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We did not play pay-day games "due to the increased overhead of the WAC"...we played pay-day games due to the laziness of our athletic director. Luckily, he doesn't have control over scheduling any longer. I enjoyed our last series with UL at L. I particularly enjoyed a little Prejean's after the game. I think don't think Dooley would be opposed to a game with the Cajuns.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cajun Express
If there was disrespect detected from my post, it was not intended.Quote:
Originally Posted by RonMexico
JL, you sure can spin it. lol!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by johnnylightnin
You'll understand what I'm talking about in 2008 and 2009.Quote:
Originally Posted by DestinCajun
well there was chatter about a 2 for1 with A Sunbelt school, I don't think Tech is in any position to do that with any of them with the exception of ULM FAU or FIU but I don't even see the Florida schools biting at that.
Did you see where Arkansas joined the SBC football league for 2007?Quote:
Originally Posted by beaux66
Here's hoping they finish last.
Looks like we have some more convincing to do to the outside sports world.
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=2942242
Just proves that perception and reality are sometimes different.Quote:
Originally Posted by makomaker
I think that the fact that their reason for ranking UL where they did, i.e. totally based on the past ten years and not what is happening now, offers no credit to this thing. All they ever do is take the top half of the BCS schools, study and rank them, and then just let the others fall the same as they did last year. Proof is that UL was being ranked the same five years ago. Everyone who knows the program knows its a lot better now than it was then, but we're still ranked the same. There are tons of reasons why the poll is bogus.
But, you are correct when you say "we have some more convincing to do to the outside sports world." A couple more OOC wins v. teams in other non-BCS conferences (although BCS wins wouldn't hurt), a bowl bid or several, plus our conference mates winning their OOC games, getting into and winning bowls, and winning records against other conferences will all help.
I THINK THE SUMMER SCHOOL GRADES WERE SUPPOSED TO BE POSTED TODAY. DOES ANYONE KNOW IF EVERYONE IS ELIGIBLE. IF ANYONE HEARS ANYTHING PLEASE INFORM.
Ditteaux!Quote:
Originally Posted by rhineaux
It ain't rocket science. All we have to do is win those games and they'll find someone else to put on the bottom rung.
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Finals are not until this Friday. The first half of summer grades may be posted but second half and full summer classes are not complete.
OK, THE REASON I ASKED IS B/C A FOOTBALL PLAYER SAID THAT THEY WOULD OUT TODAY IF A FEW CERTAIN PEOPLE WERE ELIGIBLE.Quote:
Originally Posted by jdebaillon
I think I saw on CBS Sportsline where we were picked to win the SunBelt.
as they did...Quote:
Originally Posted by makomaker
Let's prove them correct so they can stick someone else in the "Bottom 20" for a change.Quote:
Originally Posted by makomaker
5 teams in the bottom 19 is OK for now.
Remember last season when ALL 8 teams "earned" that distinction. Now Troy in Middle turned some heads. My question is WHERE is North Texas? The Belt needs to keep going and keep winning and OUR time will come.
The situation with the Cajuns is that we open with a must win against NC A&T and dominate. We roll over Eastern Michigan with some revenge and pull a stunner AT Houston. Then we slip by FAU on national TV(I still can't believe the lack of offense in that game) and start losing to teams we shouldn't lose to. That Middle Tennesee game was REALLY hard to digest.
"Nine times out of 10, there's going to be a slot for a seven-win team," Waters said. "There's 32 bowl games this year and maybe 33 or 34 soon, so run the numbers and it comes up pretty good."
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NEW ORLEANS - Sun Belt Conference football teams recorded the second-most out-of-conference wins (11) and second-most wins (6) against non-league Division I-A teams in history last year.
But there's an even bigger measure of the league's growth in football. That measure comes in the area that's most rewarding for the players and coaches.
Twice in three years, the Sun Belt has put two teams into bowl games, with Troy and Middle Tennessee both playing in the postseason in addition to the league's regular slot in the New Orleans Bowl.
And the coaches from those two squads readily admit that wouldn't have happened had it not been for the Sun Belt.
"No question we wouldn't have been in last year without the league," said Middle coach Rick Stockstill, whose squad lost to Central Michigan 31-14 in the Motor City Bowl in Detroit. "The bowls have so many tie-ins with conferences, and if you're an independent other than Notre Dame, you're not going to get in."
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"Winning out two years ago got us in," said Troy coach Larry Blakeney, whose team reached the Silicon Valley Classic in San Jose at the end of the 2004 season. "But being in the conference got us in, too. We were the first to get in as the second team, and we're proud of that."
The Sun Belt has only one automatic tie-in, with the league champion headed to New Orleans. But over the last four years every league team that has reached seven wins has played in a postseason bowl. Here, at this year's Sun Belt Football Media Day and in the shadows of Louisiana's only land-based non-Indian casino, seven remains the lucky number.
Under current NCAA bowl regulations, if any of the nation's conferences fail to fulfill numeric obligations to bowl partners and bowls have to go outside their lock-ins to find bowl-eligible teams, bowls have to take all of the 7-5 teams before any selections of 6-6 squads.
