Talk:Sun Belt Conference

Untitled

When is someone going to update Arkansas State's page? —Preceding unsigned comment added by CentralTiger74 (talk • contribs) 04:37, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

When's someone going to update Troy's logo? Troy uses a radically different logo now that it's dropped "State" from its name. — Dale Arnett 23:58, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

New Troy logo is in place. - User:Masonpatriot

Who removed Denver? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bobcatreport (talk • contribs) 17:54, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

Members table

School type/religious affiliation

The religious affiliation or designation as "non-sectarian" is not so clear cut. For example, Duke University describes its ties with Methodism as "formal, on-going, and symbolic" [1] while Wake Forest University maintains "a dedication to the values rooted in its Baptist heritage" [2]. Both schools can be considered "non-sectarian" in that they are no longer under the direct auspices of their founding religious organizations. Likewise, Boston College maintains its Jesuit identity in spite of the fact that it severed its formal ties with the Jesuit Order (and thereby the Catholic Church) in the 1960s when it was independently incorporated under a lay board of trustees. Unlike the Catholic University of America, which is under the direct auspices of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, or the University of Notre Dame, which is governed by "fellows" who must be priests of the Congregation of Holy Cross, The Trustees of Boston College (BC's governing body) operate independent of any religious jurisdiction. This arrangement is probably similar to that at Duke or Wake Forest, except that the BC trustees have voluntarily chosen to elect members of the founding religious organization to the presidency (though they are not required to do so). In fact, similar arrangements exist at other Jesuit colleges and universities, where both women and non-clerics have been elected to presidency (most recently at Georgetown University). All of this is to say that I think the nature of a school's religious affiliation is beyond the scope of this article, and that "public" or "private" suffice in the context of the members table. --24.63.125.78 10:23, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

24.63.125.78 has coppied and pasted this on almost every college conference discussion board. Please refer to Talk:Atlantic Coast Conference so we can keep all the discussion in one place. Thanks. -- Masonpatriot

Logos

There is a discussion to clarify our policy/guideline on the use of sports team logos. Please see Wikipedia_talk:Logos#Clarification_on_use_of_sports_team_logos if you wish to participate in the discussion. Johntex\^talk 16:37, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Map is incorrect

The map showing the states where member schools are located is incorrect. It shows Mississippi highlighted instead of Alabama. Can anyone fix it? Thanks. Evill72 20:54, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

Interconference Rivalries

I am not aware of UCF (Central Florida) or USF (South Florida) considering themselves to have a rivalry with FAU (Florida Atlantic) or Florida International (FIU). UCF did play FAU in non-football sports while both were in the Atlantic Sun Conference, but there was never an official rivalry to my knowledge, or any that research indicates. The Atlantic Sun featured numerous Florida teams, so there could have been intrastate rivalries between many. UCF, in fact, considered Stetson their rival. UCF also has played FAU in football just once. Likewise, South Florida has not even been the same conference as FAU or FIU for a very long time, and while USF has played both in football, there is no apparent rivalry. In fact, USF denies having a rivalry with UCF, much less with FAU or FIU. Unless someone can present evidence to the contrary, I am going to remove this rivalry from the page. 98.192.143.244 (talk) 21:59, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with Image:NewOrleansBowl.png

The image Image:NewOrleansBowl.png is used in this article under a claim of fair use, but it does not have an adequate explanation for why it meets the requirements for such images when used here. In particular, for each page the image is used on, it must have an explanation linking to that page which explains why it needs to be used on that page. Please check

• That there is a non-free use rationale on the image's description page for the use in this article.
• That this article is linked to from the image description page.

The following images also have this problem:

• Image:StPetersburgBowl.jpg
• Image:PetroSun Independence Bowl.png
• Image:Papajohnsbowl.gif

This is an automated notice by FairuseBot. For assistance on the image use policy, see Wikipedia:Media copyright questions. --03:48, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

Florida Atlantic joined in ????

