Cajuns Football sign a Home-and-Home

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Originally Posted by ULGrad@HOU

Sorry, you can butter it up all you want, but most of our scheduled home games do not attract the average crowd, only the devoted, and Kennesaw certainly won't. Rice, really? You going to use Rice and UAB as desirable home games that create a buzz? Not happening.

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I never mentioned anything about them being “desirable” home games. Desirable is subjective. Home and homes with Rice and UAB also allows are fans bases to travel to these games as well as they are regional. Gets our team in Houston and Birmingham so local recruits can see. It’s more to scheduling then just getting “desirable” home games. Remember Boises state home and home didn’t exactly move the needle either…

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Originally Posted by CajunJack55

I never mentioned anything about them being “desirable” home games. Desirable is subjective. Home and homes with Rice and UAB also allows are fans bases to travel to these games as well as they are regional. Gets our team in Houston and Birmingham so local recruits can see. It’s more to scheduling then just getting “desirable” home games. Remember Boises state home and home didn’t exactly move the needle either…

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So, we are talking about 2 different topics. That's fine, my comment above was about having a desirable schedule that attracts fans and that's not Dr. Maggard's forte.

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Originally Posted by CajunNation

Everything we do is to be Bowl eligible. Zepp is correct. Bowl eligible is the new 20 win basketbtall season.

30 years ago, both meant everything. Today, not even close.

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Well back then, many were eligible but still didn't go

IMO, scheduling Rice, Tulsa, Tulane and UAB to Cajun Field is desirable. Good job, keep them coming. This Cusa K State thing is a head scratcher. We just need to whip them when we play.

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Originally Posted by CajunNation

Everything we do is to be Bowl eligible. Zepp is correct. Bowl eligible is the new 20 win basketbtall season.

30 years ago, both meant everything. Today, not even close.

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1983

113 D1 football programs
274 D1 MBB programs
Mothership not really an issue yet.

133 FBS programs and 351 D1 MBB programs today. And the mothership rules everything. And sets the pecking order.

Was watching Gameday, listening to Pat MacAfee trash the NCAA up and down. Started laughing, figured the mothership threw JMU a bone this weekend, let people vent and it goes away.