2018 non conference

[cajunhawk]

You can only hear them if you're listening to them.

[CajunEXPRESS]

To FarmerBROWN nothing beats a million plus dollar check. He never takes fan interest into account over money interest. He and Jay spent an inordinate amount of time showing how our fans were not interested in Boise or McNeese. They forgot to mention low expectations from a bad record from last year, economy, flood. They did mention time.

[CajunNation]

In what way? Name a team that catapulted themselves to stardom by getting paid for a beating on the road?

How do you think Tech got the perception that they have a very good football program? It wasn't conference championships. It wasn't Bowl games. It was P5 wins. This is who they beat with the P5 schools they played that year.

1996 - beat Mississippi State (Miss St, Texas A&M, Arkansas)

1997 - beat Alabama and California (Arkansas, California, Auburn, Alabama)

1999 - beat Alabama (Florida State, Texas A&M, Alabama, USC)

2002 - beat Oklahoma State (Clemson, Ok St, Penn St, Texas A&M)

2003 - beat Michigan State (Miami, Michigan State, LSU)

2008 - beat Mississippi State (Kansas, Miss St)

2011 - beat Mississippi (Miss St, Ole Miss)

2012 - beat Illinois (Virginia, Illinois, Texas A&M)

2014 - beat Illinois in Bowl game (Oklahoma, Auburn)


They built their brand on P5 wins. You can't beat them if you are afraid to play them.

[fanof71]

Why schedule Bama when there are the following opportunities...
Between 2017 and 2022, the cupboard is hardly bare when it comes to scheduling opportunities. Just looking at these teams as opportunities.....
USM.....6 avails, 2019-2021
Rice....5 avails, 2020-2022
Marshall....5 avails, 2018-2022
Tulane....4 avails, 2019-2022
Vandy...5 avails, 2018-2022
UCF....14 avails, 2018-2022
SMU...8 avails, 2019-2022
LTU....7 avails, 2018-2022 (includes 1 & 1 with Baylor
Western Kentucky.....10 avails 2018-2022
Kansas.....13 avails 2017-2022

Could go on and on. They brag that RCAF is over 2million and then turn around and schedule a body bag game for 1.5 million. Either RCAF is way behind where it needs to be or SF has a death wish...

[Ragin' Caleb]

I KNOW we won't win Hawk. But I think our players, coaches, and everyone in the program can learn from the game. He'll, Hud could learn more from the postgame handshake with saban than he has learned in 6 years here

[CajunNation]

You guys are lucky I am not scheduling.

We would play our yearly state FCS preseason game and 3 P5's. The only non-SBC G5's I would attempt to schedule would be Rice, Houston, SMU, Tech, Tulane and Southern Miss, strictly for recruiting purposes. If we can't get 6 wins with an FCS and our SBC schedule, we should be ashamed.

[CajunJack55]

You guys are lucky I am not scheduling.

We would play our yearly state FCS preseason game and 3 P5's. The only non-SBC G5's I would attempt to schedule would be Rice, Houston, SMU, Tech, Tulane and Southern Miss, strictly for recruiting purposes. If we can't get 6 wins with an FCS and our SBC schedule, we should be ashamed.

ahh 3 money games per year...those were the days...

[CajunNation]

ahh 3 money games per year...those were the days...

In the past 30 years, we've had seasons with 3 P5 games 5 times. (1 six win season, 1 P5 win)

We've had seasons with 4 P5 games 3 times. (1 six win season, 1 P5 win)

We've had a season with 5 P5 games (1997)


The larger number of P5 games in these years was due to 2 for 1 or 3 for 1 contracts and for funding when Doc A pulled the plug in the late 90's.

My reasons for playing 3 P5 games per season have nothing to do with extra revenue. That's just a nice benefit.

If I couldn't get 1 for 1 done, I would do some 2 for 1. So, odds are that at least once every 2 or 3 seasons, one of my P5 games would be a home game. Every year, at least one of my P5 games would be a one off money deal. The other 2 would part of a deal.

We would get some more home P5 games. We would get many more chances to improve the brand.

Like I said earlier, if we can't get 6 wins with the SBC schedule and the FCS game, shame on us. I don't need to see the freakin' Ohio Bobcats. To me, that is just a missed opportunity to get a program defining P5 win.

[NewsCopy]

UL Athletic Director Scott Farmer announced during an interview with Jay Walker on ESPN 1420 that the Cajuns will play Alabama in 2018.

The rest of the story
ESPN 1420

[basinbear]

ahh 3 money games per year...those were the days...

____ that.....I lived that nightmare