Louisiana a possible play for AdvoCare V100 Bowl

[Just1More]

New Orelans with good opponent > Indy Bowl > New Orleans with bad opponent > GoDaddy vs. good opponent

Even if we beat NIU in GoDaddy, it will be buried by BCS coverage.

Indy is only better than "NO with a bad opponent" if Indy has a "big name program" for us AND we negotiate a good deal with them on seating, tickets and payout. I'm not talking about the "fan's perspective". I'm strictly viewing it from our program's perspective.

A ranked NIU would be interesting to consider for Go Daddy for our football program. Sunday night at 8pm in an open stadium in Mobile on a cold January 5th... not so interesting to me personally.

I think we'll end up in the NO Bowl. I just hope it's Rice or Tulane... for some crowd fun with a regional opponent. That would be a refreshing NO Bowl change for us.

[CajunEXPRESS]

Folks. The writing may be on the wall.

Reading between the lines.......Mobile doesn't want to let NIU get away....Tulane will not face embarrassment in the NOLA bowl....CUSA is going to stick North Texas in New Orleans.


Given the above rumors, if the good people of Shreveport come calling with an invite to play Boton College, Miami, or Georgia Tech, I think we say Yes to that, invade and conquer north Louisiana, and get a major program scalp to hang in Hud's office.

On the Sun Belt board a North Texas fan is saying they are absolutely going to get the HOD bowl. We all know internet boards are the absolute best source of truth yet to be revealed by the universities. So no to North Texas, TooLame too lame to face the Cajuns, leaves FAU, and Rice. I like Rice.

[BrockMeaux]

I like Rice.

Agreed. It's not the best case scenario of getting NIU in New Orleans, but it's still a good situation and I think it's our endgame this year.

[RedCajun]

I thought @ beginning of season that NO Bowl would be a great place to go bowling this rebuilding year but Even if we are eligible, I think there would be too many CUSA teams w/ a better record picked ahead of us. Besides I don't think it would be a great match up this w / Tech. We're not very good. Would be very interested to watch y'all play NIU or Rice. Hey what about NIU in the IBowl?!?! That would be ironic ....especially if Tech happens to be bowl eligible ; )

That would be ironic (and a nice setup), but I doubt the pcs would fall into place for that to happen.

[CajunEXPRESS]

No, LTU R are a couple of wins away form qualifying and will be favored in neither game. They do however have Tulsa at home, and are a 3.5 point dog. If they can pull off a minor upset, they have a lot to play for in the season finale. UTSA is a dog to North Texas by 8.5 points, and TooLame is a 17.5 favorite to take it to the UTEP Miners in El Paso. Not sure TooLame has scored 17.5 points in their last three games combine. Checking them out, they have scored 34 points in their past three games.

The Hoax are a 3.5 point dog to South, AKA USA or South Alabama, they prefer South now. So now it is both South's and UL's job to make sure the Hoax are sitting home the rest of the year.

[moorecajun]

No, LTU R are a couple of wins away form qualifying and will be favored in neither game. They do however have Tulsa at home, and are a 3.5 point dog. If they can pull off a minor upset, they have a lot to play for in the season finale. UTSA is a dog to North Texas by 8.5 points, and TooLame is a 17.5 favorite to take it to the UTEP Miners in El Paso. Not sure TooLame has scored 17.5 points in their last three games combine. Checking them out, they have scored 34 points in their past three games.

The Hoax are a 3.5 point dog to South, AKA USA or South Alabama, they prefer South now. So now it is both South's and UL's job to make sure the Hoax are sitting home the rest of the year.

The Hoax are dogs to South? Wow, I almost feel sorry for them.

[CajunEXPRESS]

The Hoax are dogs to South? Wow, I almost feel sorry for them.

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[VObserver]

I agree with you. Playing and beating a school from an AQ conference would be huge for this program. Possible even putting us in top 25 at the end of the year. Plus, the payout is $2.5 M v/s $1.0 M for NOLA bowl. I guess we would still have to share the wealth with fellow SBC teams, right?

Wrong. That is the payout if you are from a contracted conference; plus payouts are not payouts but tickets the school must sell to reach that total.

Plus: The Indy is infamous for putting the team's allotted tickets in the end zones out to the 20's. Want good seats? Gotta buy them on stub hub or elsewhere from an Indy Bowl sponsor, and your school makes zero on it.

And yes, revenue sharing is still in effect..

[RCAJUN90]

Where would we send the most fans? The New Orleans Bowl is a given. I wonder how many we would send to Shreveport? There really isn't an alumni base there. It's a five hour drive from Lafayette. Mobile doesn't have an alumni base but it is only two hours from New Orleans (Big alumni base) and four hours from Lafayette. If we have an option of playing a big name that isn't ranked in the Indy Bowl or NIU in the Godaddybowl which way should we go? I would think Mobile is the obvious choice.

BTW, isn't it nice to be thinking about which bowl would be best when just three years ago we would have been grateful with anything?

[Just1More]

Where would we send the most fans? The New Orleans Bowl is a given. I wonder how many we would send to Shreveport? There really isn't an alumni base there. It's a five hour drive from Lafayette. Mobile doesn't have an alumni base but it is only two hours from New Orleans (Big alumni base) and four hours from Lafayette. If we have an option of playing a big name that isn't ranked in the Indy Bowl or NIU in the Godaddybowl which way should we go? I would think Mobile is the obvious choice.

BTW, isn't it nice to be thinking about which bowl would be best when just three years ago we would have been grateful with anything?

5 hours from Lafayette to Shreveport? You're driving very very slow. It's more like 3 hours.