Tech's Intervention

[CajunZ1]

_ To play devil's advocate, would you travel better to a non-regional bowl (not saying you wouldn't) ?

Probably not.

Just food for thought, the belt has zero credibility when it comes to traveling (despite some respectable numbers you mentioned, they aren't viewed as such by bowls)*. This basically is what Waters was saying. I guess we haven't "proved" ourselves enough yet. With the numbers you stated, I feel like the conference is on the right track. Time will tell.

Us in the Independence Bowl would have been a GOLDEN opportunity not only for the team, but for the conference to show it can travel.
Then again, we never know, UL may have only brought 8k and then we'd all look foolish.

*Admittedly, almost none of the bowl appearances the belt has had have been very regional (as in you'd definately drive instead of fly), so nobody's really had the chance to show their stuff fanwise.

[Just1More]

_ The good news is, we're getting better as a conference. And by better, I mean we're beating OOC opponents when we used to be unable to.

The question that still remains for most bowls (in the words of WW), "can the sun belt bring fans to our bowl." This, unfortunately is where things get less rosy for us (as a conference). While I fully believe a strong contingent of Cajun fans would travel to a regional bowl, I'm not so sure I see that with the other schools.

For instance, Troy obviously has the best football program in the belt (by far, I'd argue), but do they travel well? In droves? Troy and FAU make up the sampling of how the Belt travels. And so far I'd say it's less than impressive.

To be fair to those Belt schools, we really can't claim to be able to travel better, since we haven't gotten to a bowl yet.
(But between us, we TOTALLY would! ) _

Completely accurate assessment. We are in an uphill fight being in the SBC. While we wait on the SBC commish to create better deals, UL needs to take care of our own business.... do the funding system right, build a bigger program, and we will "prove" our bowl attractiveness.

This new admin is testing my patience. I want to see a new football mission kicked off very soon. If I didn't know better, I would think they were "counting" on a bowl this season. (smiley face with a smirk right here)

[ktulu7]

Why, hello guys!