(04-16-2017 01:07 PM)DavidSt Wrote:  

(04-16-2017 12:42 PM)rokamortis Wrote:  

(04-16-2017 11:08 AM)DavidSt Wrote:  

(04-16-2017 10:45 AM)arkstfan Wrote:  

(04-15-2017 08:19 PM)DavidSt Wrote:  Sun Belt Conference right now have had eyes on North Florida.

Source?

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sfl-mtblog-2...story.html

Also on the list were Belmont, Saint Louis, Florida Gulf Coast, College of Charleston, and many more. Another site had Missouri State, Illinois State, Delaware, and some others as possible targets. One of Benson's ideas was a merger of WAC, C-USA and Sun Belt Conference which I doubt it was an idea at all. Jacksonville State was also on the lists as well. I think he was looking at who are the willing to move up to save the conference. Like I said, the schools are too egotistic on about adding anymore schools in the same state. Troy and South Alabama are in southern Alabama while Jacksonville State is in the Northern half of the state.

Great find.

So do you expect things to have remained the same for the past 5 years? A lot of changes have happened so I wouldn't put any value on what may have been over 5 years ago.

Eastern Kentucky was on that list 5 years ago, and they were still considered before SBC settled on Coastal Carolina. Even James Madison is on that list, and SBC still wants them.

North Alabama announced they want to be in D1 back in 2011, and they finally got the invite.

You need to keep a list handy just in case if you get raided again. SBC still could get raided again in the future.

In sports, something from five years ago is no longer relevant. The article is in a newspaper that has no real connection to the SBC. Since that article was posted, six schools joined the conference; all from Texas, Georgia, and the Carolinas. The SBC in the future will be the raiders, not the raided.