For teams like UL and its Sun Belt brethren, seven wins is a tangible goal.
"You want to win the league first," said Ragin' Cajun coach Rickey Bustle, "but you want that seventh win. The people in the league do a great job of pushing our teams, but there's no guarantee. Getting that seventh win separates a lot of people."
Bustle thinks his team can do that this season, against a schedule that includes two SEC teams in South Carolina and Tennessee and its other non-league games against Ohio, McNeese and Central Florida.
"It's a schedule you can make some noise against, for lack of a better word," he said. "I think our non-conference schedule is a very fair challenge. If we can win some of those, it'll build us some momentum."
If UL could sweep the non-SEC portion of its out-of-conference schedule, a 4-3 Sun Belt record would create a near-lock for some bowl. Sun Belt commissioner Wright Waters figures that would be enough, and even moreso in the next two years when prospective bowl games in Salt Lake City and Baltimore could come on line.
"Nine times out of 10, there's going to be a slot for a seven-win team," Waters said. "There's 32 bowl games this year and maybe 33 or 34 soon, so run the numbers and it comes up pretty good."
Stockstill, who said Monday he'd never been to a bad bowl, said that the difference in the Sun Belt and the more-established teams is the difference between six and seven wins.
"For teams in the SEC and ACC, major conferences, other than the teams that have a chance to win it, they're all gunning for six wins to get bowl eligible," he said. "Vanderbilt would love to get to six wins. We in the Sun Belt can't just get six wins. That's not going to get us in. We have to win seven to be that wild-card team."
Waters is hoping that the Sun Belt can garner a second bowl tie in the near future, mostly for the sake of geography.
"It's a priority for the conference office in years ahead," he said. "That wild-card spot could be in Boise, and that wouldn't be good for building fan support. It's a multi-dimensional issue since it's a million-dollar investment for the league, and we've got to build our fan base before we're going to be able to contract with someone. But it's something we have to move ahead on."
The Cajuns will appear twice on the league's ESPN Plus package that is available to cable networks and which will air locally over Cox Sports (cable channel 37). UL's Saturday home games against North Texas on Oct. 6 and Florida Atlantic on Oct. 20 will be part of the regional network's eight-game package.
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NEW ORLEANS - The Sun Belt Conference will have a record four games televised nationally in prime-time slots during the 2007 season. None will involve UL, though the Ragin' Cajuns will make a pair of regional appearances in two conference home games.
The league's television package was announced Monday during Media Day activities.
The conference will make up half of ESPN's first telecast of the season, that on Thursday, Aug. 30 when UL Monroe travels to Tulsa for a 6 p.m. ESPN2 contest. Sun Belt teams will also appear in ESPN2 games on Thursday, Sept. 6 when Middle Tennessee visits Louisville, on Friday, Sept. 14 when Troy hosts Oklahoma State, and on Tuesday, Nov. 20, when Troy hosts Middle Tennessee.
The league winner will grab another national appearance in the R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl on Dec. 21.
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The Cajuns will appear twice on the league's ESPN Plus package that is available to cable networks and which will air locally over Cox Sports (cable channel 37). UL's Saturday home games against North Texas on Oct. 6 and Florida Atlantic on Oct. 20 will be part of the regional network's eight-game package.
The ESPN Plus package will hit approximately 20 million homes through Cox and CSS.
WESTERN ON HAND: Representatives from Western Kentucky were in attendance Monday, with head coach David Elson and former sports information director Paul Just taking part in Media Day activities.
WKU is currently in transition from Division I-AA to I-A and will become the ninth Sun Belt football member, becoming eligible for the title and a bowl berth in 2009. The Hilltoppers will become the 120th Division I-A member.
WKU, the 2002 Division I-AA national champion, plays three league teams this year and has six tentatively scheduled for 2008 before its full-fledged membership kicks in. In fact, Western plays all of the Sun Belt teams except for the two Louisiana teams during the 2008 season.
MORE VICK: UL coach Rickey Bustle can't avoid questions about the Atlanta Falcons' Michael Vick.
His former quarterback at Virginia Tech was indicted last week for involvement in dogfighting. Vick's legal situation threatens his status for the 2007 season, and that became more complicated Monday night when NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell told him to stay out of training camp while the league reviews the charges.
"I hate it for his mom," said Bustle, who coached Vick during his time as offensive coordinator with the Hokies. "She's a great lady and did a great job raising those kids.
"We've talked about it here, and we're always talking about it in coaching meetings, about making the right decisions and choosing the right people to be around. That's where I'm disappointed in Mike."
Bustle said that he will definitely use Vick's situation to hammer home a code of conduct for his team when they assemble for the start of fall drills next week.
"I tell our guys you learn from mistakes," he said. "The thing is you have to make the ones that we can punish you for, and not the ones where you get involved with the law."
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NEW ORLEANS - To the surprise of no one, Troy was the overwhelming choice by league coaches atop the Sun Belt Conference's preseason football poll.
