2012 New Orleans Bowl

[CajunIke]

Nice!

[CajunIke]

Will they podcast it?

[Bigbuf]

There are no indications anywhere that any conference currently cares about either performance on the field or actual people at games.

While in general that may be true.....I think the shake up in the Big East in directly related to the addition of Tulane and their lack of performance on the field.

Would that be true if we get added to the Big XII....dunno....I think we can hang with the middle tier (right now) and of course in the years to come the sky is the limit.

[moorecajun]

Wait a minute.. Where did this Big 12 bs start? Lets look at history. We have beat 2 Big 12 teams (t a&m and k-state) that I recall. And both were in down years. We have never beat an sec, big 10, acc, PAC 12 school, again, that I recall. We play two money games a year and have a DOA record vs. the big boys.. The question keeps getting asked ,"what do we have to do to get noticed?" We'll, lets start by beating Arkansas and k-state next year. Start doing it regularly and we will get noticed just like Boise did. Else, we are where we are.. Would be much better to take the money games, win them, say "thank you very much for the check, move onto the next big boy victim and repeat. Then we get noticed and asked to join the party....

Al of this Big 12 bs is about having a "plan" ... this plan has NOTHING to do with whom you beat yesterday but has EVERYTHING to do with WHERE DO YOU WANT TO BE IN 10 YEARS ... if you dream small, you stay small. Do you really want to be in a cusa where every year they are changing their members? Or the Big East ... which may not even exist in a year? If we are going to have a Master Plan and we want to grow this University, let's aim high. NOTHING that has happened over two years ago matters; that is old history from another school ... we are now the LOUISIANA RAGIN' CAJUNS and we want to play with the big boys.

[moorecajun]

A couple of weeks before the bowl game, Farmer said the plans were in and were under review by the coaches. Now that the bowl is over, the focus should return. Would be nice to have this completed by mid-January, introduce it to RCAF and the public at a major post bowl game celebration. At the same time, recruit new RCAF members and do a major season ticket drive while momentum is hot. We just might get lucky with more conference realignment changes taking place and get a new conference invite that would also be introduced at this event. All of that coming together at one time is not that far fetched and would be an unbelievable shot in the arm for UL athletics. And, oh yeah, UL is now branding itself as Louisiana, as in the Louisiana Ragin Cajuns. More to come from UL.

You have a very good idea here ... and we do it with as soon before Nat. Signing Day to give the coaches some more ammo!

[Bigbuf]

FYI....Big 12 has come out of Ken Winstead mouth.....I believe it's the ultimate goal.

[Frenchie35]

Wait a minute.. Where did this Big 12 bs start? Lets look at history. We have beat 2 Big 12 teams (t a&m and k-state) that I recall. And both were in down years. We have never beat an sec, big 10, acc, PAC 12 school, again, that I recall. We play two money games a year and have a DOA record vs. the big boys.. The question keeps getting asked ,"what do we have to do to get noticed?" We'll, lets start by beating Arkansas and k-state next year. Start doing it regularly and we will get noticed just like Boise did. Else, we are where we are.. Would be much better to take the money games, win them, say "thank you very much for the check, move onto the next big boy victim and repeat. Then we get noticed and asked to join the party....

I think that is the answer to all our questions. Have been thinking this way for awhile now. Forget about all that other crap, budget etc, clear your minds and beat the so call money game teams, come home and say, "who's next". That will get you notice big time...

[MelRock]

I have to disagree a little bit that winning on the field has nothing to do with you getting in a bigger conference. Do you not think that the Big East didn't notice Boise State winning. They are 112th TV market with a population of 262,290. Lafayette, LA 123 with 230,670. Now the other schools yes it is about TV market, but that is not the only criteria.

[CajunAlum10]

I have to disagree a little bit that winning on the field has nothing to do with you getting in a bigger conference. Do you not think that the Big East didn't notice Boise State winning. They are 112th TV market with a population of 262,290. Lafayette, LA 123 with 230,670. Now the other schools yes it is about TV market, but that is not the only criteria.

This.

[cajunfan96]

FYI....Big 12 has come out of Ken Winstead mouth.....I believe it's the ultimate goal.

Not suprising. Ken Winstead gets it!

[cajuncorkdork]

The Big 12 isnt going to use the 20 million as a reason to bring us in . What are we doing to make us attractive to them without the 20 mil???

[CajunAlum10]

Guys, let's be honest with ourselves here. I don't care if you think CUSA is not a big step up right now.... but there is no way in hell we get an invite from the Big12 coming straight from the Belt. Give me a freakin break.

I agree the Big12 is the perfect ultimate destination. But this isn't chinese checkers, you don't hop over other conferences. Whoever pointed out TCU earlier, just look at that example. They didn't go straight from the WAC to Big12, they went WAC, CUSA, MWC, then BIG12.

The only way we hop over a conference in my opinion is if we get invited to MWC for an EAST division of some sort... that would be leap frogging CUSA. The Sun Belt may have been on the up and up, but perception is still perception and CUSA gives us a much better outlook on our future. No doubt about it.