Game Week: LA / Ga So

[CajunNation]

Last home game.

Perfect weather.

Geo Sou is coming in hot with that nasty option.

With 2 games left we are still in the Conference Championship and Bowl game hunt......

[CajunJack55]

For all you “bowl is great” folks:

What if we go 5-7 and get a pity invite?
Y’all still roosta dancin? Hud still great?

Yes and No.

[Duggie35]

Its comparable to playing in the CIT post season basketball tournament!

It's amazing to me how some fans attitude about the NOLA Bowl has changed since our first visit. Back then, you would have thought the NOLA Bowl was just a notch below the Super Bowl!

Unless the Cajuns can get into a Bowl game against a P5 opponent at another location, the NOLA Bowl is by far the best bowl and venue we could hope for. Going anywhere else (except maybe Shreveport occasionally) to play against any other G5 school would not be an upgrade, and almost always a downgrade. The big issue is that most, if not all, Bowl games are tied into Conferences by contract. Therefore, they don't have the luxury of selecting any team they may want that is not affiliated with the contracted Conferences. It is what it is.

[RiverRanchMan]

There will be a ton of P5 bowls that can't be filled .. We better not just pick the Nola bowl if we do win

With a 6-6 record, I doubt UL will have the option of facing a P5 school in any bowl. I will take the NOLA Bowl and 30,000 UL fans any day before traveling to another bowl with only 2,000 fans in order face The University of Irrelevant.

[ManAboutTown]

With a 6-6 record, I doubt UL will have the option of facing a P5 school in any bowl. I will take the NOLA Bowl and 30,000 UL fans any day before traveling to another bowl with only 2,000 fans in order face The University of Irrelevant.

There is no result remaining that will produce 30k Cajuns fans in any bowl, anywhere.

[ManAboutTown]

Yes and No.

Jack, recently Boomer posted “unprecedented success of 6 bowls in 7 years”.

That is such complete and total BS. I want someone to try and tell a supporter of a legitimate football program how we’ve gone 6 of 7 years to a bowl game. They’d laugh you at of the room with this resume’. Go tell Houston and SDSU and NIU about your 6 of 7 bowl bids.

It’s comical what this fan base thinks is “success”.

[ULvictory]

I'll use this as an example:

The school 45 minutes east of us had 6 straight losing seasons from 1989-1994. In 1995, they made their first bowl berth in almost a decade in the Independence Bowl. I remember people being ecstatic about that. Now, they would want to fire their coach if that's where they would go because they've grown since then as a program.

That goes for us as well. We were excited because we had not been there in 40+ years. It was new to us. Now, it's not as new. In the broad picture, the Nola Bowl should not be the ultimate goal for us. If you want to increase the brand name, you have to travel outside of this bowl game every now and then.

[CajunNation]

Unless we're playing Houston, Tulane, Southern Miss, latech or a P5 in NOLA, I would rather we go to Arizona and play a MWC school.

Contrary to what G said this morning, you CAN have too much of a good thing. Our attendance in NOLA has been on the decline. We HAVE TO bring 30k to play Miss State in a couple of years. Maybe a little absence will make the heart grow fonder.

[CajunJack55]

Jack, recently Boomer posted “unprecedented success of 6 bowls in 7 years”.

That is such complete and total BS. I want someone to try and tell a supporter of a legitimate football program how we’ve gone 6 of 7 years to a bowl game. They’d laugh you at of the room with this resume’. Go tell Houston and SDSU and NIU about your 6 of 7 bowl bids.

It’s comical what this fan base thinks is “success”.

I agree, I think we can and should always strive for better. My point is just that going to a bowl game no matter what is better than sitting at home and is not like CIB tournament in the fact of exposure. I hope Maggard sees the dwindling attendance and donors as a sign to do what is best for our program to make a change to get to that next level. Those programs like Houston are willing to cut ties with coaches that go 6-6 and crappy bowl games, no reason we shouldn't either no matter what our football history is.

[ULvictory]

To anyone who thinks that we will bring 30k to the Nola Bowl, take a look at our attendance there last year. Nowhere close. Apathy has kicked in with this program. Another Nola Bowl won't help that much.