference but it will also have whatever opinions I've formed about the rest of the country's I-AA programs based on what I get from the web.

Just don't expect "The Cult of I-AA" to be just about college football.

When I began writing the column back in the I-AA.org days, I likened the fans of I-AA to a cult; a cult that followed a team and a sport not because it was popular or trendy or easily accessible on 20 different cable channels. Nope, I-AA fans loved their schools, their sport, their playoff system and seemed to revel in their perpetual underdog status (especially when facing schools with athletic budgets 20 times larger than their own, like GSU versus Georgia, left in 2004). That made them special, and made the subdivision special.

I hate to fluff on about this, but I'm really looking forward to this. For a taste of his work, you can either go to his archive of I-AA.org articles or try reading a previous post on moving from the FBS to the FCS. I wrote about it before but it's worth mentioning again, it's the best opinion I've read on the subject.