Prestige builder: It will have to happen at home

[ZuluCajun]

_ 2 more wins a year perhaps 3 if coupled with the lagniappe game at the end of the year and before long UL's coffers will tripple.

UL just needs to figure the fast track to those 2 extra wins so the program can make some real money. _

Exactly my point, so many of you think that i am proposing taking 2 games off the schedule . Are you saying that if we replace Nebraska with Tulane,
we would not make a dime? We do very well at well attended home games.
Would someone volunteer the total proceeds of the Southern game? All i'm saying is, if this RCAF is worth a flip, we should be able to make up the difference of lost revenue for playing a money game with another home game.
More wins equals more interest, a better shot at post season, which all relates to more money.. I say we are taking the easy way out, and some of you are falling for it because you never came up with a marketing plan in your life. if you love UL like i do, you too would get outright SICK watching what happened last week.

[CajunRed]

_ Exactly my point, so many of you think that i am proposing taking 2 games off the schedule . Are you saying that if we replace Nebraska with Tulane,
we would not make a dime? We do very well at well attended home games.
Would someone volunteer the total proceeds of the Southern game? All i'm saying is, if this RCAF is worth a flip, we should be able to make up the difference of lost revenue for playing a money game with another home game.
More wins equals more interest, a better shot at post season, which all relates to more money.. I say we are taking the easy way out, and some of you are falling for it because you never came up with a marketing plan in your life. if you love UL like i do, you too would get outright SICK watching what happened last week. _

Its amazing how simple you make it all seem. If it was that simple, do you think we'd have operated on such a small budget for so many years? Its so easy to just criticize the current plan when you don't have to come up with a replacement of your own.

Take a seat before you strain yourself.

[CAJUN_LXA685]

There are alot of arguments for both sides: Playing $ games or not playing $ games.

The program needs the $, the program also needs wins.

So if we have to play the money games to meet budget and to attract recruits the least we could do is put some points on the board!! I know these are bigger schools, but is the talent differential that big that we lose by 55 points!

I don't know what the solution is/should be but I know that losing 55-0 in any game is not a good thing. Let's walk it off and get ready for conference play and a successful rest of the season.

[CajunZ1]

_ Are you saying that if we replace Nebraska with Tulane,
we would not make a dime?

It takes two to tango. I don't think they (or many other's like them) like us. And most won't do home and home.

All i'm saying is, if this RCAF is worth a flip, we should be able to make up the difference of lost revenue for playing a money game with another home game.

2+2 does not equal 5.

Here's a theoretical scenario:

If you were the AD and somebody handed you an extra $500,000 a year for your department (which has a budget of $11M), which of the following would you choose:

1.) Increase coaches pay ($500K spread amongst the majors would be a big increase for us).
2.) Use it to subsidize playing another game against a lesser FBS school, and accept a net decrease to your operating budget (despite the $500k supplement).

I would hope our AD has the vision to pick #1.

Now if that gift is $10M per year, then fine; lets go with your theory.

[CarlBlake22]

_ Well gentlemen, lets look at it this way. You played 3 "Major D1 schools", beat 1 of them, Stayed in the game with the #4 team in the nation (LSU) and got beat pretty soundly by the #24 team, (Nebraska) whose probally better than most of the top Ten teams, and your program made ~1.4 million, Thats not bad and I'm sure the kids spirits have not been shattered. They're excited to be on the feild with those guys and to prove that they can play with the big boys, and I feel they accomplished a lot. Believe me when I say that NU is on its way back to dominance and they'll beat some so called Major D1 programs by the same score.

I agree with scheduling those type of games. It should get them ready for the conference. Thankfully there were no major injuries and the bye week in between gives the kids a chance to recover. Now its time for the games that count and they (the kids) know that they've seen the best that they will face. All in all I think they'll do ok. Big game experience brings on a big game mind set. _

I agree with a few of the posts on here that say our low expectations, and low standards, are the reason we have been one of the premier cupcakes for just about the entire existence of UL athletics. We don't "compete" against the majority of these schools... the LSU game was not near as close as we like to think, we did lose 31-3. The Nebraska game was over when it started. I say at least we schedule these games better to where the momentum is completely lost 4 weeks into the season.

