Cajuns Agree to Football Home/Home with Rice

[ULvictory]

Maggard will open a torchy's franchise in cajun field boom 20 mill more a year

But what about the fans who tailgate in the area where the Torchy’s would be located? We can’t upset them!!!! Greedy people....

[MetryCajun]

You’d be very surprised how close we actually are to doubling our budget. People will laugh at the comment. I’ll be the one laughing in 5 years...

We doubled our budget over the last 5 years and I have no doubt we will do it again. My question to you is this. Did the doubling of our budget over the past 5 years put us in a better situation? The answer to me is no. It didn’t help because everyone but ULM is growing their budget dramatically. So 5 years from now we are sitting at 45MM. What do you think the lower level P5 schools will be at? 100MM? The big dogs will probably be over 250MM. What about Houston and Memphis who share our footprint and are light years ahead of us? Doubling our budget will not get us close to them. I am not saying give up. I am saying the BiG12 is like banking on winning the lottery. We first need to start competing with Tulane and Tech before we take on the Big12.

[cajun_lannister]

But what about the fans who tailgate in the area where the Torchy's would be located? We can't upset them!!!! Greedy people....

And car show will have to be relocated scrap the whole idea

[ULvictory]

We doubled our budget over the last 5 years and I have no doubt we will do it again. My question to you is this. Did the doubling of our budget over the past 5 years put us in a better situation? The answer to me is no. It didn’t help because everyone but ULM is growing their budget dramatically. So 5 years from now we are sitting at 45MM. What do you think the lower level P5 schools will be at? 100MM? The big dogs will probably be over 250MM. What about Houston and Memphis who share our footprint and are light years ahead of us? Doubling our budget will not get us close to them. I am not saying give up. I am saying the BiG12 is like banking on winning the lottery. We first need to start competing with Tulane and Tech before we take on the Big12.

Guess we won’t know unless we try

[ULvictory]

And car show will have to be relocated scrap the whole idea

Yesh, we don’t want to lose out on that hefty check of less than $10k that they write to us.

[Turbine]

Isn’t the lowest Big 12 budget something like $45 Million?

$26 mil of that is conference sharing.

[Turbine]

As long as we send the conferences a solid PowerPoint presentation on a CD, that’ll mean we are serious. In the meantime, we an accomplish all things in the Sun belt Conference!!!!!

Sorry, couldn’t resist.

Bottom of the stack marketing.

Kissing conference desks everywhere.

[CajunT]

We doubled our budget over the last 5 years and I have no doubt we will do it again. My question to you is this. Did the doubling of our budget over the past 5 years put us in a better situation? The answer to me is no. It didn't help because everyone but ULM is growing their budget dramatically. So 5 years from now we are sitting at 45MM. What do you think the lower level P5 schools will be at? 100MM? The big dogs will probably be over 250MM. What about Houston and Memphis who share our footprint and are light years ahead of us? Doubling our budget will not get us close to them. I am not saying give up. I am saying the BiG12 is like banking on winning the lottery. We first need to start competing with Tulane and Tech before we take on the Big12.

We will be at $30 mil this year. They project possibly between $32mil to $34 mil next year and that is with Learfield, other branding concerns, corporate outreach and accomplished without student fees. We have a ways to go, but that is moving the needle of the compass quickly. With focus on growing revenue streams outside of student fees for our athletics, facilities improvements and our push for Tier I status, we will be close to the top of the G5 in four to five years. Where to from there, we will have a much better view of the landscape at that time.

[zephyr]

Finally, the Cajuns come to Houston. We need to be alternating each year with Rice and Houston. We need a major presence in arguably the #1 recruiting city in the country. And, we need to be playing schools we ultimately want to be in a conference with.

Good luck getting UH to agree to that.

[zephyr]

You’d be very surprised how close we actually are to doubling our budget. People will laugh at the comment. I’ll be the one laughing in 5 years...

People won't laugh if you could explain this

[MetryCajun]

We will be at $30 mil this year. They project possibly between $32mil to $34 mil next year and that is with Learfield, other branding concerns, corporate outreach and accomplished without student fees. We have a ways to go, but that is moving the needle of the compass quickly. With focus on growing revenue streams outside of student fees for our athletics, facilities improvements and our push for Tier I status, we will be close to the top of the G5 in four to five years. Where to from there, we will have a much better view of the landscape at that time.

That is assuming the top of G5 stays stagnant. They will not. If a UH, SMU, Tulsa or Memphis feels like we are encroaching on their territory they will fight back with the considerable arsenal of donors they have. I fully believe that we will move forward, I just don’t see the universities I mentioned just letting us pass them by. Notice I didn’t even mention SMiss, Rice or Tulane. We are not even at their level yet.

[CajunSaint08]

Finally, the Cajuns come to Houston. We need to be alternating each year with Rice and Houston. We need a major presence in arguably the #1 recruiting city in the country. And, we need to be playing schools we ultimately want to be in a conference with.

That would be a conference worth talking about. Houston, TCU, Rice, So. Miss, Tulane, LaTech, LA, ..... I would love to see this