2006: UL-6 FAU-0

[Just1More]

The cameras kept showing the same 10 students throughout the game showing that nobody was at the game

That was one pathetic place to have a nationally televised game. Whoever set that up at ESPN2 ought to be fired. That did nothing for us, FAU or ESPN2. Even if we had played lights out, that is not the place to showcase anything. That chaps a patch a red on my back side!

[Just1More]

We have no room to talk about empty seats or fan attendance at home games!! Pot calling kettle black!!

You obviously haven't been to a game in a few years. If you think that was anything comparable to a game at Cajun Field, you have even hit the heavy stuff too long or started at too young an age.

[BSDetector007]

bad idea to have national tv sunbelt game at that stadium.

Hopefully Cox is not hurt too bad. That probably cost Cajuns points. Penalties stopped some drives as well. Punt return called back did not help either. But cajuns had fortunate turnovers go their way and could do nothing with those.

If Cox is out for a while, could be big offensive problems.

You're not kidding. Those refs must be totally blind to not see that it was not an interception by the cajuns db. Those refs suited the game just fine because the cajuns offense was just putrid. What do you think Troy State will do with that pittiful cajuns offense? WOW!

[sleepophile]

Turbine , dont bother watching the game.Absolutely horrible..and high school games in louisiana get better attendance than that .I dvr'd the game thinking that it would be a blowout and I could watch the Fenroy - Babb mauling the FAU D , but our offence could get nothing going.

[Clutch0364]

You're not kidding. Those refs must be totally blind to not see that it was not an interception by the cajuns db. Those refs suited the game just fine because the cajuns offense was just putrid. What do you think Troy State will do with that pittiful cajuns offense? WOW!

First off its not Troy State it is Troy University, second off Troy hasn't done anything impressive since that game against Florida state so sit on it and rotate.

[BSDetector007]

You obviously haven't been to a game in a few years. If you think that was anything comparable to a game at Cajun Field, you have even hit the heavy stuff too long or started at too young an age.

I've been to a couple this season bro. It's NOT anything to brag about at all. Don't flatter the attendance too much cause it is what it is and it's still horrible!

I didn't say it was comparable, I simply stated that home attendance at cajuns games is nothing to brag about.

[BSDetector007]

First off its not Troy State it is Troy University, second off Troy hasn't done anything impressive sense that game against Florida state so sit on it and rotate.

Uhh OK. You call 'em what you want and I'll go ahead and call 'em Troy State.

[Clutch0364]

Uhh OK. You call 'em what you want and I'll go ahead and call 'em Troy State.

Then you would not be talking about the Troy that we are playing...It's very simple.

[BSDetector007]

UL-FAU update: It's on TV, but don't adjust your set
Dan McDonald
dmcdonald@theadvertiser.com

Tonight’s UL-Florida Atlantic game airs to a national television audience via ESPN2, the only time this year that two Sun Belt Conference teams meet in a national broadcast.

“National TV is big-time,” FAU linebacker Cergile Sincere said Tuesday. “You want to put your big-boy pants on and go show everybody what we have here.”

Problem is, what the Owls have here is an inadequate stadium for TV. Lockhart Stadium is a 20,500-seat former municipal facility in Fort Lauderdale, far removed from the Boca Raton campus, with a few upgrades to make it usable for collegiate play.

Picture most of Lafayette Parish’s prep stadiums, with the home side matched on the visitors’ side, and you get the idea. This one’s got to be tough on the TV folks.

Viewers will notice a low angle on the “up” cameras, because even the top of the stadium isn’t very high. And the press box isn’t exactly what these folks are used to.

Granted, FAU’s program is still very new. UL had been in Cajun Field for three decades when the Owls played their first game in 2001. FAU played its first two seasons at Pro Player Stadium (now Dolphins Stadium for its regular tenants), but averaged fewer than 5,000 fans in a facility that seats 15 times more than that. Athletic director Craig Angelos and FAU’s administrators are thinking big in the future.

Mock-up drawings exist for a Cultural Events Center, part of an “innovation village” on the Boca Raton campus. The facility is comparable to Syracuse’s Carrier Dome and would house football and basketball under the same roof. Ironically, Sincere — FAU’s leading tackler this year with 38 in six games — has his action picture superimposed over an artist rendering of the Center in the Owls’ media guide.

He’ll never play in it, obviously, and the question is whether any FAU players will ever be under that roof. Estimated cost of that building, part of a village concept that also includes residence halls, retail stories, a hotel and restaurants, is around $45 million.

Most FAU people are convinced the building will be a reality in the not-too-distant future, but so far it’s only a concept.

This game is downright just an embarassment for the sunbelt. How much more pittifull can it get than this poo-poo?

[Corndog308]

Yeah, we got a W. But I am still red in the face for the way our offense played, and the play calling. I too was calling the plays in advance. Be it me being familiar with our offensive playcalling, or just plain lucky. 5 turnovers created by the defense, and 6 points put up by the offense . I'm sorry, but to me that is totally unacceptable. I know, we got the W. Congrats to the Cajuns. 4-2 comin into the Swamp next weekend. I'm 100% sure they'll give us a great show.

[LARaginCajun]

Turbine , dont bother watching the game.Absolutely horrible..and high school games in louisiana get better attendance than that .I dvr'd the game thinking that it would be a blowout and I could watch the Fenroy - Babb mauling the FAU D , but our offence could get nothing going.

FAU had a good gameplan to stop the Cajuns spread offense. Look for Middle Tennessee to copy FAU gameplan. Ricky, being the offensive minded coach he is, look for him to come up with some new plays to counter what they were doing.

[BSDetector007]

Then you would not be talking about the Troy that we are playing...It's very simple.

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight! I don't think Troy State is as paranoid about a name or worried about what they are called. This is the sunbelt man not the Big10, ACC, or PAC10