Is Bob Marlin's seat even starting to warm up?

[Turbine]

We are all for the kids; but coaching? Marlin has a pattern of not winning non-conference games that is unacceptable. He also schedules crap games at home because he is to lazy to hustle games or the money to pay for them.

I was pleased with the OoC road game schedule.

I'm anxious to see how they reinvest the money.

[CajunAmos]

I was pleased with the OoC road game schedule.

I'm anxious to see how they reinvest the money.

Didn't they mention in an earlier interview that they needed the extra money games to help out the women's team budget?

[CajunEXPRESS]

Didn't they mention in an earlier interview that they needed the extra money games to help out the women's team budget?

That seems strange? FarmerBROWN needs to take care of women programs not Bobby BigFish.

The attendance stands as put on the SBC message board except I adapted the name thing.


1. Louisiana 3480 (5)
2. Little Rock 3053 (7)
3. UT Arlington 2911 (7)
4. South Alabama 2237 (8)
5. ULMost 1920 (5)
6. Texas State 1732 (6)
7. Georgia State 1696 (9)
8. Troy 1482 (8)
9. Georgia Southern 1262 (8)
10. Arkansas State 1254 (8)
11. Appalachian State 870 (5)

So we are doing pretty well as far as conference members go. Still I do not enjoy watching us bet the hell out of Louisiana College and the like.


GEAUX CAJUNS BEAT USA

SUNBELT FOREVER

[CajunEXPRESS]

Cajuns have a chance to hold serve this week, as they playing a couple of weak sisters in the league. Still USA is never a given.

From the SBC Message board:

Here are the current Warren Nolan RPIs with D1 records only

5-0 Little Rock (13-1 overall)

-- 66
4-1 UTA (12-3 overall)

-- 67
4-1 Ark. St. (6-8 overall)

--- 255
4-2 Ga. State (9-4 overall)

- 97
3-3 Louisiana (5-8 overall)

- 179
2-3 Texas St. (6-6 overall)

- 264
2-4 South Alabama (5-10 overall)

- 213
2-4 Ga. Southern (4-10 overall)

--- 319
2-4 ULM (4-11 overall)

- 231
2-4 App. St. (4-13 overall)

- 273
1-5 Troy (4-11 overall)

- 253

GEAUX CAJUNS BEAT USA

SUNBELT FOREVER

[RaisingCajun08]

Marlin trying to get some butts in the seats. Seeing McGuire play basketball will draw the curious casual fan in. Lets see if the can keep their attention.

[oldalum]

http://ragincajuns.com/news/2016/1/1...118161106.aspx

I'm stumped!!! I may be at the Dome for the next game just to see this happen! I gave away my season tickets so I hope that this new turn of events punishes me! Maybe I'll be standing in line for tickets for the rest of the games!

[oldalum]

Proud of the accomplishments over the past few weeks but let's keep it all in perspective:

Georgia Southern (74-65) overall record 6-11
Georgia State (87-54) overall record 12-5
South Alabama (92-82) overall record 7-12
Troy (88-65) overall record 6-13

Georgia State's 12 victories are over:
Middle Georgia State
Emmanuel College
IUPUI
at Wright State
Old Dominion
at Southern Miss
Middle Tennessee
at Texas State
Troy
South Alabama
ULM
Georgia Southern

UL is now 9-8 with the following wins (as listed on the Sun Belt website) :
Louisiana College 108-68
Loyola (NO) 106-62
McNeese State 97-64
New Orleans 79-69
Appalachian State 79-58
Georgia Southern 74-65
Georgia State 87-54
South Alabama 92-82
Troy 88-65

[tetragrammaton]

While I'd love to get some big wins against major schools.... how's this for "perspective":

1. We are in a 3-way tie for 3rd in the conference.
2. Georgia State has their Arkansas State/Little Rock trip this week/weekend. Having beaten them earlier this season, whichever way that trip turns out could be very good for us.
3. UT Arlington will go to Monroe first, then will come to us on Saturday. Monroe is undefeated at home this season, so that may help to beat them up a bit before we get them.

I think we all agree we are playing much better now than we were earlier this month. Whatever was going on before, it appears we have "clicked". I like our chances, both in the regular season and the tournament.

Whining about who we've beaten and how they really aren't that good is useless self-flagellation at this point.

[moorecajun]

While I'd love to get some big wins against major schools.... how's this for "perspective":

1. We are in a 3-way tie for 3rd in the conference.
2. Georgia State has their Arkansas State/Little Rock trip this week/weekend. Having beaten them earlier this season, whichever way that trip turns out could be very good for us.
3. UT Arlington will go to Monroe first, then will come to us on Saturday. Monroe is undefeated at home this season, so that may help to beat them up a bit before we get them.

I think we all agree we are playing much better now than we were earlier this month. Whatever was going on before, it appears we have "clicked". I like our chances, both in the regular season and the tournament.

Whining about who we've beaten and how they really aren't that good is useless self-flagellation at this point.

And at this point in our lives shouldn't we be done with useless self-flagellation?

[CajunEXPRESS]

While I'd love to get some big wins against major schools.... how's this for "perspective":

1. We are in a 3-way tie for 3rd in the conference.
2. Georgia State has their Arkansas State/Little Rock trip this week/weekend. Having beaten them earlier this season, whichever way that trip turns out could be very good for us.
3. UT Arlington will go to Monroe first, then will come to us on Saturday. Monroe is undefeated at home this season, so that may help to beat them up a bit before we get them.

I think we all agree we are playing much better now than we were earlier this month. Whatever was going on before, it appears we have "clicked". I like our chances, both in the regular season and the tournament.

Whining about who we've beaten and how they really aren't that good is useless self-flagellation at this point.

Here's the problem. Who you beat is important. We're didn't beat the GSU of previous years. We've lost to ULMOST, LTUR. Both ok programs at this point hardly outstanding.

We've beaten one of the top four programs in the SBC. This isn't a new thing. Bob Marlin's teams have always gotten better with weaker SBC teams.

He's got an opportunity to get into a race for the lead. He's still running tied for third or fifth place. I'm glad we're beating the bad teams. God help us if we didn't.

[tetragrammaton]

Here's the problem. Who you beat is important. We're didn't beat the GSU of previous years. We've lost to ULMOST, LTUR. Both ok programs at this point hardly outstanding.

We've beaten one of the top four programs in the SBC. This isn't a new thing. Bob Marlin's teams have always gotten better with weaker SBC teams.

He's got an opportunity to get into a race for the lead. He's still running tied for third or fifth place. I'm glad we're beating the bad teams. God help us if we didn't.

Sure, sure. All I mean is this: at this point in the season, looking at the non-conference teams and RPIs, etc., doesn't mean didley. As you pointed out, the question is can we make a run for the conference championship and tournament championship to go dancing. Whether the teams we beat have good or bad RPIs or have weak schedules at this point can't be helped.

[CajunEXPRESS]

Well it does kind of matter. Your RPI has a lot to do with seeding. Don't you want a reasonable shot at an upset if we're fortunate enough to get to the NCAA?

Being a fifteen seed wouldn't help that. Everyone knows we cannot control much. I'm thinking that your original comment was implying we were far better than our record. We ain't, we're about what our record is. A middle of the pack team in a bad conference, maybe a upper tier bad conference but bad none the less.