CUSA UPGRADE

[Boomer]

Our talks are with CUSA and the American Conference! I think Arkansas State and Louisiana are going to be asked to the American Conference Western Division!

---What teams would that be and who is in the other side??

[CajunRed]

Wishful thinking or inside information?

...inquiring minds want to know.

[basinbear]

There is no question that we have made contact with the AAC...right now I do not know what their level of interest in UL would be and I do not think the AAC is expanding.....we need to stay in touch with that Conference because if the Big XII expands Cincinnati and Memphis will definitely be on the radar.....who knows, maybe even UCF and USF.....either way we must continue to grow and prepare....and win...

[CajunDawgPound]

CUSA is not the conference it once was. With minor players like LA Tech now a member, it's probably at the same level as the Belt before its teams bolted for .....CUSA. With Holtz there, I doubt they will up the level very much.


YAHOO's EXACT listing for the Sun Belt Conference

Louisiana 5-2 9-4

Arkansas State 5-2 8-5

Troy 4-3 6-6

South Alabama 4-3 6-6

Western Kentucky CUSA BOUND 4-3 8-4

Louisiana-Monroe 4-3 6-6

Texas State 2-5 6-6

Georgia State 0-7 0-12

[CajunRebel]

Two of the three were promises, not reality.

In other words a sales job, and I have to admit, a job well done.

You have to remember when all the conference shuffling was going on we had no master plan and our budget was still smaller than every other school besides ULM. Things are different now.

The question posed to me was what did Tech have that was better than what we had so I answered it. Their budget was bigger, they had a stronger athletic foundation, they had better football facilities (not by much, but still better,) their football program was better, plans drawn up for facility enhancements, plans to increase the budget. Am I saying they were head and shoulders ahead of us? Of course not. Am I saying they are still ahead of us today? No, not anymore. We've come a long way in 2 years. But back then, if you compared our apples to their apples and our oranges to their oranges, theirs were a little bit better. That's all I'm saying.

[CajunRebel]

Wishful thinking or inside information?

I'm going to guess hard drugs. ;-)

[BlueDawg]

All this "smoke & mirrors" talk makes me LMFAO! Haven't heard it in awhile but it truly makes my day. Sounds like CUSA isn't even a good enough "stepping stone" for Cajuns anymore. You sure Tulane would like being y'all's conference mate?

[Hudsheen#Fired]

I'm going to guess hard drugs. ;-)

[Duggie35]

All this "smoke & mirrors" talk makes me LMFAO! Haven't heard it in awhile but it truly makes my day. Sounds like CUSA isn't even a good enough "stepping stone" for Cajuns anymore. You sure Tulane would like being y'all's conference mate?

Probably not since we beat their _____ the last two times we have played them and have another 3 or 4 victories over them in the modern era. They will probably be sad to loose LTUR as a conference mate when they move to the AAC since the Bulldogs have never posted a victory over them and just continue to be their biatch!

[Hammer58]

All this "smoke & mirrors" talk makes me LMFAO! Haven't heard it in awhile but it truly makes my day. Sounds like CUSA isn't even a good enough "stepping stone" for Cajuns anymore. You sure Tulane would like being y'all's conference mate?

If I were you I'd be laughing too...at CUSA for buying your bull____. So where are all those donations and facilities? They disappeared like smoke in a stiff breeze

[California Cajun]

_The addition of Louisiana and Arkansas ST. would blow a hole in the Sun Belt.

Sun Belt membership is blowing a hole in us. It's really morbid that a program that has been Division I since 1974 isn't at least in CUSA.

[CajunRebel]

Sun Belt membership is blowing a hole in us. It's really morbid that a program that has been Division I since 1974 isn't at least in CUSA.

We blew a hole in ourselves. No need to blame the Sun Belt for our problems.