Transcribing my exclusive interview with Karl Benson from yesterday's visit to the Sun Belt offices, will post some quotes momentarily
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Benson has said this before, but re-iterates the decision to add Idaho and NMSU was driven by need to get a conference championship game.
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Benson said the Sun Belt's goal is to get to 12 football playing members, and that the 12th member will likely be all sports in east region
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Benson said the original reluctance to add Idaho was that the Sun Belt wanted a geographic footprint from Texas to Florida.
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Karl Benson name-dropped Jacksonville State, Liberty and Alabama State as schools who've expressed interest in FBS, but he said of JMU...
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On JMU: "If they do, the question is what conference will they align with. We certainly would be interested to have that conversation."
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Benson really worded it as if they will hold off on adding anybody until they hear from James Madison.
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On what he is looking for in the next Sun Belt addition: "In this case, it's geography."
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My New Mexico State followers may want to turn away from Twitter for my next couple of comments from Karl Benson...
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Karl Benson on adding NMSU in all sports: "At this juncture we are not looking that direction ... we're focusing on the eastern half ..."
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Karl Benson said the Sun Belt desperately needs a flagship program to consistently break into the Top 25 to compete in Group of Five system
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Benson said he'd like SBC to focus on "strategic scheduling" to build up top 25 rep. Said SBC schools additicted to million $$ guarantees.
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