2008 Bowl Season Louisiana Snubbed by Indi Bowl

[4LSU]

...the bigger your name the better you are, blah, blah blah.

Tell me again why the change from USL to UL.

I can't say it's THE game I want to see, but the NO Bowl should be a good match up and I hope to catch it.

I'm sorry it didn't work out for your seniors. The program status might not meet the expectations of some, but there can be little doubt that this group of your seniors have helped to raise the football program to a higher level than where it was before their arrival and seeing them rewarded for their effort would have been a nice touch. imo

As to the I-Bowl, they took one Louisiana school and I can't really blame them for not taking two.[/I]

[DestinCajun]

As to the I-Bowl, they took one Louisiana school and I can't really blame them for not taking two.[/I][/I] _

Why would a LSUAMCBR fan. Do you have a dog in this fight? Did you happen to notice they took a 6-6 NIU over UL. NIU stands for Northern Illinois University not Clemson or North Carolina, etc. The Independence Bowl people have to really be incredibly stupid if they believe this is a better match up in any respect than a UL - LATEX game.

Well, they made their bed and now they have to lie in it. LATEX has too.

[Arkstfan]

Here is my reaction.

We are playing Division I FBS football not Special Olympics football where everyone is winner just by trying.

NEVER has a 6-6 team been selected at-large. Last year an 8 win Troy sat at home.

We had a deal in place that thanks to the circumstances would have GUARANTEED homes to three seven game winners. The PapaJohns.com Bowl was in Troy Saturday prepared to hand Troy its GUARANTEED bowl bid had ASU won.

Reading the papers, it seems to me that Ricky Bustle and Steve Roberts played out this year content to get to 6-6. Doubt that is the truth but it reads that way.

Anyone needs to grow stones, its the two of them. They had a choice. They could say, "We only needed to win one more game this year and we had a bowl berth stone-cold locked up and we didn't get the job done." or they could say "Boo-hoo, we won half the games we played in and someone should have picked us." They chose the latter course.

Personally I'm disgusted. I had hoped to hear coaches say screw the deals, we knew going in we could have won 10 and stayed home if the SEC and Big XII had won enough games, our target was winning the conference, taking the safest route to a bowl and we came up short. We are already working on reaching that goal next year.

We talk the talk about being as good as the MAC and C-USA but last year Southern Miss fired a coach who was 7-6, went to a bowl, was 119-83-1 in his career there with 11 bowl appearances and two final Top 25 appearances. Bowling Green fired a coach after six years who went 6-6 this season, had one top 25 appearance and was 2-1 in bowl games.

We don't measure our teams by the strict standards the MAC and C-USA use and yet we want to compare ourself to them.

I am very unhappy.

[Arkstfan]

Humm. There is some merit to that idea. Win your two FCS games and finish 5-5 vs. FBS, you are 7-5 for the sake of the fans and 6-5 for the bowls and have to be placed ahead of 6-6.

Hat's off, wish I had thought of that.

[jllanclos]

_ You can count one 1AA (or FCS if you like) win every year now. _

This needs to be our number one priority going forward: to schedule 1 bottom-feeder D-1AA team every year. This is the secret to the MAC's success. Isn't this obvious?

[Arkstfan]

If you finish 6-6 you are knocked out of the conference tie-breaker but that was the deal anyway.

[geo_cajun]

_ Here is my reaction.

We are playing Division I FBS football not Special Olympics football where everyone is winner just by trying.

NEVER has a 6-6 team been selected at-large. Last year an 8 win Troy sat at home.

We had a deal in place that thanks to the circumstances would have GUARANTEED homes to three seven game winners. The PapaJohns.com Bowl was in Troy Saturday prepared to hand Troy its GUARANTEED bowl bid had ASU won.

Reading the papers, it seems to me that Ricky Bustle and Steve Roberts played out this year content to get to 6-6. Doubt that is the truth but it reads that way.

Anyone needs to grow stones, its the two of them. They had a choice. They could say, "We only needed to win one more game this year and we had a bowl berth stone-cold locked up and we didn't get the job done." or they could say "Boo-hoo, we won half the games we played in and someone should have picked us." They chose the latter course.

