Bowl Lockout Seems Likely

[CajunProud]

_ We will not get a bowl invite this year. But, if we did, even at 6-6, you are "deserving". If you meet the NCAA criteria and the bowl selection committee criteria, then you "deserve" the invite. Of course you'd rather bust into the bowl scenario with a 10-2 record and be jaw flapping about it. But, there are 1000 reasons we would gladly take any and every bowl appearance that we possibly could.

You can get a diploma for an A average and you can get one with a C average. I haven't seen too many people that turned one down because they had a C average. If one of those people is advocating we don't "deserve" any bowl offer that we qualify for, by NCAA rules, then I want to accompany them at their diploma revoking meeting at UL. I'll help them talk UL into taking the "C average" diploma back... because if they're that foolish... they "deserve" it. _

I agree that we are "deserving" under the NCAA rules, and if we get an invite, we should take it. I never said otherwise. My point is simply that mediocrity should not be rewarded.

[ShowDog]

_ Do you really want to get into a bowl that way? While I would love nothing better than for the team to make a bowl game, I don't think they deserve it. In fact, no team with just 6 wins should get in. There are entirely too many bowl games and too many average teams making it to post season. I am sick of the politically correct, everybody gets a trophy mentality that our society has gone to. I also don't think our win against Southern should count towards bowl consideration. No slight against Southern, but they are a DII school.

I know what the rules are, and under the rules, we are eligible, but no team should get in unless they have a winning record. _

I agree 100%. Way too many bowls and we definitely don't deserve one.

[CajunProud]

_ I agree 100%. Way too many bowls and we definitely don't deserve one. _

Way too many bowls IMO. But, I do not an any way mean for my comments to diminish the accomplishments of the team this year or to be a slight on any of the players. I would love nothing better than to see them play in a bowl game.

[DrumRoll]

_ I agree 100%. Way too many bowls and we definitely don't deserve one. _

I could not possibly disagree more...

With the amount of money spent per win, it's an absolute off the charts statistical anomally that we have recorded enough wins to even qualify. Same goes for ULM as well. You should be sitting there with your teeth in your mouth in utter stunned amazement that UL is bowl elidgible, this feat is like a guy wearing horn rimmed glasses and Converse high-tops winning a NASCAR race on a freakin skateboard with racing stripes and flames painted on top when compared to what some of the other qualified programs have spent in order to achieve the same results. To properly couch this for you, Coach Bustle would have to work 50+ years to earn the buyout value on Charlie Weiss's contract...

[Rasta]

_ Do you think LSU will turn in that national championship with Two losses because they did not deserve it. I will take it any way we can get it. I'm not saying they did not deserve. Alot of wierd things had to happen for them. _

Why exactly didn't LSU deserve the national championship? They were the best team in the country all year and then won the BCS national championship game. Get a grip. Just because you love watching the Cajuns win 3-6 games a year doesn't mean you need to throw LSU into the same category. Or are you one of those Cajuns fans who thinks you have to hate LSU to exist?

[VObserver]

_ Why exactly didn't LSU deserve the national championship? They were the best team in the country all year and then won the BCS national championship game. Get a grip. Just because you love watching the Cajuns win 3-6 games a year doesn't mean you need to throw LSU into the same category. Or are you one of those Cajuns fans who thinks you have to hate LSU to exist? _

No, he's one of those fans of UL who sees no need to pay any attention to any trolls from Refineryville.

lsu&a&mc@br won a national championship in a year in which they had two losses. By definition, they were not the best team in the country on two fall Saturdays. No one said they didn't 'deserve' to win it, just that them even being there required an inordinate number of dominos to all fall in exactly the right pattern. The dominos cooperated, and the tigers took care of business on the field in the NC game.

By the same token, if the Cajuns should happen to get a bowl this year because the stars all align properly, then they 'deserve' the bowl, precisely for the same reason that lsu&a&mc@br 'deserved' to be in the NC game: They met the qualifications and they were invited.

[WadeWilson]

_ Until we get a true playoff system then I have no problem with going to a bowl at 6-6.

Keep in mind that one of the biggest things you have going for you with a bowl apperance is an extra month of practice time. That is huge. Especially for your young guys coming up in the system. _

You take whatever bowl you can get, because it's a win-win situation. You get the recognition of being in a bowl game, and the extra practice time.

[Go_UL]

No, he's one of those fans of UL who sees no need to pay any attention to any trolls from Refineryville.

lsu&a&mc@br won a national championship in a year in which they had two losses. By definition, they were not the best team in the country on two fall Saturdays. No one said they didn't 'deserve' to win it, just that them even being there required an inordinate number of dominos to all fall in exactly the right pattern. The dominos cooperated, and the tigers took care of business on the field in the NC game.

By the same token, if the Cajuns should happen to get a bowl this year because the stars all align properly, then they 'deserve' the bowl, precisely for the same reason that lsu&a&mc@br 'deserved' to be in the NC game: They met the qualifications and they were invited.

Thank you so much for explaining my thoughts. Reading Comprehension is
not important in baton rouge but the do have a great football team.
I hope all is well in abbeville. I used to be your next door neighbor.

Tim

[WadeWilson]

Thank you so much for explaining my thoughts. Reading Comprehension is
not important in baton rouge but the do have a great football team.
I hope all is well in abbeville. I used to be your next door neighbor.

Tim _

NVM, fixed.

[Cajun Monkee]

I don't get this "they didn't earn it, they don't deserve" thing.

Whose fault is it that there 30 something bowl games? Does a 5-7 SEC "deserve" to go to a bowl game more than the Cajuns.

If its available, no shame in taking advantage of it.