PreGame 2011 New Orleans Bowl - Walking To New Orleans

AssTech, lol. I will make a poster and bring it to New Orleans!

Hard to tell. Usually we don't travel very well. We are coming off of 20 years of bad football and the fan base is starting to come back with last years 9 win season and this years 8 win season. I think we will have a decent amount of fans there, but certainly not enough to say we travel well.

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Originally Posted by SteveAztec

Hard to tell. Usually we don't travel very well. We are coming off of 20 years of bad football and the fan base is starting to come back with last years 9 win season and this years 8 win season. I think we will have a decent amount of fans there, but certainly not enough to say we travel well.

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Sounds like us but add a few more bad years in there. Week before Christmas is tough to spend the money and make it half way across the country but its a fun destination. At least your not playing in the Potato Bowl on the smurf turf at twenty below zer.

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Originally Posted by SteveAztec

We are 8-4 for the season and lost most of our games against real tough competition. Lost at Michigan, at home vs TCU and Boise State.

We averaged 41,000 per game and lead te MWC in attendance. Yes, more than TCU or Boise State.

Ronnie Hillman is the real deal. One of the very best running backs in the nation.

We know very little about your team, but 8-4 tells us you are fairly tough and will have a home field advantage. The Aztecs do not travel well (or haven't in the past) to Bowl games on the road. In fact we have only been to about 4 D1 Bowl Games ever and have been playing D1 football since 1969 or so.

This should be a real good game.

Hey, is this the school that "Bo" Lamar attended? That guy could shoot lights out.

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Yes to Bo Lamar. I forgot that he played at San Diego (Conquistadors?)

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Originally Posted by SteveAztec

We are 8-4 for the season and lost most of our games against real tough competition. Lost at Michigan, at home vs TCU and Boise State.

We averaged 41,000 per game and lead te MWC in attendance. Yes, more than TCU or Boise State.

Ronnie Hillman is the real deal. One of the very best running backs in the nation.

We know very little about your team, but 8-4 tells us you are fairly tough and will have a home field advantage. The Aztecs do not travel well (or haven't in the past) to Bowl games on the road. In fact we have only been to about 4 D1 Bowl Games ever and have been playing D1 football since 1969 or so.

This should be a real good game.

Hey, is this the school that "Bo" Lamar attended? That guy could shoot lights out.

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Welcome and congrats on the NO Bowl! Make sure your fans know to come here for any New Orleans questions. Hope you guys bring a large contingent of fans. Honestly, many of us have our doubts about how well San Diego will travel.

Anyway, good luck! We are all looking forward to having a good time and watching a good game in New Orleans.

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Originally Posted by SteveAztec

We are 8-4 for the season and lost most of our games against real tough competition. Lost at Michigan, at home vs TCU and Boise State.

We averaged 41,000 per game and lead te MWC in attendance. Yes, more than TCU or Boise State.

Ronnie Hillman is the real deal. One of the very best running backs in the nation.

We know very little about your team, but 8-4 tells us you are fairly tough and will have a home field advantage. The Aztecs do not travel well (or haven't in the past) to Bowl games on the road. In fact we have only been to about 4 D1 Bowl Games ever and have been playing D1 football since 1969 or so.

This should be a real good game.

Hey, is this the school that "Bo" Lamar attended? That guy could shoot lights out.

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Bo Lamar...one and the same.

Z

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Originally Posted by montysdsu

Hea guys, Aztec here. Congrats on a bowl game. As pointed out above, we play on grass (same stadium the Chargers play in), and actually most of the other teams play on turf in the MWC.

A little about us: run pro set. Ronnie Hillman is a super soph that has over 3k yards in 2 years, smaller back but quick and can battle a little for extra yards, explodes through holes. Our Sr. qb holds basically every passing record but is wildly inconsistent and inaccurate, we lost two wrs to the nfl last year and that hasn't helped. But, we're a balanced offense, lots of power-0 and play pass. Lost Brady Hoke to Michigan and maybe more importantly Al Borges as OC to michigan so playcalling has suffered a bit.

Defense: 3-3-5, Rocky long the head coach basically created the defense and it's predicated on blitzing most downs, corners are physical and on an island. Haven't created a lot of turnovers the last few weeks after creating a lot the first 3/4 of the season

Special teams: punter has a big leg, place kicker is god awful, 5-12 on the year, missed a pat and 2 chippies vs WYoming in our most disappointing couple point loss

Last 10 weeks we've started absurdly slow, spotting teams 3 scores before rallying back. Defense is quick, but rocky sometimes over blitzes particularly early, o-line is experienced but maybe not as good as last year, dropped a lot of bombs for tds.

Good luck, a lot of us are trying to get flights together, so hopefully we'll have a decent turnout.

Go Aztecs

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Don't undersell too much, 8-4 in a pretty good conference isn't too bad. However, I hope your assessment of your QB, pass defense, and kicker are accurate.

I hope they stick with that reference.

I'm sure the fax machines are smoking in moanroe from all the notices complaining about referencing us as Louisiana. Wright Waters' phone is probably ringing off the hook.

