Louisiana is a "Tier One" School

[CajunRebel]

What other universities in LA have this designation? Also, is there a higher classification?

Only LSU and Tulane.

[LaCajunsFan]

What other universities in LA have this designation? Also, is there a higher classification?

Only other public one is located in refineryville. Tulane is the 3rd. And no, nothing higher than R1, baby!

[ULvictory]

The Dawg fans in Ruston must be squirming right now.

They tried to exclude Sun Belt schools in football. Well, now they have because the Sun Belt is becoming the best conference in the G5 while they are stuck in CUSA with Sam Houston and NMSU.

They tried to brag about their popularity contest rank of US News Report as a Tier 1. Well, now we have passed them up in a ranking that is actually used by academia through Carnegie.

They wanted separation. Well now, they got separation!

[CajunRebel]

The Dawg fans in Ruston must be squirming right now.

They tried to exclude Sun Belt schools in football. Well, now they have because the Sun Belt is becoming the best conference in the G5 while they are stuck in CUSA with Sam Houston and NMSU.

They tried to brag about their popularity contest rank of US News Report as a Tier 1. Well, now we have passed them up in a ranking that is actually used by academia through Carnegie.

They wanted separation. Well now, they got separation!

Somebody needs to post this on BBB

[Jeaux]

Somebody needs to post this on BBB

They'd delete it as soon as it's posted. Those people live in an alternate reality

[Grantvb]

So the new SUNBELT will have (4): Ga State, USM, ODU and LOUISIANA!!!!

[OrlandeauxCajun]

So proud to call myself an alumni! Geaux UL!

[ManAboutTown]

No joke! Add this to the great FB season we just had, topping it off with a great showing (for now, lol) for the CCG, and all the positive attention we were getting for all of that, this is really is the a case of the 'sleeping giant' waking up and roaring!

Hell yes. And that’s putting it mildly. More to come from both academics and athletics. Just wait until our new stadium is up and the boys of summer return to Omaha…

Great to be a Ragin Cajun

[LaCajunsFan]

So the new SUNBELT will have (4): Ga State, USM, ODU and LOUISIANA!!!!

And UTA.

[Scott Malkinson]

And UTA.

Uta will be leaving Monday

[CajunRebel]

BTW, I think the reason most of us were rooting so hard for this was because we believed that R1 would allow us to move to a better conference. We wanted this so we could get into C-USA, then we wanted it so we could get into the AAC. So I guess what I’m saying is…

*fistpump* just in time!!!!

[tdncz]

Wow. I’ve been on this site since 2003 and I feel like every single year there were people saying we were “this close” to achieving R1 status. So much so that I had had long ago stopped believing them and just accepted that it would never actually happen.

What a pleasant surprise. Congrats to T-Joe and everyone else who worked their tails off to make this happen.

My feelings 100%

[Policarp]

Beaming with R1 flagshippy pride todayway to geaux T-Joe!!

[LaCajunsFan]

Well, I went to update our status on the UL and SBC pages in Wikipedia, but someone has beat to it. The word is getting out!

[Tripple Threat]

Can someone explain what this means? Thanks!