(02-11-2012 10:28 AM)MTPiKapp Wrote:  

(02-11-2012 10:22 AM)bluephi1914 Wrote:  

(02-11-2012 10:20 AM)MTPiKapp Wrote:  

(02-11-2012 10:14 AM)T_Won1 Wrote:  Tweet from Austin American-Statesman sports columnist Kirk Bohls:

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"Sun Belt Conference is looking hard at WAC's Karl Benson as its new commissioner, a source with WAC connections tells me."

8 Feb

I absolutely believe that Benson is a candidate and I have no idea what Side Show Joe is talking about saying that if Benson is named commissioner that some schools will look to form a new conference. I have no idea whether or not he'll actually be picked, but to suggest it would cause schools to leave the conference is laughable. Leave the Sun Belt and form a new conference with whom?

Didn't Benson have negative things to say about the SBC in the past? If so, we would be idiots to bring him on as our commish.

Don't know about that, but here's what I do know. Benson may have been in charge of the WAC when the conference was on the brink of death, but let us not forget that he was also in charge of the WAC in one of it's most prosperous times just before that. A time that saw BCS berths by multiple schools and while half the conference leaving just about killed the conference, it does bear mentioning that half the conference was desirable enough to be invited away by a better conference.

I'm not exactly throwing my support behind the guy, just saying that he probably wouldn't be as bad of a hire as some are making it out to be.

I don't think Benson did a bad job. Teams in his conference just became more attractive to higher-profile conferences. I don't blame Britton Banowsky for losing 4 teams to the Big East. They earned a promotion out of CUSA, Banowsky didn't drive them out. Same with Benson.