The official team site doesn't even answer the question directly, and there's conflicting information all over the internet. The 2004 football media guide lists the team as a member of the Sun Belt Conference. This article says FAU joined in July of 2005. The FAU football Wikipedia page says it didn't join until the 2006 season. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.127.128.146 (talk) 02:43, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

UNO

UNO is rethinking their status. see this--SPhilbrick(Talk) 01:29, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

Proposal to make timelines more consistent

I noticed that conferences in List of NCAA conferences have articles, usually including a membership timeline. While some of the decisions made for each conference make some sense, there is a wide variety of styles for the various timelines, particularly involving color choices, but also other matters of style that could be more consistent.

for example, a school with a yellow bar means:

• An associate member in one sport (if part of the BE)
• A former member of the conference (in the SEC)
• A future member of the conference (in the SEC and Big West)
• A football only member (in the Sun Belt)
• A team that has moved to another conference (in the WAC, NEC)
• A full member of the Big Sky

Some graphs have captions, some do not, and none are centered. To see the variety of styles, review Current conference timelines

I think it would be worth discussing how best to provide some measure of consistency, recognizing that there may be legitimate reasons for some differences from a standard presentation (for example, some conferences show the name of the new conference for former members. In some cases, this makes sense, in other, it may not.)

I've produced a draft of how the timelines would look with some consistency added. Please see Draft proposal of conference timelines.

I propose a discussion to see if there is consensus on improving the consistency.

Because it would not be practical to have this discussion on each and every conference talk page, I suggest centralizing this discussion at the Talk page of Project College football SPhilbrick(Talk) 21:39, 11 March 2012 (UTC)

Standardize facility sections

See the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject College baseball#Standardize conference pages' facility sections.

Discussion about overview maps for US collegiate athletic conferences

A discussion on the Project College Football talk page has been created to discuss the proper format of the overview maps that are used for the US collegiate athletic conference pages.

If you're interested, please join the discussion here: Athletic conference overview maps and their lack of consistency

RUMORS!!!

FYI --- ESPN or any other source is not a reliable source when reporting rumors. Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources#News Organizaations states: "The reporting of rumors has a limited encyclopedic value, although in some instances verifiable information about rumors may be appropriate. Wikipedia is not the place for passing along gossip and rumors." GWFrog (talk) 18:14, 27 March 2013 (UTC)

College basketball navigation template

Please join discussion at the College Basketball Wikiproject for forming a consensus on the creation of a basic navigation template for college basketball teams. CrazyPaco (talk) 09:05, 20 November 2013 (UTC)

Inclusion of "Schools ranked by academic measures" sections within Conference Articles

This section now exists in multiple conference articles. Please join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject College football to help improve this content. UW Dawgs (talk) 06:24, 11 December 2013 (UTC)

Why do you keep taking out academic rankings? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.177.1.128 (talk) 21:04, 5 June 2014 (UTC)

See the archive of the group discussion here. Cheers. UW Dawgs (talk) 22:26, 5 June 2014 (UTC)

External links modified

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just added archive links to 4 external links on Sun Belt Conference. Please take a moment to review my edit. If necessary, add {{cbignore}} after the link to keep me from modifying it. Alternatively, you can add {{nobots|deny=InternetArchiveBot}} to keep me off the page altogether. I made the following changes:

• Added archive https://web.archive.org/20130406145221/http://www.wkusports.com:80/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=5400&ATCLID=207019336 to http://www.wkusports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=5400&ATCLID=207019336
• Added archive https://web.archive.org/20150722030134/http://www.sunbeltsports.org/General/Article/tabid/1069/Article/19992/Appalachian-State-to-Join-Sun-Belt-Conference-in-2014.aspx to http://www.sunbeltsports.org/General/Article/tabid/1069/Article/19992/Appalachian-State-to-Join-Sun-Belt-Conference-in-2014.aspx
• Added archive https://web.archive.org/20150330091317/http://www.sunbeltsports.org/General/Article/tabid/1069/Article/19989/Title/georgia-southern-to-join-sun-belt-conference-in-2014.aspx to http://www.sunbeltsports.org/General/Article/tabid/1069//Article/19989/Title/georgia-southern-to-join-sun-belt-conference-in-2014.aspx
• Added archive https://web.archive.org/20130703201423/http://www.sunbeltsports.org:80/General/Article/tabid/1069/Article/19996/Title/idaho-and-new-mexico-state-to-join-sun-belt-conference-as-football-members-in-2.aspx to http://www.sunbeltsports.org/General/Article/tabid/1069//Article/19996/Title/idaho-and-new-mexico-state-to-join-sun-belt-conference-as-football-members-in-2.aspx

When you have finished reviewing my changes, please set the checked parameter below to true to let others know.

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 5 June 2024).

• If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
• If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers. —^{cyberbot II}_{Talk to my owner:Online} 02:04, 29 August 2015 (UTC)