What Makes a Winning Program? Part I

[RaginPagin.com]

Which is more important for on-field success?

[CajunZ1]

I'm guessing this is refering to football, right? Anybody think the answer is different for different sports?

My opinion is that both are important, but in some sports the latter dominates (baseball being the most glaring example).

[CajunRage]

I voted for option 2 but I think they go hand and hand.

[CajunCanaille]

_ I voted for option 2 but I think they go hand and hand. _

I would have to agree. I also voted for option 2 but with team effort, cohesiveness and morale comes donations, ticket sales, and attendance numbers. One needs the other and both are desperately needed at this university. Especially when it comes to Football and Basketball.

[derf]

I voted for number 1. Reason being that if you see a rise in these areas then number 2 has happened...and on a consistent basis

[geo_cajun]

It seems like a silly question. You cannot ever have success with out team effort #1, and cohesiveness and moral #2. Fans want to see effort, and a team who is having fun TOGETHER. But they are related, as others have previously stated. jmo

[RCAJUN90]

Which is more important for on-field success?

Where's the uniform and helmet choice?

[CajunNation]

The answer is the unlisted option #3

Athletic and Coaching talent.

[DestinCajun]

The answer is the unlisted option #3

Athletic and Coaching talent.

duh....

Between 1 and 2, it really is 1. Gotta start somewhere.

[Just1More]

This is like asking who is more important to your upbringing... your mother or your father? The answer to this thread question is that all of the on the field success in football depends squarely on great coaching and talented players. How do you get that when you are where UL is right now... a new private funding system. All of the things listed are part of an inseparable system. You increase the available energy to that system with funds. It becomes a thriving self-sustaining program, instead of a "we just need to win and we'll be OK".

You do not have to believe me. It just has to happen and all the proof will reveal itself. Or, of course, we can do what we have done for the past umpteen years.

I'd like our future questions to be more along the lines of... Why didn't we leap #9 USC in the polls after having put up 60 on #6 Texas? Do you think we should expand Cajun Field beyond 80,000 seats now that we've had 3 consecutive seasons of sold out home games? You know... stuff like that.

[CajunZ1]

I'd like our future questions to be more along the lines of... Why didn't we leap #9 USC in the polls after having put up 60 on #6 Texas? Do you think we should expand Cajun Field beyond 80,000 seats now that we've had 3 consecutive seasons of sold out home games? You know... stuff like that. _

What's hyperbole mean again??

This poll is a "chicken or the egg" question IMO.

[CajunFun]

The answer is the unlisted option #3

Athletic and Coaching talent.

CN, you might want to think about that.

The US Olympic basketball team had the best athletic and coaching talent in the world.

Got a butt-hat with all that athletic and coaching talent...