Final: Louisiana (77) at Arkansas State (76)

[CajunEXPRESS]

My goals are always the highest standards. I will give credit for lower attainment if we do all we can to attain the highest goal. Regardless I will never, ever get excited about beating a non scholarship program. You might view it different because we actually lost to such a program, but losing to that program says something as well.

I am not going back to being happy we are bowl eligible now that we have been to three, same in basketball.

In basketball you do not actually have to be an at large to deserve to be an at large. I would say seeded 11 or better gets you an at large regardless of winning the tournament or not.

[Cajunsmike]

My goals are always the highest standards. I will give credit for lower attainment if we do all we can to attain the highest goal. Regardless I will never, ever get excited about beating a non scholarship program. You might view it different because we actually lost to such a program, but losing to that program says something as well.

I am not going back to being happy we are bowl eligible now that we have been to three, same in basketball.

In basketball you do not actually have to be an at large to deserve to be an at large. I would say seeded 11 or better gets you an at large regardless of winning the tournament or not.

I was not excited about any our non D1 wins and wished we did not have to play them. One is enough of those but I was pleased we did not have to sweat any of them and happy the walkons got some actual playing time in a real game. We could not have gone on the road to play more D1 games due to the conference rule that says you can only play one more game on the road than at home. Plus if you did that our guys would have been on the road 18 times vs 13 at home and that is not fair to them to have to travel that much. McNeese had to do that this year due to finances and thankfully we are not at that level. I agree the goal should be to have a team capable of an at large bid but the only team we have had that would have garnered one of those was the 1982 team that won the Great Alaskan Shootout, the SLC regular season title, and the SLC tournament title. None of our other tournament teams would have been close to getting an at large bid. There are almost no southern mid majors who play FBS football who can regularly get at large bids. That would be a significant accomplishment but I agree it is one we should aspire to and I agree it is possible for us to reach that level. Let's start next year.