Conference realignment again????

[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

[RedTails]

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.

Texas State exits.

La Tech enters?

[BabbForHeisman]

Texas State exits.

La Tech enters?

And then everyone throws up

[RaginDave]

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.

That would be terribly dissapointing but it might open up an opportunity for the SBC West to become even more regionally specific. My first thought would be for the SBC to put all of their eggs in the UAB basket, but that might not even be something UAB would entertain considering they just had the opportunity to move to the AAC, which they feel is a better conference today then the SBC.

That would then open up the dreaded conversation that no one on this site wants to discuss and that is either FCS callups, or CUSA friends who pizzed in our Cheerios including the most dreaded of all conversations.....The Bulldog Killers. Their is no doubt that UAB would be the most advantageous partner but when you start going down the list of potential replacements for Texas State that opens up names most of us don't want to speak about.

Sam Houston
La Tech
Middle
McNeese
Western Kentucky
Jacksonvile State

The other option would be to add another team to the EAST, heaven forbid a Liberty and then move someone from the East to the West.

I for one, would rather Texas State stay in the SBC rather than move to the MWC, but I do see how they would be a player in that conversation, it just depends on how many teams the MWC look to add. I do think they would be in the top couple of teams the MWC would consider, so if they go deeper than 1, then I think for sure they would be in the mix.

[RedTails]

And then everyone throws up

Would be worth it just to see them have to go play ULM at their place every other year.

Depending on how many MWC "move up" to what's left of PAC, does La Tech make a pitch for WAC version 2?

[RaginDave]

It looks like the shoe is dropping, the PAC 12 is now talking about expansion, to me I think that means SDSU, Fresno and Boise are #1 options for them. Geographically it makes sense as well as the best competition options for them. When this happens, that means that our friends at Texas State will be called, specifically because I think, the 4 corner schools with Colorado (Utah, Arizona and Arizona State) will be next to join the Big 12.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/oth...de571961d&ei=8

[BabbForHeisman]

That would be terribly dissapointing but it might open up an opportunity for the SBC West to become even more regionally specific. My first thought would be for the SBC to put all of their eggs in the UAB basket, but that might not even be something UAB would entertain considering they just had the opportunity to move to the AAC, which they feel is a better conference today then the SBC.

That would then open up the dreaded conversation that no one on this site wants to discuss and that is either FCS callups, or CUSA friends who pizzed in our Cheerios including the most dreaded of all conversations.....The Bulldog Killers. Their is no doubt that UAB would be the most advantageous partner but when you start going down the list of potential replacements for Texas State that opens up names most of us don't want to speak about.

Sam Houston
La Tech
Middle
McNeese
Western Kentucky
Jacksonvile State

The other option would be to add another team to the EAST, heaven forbid a Liberty and then move someone from the East to the West.

I for one, would rather Texas State stay in the SBC rather than move to the MWC, but I do see how they would be a player in that conversation, it just depends on how many teams the MWC look to add. I do think they would be in the top couple of teams the MWC would consider, so if they go deeper than 1, then I think for sure they would be in the mix.

The other advantage of UAB is that it allows the conference to set up UL/USM and ULM/Ark State as natural rivalry games