The Commish

DALLAS (CBS11) – Dallas Police Association President Mike Mata and others sounded the alarm months ago: Now, by the end of this month, Mata says 72 Dallas Police officers will leave: 70 percent of them are retiring and the other 30 percent are going to make more money at other departments. “We’re losing some of our most experienced detectives: The investigator you want to come out and solve that homicide, that you need to come out and solve that sexual assault.” Adam McGough, chairman of the Dallas city council’s public safety committee, is also expressing concern. “That’s the first of this number I heard of it. Anytime we have large numbers of officers leaving, it’s concerning.” Most officers are leaving as a result of a crisis at the police and fire pension fund. read more: http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2017/08/07/officers-leaving-dallas-police-department/

How about a change of pace? Let's say something nice about each school who is departing the Sun Belt. <br /><br />FIU - I loved seeing FIU at the basketball tournaments because I liked their "Olé, Olé, Olé" cheer and the Golden Dazzlers were great. FIU always has a decent baseball program, and their baseball coach's name is Turtle Thomas, which is great in and of itself. I had hoped to see a football game in Miami one day. Maybe one day we will be on each other's schedule again. <br /><br />FAU - FAU has a great baseball team annually. I like baseball so fielding a good baseball team year after year is something I admired. FAU will always have a soft spot in my heart since they were USA's first FBS win in football. I believe FAU still holds the record for time it takes a new team to not only go to a bowl game but to win it. FAU coaches helped USA a lot with our strategies in building our football program. <br /><br />UNT - UNT went from an average basketball team to a really good team in the last several years. That is admirable, and football shows signs of improving the same way. In the early days of Sun Belt football there was UNT and then everyone else. UNT brought recognition to the conference in those days. The overall UNT atheltic department seems to be improving as well, as UNT has improved in the Bubas Cup standings. If and when UNT adds baseball maybe we can play each other. <br /><br />MTSU - MTSU was a great host for the 2006-07 Basketball Tournament. When USA played WKU in the finals the MTSU fans that came out were cheering for us. That was soon after the whole goat thing at WKU so the students sitting near me were well prepared to make fun of WKU with signs. It was fun. They seemed more excited the Jags won than me! MTSU has a great overall athletic program as evidenced by their string of Bubas Cup wins. Football drives the bus but MTSU is a great example about caring for the other sports, and women sports in particular. <br /><br />Thank you to all four of you for helping build the Sun Belt. Without you SBC football might not even exist today. View the full article

you got to get rid of Benford for the sake of your program...<br /><br />what a disaster... View the full article

Looks like former Dallas Cowboy Coach Butch Davis will be the head coach at FIU! http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/12/24/report-butch-davis-is-fius-new-head-coach/

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Special behind the scenes video from the 2012 Sun Belt Conference Football Media Day. View the full article

ESPN and the Sun Belt Conference announced today that ESPN3 will carry portions of the conference's Football Media Day in New Orleans on July 16. View the full article

North Texas tennis head coach Sujay Lama tied A.G. Longoria for the most wins in program history on Saturday afternoon with 73 after a 7-0 victory over Sun Belt Conference foe Middle Tennessee. View the full article

LaRon Dendy scored 18 points and added 13 rebounds and Middle Tennessee defeated Marshall 86-78 in the first round of the National Invitation Tournament on Tuesday night. View the full article

ASU Director of Athletics Dr. Dean Lee announced Wednesday that Gus Malzahn has been named the Red Wolves' 28th head football coach. View the full article

The North Texas Swimming and Diving team flew past Rice at the Pohl Recreation Center as they defeated the Owls for the second time in school history, 165-129. After breaking the school record in the 200-yard breaststroke two weekends ago, freshman Krista Rossum set another school record, this time in the 400-yard IM (4:28.05). View the full article

The Sun Belt Conference has announced its 2011 Women's Soccer All-Conference team and individual award winners. View the full article

The Sun Belt Conference and ESPN announced today a new agreement that extends lt;br />the network's relationship with the conference through the 2019-20 academic year. View the full article