I was going to touch on this last week before I got caught up with All-Isiah All-The-Time last week, but there was some pretty big football news out of Murfreesboro, Tenn.

Middle Tennessee coach Rick Stockstill was given a hefty $200,000 raise making him the highest-paid coach in the Sun Belt Conference.

Is he worthy of that honor, sure - although I include Troy's Larry Blakeney and FAU's own Howard Schnellenberger in the discussion of SBC coaches who are great values.

But, as many know until recently, the highest paid coach in the conference was FIU coach Mario Cristobal, who pulled down $403,000 last season. That seems a little out of whack.

At any rate it's good to see MTSU step up and give Stockstill the support he needs and make the commitment to keeping him. The research I have done shows that no Sun Belt coach has left to take another job, although several have been fired. That's not good, but you also don't want to become a training ground for coaches who continuously bolt for bigger programs.

Stockstill handled being pursued by East Carolina the right way, and was rewarded so good for him.

Owl Links
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At FAUOwlAccess.com we broke the news about FAU's most recent commitment and had an update on what some of the players who have committed to the Owls are thinking heading into Wednesday's National Signing Day.

If that wasn't enough, we also posted the video highlights from Saturday's basketball game vs. FIU.

Owl Cal
Your daily calendar of FAU related events
Monday
6 p.m. Hoops, FAU SportsPage with Mike Jarvis, at Boston's on the Beach and heard on ESPN 760 and ESPN760.com

Wednesday
8 p.m. Women's Hoops, FAU at North Texas

Thursday
8 p.m. Hoops, FAU at North Texas

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