Conference realignment again????

[LouisianaB]

First I never thought that Jay and Craig would disagree, but is it ok to agree to disagree which some folks on this board have issues with. Jay and Craig have no issues with each other.

Second I disagree that Tech is competitive with UL in softball nor would they be with half of the sunbelt teams. And they sure in the hell will never make a top 25 poll. As for baseball yes they would belong.

Who the hell said they had issues?

[RedTails]

Just make a scheduling alliance with Tech. Boost ticket sales for both of us, no conference affiliation politics to deal with.

[JMV JustMyView]

Just make a scheduling alliance with Tech. Boost ticket sales for both of us, no conference affiliation politics to deal with.

Another fair option.

[SMD7636]

A scheduling alliance is a great experiment to see if La Tech can play nice or not, but La Tech hasn’t been open to scheduling us for football. It would be nice to see that change out of conference.

[Big Buds]

A scheduling alliance is a great experiment to see if La Tech can play nice or not, but La Tech hasn’t been open to scheduling us for football. It would be nice to see that change out of conference.

A scheduling alliance would be a good start. We have a home/home in like ‘26 & ‘27.

[mxpxfr690]

Rumor has SMU trying to get into the pac12….of that happens would that open up a navy, Memphis, or ECU to wanting to move?

[cajun_lannister]

Rumor has SMU trying to get into the pac12….of that happens would that open up a navy, Memphis, or ECU to wanting to move?

Memphis and ECU would be amazing

10 conference games and 1 payday game and a FCS game

[Duggie35]

A scheduling alliance is a great experiment to see if La Tech can play nice or not, but La Tech hasn’t been open to scheduling us for football. It would be nice to see that change out of conference.

If Tech really wanted to “play up”, they should try to schedule UL!

[Turbine]

If Tech really wanted to “play up”, they should try to schedule UL!

Zing

Ring that Bell.

[cajun55]

Jay is correct.

I made a push to add them last year for all of the reasons Jay mentioned.

Bottom line is adding them benefits the league and us. Sometimes you gotta swallow that pride to move forward.

Keep your enemies......

I got blasted for wanting them last year as well.

I love the hate, we need more teams to hate in the SBC. That’s the passion and excitement our conference is missing. The games at Cajun Field would be fun to say the least and the atmosphere would be ratcheted up a notch. We need those type of games regularly in all sports. That is what we are missing the most. I look at our home schedule for football and basketball and there just isn’t many games that get the average fan excited. You put a hated rival like LA Tech on there regularly and it is a good thing.

La Tech is annoying, but the school we need to worry about when it comes to holding us back in this state is also located off i-10 not bfe north LA. Just my opinion.

I do like the idea of a scheduling alliance for a bit, see how that goes and after they suffer a few years where they are then consider them. Big picture despite what they have attempted to do in the past it puts another regional rival on our schedule regularly, which is why I love the Southern Miss addition.

From a fan perspective regional rivalries will be what drives interest in the SBC going forward especially with all the realignment chaos everywhere else. It is what makes college athletics exciting!