MBB: Louisiana vs UTA

[ManAboutTown]

Mike, with all due respect it isn't your or my job to fix the problem. It isn't even our job to identify the problem. We are fans and all I hear from Marlin is he does not have enough money, and we will continue to get the weakest non conference schedule until his boss says enough.

There are solutions that do not blame USM, Tulane, LTUR, for not playing us. You have identified some ways and I can only think Marlin and staff were the ones smart enough to take advantage of those opportunities. It isn't his fault that Pepperdine and JMU chose 2017 to be weak.

Bob nees to help raise funds to bring in better OCC teams. Instead of simply thinking that these games will or won't increase attendance short term we need to see them as recruiting tools, RPI builders, and if successful building a better younger fan base. If a business does not think in terms of long term success they would never invest in short term losing operations needed to insure growth.

For the moment, I am going to enjoy the conference tournament and a baseball game with Tulame tomorrow. Still long term we need basketball to be much more successful in order to fully take advantage of the NCAA gold mine out there.

I wont get frustrated because, honestly, it took me a while to accept that MBB is a convoluted, complicated cluster ___. The bottom line is, we have some SERIOUS disadvantages. It is easy to say "we need solutions" and "fix the problem" but an entirely different thing to actually get into the trenches and DO it. USM, UH, etc won't come here. That's not a blame, it's a fact. Among other pains in the ___, geography is becoming more and more of an issue. Even if we take Mike's idea and play further away, we will still incur substantially more cost.

You made the comment about NCAA tourney money.. What is the payout for simply making the dance? Outside of that, college basketball at our level is not the cash cow that people want to make it out to be. Especially in our situation with the cajundome.

IMO, our money folks see that MBB in the SBC and the south are a not great investment, and because of that, there is less commitment. I could be wrong, and maybe 15 years of losing and irrelevance has set in with the fanbase. It also doesn't help that a chunk of MBB budget (as does football's budget, only football is much bigger so it hurts less) is subsidizing title IX sports, which we all know hemorrhage money.

[CajunEXPRESS]

I don't recall the actual dollars, but very substantial and for a number of years. As I stated in another at another time it would be helpful if the SBC coaching fraternity decided to up their chances of having more than a single entry and maybe two and a win or two. Then you would be talking millions spread over the conferce and participants.

I've yet to see Bob Marlin approach money raising like Lotief, Robe, Hud. He needs to face the facts, as you call them, find the money to bring in two or three better teams every year. He could also face the music and get paid to visit. I know which way I'd go. Of course we can curse the basketball gods for our geography, and continue to play for three games in March, which by the way is four games this year if lucky.

This site will give you an idea how much it is worth.

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[ManAboutTown]

I don't recall the actual dollars, but very substantial and for a number of years. As I stated in another at another time it would be helpful if the SBC coaching fraternity decided to up their chances of having more than a single entry and maybe two and a win or two. Then you would be talking millions spread over the conferce and participants.

I've yet to see Bob Marlin approach money raising like Lotief, Robe, Hud. He needs to face the facts, as you call them and find the money to bring in two or three better teams every year, or face the music and get paid to visit. I know which way I'd go. Of course we can curse the basketball gods for our geography, and continue to play for three games in March, which by the way is four games this year if lucky.

The 3 games in March comment pizzed me off. It's ridiculous to look at a season that way, and I don't think he does. The guys certainly don't, which has been put on full display in the last 3 weeks of this season. It's time to pump the brakes on this "3 games in March" ____.

To massively oversimplify a very complicated situation, your choices are as you stated: pay to play, or schedule roast beef tech and banana republic university. We either spend our money overpaying average teams to play in front of 3500 fans in the CajunDome, or we spend our money traveling to play better RPI games on the road. Not to mention, finding people that will schedule us. It's an NCAA problem, not a UL problem.

[MelRock]

I don't recall the actual dollars, but very substantial and for a number of years. As I stated in another at another time it would be helpful if the SBC coaching fraternity decided to up their chances of having more than a single entry and maybe two and a win or two. Then you would be talking millions spread over the conferce and participants.

I've yet to see Bob Marlin approach money raising like Lotief, Robe, Hud. He needs to face the facts, as you call them, find the money to bring in two or three better teams every year. He could also face the music and get paid to visit. I know which way I'd go. Of course we can curse the basketball gods for our geography, and continue to play for three games in March, which by the way is four games this year if lucky.

This site will give you an idea how much it is worth.

https://www.fool.com/investing/gener...bid-worth.aspx

I am sorry but you and your but buddies are idiots. Tell where can he raise money? Softball and baseball can sell advertising in their stadium, basketball doesn't have a stadium to sell ads. Softball and baseball get concessions. Baseball and softball does not have to pay rent to host their camps. Baseball and softball can sell other advertisements but basketball can't. Even in the program you get when you walk in we have to have the women's on the same program and the advertisements on the program are for the restaurants that feed the media. Try comparing apples to apples.

You and your little buddies can get on your knees and suck on La Tech even though they haven't made the NCAA tournament since 1991.

[ManAboutTown]

I am sorry but you and your but buddies are idiots. Tell where can he raise money? Softball and baseball can sell advertising in their stadium, basketball doesn't have a stadium to sell ads. Softball and baseball get concessions. Baseball and softball does not have to pay rent to host their camps. Baseball and softball can sell other advertisements but basketball can't. Even in the program you get when you walk in we have to have the women's on the same program and the advertisements on the program are for the restaurants that feed the media. Try comparing apples to apples.

You and your little buddies can get on your knees and suck on La Tech even though they haven't made the NCAA tournament since 1991.

And we kinda own TGUN over the last several years..

[CajunEXPRESS]

I am sorry but you and your but buddies are idiots. Tell where can he raise money? Softball and baseball can sell advertising in their stadium, basketball doesn't have a stadium to sell ads. Softball and baseball get concessions. Baseball and softball does not have to pay rent to host their camps. Baseball and softball can sell other advertisements but basketball can't. Even in the program you get when you walk in we have to have the women's on the same program and the advertisements on the program are for the restaurants that feed the media. Try comparing apples to apples.

You and your little buddies can get on your knees and suck on La Tech even though they haven't made the NCAA tournament since 1991.

You're an idiot for bringing LTUR into this. I've never been a fan of LTUR. Still you cannot ignore what they accomplish in nowhere-Ville.

Regardless, it seems you've bought into the can't fix it foolishness.

[MelRock]

You're an idiot for bringing LTUR into this. I've never been a fan of LTUR. Still you cannot ignore what they accomplish in nowhere-Ville.

Regardless, it seems you've bought into the can't fix it foolishness.

No I just believe you are a miserable piece of ____. They haven't accomplished anything in basketball. You keep ____ting on the hard work the players put in ever time you try diminish their accomplishments. We win 6 in a row and you and your reach around buddies come on here and ____ on the program.

[CajunEXPRESS]

You're wrong. But that's okay. Three games in March is our best hope now ad in the future. That's your bar for achievement. Give me a break. I don't knock players. They play whose on the schedule.

[MelRock]

You're wrong. But that's okay. Three games in March is our best hope now ad in the future. That's your bar for achievement. Give me a break. I don't knock players. They play whose on the schedule.

Hey, again tell me one mid-major that plays FBC football that is consistently in the NCAA tournament besides BYU? You can't but you want us to be something that no one else has done. No you just ____ on every accomplishment of this team.

[CajunEXPRESS]

What's the accomplishment? Sixth place and six game winning streak. I've already given the team and Marlin at a boy for the big win and the streak.

Your problem Mel is historic perspective. I've seen us do much better.