Five National TV Games Highlight 2013 Football Schedule

[cajuncorkdork]

Half? You need to recalculate. Over the past two years, we averaged 27k at Cajun Field. That isn't a bad home attendance as CUSA goes.

Ok math professor, approximately 40%..... My point is still valid that nola bowl attendance wont mean much of anything to a new conference if our regular season ticket sales dont reflect it

[VObserver]

Ok math professor, approximately 40%..... My point is still valid that nola bowl attendance wont mean much of anything to a new conference if our regular season ticket sales dont reflect it

I hope your degree is in liberal arts and not math, physics or engineering. 27/42=9/14 or approximately 64%

[Jacob81]

2013 Louisiana Football Schedule
Date (Day) Opponent
Aug. 31 (Sat.) at Arkansas (SEC Network)
Sept. 7 (Sat.) at Kansas State (Big 12 Network)
Sept. 14 (Sat.) NICHOLLS STATE
Sept. 21 (Sat.) at Akron
Oct. 5 (Sat.) TEXAS STATE *
Oct. 15-16 (Tues.-Wed.) at WKU * (ESPN/ESPN2)
Oct. 22-23 (Tues.-Wed.) at Arkansas State * (ESPN/ESPN2)
Nov. 2 (Sat.) NEW MEXICO STATE
Nov. 7 (Thurs.) TROY * (ESPNU)
Nov. 16 (Sat.) at Georgia State *
Nov. 30 (Sat.) ULM *
Dec. 7 (Sat.) at South Alabama *
* - Sun Belt Games All Game Times Are TBA

7/7/7/14/10 or 11/6,7,or 8/10 or 11/5/9/14/7

All these random looking numbers are....... the number of days between games. CRAZY!!!!!

[CajunRebel]

My bad, you didn't follow it, you preceded it with a bunch of crap. Like that made a difference. It still boils down to your dumbass once again arguing with a guy who spends much more time than you analyzing recruiting and talking to recruits. And they have flat out told him that our conference affiliation was a factor in their decision to go elsewhere with CUSA being elsewhere.

And what your dumbass can't comprehend is that I wasn't even disagreeing with Cajun T. He said that our conference affiliation matters and it's important to to improve our record, budget, and facilities to make up for it. I followed by saying that our conference affiliation matters but not as much as our record, budget, and facilities. I don't disagree one bit with what he said.

But you're an idiot and you can't see that. It's cool. Keep trying. Practice makes perfect.

[CajunsHat]

Actually I'm pretty sure out Max capacity is near the ballpark of 31k...that is our listed Max capacity I'm pretty sure. So if we avg 27k, that's about 87% capacity filled. Just sayin...

[CajunRebel]

Ok math professor, approximately 40%..... My point is still valid that nola bowl attendance wont mean much of anything to a new conference if our regular season ticket sales dont reflect it

Actually the way I see it bowl attendance could play a much bigger role than regular season attendance. Regular season attendance doesn't make the conference money but bowl attendance does.

Last year UL lost out on a lot of New Orleans Bowl money because of a new rule the Sun Belt added that basically put most of our bowl revenue into a pool of money that helps other Belt bowl teams recoup their Bowl costs. From what I understand C-USA has a similar rule. We can prove that we can make C-USA teams a lot of money off the New Orleans Bowl and that is a big feather in our cap.

C-USA has added teams like Old Dominion, UNCC, and UTSA because they have big markets. And since networks pay more money when markets are bigger these new but crappy schools will make the older C-USA schools lots of money. At every level conference expansion has been about adding the schools that will make conference members the most money. We don't have a market to offer but we do have the New Orleans Bowl. If they let us in we'll make them good money every time we get invited, which will probably be often. It's not as good as being in a top market but it could make a huge difference if the choice comes down to say UL and Ark. State.

[Oiler]

Actually the way I see it bowl attendance could play a much bigger role than regular season attendance. Regular season attendance doesn't make the conference money but bowl attendance does.

Last year UL lost out on a lot of New Orleans Bowl money because of a new rule the Sun Belt added that basically put most of our bowl revenue into a pool of money that helps other Belt bowl teams recoup their Bowl costs. From what I understand C-USA has a similar rule. We can prove that we can make C-USA teams a lot of money off the New Orleans Bowl and that is a big feather in our cap.

