What Happened to US?

[Grantvb]

While I agree with the idea that we would never turn down a p-5 team agreement; I would focus on P-5s in our region. Arkansas, Baylor, A&M, Ole Miss, etc….get their fans over here.

[CajunRebel]

Guys, just reflecting on the last 25 years that I've REALLY followed Cajuns football...We used to have BIG 12 teams at Cajun field every other year. Ok St. Texas Tech, A&M. We've had UCF, Alabama, Kansas St among others. Why can't we get anybody P-5 at Cajun Field anymore?

What happened? Media rights happened. The new SEC deal with ESPN will give each school $68 Million/yr. With that amount of money they don't need to slum it in the G5 stadiums anymore.

With that said, there are still plenty of G5s that still manage to get home and homes with P5s. Not often, but it happens. I don't know why we haven't.

[CajunGrad16]

As of now we only have one non conference home game scheduled for 2023 and that isn’t until mid October. It’ll be interesting to see what we can put together.

[Jeaux]

We aren't doing anymore 2 for 1. I understand the logic here because on years with only five home games suck and it's hard to have a winning season when you gotta play 7 games on the road. That being said the lower and mid P5 don't come for straight up home and home. That's why the Wyoming series was so disappointing to me.

[KajunKrazy]

Its not a universal situation, but Louisiana used to be independent.

Then they joined the Sunbelt.

We were actually in the sunbelt or big west for many of the afore mentioned games.

[KajunKrazy]

Nothing happened to us. The landscape of college football change tremendously since then.

[Policarp]

We aren't doing anymore 2 for 1. I understand the logic here because on years with only five home games suck and it's hard to have a winning season when you gotta play 7 games on the road. That being said the lower and mid P5 don't come for straight up home and home. That's why the Wyoming series was so disappointing to me.

Rare to get a decent MWC OOC home game......why I too was very disappointed to give up the Wyoming games. Glad to play LTURd just not at the expense of losing our Wyoming games.

[Turbine]

We were actually in the sunbelt or big west for many of the afore mentioned games.

Many of those games were scheduled while independant. After joining a conference UL would drop the less desirable games and keep the best deals.

Scheduling has gotten so lazy its not even funny.

[CajunT]

Guys, just reflecting on the last 25 years that I've REALLY followed Cajuns football...We used to have BIG 12 teams at Cajun field every other year. Ok St. Texas Tech, A&M. We've had UCF, Alabama, Kansas St among others. Why can't we get anybody P-5 at Cajun Field anymore?

Because we are no longer an easy win at home. That's the easy answer and the other is Dr. Maggard doesn't like scheduling 2 for 1 with any program.

[Grantvb]

We joined the SunBelt in 2001 as a football member. So 5 of 12 of the games i listed were as SBC members.