Reasons for 2023 Football Optimism

[lafman1]

They said the same thing about TCU, UCF and Cincinatti 20 years ago. Funny thing, the current makeup is never the future makeup.
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Which of these universities has a P5 university within 45 minutes of its campus.

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It's also been done by Louisiana twice in the last 3 years, or twice since the RCAF was started. Including Authement's death penalty era in your time frame is ridiculous.

It’s been done twice in the last 50 years by UL.


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75% of current P5s have never had legit Title hopes. We just had our P5 level roster gutted by some P5s. We were 1 win away from a NY6 Bowl last season. Freakin Tulane is in the Cotton Bowl. The reality is that we have a better shot of making the 12 team playoff from our current conference than most P5's do from a P5 conference.

Some of those 75% teams excel in other sports besides football( Vanderbilt-baseball, Kansas-Basketball, etc.)

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Your brain will not let you believe what your eyes have seen over the last few seasons.

You mean the 2 seasons previous to Desormeaux being the head coach.

[JMV JustMyView]

UCF started their football program roughly 25 years ago…they are now P5.

You mean about to be P5?

[CajunNation]

Which of these universities has a P5 university within 45 minutes of its campus..

Cincy to UK - 82 mi
TCU to Baylor - 89 mi
Louisiana to Louisiana State - 56 mi

North Carolina to North Carolina State - 29 miles
Oregon to Oregon State - 43 mi
Kansas to Kansas State - 84 mi
Oklahoma to Oklahoma State - 80 miles


I can do this all day.

[Turbine]

... 75% of current P5s have never had legit Title hopes. ... The reality is that we have a better shot of making the 12 team playoff from our current conference than most P5's do from a P5 conference.

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[fanof71]

Cincy to UK - 82 mi
TCU to Baylor - 89 mi
Louisiana to Louisiana State - 56 mi

North Carolina to North Carolina State - 29 miles
Oregon to Oregon State - 43 mi
Kansas to Kansas State - 84 mi
Oklahoma to Oklahoma State - 80 miles


I can do this all day.

Add Duke, 3 miles to UNC...16 to NC State.

[Big Buds]

You mean about to be P5?

They are currently recruiting as a P5.

[Turbine]

They are currently recruiting as a P5.

You know it.

[ZoomZoom]

What is most concerning to me is what huckleberry idiot we’d get for an AD when Maggard has enough?

Wasn’t that long ago Cincinnati and UCF were our peers. While they were growing we let politicians bend over our FB program and jammed a toothpick in our backside. It took decades to recover. Look at ULM, Bruno the bozo set them back where we can relate to the struggle. It can happen again. And that mindset seems to be leaching back.

Free Huey!
Free Angela!
Free Mandela!
Free RCAF!

[JMV JustMyView]

They are currently recruiting as a P5.

As of this post they are G5.

[Jacob81]

Cincy to UK - 82 mi
TCU to Baylor - 89 mi
Louisiana to Louisiana State - 56 mi

North Carolina to North Carolina State - 29 miles
Oregon to Oregon State - 43 mi
Kansas to Kansas State - 84 mi
Oklahoma to Oklahoma State - 80 miles


I can do this all day.

Everyone of those examples is p5 schools. Except cincy who will be next year. Plus cincy has a larger population to draw fans from and in turn money.

Find an example of a g5 in a 100,000 city population 50 miles from a p5(highest level p5 at that)

We are behind a giant 8 ball.