Five National TV Games Highlight 2013 Football Schedule

[CajunNation]

You're stubborn as a mule. Those 5 SBC schools are CUSA's pick of the litter from the SBC (and if you come up with an SBC program you think is a better program than the 5 they chose... that program would also take the invite). CUSA also hand picked the WAC teams they wanted. ......

With the exception of Tech, CUSA picked markets. Nothing more, nothing less.

Maybe I missed the memo on those vaunted powerhouses of Charlotte, Old Dominion, and the FU twins. They pick markets. That's how they roll man.

And, I just don't care.

I don't care because I believe we control our destiny, not whether or not we are in the second, third, or fourth ranked non-major conference.

We are better than all of this garbage. We will continue to prove it over and over again.

Or am I wrong? Maybe I just haven't lost enough sleep over the fact that we won't have Middle Tennesse State and Florida International anymore as conference mates. We'll have to play Texas State and Georgia State instead. OH THE HUMANITY!!!!!!!!!!

C'mon Man.

[Hammer58]

This is what I'm talking about. What about all of the recruits we won by our awesomeness the last 2 years? I guarantee you it dwarfs the number we lost due to the SBC.

Of all of the schools in BOTH leagues we have a very unique situation here. We rock and the recruits see that. It's a net positive. I don't see the need to cry a river.

I guarantee you that Boise lost a few recruits at the beginning to some MWC schools. They just kept being awesome and growing their brand.

We will do the same regardless of the name of our current conference.

Hud has made his thoughts on this new conference lineup very clear. Nothing personal, but I'll value his opinion over yours or any of us on this board any day of the week.

[SlappyCajun]

With the exception of Tech, CUSA picked markets. Nothing more, nothing less.

What about when they pick up WKU in a month or two?

[CajunNation]

What about when they pick up WKU in a month or two?

Is CUSA in Kentucky?

Not yet.

New market.

[SlappyCajun]

Is CUSA in Kentucky?

Not yet.

New market.

You are just manipulating the term market to fit your argument. Markets aren't determined on a state by state basis. A bigger market in a state with a current CUSA team is more valuable, at least according to TV execs then a new market in a less populated state.

Otherwise, there would be no reason to take both Florida schools which in reality almost share the same market. CUSA is taking WKU because of basketball and their other programs.

[CajunEXPRESS]

Hud has made his thoughts on this new conference lineup very clear. Nothing personal, but I'll value his opinion over yours or any of us on this board any day of the week.

Hammer?

You saying you value what HUD says over Nation & Rebel? Clearly you are missing the big picture.

[CrazyCajun]

With the exception of Tech, CUSA picked markets. Nothing more, nothing less.

Maybe I missed the memo on those vauted powerhouses of Charlotte, Old Dominion, and the FU twins. They pick markets. That's how they roll man.

And, I just don't care.

I don't care because I believe we control our destiny, not whether or not we are in the second, third, or fourth ranked non-major conference.

We are better than all of this garbage. We will continue to prove it over and over again.

Or am I wrong? Maybe I just haven't lost enough sleep over the fact that we won't have Middle Tennesse State and Florida International anymore as cconference mates. We'll have to play Texas State and Georgia State instead. OH THE HUMANITY!!!!!!!!!!

C'mon Man.

We aren't in control of shat, Scott farmer is, that's the scary part. We don't Rock, HUD does. When he leaves we will be left in the worst conference in the Countet with an idiot for an AD and will once again suck a s s and return to being the laughing stock of the country and the butt of all football jokes. Which you will be fine with because you are happy being the largest turd in the portapottee. If we can't get in this round, that will mean we can't even back in by default, which is pathetic. All of you defenders are making your argument around one thing, that mark hudspeth will never leave. We all know that isn't true and if we don't get out of this conference...it will happen sooner than we all think, he basically said so in the paper.

[CajunNation]

All I would say to that is they compensated by scheduling Home-and-Home with every BCS school on their schedule.

Only exceptions were some ESPN TV games.

Turbine, let's look at the overall.


From 1996 to 2006(their first BCS Bowl), Boise had 15 BCS opponents.

4 of those were home games.(26%)


From 2003 to 2012, Louisiana had 21 BCS opponents.

2 of those were home games.(10%)


When Boise made their first BCS Bowl their budget was a little over 19 mill.

We are around 17 mill.


So, while we are not exactly the same, we are in similar paths. Granted our budget is slighltly behind them, but when it hits 20 mill in a few years, we very well could be in a BCS Bowl.

[CajunNation]

You are just manipulating the term market to fit your argument. Markets aren't determined on a state by state basis. A bigger market in a state with a current CUSA team is more valuable, at least according to TV execs then a new market in a less populated state.

Otherwise, there would be no reason to take both Florida schools which in reality almost share the same market. CUSA is taking WKU because of basketball and their other programs.

All right, I'll give you that.

But, there are more ways than that to make money for your league, and WKU wins tourney games.

Tourney wins = $$$$$$$$$

[Just1More]

With the exception of Tech, CUSA picked markets. Nothing more, nothing less.

Maybe I missed the memo on those vauted powerhouses of Charlotte, Old Dominion, and the FU twins. They pick markets. That's how they roll man.

And, I just don't care.

I don't care because I believe we control our destiny, not whether or not we are in the second, third, or fourth ranked non-major conference.

We are better than all of this garbage. We will continue to prove it over and over again.

Or am I wrong? Maybe I just haven't lost enough sleep over the fact that we won't have Middle Tennesse State and Florida International anymore as cconference mates. We'll have to play Texas State and Georgia State instead. OH THE HUMANITY!!!!!!!!!!

C'mon Man.

I don't disagree that we "could" control an improved personal destiny if our administration got their act together. A lot of the preparedness work should have already been done, and we wouldn't be having this discussion.

I'm not blown away by the new CUSA by any means. CUSA does use TV market as a primary program picker strategy. But, the SBC uses "who's left over or left out" as their strategy. UL would gain by the CUSA TV market group on bowls and TV revenue over what the SBC's capable of accomplishing for us as a conference. The overall opponent matchups, team by team, are not impressive in either case.

Our future is hinged heavily on powerfully bold decisions made or not made by our administration.