(02-11-2012 10:30 AM)Side Show Joe 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.

Benson has spent the last few years trying to lure UNT, ULL, and Arkansas State away from the Sun Belt. Why in the world would you reward him by naming him our Comissioner, when he has spent so much time trying to break up our conference? Plus, he hasn't exactly managed the WAC very well the last few seasons either. That whole BYU thing really blew up in his face. We can do better. If Benson is selected to become the next Sun Belt commissioner, I will be all for forming a new conference. I don't like or respect him, and I don't want to be around to watch him run the Sun Belt into the ground, just like he did with the WAC.

1) Forming a new conference is not an option. You're giving up everything established with the Sun Belt and who's going to join you? You've seen the troubles the WAC has had getting to even seven football playing members, who's going to run off and join some new conference?

2) How does him trying to improve his conference equal him trying to break up ours? He was simply trying to do his job by adding quality programs, is that not what a commissioner should do?

3) You say he ran it into the ground, but the biggest force behind the WAC being in the perilous state they're in now, is the incredible run they had which led to half the conference being invited away by a better conference.