Ugh, I mean just...UGH!!!

[Turbine]

Well ____, with skill and effort, I could buyout Jeff Bezzos at Amazon and we'd have unlimited funds...

No one wants to struggle, they want success for free.

Do you know how many thousands of competitors jeered Bezos for going independent and for taking money games, what appeared to be losses?

They are not laughing now.

[Turbine]

IF, IF, IF, if if was a 5th I could get drunk. There is nothing that says your logic is true, as a matter of fact, as BYU and UMASS.

You know you turn ever thread into an independent thread, others have learned not to have a discussion with you, but I guess I am too stupid.

It must me nice to live in a fantasy world with unicorns and fairies. All I can say is say no to the Obama Care of your independent football.

I didn't use "if" in your quote of me.

The Affordable Care Act is the opposite of being independent in football. Everyone is in the same conference.

[MelRock]

I didn't use "if" in your quote of me.

The Affordable Care Act is the opposite of being independent in football. Everyone is in the same conference.

""I THINK" is the same as if.

No Obama Care is the exact same thing as being independent. If you are not on a company provided (conference) plan you are an independent and on Obama Care.

[Turbine]

You know you turn ever thread into an independent thread, others have learned not to have a discussion with you, but I guess I am too stupid.

Take comfort in the fact that I have zero influence, thus no one should be upset by the exchange of ideas. However flawed mine are or appear to be on this matter.

[Turbine]

""I THINK" is the same as if.

Ok, you were replying to a previous post, I didn't use "I think" in the one you quoted.

Ps everything I post is "I think" so "if" point taken.

[ManAboutTown]

""I THINK" is the same as if.

No Obama Care is the exact same thing as being independent. If you are not on a company provided (conference) plan you are an independent and on Obama Care.

He called it "The Affordable Care Act".
Anyone that uses that term with a straight face is mentally deranged..

[Turbine]

No Obama Care is the exact same thing as being independent. If you are not on a company provided (conference) plan you are an independent and on Obama Care.

It may feel independent but it hinges on millions being enrolled.

Actually I don't feel very independent, they keep telling me who and where to play.

[Turbine]

He called it "The Affordable Care Act".
Anyone that uses that term with a straight face is mentally deranged..

Who said I had a straight face?

[CajunNation]

""I THINK" is the same as if.

No Obama Care is the exact same thing as being independent. If you are not on a company provided (conference) plan you are an independent and on Obama Care.

Don't mix arguments. Health Care is a rat hole that will leave us all fuming and off topic.

The topic is independence in sports. I agree 1000% with Turbine. How we approach this is a different matter. Many of you are disagreeing with a "rip the band aid off" scenario where we wake up one day and we're completely Indy.

This is going to have to be a piecemeal approach.

First, nothing happens until we have an agreement in place with the NOLA Bowl to take us first if we are eligible or we have created a new Energy Bowl for Lafayette like Boise had the Humanitarian. Once that agreement has been signed for whatever date in the future, we announce Independence in Football on that day.

Second, we place the other sports in a new conference for the time being. The SBC will kick us out. If the SLC will have us, we join them and never miss a beat. If they refuse, there are other options with the MVC being the dream scenario and ending with the Atlantic Sun as the last option that will work, and they would take us in a second.

After a few years of adjustment with scheduling, if whatever conference we are in for the other sports seems to be hindering progress in those sports, then we do the full Monty.

At the end of the day, if this experiment proves undoable, it's not like the SBC or CUSA would not want us.

[basinbear]

Concerning what will happen in the future of College Football....let's see some "outside the box" thinking.....I will now log out of the site and return to my bunker.....

[GeauxLouisiana]

If going independent was this awesome idea for G5 schools, why aren't more doing it? Especially schools in CUSA and SBC that get very little television money.

[Cajunsmike]

You are only taking into consideration part of the issue. Plus, the move would affect ALL sports in the athletic program, and while the diamond sports may be able to schedule, that's not necessarily the case for everyone else.

Basketball, for example, already has a whale of a time putting together a schedule, much less a home schedule, with any amount of consistency.

Softball and baseball would find it impossible to schedule as an independent. Reason is virtually all schools are in a conference and fill up 10 weekends or 30 conference games with conference play. Being independent in football only is what it's Advocates are proposing is what I believe. However that assumes we have a conference for other sports and that is very unlikely.