[CAJUN_LXA685]

_ I agree with a few of the posts on here that say our low expectations, and low standards, are the reason we have been one of the premier cupcakes for just about the entire existence of UL athletics. We don't "compete" against the majority of these schools... the LSU game was not near as close as we like to think, we did lose 31-3. The Nebraska game was over when it started. I say at least we schedule these games better to where the momentum is completely lost 4 weeks into the season. _

I think you may have hit on the underlying issue here and that is that our momentum is gone. We came off two wins that got everyone pumped up and excited about the season and we went into LSU and Nebraska with some high hopes, and we didn't get the result we were hoping for.

I hate the fact that we are considered by alot of people as a "cupcake" team. That should be our motivation right there to prove everybody wrong. To go out and get the best recruits and coaches and show everyone that we aren't made of icing and sprinkles. I hope everyone (University, coaches, fans, alumni, players, city, community) can get on board and we can continue to turn this program around. Why don't we have higher expectations and standards? If the school isn't commited to helping the athletics (all sports) bring their A-game then why have teams at all?

[CajunCharlie]

_ I agree with a few of the posts on here that say our low expectations, and low standards, are the reason we have been one of the premier cupcakes for just about the entire existence of UL athletics. We don't "compete" against the majority of these schools... the LSU game was not near as close as we like to think, we did lose 31-3. The Nebraska game was over when it started. I say at least we schedule these games better to where the momentum is completely lost 4 weeks into the season. _

The lsu game was much closer than you would like to acknowledge.

[CRAWFISH61]

_ I agree with a few of the posts on here that say our low expectations, and low standards, are the reason we have been one of the premier cupcakes for just about the entire existence of UL athletics. We don't "compete" against the majority of these schools... the LSU game was not near as close as we like to think, we did lose 31-3. The Nebraska game was over when it started. I say at least we schedule these games better to where the momentum is completely lost 4 weeks into the season. _

Blowouts happen all the time. Miami Vtech, Oklahoma Tulsa, Byu Tulane, Florida troy, Florida LSU. It is not uncommon. I am not happy about it but to point it out like its unusual makes more of it that what it really is. We beat KSU this year, competed well with KSU and Illinois last year. #6 Cal got taken to the woodshed last week by one of the Oregon schools. We need the money and we will get our head handed to us on occasion. At this time it is our station in life until things change and change a lot.

[zephyr]

_ UGA= loss away in athens, ga. Ohio is a different story however. i think going in 1-1 into a home game against Okie St. wouldn't be that bad, especially if we are coming off of a big upset win against Ohio. I'd like to think that the way Okie St. is playing now is indicative of how they will play next year however that probably won't be the case. they could play like crap one game and then run up the score the next. i think playing games against UH, USF, ECU, and teams like that are the kinds of games we should play. these teams generally make top 25 appearances at once every year or are darn close to it. play teams like that and play them well or beat them and we start pulling the 3 star recruits that they would normally get. just my opinion though _

I don't think a win over Ohio would be considered a "big upset".

[duggie85]

We came off two wins that got everyone pumped up and excited about the season and we went into LSU and Nebraska with some high hopes, and we didn't get the result we were hoping for.

Just curious, but before the season started, what did you guess our record would be before the north texas game?? (not trying to be sarcastic by the way)

[CAJUN_LXA685]

_ Just curious, but before the season started, what did you guess our record would be before the north texas game?? (not trying to be sarcastic by the way) _

I thought at worst 1-3, best case 4-0, realistic 2-2, optimistic 3-1

[anhil8tor]

IMO... any out of conference road win is an upset.