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Benson To Belt Schools - Shut Up, Stop Your Criticism.

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The Fake Lonnie Finch Newbie

The Fake Lonnie Finch

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What's the problem? Clamping down on public criticism of leaders is standard M.O. in Cuba and North Korea. On the whole, I'd say Sun Belt's value to the college football world is roughly equivalent to those two countries' value to the planet earth.

I'm ready for the gulag, Karl.

(Is it mere coincidence now that he spells "Karl" the same way Marx did?)

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letsgiveacheer Rising Star

letsgiveacheer

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Can someone cut and paste --- they pulled the article down!

Here we go!

MURFREESBORO — The Sun Belt Conference has clamped down on public criticism within the league after unpopular bowl moves and two announced exits to Conference USA — both including MTSU.

Earlier in the week, the Sun Belt office in New Orleans sent a memo to member schools banning “any derogatory or negative comments toward another member institution or conference office personnel.”

A copy of the emailed memo was provided upon request to The Daily News Journal by both the MTSU athletic communications office and the Sun Belt office. It was sent to school athletic directors on Monday after a tumultuous few days in the conference.

On Nov. 29, MTSU and Florida Atlantic announced they would leave the Sun Belt for Conference USA in either July 2013 or July 2014 — becoming the third and fourth Sun Belt schools to make that move.

It came a day after the Sun Belt called a meeting to attempt to immediately increase the exit fee from $1 million to as much as $10 million, therefore forcing MTSU and FAU to announce its C-USA moves earlier than desired. That account was according to MTSU athletics director Chris Massaro in an open letter to the MTSU fan base.

That meeting was canceled once MTSU and FAU announced their exits from the Sun Belt.

Over the weekend, MTSU’s 8-4 football teamicon1.png was snubbed by a bowl24 hours after playing for the Sun Belt championship. The Little Caesars Pizza Bowl instead chose Western Kentucky, which had a worse overall record (7-5) and conference record and lost head-to-head to MTSU.

Also, Arkansas State’s potential bid to the Libertyicon1.png Bowl slipped away, and the Sun Belt champion Red Wolves went to the GoDaddy.com Bowl.

Sun Belt Commissioner Karl Benson negotiated all bowl bids. Little Caesars Pizza Bowl executive director Ken Hoffman said his bowl chose Western Kentucky over MTSU independent of anyinfluenceicon1.png from outside sources.

The events created turmoil and complaints within the conference, especially from MTSU and Arkansas State.

MTSU football coachicon1.png Rick Stockstill told The DNJ “this is not right” about his team’s bowl snub, which came after Benson’s negotiations.

In his open letter on Monday, Massaro said, “Personally, I am frustrated with decisions made in board rooms and not on thefootballicon1.png field. Our team and fans deserve better.”

PlummMeanGreen Grand Master

PlummMeanGreen

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Over the weekend, MTSU’s 8-4 football team was snubbed by a bowl 24 hours after playing for the Sun Belt championship. The Little Caesars Pizza Bowl instead chose Western Kentucky, which had a worse overall record (7-5) and conference record and lost head-to-head to MTSU.

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Talk about your basic chicken caca move from Karl Benson and the SBC folks. And then trying to jack up the exit fee from $1 mil, to $10 mil upon hearing about MTSU & FAU impending invite to CUSA? You SBC supporters still glad we're singing kum-bah-yah around Benson's camp fire?

UNT and MWC? I just don't concur with North Texas genuflecting to the rest of the Texas FBS level or regional schools in the name of close-by games or more traveling fans to Apogee. Out of over 7,000,000 citizens in the Metroplex with UNT still having the largest constituency of any Texas-based school in our region I still don't understand all these decades later why we can't hire people like UTSA hired who could easily take advantage of our warp speed growth last 2 decades and put 31,000 in Apogee without blinking an eye no matter how sub par a product we've had in Denton of late. FWIW....if we have 31,000 each home game we don't concern ourselves with traveling fans. Hell, UT-Austin most always sold old against North Texas as I recall.

TCU never wanted to hold hands with long time metroplex rival SMU or the rest of us by playing every school in Texas out of just being good ol boys from Cowtown but chose the MWC (leaving SMU and UH behind) which later culminated into a Rose Bowl berth and then, subsequently, a Big 12 invite. Why? ? ? ? ? ? ? Because TCU the last 10 or so years always made decisions to do what was best for TCU--not what was best for the brotherhood of Texas intercollegiate football which they probably saw as something that would eventually water down their product. The Horned Frogs sought exclusivity for their athletic program and they got it---seems to many of us that it paid off, too.

I don't think North Texas has the leadership now to get us in a bonafide dog fight so MWC is probably completely out of the question, but it is we alums and fans who will have to live with their passativity in this long after they retire or leave our school and for us their becoming another fool-hearted memory. We finally got into CUSA not on our record or pro-activity (since they turned us down before) but only because SMU left CUSA and the Stangs' leaving CUSA with a huge geographical hole in DFW. If SMU doesn't leave CUSA--North Texas is still in the Sun Belt today and it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that one out.

GMG!

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shaft Community Regular

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Also, Arkansas State’s potential bid to the Libertyicon1.png Bowl slipped away, and the Sun Belt champion Red Wolves went to the GoDaddy.com Bowl.

What's with the Liberty bowl excuse? Why did teams with no conference affiliation to the bowl have all there eggs in that basket?

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Benson had 5 teams for 4 bowl slots. Of course he is going to screw the team leaving the conference. Also, probably a LOT of pressure from WKU for a bid because they were the odd man ot last year.

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