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Troy Coach wants ninth team
excerpt from a Mobile Register article:
...Troy University head coach Larry Blakeney mentioned at the Sun Belt Conference football media days gathering this week that he hoped the league would bring another team into the conference, giving it nine Division I-A-playing teams, which would give each team eight league games per year.
Commissioner Wright Waters admitted nine would be "the perfect number for scheduling," allowing four home and four road games each season.
Some within the conference believe the reality of a nine-team Sun Belt football roster may happen soon -- and the search won't have to take place outside the conference. Western Kentucky, already a Sun Belt member but playing a I-AA schedule, is believed to be considering a move up to I-A membership...
Conference to add ninth team?
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| 07-26-2006 07:25 PM |
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72Tiger
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Perfect timing if Denver can move on by the time WKU moves up to 1A in football. Makes for a 9/12 football/basketball league.
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| 07-30-2006 10:40 AM |
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Cajunman02
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72Tiger Wrote:Perfect timing if Denver can move on by the time WKU moves up to 1A in football. Makes for a 9/12 football/basketball league.
But WKU will never make a move up in the next 10 years. We've been hearing about WKU moving up for the past 3 years and NOTHING has happened.
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| 07-30-2006 11:11 AM |
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72Tiger
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Cajunman02 Wrote:72Tiger Wrote:Perfect timing if Denver can move on by the time WKU moves up to 1A in football. Makes for a 9/12 football/basketball league.
But WKU will never make a move up in the next 10 years. We've been hearing about WKU moving up for the past 3 years and NOTHING has happened.
it seems like they have something in mind with the stadium expansion they have planned.
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| 07-30-2006 12:58 PM |
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galojah
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Cajunman02 Wrote:72Tiger Wrote:Perfect timing if Denver can move on by the time WKU moves up to 1A in football. Makes for a 9/12 football/basketball league.
But WKU will never make a move up in the next 10 years. We've been hearing about WKU moving up for the past 3 years and NOTHING has happened.
I'd say most schools that make this type of change have a drawn out process. I doubt Troy, Marshall, MTSU, etc decided it overnight. It effects many things: money obviously, fanbase, support, and political issues within the state and other schools.
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| 07-30-2006 03:49 PM |
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David Krysakowski
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| 07-30-2006 04:51 PM |
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KillToppers90
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I'd like to move up to play in the SBC!
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| 08-03-2006 06:52 PM |
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Hilltopper2K
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uhhhh???
David? Who should be careful of what they wish for... WKU or the Sunbelt?
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