Conference realignment again????

[CajunVic]

Tell that to Troy, and ULM when they played Alabama.

That type of thinking is the reason Louisiana has never beat LSU in football.

Down year/up year does amazing things on the field.

You just need to open the door when opportunity knocks.

. . . some who post here are closet LSU fans . . . I believe you found one . ..

[Turbine]

We cant get our foot in the door.

That is the problem.

[Sonsissymia]

When softball and baseball play that's what it says.

he has a one-track mind about it. can. not. help. it.

[ZoomZoom]

When softball and baseball play that's what it says.

Doesn’t matter. Football drives the bus at both universities. As much effort their minions put in calling different medias trying to “at Lafayette”, Louisiana has never been connected to LSU football like it would be in a box score today.

They can claim all they want “don’t care”, the Louisiana emblem says they do.

[CajunEXPRESS]

No doubt the physical layout of Louisiana like Texas, Florida, Oklahoma, California make them ideally recognizable. So use that asset

[Louisiana84]

Hosting LSU at Cajun Field and the Cajundome? Yeah, that should happen every other year. But there is a lot more that LSU ought to be doing for us.

Let's be real, we are on the same level academically. A student can sit in a class at LSU and get just as good an education as he would at UL.

Two statewide universities with national reputations. One has historically received more state tax dollars than the other. There's the discrepancy. I don't see where the investment of my tax dollars has produced anything outstanding at LSU that could not have been produced at UL with the same money.

Take away the money the state has lavished on LSU for decades, invest it at UL and what do you have? The same level.

LSU delenda est? I don't think so. Certainly, UL deserves better treatment, though.

Back to football. The money TAF has at its disposal is a result of decades of state tax dollars invested in the school both academically and athletically.

Try gifting UL with that sort of advantage. After all, it is OUR tax dollars at work here. If we can dump a crap-ton of cash on LSU for a hundred years and get great football, maybe it is time for the state to do the same for UL. I think half a billion catch-up cash from the state for starters would give us the kind of stadium we deserve, and help us get where we want to be athletically.

For UL to do what it has done so far with a fraction of the funding, quite frankly, is amazing.

So, yeah. They owe us those games. And a lot more. It's the least they could do. Historically, the state legislature and governors from Huey Long to John McKeithen have lavished money on LSU. Meanwhile, we have been told to know our place.

Where is UL's med school? Our law school? Our vet school? I'm good with getting all that because it will in due time give us the equal footing in athletics that we deserve.

In the meantime, put us on the schedule.

[RaginDave]

We play with or against LSU in plenty of sports. I know our track and field team usually participates in the Tiger Relays, we have played in tournaments in golf with them, our tennis team has played them in recent years, including last year. Women's basketball has played them recently.

But the only sports they will come here for is occasionally baseball and in a crossover series in softball, those are facts.

[Louisiana84]

Those are facts, yes. But Since hundreds of thousands of Ragin' Cajuns have paid the taxes that built LSU... they owe us. And a great way to pay us back is to schedule football and basketball games here.

[JayWalker]

Well, this thread about conference realignment certainly went off the rails.

I’ll say this… And I haven’t talked to any birdies…. If the mountain west has an opening, do not be surprised if Texas State is a player.

[R1Letterman]

Glad birdies don't talk to themselves