McNeese Week 2016

[FormerPokeCenter]

You better look at those numbers again, Junior. 42K, 48K, and 54K. Those are strong numbers. The dif between Tulane and E Carolina is negligible. N.O. burn out on #4, plus our admin sold us out. We had a shot at the The Indy, but Farmer and TJoe covered it up and we were stuck once again. Anyway, it will still take you bet. 5-7 home playoff games to equal what we bring to a bowl game. Im out big Jay! Have a safe trip into town.

Z

Thanks for the well wishes, Zee....

But, let's look at methodology....without the USL games, the average NO Bowl attendance has been about 30K...ergo the post about it spiking when you guys went...and then it spiked even more with Tulane...before falling to 34K...

I'm not going to kick you when you're down about The Indy Bowl, but....there wasn't ever really a chance y'all would come up to Shreveport...and that has nothing to do with the banter about McNeese / USL...I'm not gigging y'all on that, either. It just wasn't going to happen...

[Turbine]

FIFY, again...

That "today" caveat was not required prior to 1984, otherwise they would have moved the 17-1 approval up for Legislative vote.

This whole ordeal is full of retroactive shenanigans.

[FormerPokeCenter]

That was 1984.

It's now 2016...

It's time to let it go, Elsa!

[Turbine]

That was 1984.

It's now 2016...

It's time to let it go, Elsa!

I thought you said you liked history?

Not when it bites you I suppose.

[FormerPokeCenter]

1984 didn't bite me

2016 hasn't bitten me yet..so...we'll see...

[31Ragin97]

I'm not sure I follow. McNeese is in the University of Louisiana System. There is no flagship in the ULS system...

Fair point. .. Why didnt you pursue a forfeit in an sec game you had scheduled that didnt occur. Many outlined journalists outlined the rule and t seemed like you had a case. Also i heard tyhe restart time kept changing and changing and your players didnt have the greatest food offered, should a host have taken care of their guests better?

[Turbine]

If, as you say, there are "groth" schools all over SW Louisiana put there by another institution, how influential can you really be?

Groth Corp builds pressure relief valves.

Every time UL grows beyond expectations, the State builds a groth school and attaches it to some othe non UL entity.

Groth schools = pressure relief valves.

[FormerPokeCenter]

Fair point. .. Why didnt you pursue a forfeit in an sec game you had scheduled that didnt occur. Many outlined journalists outlined the rule and t seemed like you had a case. Also i heard tyhe restart time kept changing and changing and your players didnt have the greatest food offered, should a host have taken care of their guests better?

I think we talke about this earlier in another thread....we had the option of replaying it at another date, or simply cancelling it....Our kids would have had to bus back to Lake Charles...get some sleep, bus back...and then there would have been other logistical nightmares for support staff, fans, etc....

Not to mention that both LSU and McNeese started conference play the following week...moving the game back would have been problematic for both of us...

We're not above taking a forfeit when the situation calls for it..like after we picked up a forfeit win over the University of North Carolina because they used ineligible players. We played the game and though we led them midway through the 4th Quarter, they managed to pull it out on some great plays by Brandon Tate, who's now playing for the Bills...

But, to claim a forfeit on a lightning delay? Nah, that's not how we roll.

Cancelling the game was the right thing to do for everybody involved.

And, since we traveled to BR...showed up...were ready to go, except for the NCAA rules on lightning, LSU paid us what we agreed to before the game. I think they've probably got event insurance for stuff like that.

As for the food thing...I think part of that was we didn't want our kids eating right before playing, since we didn't know when we'd get on the field...i think much of that decision was on the McNeese staff...

It's my understanding that they got a good meal after the game was cancelled...and, let's not forget that they had goody bags from the booster club

[FormerPokeCenter]

Gotcha...well...pressure relief valves provide a necessary function in that they shunt off excess raw materials which exceed production capacity.

Sounds like a perfectly reasonable approach to the ULS system's growth. I'm sure that if Louisiana Tech's campus in Bossier City ever proves to be inadequate to the educational needs in Bossier, that the ULS system will spin off another satellite campus like they did when they created the Southwest Louisiana Industrial Institute.

The UL System is good about that, by your own admission.

[31Ragin97]

Cool, good answer.
Was lsu upfront with you about the delays, or were they leaving you in the dark, (no pun intended) thinking u had to be ready and didnt?

I still cant believe the hotel excuse? Couldnt lsu have paid for your hotels, maybe this year with the flood there are no hotels but that couldnt have possibly been the case.

Will never forget the goody bags! Ha