Personally I'm disgusted. I had hoped to hear coaches say screw the deals, we knew going in we could have won 10 and stayed home if the SEC and Big XII had won enough games, our target was winning the conference, taking the safest route to a bowl and we came up short. We are already working on reaching that goal next year.

We talk the talk about being as good as the MAC and C-USA but last year Southern Miss fired a coach who was 7-6, went to a bowl, was 119-83-1 in his career there with 11 bowl appearances and two final Top 25 appearances. Bowling Green fired a coach after six years who went 6-6 this season, had one top 25 appearance and was 2-1 in bowl games.

We don't measure our teams by the strict standards the MAC and C-USA use and yet we want to compare ourself to them.

I am very unhappy. _

Wow, that was logical, rational and accurate. And I don't like it one bit. It is sad but true. Good post.

I can only imagine how troy felt last year. Or how Texas Tech feels this year, they have one bad game and they don't get to play in a major BCS bowl game. We just have to suck it up, cheer on troy and FAU, and get ready to bring it next year. We just need to remember the old cliche "its not how many times you fall, but how many times you get up". It just feels like we've been getting up a lot.

[ULvictory]

Here is my reaction.

We are playing Division I FBS football not Special Olympics football where everyone is winner just by trying.

NEVER has a 6-6 team been selected at-large. Last year an 8 win Troy sat at home.

We had a deal in place that thanks to the circumstances would have GUARANTEED homes to three seven game winners. The PapaJohns.com Bowl was in Troy Saturday prepared to hand Troy its GUARANTEED bowl bid had ASU won.

Reading the papers, it seems to me that Ricky Bustle and Steve Roberts played out this year content to get to 6-6. Doubt that is the truth but it reads that way.

Anyone needs to grow stones, its the two of them. They had a choice. They could say, "We only needed to win one more game this year and we had a bowl berth stone-cold locked up and we didn't get the job done." or they could say "Boo-hoo, we won half the games we played in and someone should have picked us." They chose the latter course.

Personally I'm disgusted. I had hoped to hear coaches say screw the deals, we knew going in we could have won 10 and stayed home if the SEC and Big XII had won enough games, our target was winning the conference, taking the safest route to a bowl and we came up short. We are already working on reaching that goal next year.

We talk the talk about being as good as the MAC and C-USA but last year Southern Miss fired a coach who was 7-6, went to a bowl, was 119-83-1 in his career there with 11 bowl appearances and two final Top 25 appearances. Bowling Green fired a coach after six years who went 6-6 this season, had one top 25 appearance and was 2-1 in bowl games.

We don't measure our teams by the strict standards the MAC and C-USA use and yet we want to compare ourself to them.

I am very unhappy.

BTW, sorry you guys didn't get picked for the Motor City Bowl. I don't know about any one else but I am still steaming that FAU got picked over ASU. I mean, I can understand them getting picked over us, but didn't ASU beat them head-to-head?

[ATXCajun]

_ Humm. There is some merit to that idea. Win your two FCS games and finish 5-5 vs. FBS, you are 7-5 for the sake of the fans and 6-5 for the bowls and have to be placed ahead of 6-6.

Hat's off, wish I had thought of that. _

For what it is worth, I am legitimately dissapointed that you guys got hosed as well. I guess both schools need to hire a 100 year old fossil searching for a comeback at any price. I thought maybe the I-Bowl would have picked you guys to avoid an all-Louisiana match-up. I would have been dissappointed with that, but at least the logic would have been more palatible than the fraud we are trying to swallow today.

[4LSU]

_ Why would a LSUAMCBR fan. Do you have a dog in this fight? Did you happen to notice they took a 6-6 NIU over UL. NIU stands for Northern Illinois University not Clemson or North Carolina, etc. The Independence Bowl people have to really be incredibly stupid if they believe this is a better match up in any respect than a UL - LATEX game.

Well, they made their bed and now they have to lie in it. LATEX has too. _

I hear you.