C-USA has added teams like Old Dominion, UNCC, and UTSA because they have big markets. And since networks pay more money when markets are bigger these new but crappy schools will make the older C-USA schools lots of money. At every level conference expansion has been about adding the schools that will make conference members the most money. We don't have a market to offer but we do have the New Orleans Bowl. If they let us in we'll make them good money every time we get invited, which will probably be often. It's not as good as being in a top market but it could make a huge difference if the choice comes down to say UL and Ark. State.

You make an excellent point. When it comes down to a choice between UL and Ark St, the NO Bowl will definitely tip the scales in our direction.

[Hammer58]

And what your dumbass can't comprehend is that I wasn't even disagreeing with Cajun T. He said that our conference affiliation matters and it's important to to improve our record, budget, and facilities to make up for it. I followed by saying that our conference affiliation matters but not as much as our record, budget, and facilities. I don't disagree one bit with what he said.

But you're an idiot and you can't see that. It's cool. Keep trying. Practice makes perfect.

"...so I don't know how much that argument really hurts us in the end."

Pretty easy to comprehend that, _______. That's disagreement in any book.

[CajunEXPRESS]

Actually the way I see it bowl attendance could play a much bigger role than regular season attendance. Regular season attendance doesn't make the conference money but bowl attendance does.

Last year UL lost out on a lot of New Orleans Bowl money because of a new rule the Sun Belt added that basically put most of our bowl revenue into a pool of money that helps other Belt bowl teams recoup their Bowl costs. From what I understand C-USA has a similar rule. We can prove that we can make C-USA teams a lot of money off the New Orleans Bowl and that is a big feather in our cap.

C-USA has added teams like Old Dominion, UNCC, and UTSA because they have big markets. And since networks pay more money when markets are bigger these new but crappy schools will make the older C-USA schools lots of money. At every level conference expansion has been about adding the schools that will make conference members the most money. We don't have a market to offer but we do have the New Orleans Bowl. If they let us in we'll make them good money every time we get invited, which will probably be often. It's not as good as being in a top market but it could make a huge difference if the choice comes down to say UL and Ark. State.

Conferences would be plain stupid to put much weight in your bowl money. You are never guaranteed a bowl, and right now the only bowl we can point to with any numbers happen to be the NOB. I think we would do equally well at the bowl in Houston and I think perhaps C USA has some ties to that. So those are a couple of bowls. Also they still have a Liberty tie in, much better than the Indy. With all that said no warranty that we get to any of those on a regular basis.

So bowls are a crap shoot, and markets not. Improved facilities and such not a crap shoot. A master plan for improving the facilities, general budget, and the implementation of those plans would go a long way in helping us. Up to this date we are a pie in the sky school, many vague promises none kept.

So what is going on is that C USA is pretty much the recent Sun Belt with a few schools with proud traditions, and the SBC is really a step up from 1AA league. You know Appy State, Georgia Southern looking to be the next newest and greatest. The reason we have to leave this league has nothing to do with the past, but everything to do with the future.

[cajuncorkdork]

I hope your degree is in liberal arts and not math, physics or engineering. 27/42=9/14 or approximately 64%

I was using this years attendance, 22865, and the entire NOLA Bowl attendance (which I probably shouldnt have) ..... my approximate math is fine but if you just want to critique that and not address the point then have fun

[Turbine]

As an Independent UL could pull the rug out from under CUSA's current contract with the NOB.

If that threat were real, UL suddenly becomes real attractive to CUSA

[Hammer58]

As an Independent UL could pull the rug out from under CUSA's current contract with the NOB.

If that threat were real, UL suddenly becomes real attractive to CUSA

C'mon. Turb, do you really expect a bowl to escew a tie-in with a 10 or 12 team conference to roll the dice on an exclusive tie-in with one program? And consider that program is likely to have to schedule a number of road games due to not having conference affiliation with severalof them being against BCS programs which makes the possibility of sub .500 records a likely scenerio. If that was such an attractive arrangement for the NO Bowl simply because of our proximity and fan attendence they could have done that long ago. But they didn't. And there is a good reason for that.