So, which is it?

[CajunJeaux]

C tournaments are a waste of money that rewards mediocrity if you want to play in a tournament win the conference that's the mindset that needs to be installed in the program.

I’m on board as long as we hold football to the same standards...no championship: no Bowl

[CajunEXPRESS]

Not the same thing. But y’all go ahead.

[cajun4life]

You can take your 13 posts and check them at the door. I want my team and my school to have larger goals. I want us to build a program of consistency and excellence. Going to the NCAA is just a by product of building that type of program. Conference championships should be the first goal in a line of goals established at the beginning of each season. It should be known to recruits what we expect before even stepping foot on campus. We aren't going to make the NCAA every year. We're barely on a 1 of 8 clip. Even with more success there, we may make it only 1 out of every few years. If that's what your goal is, why even have a program?

Bingo! The ultimate goal should be to win the Sun Belt regular season title outright every season. Thus, guaranteeing post season play every year with the NIT. March Madness will be a by product of a great program instead of a hot steak in the tournament.

As it stands now we don’t have a shot at either.

[CajunJeaux]

Not the same thing. But y’all go ahead.

bc the 37/40 ranked bowl we will go to is above a C level hahaha...

[cajun_lannister]

I'm on board as long as we hold football to the same standards...no championship: no Bowl

As long as they make a NCAA postseason game it's the same thing as making the dance. No other sport is buying their way into postseason

[CajunJeaux]

As long as they make a NCAA postseason game it's the same thing as making the dance. No other sport is buying their way into postseason

Damn...good response.

[CajunEXPRESS]

bc the 37/40 ranked bowl we will go to is above a C level hahaha...

If you're going that route don't forget the 24 teams in FCS playoffs. Most of those also make those C whatever pay to play. So in essence Marlin either won or lost to FCS teams. Y'all really need to can that nonsense.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nca...tch-2018%3famp

[ULvictory]

So in those “rebuilding years” which you say are exceptable with championships here and there what is wrong with a CIT appearance? The only way to get to the NIT is just like last year, win the conference but fall in the tournament. If we put together a team good enough to win the conference I would hope they could take care of business and win the tournament too. That can’t happen every year, and I would hope to get this program to the point where even in a “rebuilding” year they could still put a team on the floor that could finish in the upper third of the conference and have at least in the high teens total wins. A team like that playing in one of the “C” tournaments is fine with me. There also should be enough support for this program where a team like that could play in a “pay to play” and not lose money.

Those buy-in tournaments are a joke. So basically, if we don’t get into the NCAA tournament or the NIT, then we should waste money on buying our way into some consolation tournament?

To me, it’s a waste of money and a waste of time. If we aren’t good enough to make the main postseason tournaments, we don’t deserve to make the postseason.

[Turbine]

As long as they make a NCAA postseason game it's the same thing as making the dance. No other sport is buying their way into postseason

Almost every bowl is a buy-in.

[cajun_lannister]

Almost every bowl is a buy-in.

3-7 teams, that have 50K can get into bowls?