The Trojans - who shared last year's Sun Belt title with Middle Tennessee and earned the league's berth in the New Orleans Bowl - got five of the eight first-place votes and 59 total points in polling as Sun Belt Media Day began Monday.
But one vote Troy didn't get was from Trojan head coach Larry Blakeney.
"Just looking at last year and the folks everyone has coming back, it was hard for me to decide who to choose," Blakeney said. "For me, it was between Middle Tennessee, Arkansas State and Lafayette.
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"Mostly, I didn't pick us because we have to go to both Lafayette and Arkansas State."
Since ASU got a first-place vote and neither Middle or UL did, it stands to reason that Blakeney's vote went to the Indians. The other first-place votes went to UL Monroe and Florida Atlantic.
UL coach Rickey Bustle voted along with the majority, picking the Trojans for a repeat, and he wasn't surprised that his Ragin' Cajun squad was tabbed fourth.
"That's probably where we deserve to be," Bustle said. "The preseason poll's always more about what you did before and what's coming back. That's about where I thought we would be."
Troy's selection came as no surprise. The Trojans (8-5, 6-1 Sun Belt) won seven of their final eight games last season, including a dominating 41-14 romp past Rice in the New Orleans Bowl. In addition, in every year the Sun Belt has conducted a preseason poll, a team that either won or shared the previous year's title has been atop that ranking.
"I would have bet the ranch that we would have been picked to win the league," Blakeney said. "That's the way these things work. We won, so the onus is on us."
Troy only has three players on the preseason All-Sun Belt team, one of them being quarterback and returning league offensive player of the year Omar Haugabook. It was the same number as the Cajuns, who put running back Tyrell Fenroy, offensive lineman Jesse Newman and kicker Drew Edmiston on the squad.
In contrast, UL Monroe had five players among the league's 11 picks on the preseason offensive unit. That wasn't a surprise to Bustle.
"I thought at the end of the year last year, they were the best offensive team in the league," Bustle said in reference to the Cajuns' 39-20 loss to the Warhawks.
In addition to Haugabook's honor on offense, Arkansas State's Tyrell Johnson was tabbed as preseason defensive player of the year.
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Also we will be televised by CSS when we play at Tennessee. Also will be interested to see if my klaf will pick up another game like they usually do for football
Date Home Team Away Team Time MediaQuote:
Originally Posted by EVCajun12
Thurs., Aug. 30 UL-Monroe Tulsa 6 p.m. ESPN 2
Sat., Sept. 1 Penn State Florida Int. 11 a.m. BTN
Sat., Sept. 1 Oklahoma North Texas 6 p.m. FSN
Sat., Sept. 1 South Carolina UL TBA CSS
Thurs., Sept. 6 Louisville Middle Tenn. 6 p.m. ESPN 2
Sat., Sept. 8 Clemson UL-Monroe 1 p.m. CSS
Sat., Sept. 8 Florida Int. Maryland 6 p.m. ESPN 360
Fri., Sept. 14 Troy Oklahoma St. 7 p.m. ESPN 2
Sat., Sept. 15 Florida Atlantic Minnesota Noon ESPN 360
Sat., Sept. 15 Miami FL Florida Int. 2:30 p.m. ESPNU
Sat., Sept. 15 LSU Middle Tenn. 7 p.m. CSTV
Thurs., Sept. 20 Middle Tenn. W. Kentucky 6 p.m. ESPN+
Sat., Sept. 22 Tennessee Arkansas St. TBA CSS
Fri., Sept. 29 Troy UL-Monroe 6 p.m. CSS
Sat., Oct. 6 UL North Texas 6 p.m. ESPN+
Sat., Oct. 6 Middle Tenn. Virginia TBA CSS
Sat., Oct. 13 North Texas UL-Monroe 6 p.m. ESPN+
Sat., Oct. 20 UL Florida Atlantic 6 p.m. ESPN+
Sat., Oct. 27 Arkansas St. Troy 6 p.m. ESPN+
Sat., Nov. 3 Georgia Troy 12 p.m. CSS
Sat., Nov. 3 Arkansas St. Florida Int. 2 p.m. ESPN+
Sat., Nov. 3 Tennessee UL TBA CSS
Thurs., Nov. 15 Arkansas St. North Texas 6 p.m. ESPN+
Sat., Nov. 17 Alabama UL-Monroe TBA CSS
Tue., Nov. 20 Troy Middle Tenn. 6 p.m. ESPN2
Sat., Nov. 24 Florida Int. Florida Atlantic 6 p.m. ESPN+
Sat., Dec. 1 Troy Florida Atlantic 1 p.m. CSS
New Orleans Bowl
Fri., Dec. 21 TBA TBA 7 p.m. ESPN2
Note: BTN is Big Ten Network
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CSS is TBA for the South Carolina vs Louisiana game also!!
Check out the whole list as of today:
Get your SEASON tickets and have your friends do the same, then SHOW UP at the games!!!!!!!!:h:
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Originally Posted by crazycajun
Bustle said on yesterday BEV that everything was going good with the players in summer school.