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RE: USM, ECU, UAB and possibly others to Sun Belt?
(02-18-2012 12:38 PM)Goldenbuc Wrote:  Rumors on ESPN suggesting it as a possibility to remain more regional.

The new Sun Belt commissioner Karl Benson, formerly serving in the same role with the WAC, has options. The first may be to follow in the footsteps of the Conference USA and the the Mountain West Conference.

"There has been banter about the possibility that the Sun Belt and WAC could merge, especially with Benson's deep history with one league and future role with the other," Adam Sparks of the Daily Journal News wrote.

"The Sun Belt could make a play to snag Conference USA schools in the southeast such as UAB, Southern Miss, East Carolina and others."

Louisiana Tech would be in play as well.

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That is ridiculous. Terry Holland master minded this alliance. Why would ESPN think that he is now going to change his mind and take our Pirates to the Sun Belt? I can tell you that the Board of Trustees would never allow it even if Terry changed his mind.

I just emailed him a name recently for the new conference and he passed it on to Banowski and James because he liked it. He sounded very excited about the merging of our two conferences, so I cannot believe that we would change course now to go to a lesser conference.

I know that War Torn Ruston guy believes whatever ESPN writes, but most of the work they do is speculation. 80% of the time they are wrong.
02-18-2012 12:54 PM
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