Your Thoughts

[fanof71]

Coastal is about to run out of gas. If they get the NY6 bowl, a P5 team will biitttchh slap them from start to finish. Then we'll see what they're made of, which is not much of anything, just like their entire athletic department. Sorry, but there is no love lost this year for the conference "standard bearer" if they get to a NY6 bowl.

[HoustonCajun]

Coastal is about to run out of gas. If they get the NY6 bowl, a P5 team will biitttchh slap them from start to finish. Then we'll see what they're made of, which is not much of anything, just like their entire athletic department. Sorry, but there is no love lost this year for the conference "standard bearer" if they get to a NY6 bowl.

Cancelling this game cost us and the SBC a lot of national exposure today on ESPN GameDay. This last minute, bogus cancellation by CCU will end up hurting them at some point. Most can see right thru what they did to preserve an unbeaten season, national ranking and higher bowl. We can only hope that somehow we get paired with them in a bowl game.

[CajunSaint08]

The sad thing about this (besides the obvious to UL) is that the Sunbelt had made huge progress in the last 10 years. Pulling this stunt will set the conference back 20 years. If you want to dream of playing in / with the majors, then you can't perform like you're still in the minors. This is going to take a long time to recover from.

[Cajun_in_NM]

After a night to digest all of this, I've come to a different thought. I don't blame CCU. They acted in the rules and just happen to get the benefit of the doubt...good for them.

My disappointment is with the conference. They could have used new 7 day CDC guidelines and rescheduled the game for Thursday, Christmas Eve. That's maximum conference exposure and the chance of bigger things for both teams.

As weird as 2020 has been, I can't imagine bowls nor working with SBC on this one.

[ragin50]

After a night to digest all of this, I've come to a different thought. I don't blame CCU. They acted in the rules and just happen to get the benefit of the doubt...good for them.

My disappointment is with the conference. They could have used new 7 day CDC guidelines and rescheduled the game for Thursday, Christmas Eve. That's maximum conference exposure and the chance of bigger things for both teams.

As weird as 2020 has been, I can't imagine bowls nor working with SBC on this one.

Couldn't disagree with you more. This is 100% on Coastal. They weasled out of the game and the SBC went along with it. We played them without several players earlier. To not blame them for this disgrace is ridiculous.

[Turbine]

Couldn't disagree with you more. This is 100% on Coastal. They weasled out of the game and the SBC went along with it.

Its on both, the SBC was complicit.

[RCAJUN90]

People have been suggesting all sorts of reactions and retribution toward CCU.

Personally I like the coach who told his players, "The best payback is on the scoreboard."

Again, maybe the Ballchinians really did have the Covid situation they claimed. But to let our team fly up there, and announce, after landing, that the game was off?

That was a slap in the face. Not just to the football team, but to all of us. It was an insult to the athletic department, to UL, and to our fans and supporters across Louisiana & around the world.

UL was nationally humiliated.

So here is my invitation to all of our student athletes, in all sports: this is motivation. Protect your University.

Get payback on the scoreboard.

I love the title of this thread. They surely have done a a Covid flop!

[GoneGolfin]

After a night to digest all of this, I've come to a different thought. I don't blame CCU. They acted in the rules and just happen to get the benefit of the doubt...good for them.

But did they? There are countless schools that have dealt with multiple positive tests (not just one, as with Coastal) and they were able to play the games. How? These programs (including ours) properly executed the "distancing protocols" and therefore were not subject to losing large swaths of players due to the contact tracing mandate. If it is in fact true that these players (all of the D-Lineman on the roster) should properly be declared ineligible to play due to contact tracing (player contact with the D-line coach that tested positive on Thursday after a negative test Wednesday), this is the fault of the Coastal Carolina football program for failure to execute the proper procedures and constraints.

Do I think that the contact tracing mandate was violated with all of their D-Lineman? My "guess" is that they did not violate this mandate and that they simply do not want this game for a plethora of reasons (including Chadwell's contract tracing ... pun intended). And in a day and age when the public is hypersensitive about Covid, the Coastal program is not going to be held to account (and asked the hard questions) for making the decision that they did. There are people out there that simply want the economy and all activity to cease ... and this plays right into all of it.

Thus, if the contact tracing mandate was legitimately violated, then this is the fault and responsibility of the Coastal football program. As such, Coastal Carolina is to blame regardless of what you believe happened.

Another opinion of mine ... if the Sun Belt had the championship game rules instituted by the Pac-12 (meaning App State would be playing the Cajuns in the title game if Coastal was unavailable to play), I have no doubt that we would be playing this game against Coastal Carolina this afternoon.

Brian

[cajunfan79]

It’s like a freaking bad dream that keeps coming up. Know that it’s championship Saturday makes it worse. Going to be hard to get through the day

[cajunfan79]

After a night to digest all of this, I've come to a different thought. I don't blame CCU. They acted in the rules and just happen to get the benefit of the doubt...good for them.

My disappointment is with the conference. They could have used new 7 day CDC guidelines and rescheduled the game for Thursday, Christmas Eve. That's maximum conference exposure and the chance of bigger things for both teams.

As weird as 2020 has been, I can't imagine bowls nor working with SBC on this one.

Problem is they select Sunday night for the NY6 bowl

[DieHard 1280]

But did they? There are countless schools that have dealt with multiple positive tests (not just one, as with Coastal) and they were able to play the games. How? These programs (including ours) properly executed the "distancing protocols" and therefore were not subject to losing large swaths of players due to the contact tracing mandate. If it is in fact true that these players (all of the D-Lineman on the roster) should properly be declared ineligible to play due to contact tracing (player contact with the D-line coach that tested positive on Thursday after a negative test Wednesday), this is the fault of the Coastal Carolina football program for failure to execute the proper procedures and constraints.

Do I think that the contact tracing mandate was violated with all of their D-Lineman? My "guess" is that they did not violate this mandate and that they simply do not want this game for a plethora of reasons (including Chadwell's contract tracing ... pun intended). And in a day and age when the public is hypersensitive about Covid, the Coastal program is not going to be held to account (and asked the hard questions) for making the decision that they did. There are people out there that simply want the economy and all activity to cease ... and this plays right into all of it.

Thus, if the contact tracing mandate was legitimately violated, then this is the fault and responsibility of the Coastal football program. As such, Coastal Carolina is to blame regardless of what you believe happened.

Another opinion of mine ... if the Sun Belt had the championship game rules instituted by the Pac-12 (meaning App State would be playing the Cajuns in the title game if Coastal was unavailable to play), I have no doubt that we would be playing this game against Coastal Carolina this afternoon.

Brian

As always, Brian, you are SPOT ON with this!

[Cajun_in_NM]

I've gotta say, Brian hit the nail on the head. Didn't think about the PAC-12 thought process. Again, CCU got away with it...I still blame the conference for the majority of allowing this to happen. Really can't believe this occurred; this was the SBC's chance to make a name on national recognition (championship) day.