NON-BCS Conference Rankings

[CajunNation]

_ The football conference has been around for what, 5-7 years?
The strides have been huge from where we started. We will only continue to prosper. Like Destin said, if you know about an opening in another conference-do tell, cause the rest of us want to know about it.
How about we stop whining about things we cant control, and do something about the things we can.

L'Ronte' _

See Above.

Also, things we can do know:

1) Require football for membership.
Everyone will be on the same page. There will be no friction from the non-football schools about ponying up the money for a second bowl bid.

2) Add any schools from the following group that wants to come:

Texas State
Missouri State
Louisiana Tech
Southern Illinois

In a recent interview on local radio, Wright Waters admitted that we have been contacted by (5) 1-AA schools inquiring about SBC membership. It is widely speculated that Texas State and Missouri State were 2 of these schools.

Wright Waters has told these schools there is no room.

The SBC leadership does not have the gumption to do what is necessary in getting this conference to the next level.

Mark my words. If our membership does not change drastically, the SBC will still be languishing as bottom feeders 5-10 years from now.

For all of you people saying that "in a few years the SBC will be just as good as CUSA", STOP REPEATING YOURSELF.

You said that 3 years ago.
You're saying it now.
In 3 years, you'll be saying it again.

[CajunNation]

_ WAC 45 years

MAC 60 years

Sunbelt 6-7 years(?)

you guys are asking a he.ll of alot, comparing the Sunbelt to conferences that have been around decades longer. _

Nope.

Only 3 schools in the WAC were members previous to the 2000 season.

Hawaii
Fresno State
San Jose State


All of the stats quoted at the beginning of this thread were from 2000 and beyond.

[CajunNation]

_ Imagine how awesome it would be to have Boise St., Fresno and Hawaii making trips to Cajun Field every now and then, with some of those games on national TV. Just not the same as ULM, Arkansas St., and North Texas coming to town... _

Let me just give you an example of what our conference schedule would have looked like had we taken the deal offerred in 2004.


2005

#9 BOISE STATE
at Utah State
NORTH TEXAS
at New Mexico State
HAWAII
at San Jose State
NEVADA
at #22 Fresno State
at Louisiana Tech


2006

at #9 Boise State
UTAH STATE
at North Texas
NEW MEXICO STATE
at Hawaii
SAN JOSE STATE
at Nevada
#22 FRESNO STATE
LOUISIANA TECH

[Sonsissymia]

_ But to say the sunbelt will never be as good as cusa or the wac is just rediculous. Those conferences are not that far ahead of us now.

i do not spend much time weighing the relative stengths of non-bsc conferences, but i do see where every year the sbc champ plays an also-ran from cusa [is it the third tier tie-in, or fourth, for that conference?], and almost every year the cusa rep crushes the sbc school as i recall. cusa football is that far ahead right now.

[AstroCajun]

and almost every year the cusa rep crushes the sbc school as i recall. cusa football is that far ahead right now. _

Troy U. would disagree with you on that statement.

[Cajunpride101]

i do not spend much time weighing the relative stengths of non-bsc conferences, but i do see where every year the sbc champ plays an also-ran from cusa [is it the third tier tie-in, or fourth, for that conference?], and almost every year the cusa rep crushes the sbc school as i recall. cusa football is that far ahead right now.

Last year the SBC had numerous victories over Conference USA including
Troy slaughtering Rice, Arkansas State beating Memphis and Louisiana defeating Houston(the Conference USA Champs)

Your point again was?

[RonMexico]

Last year the SBC had numerous victories over Conference USA including
Troy slaughtering Rice, Arkansas State beating Memphis and Louisiana defeating Houston(the Conference USA Champs)

Your point again was?

lsu fan. Please disregard his ramblings as he certainly doesn't have UL's best interest in mind.

[Big Buds]

I truly belive that Troy and MTSU has the best shot this year to jump up and upset someone. Oklahoma State travels to Troy and MTSU has a great D; maybe a BCS school will fall asleep.

Thats all it takes! someone to fall asleep on the job; next thing you know the Sun Belt has more quality wins.

With that being said, it has to be done. The snow ball must get bigger.

[DestinCajun]

Last year the SBC had numerous victories over Conference USA including
Troy slaughtering Rice, Arkansas State beating Memphis and Louisiana defeating Houston(the Conference USA Champs)

Your point again was?

Yeah, U-Hou was a nuthin' last season alright. What was his point?

[Just1More]

_ Yeah, U-Hou was a nuthin' last season alright. What was his point? _

He did qualify his belch with "as I recall"... just a case of bad recollection skills, among other things.