Yes, the Q's. Wilt Chamberlain was the coach for one season. Of course Wilt was really there to play ball, but the NBA filed a lawsuit to stop him from playing that year.

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Originally Posted by 03cajunalum

I'm extremely excited to see the Cajuns play on turf, does anyone know if SDSU plays on natural grass or turf?

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The Cajuns play every home game on turf.

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Originally Posted by Big Poppa

The Cajuns play every home game on turf.

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And they practice on the old Superdome turf.

Turf advantage: Cajuns

Here's a positive......the late start of the Bowl game will put it longer in Prime Time on the West Coast.

“We couldn’t be more excited to have the San Diego State Aztecs represent the Mountain West Conference in this year’s game. We’re thrilled to have two teams that have never played in the R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl before, and we can’t wait to show them the one of a kind bowl experience that only New Orleans can deliver.”

I bet you could be more excited about this if you tried really hard. LOL yeah, we're like totally pumped to San Diego State over teams like SMU and Tulsa in our bowl. Right. Sure you are :-)

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Originally Posted by Hammer58

I'm sure the fax machines are smoking in moanroe from all the notices complaining about referencing us as Louisiana. Wright Waters' phone is probably ringing off the hook.

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Glad to see the Louisiana reference by the bowl. They should have used our more current circular logo.

UL's Ragin’ Cajun football team had been waiting for almost three weeks, watching the ebb and flow of the end of the college football season and trying to guess who they’d be facing in the R&L Carriers New Orleans Bowl. Now they know, and when all of ...

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Overall Aztec fans will be very excited about this game. I hope we travel well.

Let me ask you this. What total amount of fans traveling would be considered "traveling well" to the NO Bowl.

We are thinking we will have 30-35K there, bad thing is both teams are Black and Red, so some dumb ESPN announcer will say we have nothing but RED and BLACK as both teams wear these colors............

Some other very good Aztec players you have never heard of...

-Miles Burris. A monster of a linebacker that will be playing in the NFL. Not sure if he is a NFL starter but he will be there.

-Gavin Escobar. A 6-6 tight end that can catch the ball. He is a soph and will be a NFL player. Great hands. A beast.

-Leon McFadden, a soph corner. Pro scouts love him.

-Ryan Lindley, a senior QB. Is is the "in" thing to bad mouth Ryan. Fact is he is 6-4, 230, a 4 year starter with a CANNON of an arm. He is working with ineperienced receivers and hasn't had a great year....BUT...Ryan owns almost every passing record in Aztec history at this point. And that from a school that has produced some very good QB's over time.

-I mentioned Ronnie Hillman earlier. The good news. He is NOT as good as Marshall Faulk was here at San Diego State. Now for the bad news...He is pretty darn close to being as good as Marshall Faulk....And that is damn good.

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Originally Posted by SteveAztec

Overall Aztec fans will be very excited about this game. I hope we travel well.

Let me ask you this. What total amount of fans traveling would be considered "traveling well" to the NO Bowl.

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Considering the distance, 5-8k? That would be my opinion.

Hmmm...5,000 maybe. Over 7, probably not.

I could be surprised on this one, but I think I am right.

I hope for the sake of the Aztecs and the New Orleans Bowl that we can get 10K there.

Ronnie Hillman highlights...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyNWPk7Oq90

Sittiing in the dome now and was just thinking about what our endzone will say hope its just Louisiana

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Originally Posted by montysdsu

Hea guys, Aztec here. Congrats on a bowl game. As pointed out above, we play on grass (same stadium the Chargers play in), and actually most of the other teams play on turf in the MWC.

A little about us: run pro set. Ronnie Hillman is a super soph that has over 3k yards in 2 years, smaller back but quick and can battle a little for extra yards, explodes through holes. Our Sr. qb holds basically every passing record but is wildly inconsistent and inaccurate, we lost two wrs to the nfl last year and that hasn't helped. But, we're a balanced offense, lots of power-0 and play pass. Lost Brady Hoke to Michigan and maybe more importantly Al Borges as OC to michigan so playcalling has suffered a bit.

Defense: 3-3-5, Rocky long the head coach basically created the defense and it's predicated on blitzing most downs, corners are physical and on an island. Haven't created a lot of turnovers the last few weeks after creating a lot the first 3/4 of the season

Special teams: punter has a big leg, place kicker is god awful, 5-12 on the year, missed a pat and 2 chippies vs WYoming in our most disappointing couple point loss

Last 10 weeks we've started absurdly slow, spotting teams 3 scores before rallying back. Defense is quick, but rocky sometimes over blitzes particularly early, o-line is experienced but maybe not as good as last year, dropped a lot of bombs for tds.

Good luck, a lot of us are trying to get flights together, so hopefully we'll have a decent turnout.

Go Aztecs

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Welcome to our board and thanks for the info! I hope that you guys can get a good crowd out here. There will be lots to do before and after the game.

I can't wait to see the Aztec fans in NOLA. Been a follower of the baseball program, especially when Tony Gwynn was hired as head coach. I just hope the fans that make the trip are ready to party.