Louisiana College Revamp Panel

[Just1More]

_ The best way for UL to gain any leverage in the state is by joining league with LA Tech. Not pursuing WAC membership when Tulsa, Rice, SMU, and UTEP bolted was a crucial mistake. Both of our schools would have benefited from the partnership.

Oh well, we got to play with the hand we drew I guess. Good luck to y'all this year! _

I think you are "reaching" in making a political leverage benefit to UL or Tech via conference affiliations given this state's convoluted political nature.

UL and its administration deserve the hand we are dealt. We need to play our own cards better. The SBC depended on UL having a better football program from the outset. We let them down, not the other way around. We had the luxury of a NO Bowl in this "little quaint conference" and we couldn't do anything with it. The SBC needed UL to participate in the NO Bowl to jumpstart it. We couldn't achieve it. When people think of SBC success or lack thereof, they need to look no further than its potentially premier member... UL.

No time like now to bloom where you're planted.

[zephyr]

_ Yeah, it's not like the WAC hasn't had 2 teams break into the BCS. Look for it to happen again this year. If y'all are happy in the Sun Belt, that's cool. _

Again, how in the world would being in the WAC affect our state politics? By the way, the travel budget alone would exceed our athletic budget in case you're wondering.

[zephyr]

_ Here's the thread.
http://www.latechbbb.com/forum/showthread.php?t=65767

Tech is entering its 9 year in the WAC. _

I'm not an anti Tech guy and the answer to that is simple, I truly could care less about what Tech does in Ruston. It amazes me to see their view on us as being envious of what they have there. Why? They can't provide one logical example of what makes us jealous of what they "will" accomplish since they have scarcely more success than even we do here. It's another case of state schools with the superiority complex that they don't deserve.

One moron even had to argue as to why you would cheer for UL when LSU is so close. I guess they don't see that being a fan is not necessarily built on success as they'd have about the same number. It's about your allegiance to your university and the pride you have in it and its contributions to your local community.

I also love the guy who stated that he watched one of our games on the Gameplan and said there were 5,000 fans....LOL. Yeah bro, we averaged more fans than anybody in the SBC and namely, more fans than TECH. What a riot.

Tech fans and there views are diluted to the point of intolerance. They have to point to the future and what they're expecting to happen because they have little to be proud of in the past. I for one have no jealousy to that university and could care less where they've been or where they are going.

[DestinCajun]

_ Here's the thread.
http://www.latechbbb.com/forum/showthread.php?t=65767

Tech is entering its 9 year in the WAC. _

I cannot find anything in the LATEX forum thread that explains how being in the WAC gives UL political leverage. Nor, have I seen anything anywhere at anytime that explains how being in the WAC would have benefited UL. To assume it would have in the face of the enormous costs and our total lack of preparedness is scatterbrained.

[zephyr]

_ I cannot find anything in the LATEX forum thread that explains how being in the WAC gives UL political leverage. Nor, have I seen anything anywhere at anytime that explains how being in the WAC would have benefited UL. To assume it would have in the face of the enormous costs and our total lack of preparedness is scatterbrained. _

According to them, the answer to everything is our Jealousy towards every other state school!!!

lol

[RCAJUN90]

_ I cannot find anything in the LATEX forum thread that explains how being in the WAC gives UL political leverage. Nor, have I seen anything anywhere at anytime that explains how being in the WAC would have benefited UL. To assume it would have in the face of the enormous costs and our total lack of preparedness is scatterbrained. _

"I don't think the WAC would give us political leverage unless we were extremely successful in it. Perhaps that is where he was coming from."
Perhaps you should read the whole thread.

[zephyr]

_ "I don't think the WAC would give us political leverage unless we were extremely successful in it. Perhaps that is where he was coming from."
Perhaps you should read the whole thread. _

Perhaps I should read it again because it didn't explain anything to me either. The only message I got from all those posts was we are some jealous people. There wasn't much profound said up in Ruston, that is for sure.

[CajunZ1]

_ How is this even debatable? The WAC is the better conference. More national exposure, more BCS bowls, more bowls overall... _

The debate isn't which conference is better. It's which conference is/would-have-been better for UL.

[CajunT]

_ How would being in the WAC give us any political leverage in Louisiana? _

Well, it does help in Shreveport. It gives you the leverage to tell the Independent Bowl you won't play any SBC team!LOL!!!!

[boxerdog]

_ Seriously, how would WAC membership give us political leverage in LA? Not trying for a ____ing contest and not trying to dredge up the WAC vs Sunbelt arguments. I'm just trying to understand your logic because I don't see the conference membership having any influence on LA politics. _

We're the 2 best schools in the UL system. As of now, our interests are divided. I just think we would have more leverage if we were in the same conference.

[zephyr]

_ We're the 2 best schools in the UL system. As of now, our interests are divided. I just think we would have more leverage if we were in the same conference. _

I don't think you'd find anybody here to argue that we'd love to be in a conference with LaTech however, I think you'd be hard pressed to get that response in Ruston

[Hammer58]

_ We're the 2 best schools in the UL system. As of now, our interests are divided. I just think we would have more leverage if we were in the same conference. _

Our interests are not necessarily divided because we are in different conferences. Even being in different conferences we stil have the same concerns as most mid-majors. Regardless of different conference affiliations we could still join together to try to change things in this state that limit both of our schools' ability to increase our budgets. A good starting point would be by working together to change the UL system rule that prohibits student fees for athletics. And that would also mean workign together with ULM. As much as you might not like that idea we all are in a similar boat being the three public D1A mid-majors in this state and in the UL system. Conference affiliation does not change that.