2020 The Game that Wasn't

[ragin50]

Fire Gill for this. I’m sure the vote will be 11-1. T-Joe has a lot of irons in the fire, needs to add this one.

This is the biggest lie a commissioner dropped on UL since DICK Oliver of the SLC mailed the MBB championship trophy to USL (first championship after death penalty) instead of presenting it in person saying it was the way it was always done yet pictures were available from the prior year’s presentation.

Be thankful in all circumstances the Bible says. Yes! Thankful I can pull for Cincy tomorrow.

+1!

[DieHard 1280]

So, if the rumor is true that a coach got Covid and tracing is the reason the game is being canceled, does that mean no actual players got Covid???? And we're canceling the game over that? This stinks to high heaven.

[WestUCajun]

Yes it does stink. The Gumbo Hens were afraid to play us and risk an undefeated season and the Sunbelt powers gladly complied and cancelled the game.

[Tripple Threat]

When Napier tested positive, he quarantined himself. Did his testing positive cancel a game because of contact tracing? I don’t remember how that was handled.

[fanof71]

ok, bad choice of words on my part....

[tdncz]

Ok
Reality
CCU flopped out of SBCG.
NOW WHAT?
I agree with the next best thing :
Play them in a bowl.
If we’re to win tomorrow , and Tulsa won, we “had a chance” to make it to a NY6.
However, after I saw the travesty of a two loss Florida dropping ONLY ONE SPOT -after losing to a 3-5 UN ranked, BAD LSU team, leaving an undefeated Cincy team BEHIND them, I doubt that would have occurred.
If we won tomorrow, and Cincy won, we would be back to our bowl choices that have been discussed on this board for the last two weeks (nothing really exciting)
If we lost tomorrow, same thing.
Now, we have a bowl with meaning against a higher ranked opponent.
Let’s make some lemonade out of this jar of phis that CCU just dumped on us!

[CajunFun]

Wouldnt their membership in div 1 baseball have far preceded their fbs membership in football. since in baseball and some other sports division I is not so divided as it is in football with fbs and fcs

They won the NC the year before they began SBC play.

And for the baseball NC, conference is moot. They have to play their way there.

And a bit of trivia: As Arizona knocked us out of our regional as the #1 seed,* CCU knocked LSU out. Both made it to the NC game.

*Speaking of something fishy, 'Zona beat us because they went back to their ace on 1 or 2 days rest. Tony would never do that, he would never put a kid's arm at risk just for a W. So they advanced.

[Tripple Threat]

Bump

[trevo89]

Ok
Reality
CCU flopped out of SBCG.
NOW WHAT?
I agree with the next best thing :
Play them in a bowl.
If we’re to win tomorrow , and Tulsa won, we “had a chance” to make it to a NY6.
However, after I saw the travesty of a two loss Florida dropping ONLY ONE SPOT -after losing to a 3-5 UN ranked, BAD LSU team, leaving an undefeated Cincy team BEHIND them, I doubt that would have occurred.
If we won tomorrow, and Cincy won, we would be back to our bowl choices that have been discussed on this board for the last two weeks (nothing really exciting)
If we lost tomorrow, same thing.
Now, we have a bowl with meaning against a higher ranked opponent.
Let’s make some lemonade out of this jar of phis that CCU just dumped on us!

If we would have beaten Coastal and Tulsa won; it wasn't just "a chance" to make a NY6 Bowl. The NY6 bowl is awarded to the highest ranked G5 conference champion. Even if Cincy is ranked higher than us after a loss to Tulsa, they are still ineligible due to them not being conference champs, same with Coastal.

[bigearl]

No surprise here, but this makes it official... eff this conference.

https://www.espn.com/college-footbal...d-co-champions

The Sun Belt previously decided to submit its highest-ranked team in the College Football Playoff as champion if the conference title game could not be played. So Coastal Carolina will be considered the Sun Belt representative to the CFP, giving the Chanticleers a shot at a New Year's Six bowl as the highest-ranked Group of 5 conference champion if No. 23 Tulsa beats No. 9 Cincinnati in the American Athletic Conference title game on Saturday.

[ragin50]

No surprise here, but this makes it official... eff this conference.

https://www.espn.com/college-footbal...d-co-champions

The Sun Belt previously decided to submit its highest-ranked team in the College Football Playoff as champion if the conference title game could not be played. So Coastal Carolina will be considered the Sun Belt representative to the CFP, giving the Chanticleers a shot at a New Year's Six bowl as the highest-ranked Group of 5 conference champion if No. 23 Tulsa beats No. 9 Cincinnati in the American Athletic Conference title game on Saturday.

And eff the CFP. It may even be more crooked.

[ZoomZoom]

No, THIS is the coup de gras

https://mobile.twitter.com/GabeMcDon...69404034031616