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6 unusual facts about Sun Belt Conference


2011 Sun Belt Conference football season

The 2011 Sun Belt Conference football season is a college football season for the Sun Belt Conference.

2013 Conference USA football season

Florida Atlantic, FIU, Middle Tennessee, and North Texas joined C-USA from the Sun Belt.

2014 Sun Belt Conference football season

The 2014 Sun Belt Conference football season will be the 14th college football season for the Sun Belt Conference.

Bray Cary

After leaving WVU, he worked for the Sun Belt Conference, an experience in collegiate athletics management that led him to found Creative Sports in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Dermot McGrane

In 1995, McGrane started coaching at Western Kentucky University, as an assistant coach, helping the Hilltoppers to win their first Sun Belt Conference regular-season championship that year.

Stacey Cole

As a freshman at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette Sun Belt Conference, Cole played in 90 games, 25 matches, 258 kills, 2.87 percentage, 43 service aces.


2010–13 NCAA conference realignment

Karl Benson, who was commissioner of the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) when the cycle started and since March 2012 has held the same position with the Sun Belt Conference, stated in a May 2012 interview that about 90 percent of his workload since taking over the Sun Belt position has been taken up by realignment-related issues—either recruiting new members or trying to keep current members in the conference.

Great Midwest Conference

It was formed in 1990 with six members--Cincinnati and Memphis State (now Memphis) from the Metro Conference; UAB from the Sun Belt Conference; Marquette and Saint Louis from the Midwestern Collegiate Conference (now the Horizon League), and independent DePaul.

Mike Quade

He was named to the Sun Belt Conference "All-time baseball team" as part of the Conference's 30th anniversary celebration in January 2006.


see also

Georgia State Panthers baseball

The team would begin competition in the newly formed Sun Belt Conference in 1979 before moving to the Trans American Athletic Conference (TAAC) in 1984.

Troy Trojans

In 2006, Sun Belt Conference Coach of the Year Bobby Pierce led the Trojans to a regular season conference title, conference tournament title, and an NCAA Regional appearance with an overall record of 47–16.