Game Week: LA / Ga So

[Turbine]

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?

Whose quote generated that Q?

[GeauxLouisiana]

Interesting that no one is even considering the possibility of finishing 7-5, if we beat Ga Southern and App State. What bowl invite options might we have with a 7-5 record?

Here are your options:
New Orleans Bowl
Dollar General Bowl
Camellia Bowl
Cure Bowl
Arizona Bowl

Assuming we get to 6 wins, then Sun Belt will have 5 bowl eligible teams, so every bowl tie in gets a team. Only other Sun Belt teams with a chance to get to 6 wins are us and ULM (must win out against Arkansas State and Florida State). So pick a bowl from above because those are your options.

[Turbine]

We have never moved up from the NOLA bowl that is the probelm we are stuck in a rut.. would going 0-2 in a baseball regional for 5 years straight be oK

It is impossible to call the NOLA Bowl a rut because as J1M stated the opponent keeps rotating.

Complaining about a NOLA Bowl Bid is like complaining UL has to many home games.

[Turbine]

Whether we are bowl eligible or not, with the resources that we now have; 6-6 in this poo poo conference is unacceptable.

This is true. Very true.

You still try to jump the current hurdle, it's the only way you can get where you belong.

[RiverRanchMan]

Tell that to Troy University, a school in the Middle-of-Nowhere, Alabama who broke the Top 25 last season. Did I mention that they beat LSU earlier this year?

This has been exactly the kryptonite of our program. Can't do this, can't do that.....CAN'T CAN'T CAN'T.......

Western Michigan made a NY 6 bowl last season in the MAC with a lot less than what we have and yet, here we are complacent with another Nola Bowl berth.

Western Michigan's budget is nearly 50% larger than UL's, so they don't have "a lot less than what we have". Even if you want to make Western Michigan the flavor of the month, in most cases G5 schools making a major bowl are the exception rather than the rule.

[ULvictory]

Ok then, they are in the ball park of what we have. And even then, if they are flavor of the month, they have still accomplished a lot more than what we have accomplished.

[CajunT]

Ok then, they are in the ball park of what we have. And even then, if they are flavor of the month, they have still accomplished a lot more than what we have accomplished.

A New Years Bowl is the high water mark for all G5 programs. Just like a NC game should be for all P5's. Until we win at least a conference championship, we still have underachieved in this conference.

[ManAboutTown]

Don’t you guys remember what it was like in 2011? The excitement of our first bowl game in 41 years? I remember because I was behind the goalposts kneeling on the concrete holding my sleeping 3 year old, my back to the field - prayer for a miracle. The roar of the Cajun Nation, confirming that my prayers had been answered. Aside from the money we’ve invested, why is the NOLA Bowl beneath us now? Have they not been good to us? Aside from losing last year (which I think we should’ve won), when was there a bad NOLA bowl game with us in it?

The simplest explanation is that moment should have been the first step in the success flight of stairs. We’ve not progressed; in fact, we’ve found an escalator to take us down to the cellar.

In karate, if you start at white belt and constantly test out as a white belt, is white belt at that point not an indictment on your skill, when at first, it was an accomplishment?

[Turbine]

A New Years Bowl is the high water mark for all G5 programs. Just like a NC game should be for all P5's. Until we win at least a conference championship, we still have underachieved in this conference.

That just about covers it.

No wait, it does cover it.

[ManAboutTown]

Negative. I didn't say I was fine with it. Nor did I say I was going. I'm not going to see that particular ____ show.

All I'm saying is that I'd rather we be invited to a ____ show than not. Especially if the Hoax or South Al gets invited to said ____ show over us.

____ show.

Why? What does it accomplish?

I’ll tell you what. It allows a lame duck coach to add to his “accomplishments”, it gives our eunuch administration excuse not to make a move that will improve the program immensely, and it gives the jack leg media a narrative to help push the idea that the state of football in Lafayette is just fine.

At this point, 6-6 with a bowl birth HURTS UL.

[Duggie35]

After reading a number of these posts, I think what most are trying to say (and I agree), is that the NOLA Bowl is not necessarily below us, but going there (or any other Bowl) with a record less than 8-4 is certainly not acceptable year-after-year..

[whataburger]

At this point, 6-6 with a bowl birth HURTS UL.

Are we starting our own bowl?