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Emails show Sun Belt had grander vision in realignment
FAU Sports | Sun Sentinel blogsFor all the changes that have happened inside and out of the Sun Belt Conference, the league will still be recognizable, despite a massive turnover after the 2012-13 season. This football season will be the final campaign in the Sun......Tags: Texas State Bobcats, East Carolina Pirates, San Jose State Spartans, Marshall Thundering Herd, North Texas Mean Green
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The conference shuffle spin -- FIU goes bonkers
FAU Sports | Sun Sentinel blogsOk, I get it. I am in the minority when it comes to FAU not moving to C-USA. FIU certainly made it sound like they had made it into the SEC, labeling it a "Breakout Moment In FIU History."......Tags: Louisiana Tech Bulldogs, Travel, Tulsa Golden Hurricane, Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders, College Sports
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Live from The Burrow: Final -- FAU 72, Denver 71
FAU Sports | Sun Sentinel blogsWell, FAU sure made it interesting. Kind of felt there would be a second half letdown, and there was. Denver starting hitting and FAU's 15-point halftime lead evaporated. I won't go into all the details, but Denver had a......Tags: Denver Pioneers, Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders, Florida Atlantic Owls
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FAU a target for Spanning The Globe Conference?
FAU Sports | Sun Sentinel blogsWell, Conference-USA and Mountain West have finally announced their merger. After being decimated by defections, the two decided to merge and create something new (name to come later), with teams stretching from Hawaii to East Carolina (which is in...Tags: Mountain West Conference, North Texas Mean Green, Colorado State Rams, Florida Atlantic Owls
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More on Spanning-The-Globe Con and FAU
FAU Sports | Sun Sentinel blogsFirst, though, since it has been a while, a DT pic. - - One scenario for the Spanning-The-Globe Conference is four regional divisions of six teams each. That is the 24-member plan. Do FAU and FIU fit in that? Well,......Tags: North Texas Mean Green, Florida Atlantic Owls
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Belt's new head honcho states his case
FAU Sports | Sun Sentinel blogsQuick hilites from incoming Sun Belt commissioner Karl Benson, who just completed his first press conference. He takes over April 1: -- He would like to grow football members to 12 so there can be a playoff. -- Will do......Tags: North Texas Mean Green, Florida Atlantic Owls
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Sun Belt wants to keep Florida in its footprint
FAU Sports | Sun Sentinel blogsNow that the Karl Benson news has had some time to digest, some more thoughts. Just like Mitt Romney is using the word ???conservative??? in every sentence to try and convince GOP voters he is one, Benson used the......Tags: Mountain West Conference, Mitt Romney, Politics, Republican Party, Lobbying
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C-USA for FAU?; Freeze first Belt coach to move up
FAU Sports | Sun Sentinel blogsOK, so UCF is joining the Big East, thus C-USA, which also lost SMU and Houston, needs members and would like a presence in Florida, so FAU and FIU are likely targets, right? Well, not so fast. It appears......Tags: Mountain West Conference, Western Kentucky Hilltoppers, College Sports, Louisiana-Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns, Big East Conference
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Sun Belt in wait and see what happens mode...
FAU Sports | Sun Sentinel blogsSomeone asked if the Sun Belt commissioner and athletic directors were talking regarding what is going on in the ACC/SEC/Big East/Big 12/Big whatever the heck is going on. Yes, they are. But the Sun Belt can't do much except......Tags: Conference USA
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Chicago State finally heading in right direction
Seven straight road games representing the roughest part of Chicago State's Great Westward Ho of a schedule had taken the Cougars' men's basketball team from Oregon to Texas to Ohio to Las Vegas and, finally, New Jersey. On the bumpy flight home after a...
Tags: Basketball, Oliver Purnell, College Basketball, College Sports, National Collegiate Athletic Association
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Power conferences in college football gain even more strength
College football commissioners were going to end their three-day unity conference in Pasadena with a round of "Kumbaya" at the hotel's valet carport. That was before the consulting firm that dreamed up "College Football Playoff" suggested something more...
Tags: Mountain West Conference, Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets, National Football League, College Sports, College Football
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Sports on TV
Saturday's TV and radio MEN'S TV HIGHLIGHTS ++++++++++++++++++++ || Conf. USA, Final: S'rn Miss vs.Mem || 13, 911:30 a.m. || || Am. East, Final: Albany@Vermont || ESPN211:30 a.m. || || SEC, Semi: Fla. vs. Ala. || 2, 71 || || ACC, Semi:...Tags: Mountain West Conference, Virginia Commonwealth Rams, College Sports, Big West Conference, Big 12 Conference
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