Reasons for 2023 Football Optimism

[JMV JustMyView]

Auburn and Oxford are small towns as well.

If we were in a p5 conference our budget would be double to triple what it is. Our home schedules would be worlds better. So support and money would go through the roof overnight. Small conference, small tv deals, small town, small budget, and powerhouse Down the road further handicapping all those things.

Some folks on this site say the schedule doesn't matter. LOL

[Turbine]

You mean about to be P5?

Irrelevant parcing of words.

For all practical purposes they are what they are perceived to be..

Their next RS game will be as a P5 and that is what they are telling recruits.

If some school wants to come behind them and say they "mean about to be P5" that said school will lose every single recruiting battle. Not just on perceived class, but on perceived foolishness.

[CajunVic]

Some posters on this site only post what others think ��

[fanof71]

They couldn't promote it with a championship and the longest win streak in the country. What you think they can do with a losing season and losses to ULM & Rice.

They are so inept, they didn't honor last year's championship...I can't wait to see how they screw up next season...these people in Maggardland are inept and clueless..

[Jacob81]

I know it’s 81 miles but how about Tulane and State. Greenies been behind that 8 ball for a long time.

Tulane could be something if they could ever get Nola behind them. If they could get 3% of Nola to care it would fill the stadium.

[Turbine]

They are so inept, they didn't honor last year's championship....

Mind boggling.

[CajunNation]

They are so inept, they didn't honor last year's championship...I can't wait to see how they screw up next season...these people in Maggardland are inept and clueless..

When I mentioned perceptions in the minds of our fanbase and our haters, I was including a few minds in Martin Hall.

[lafman1]

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.

And yet not one of the universities originally mentioned in the post (TCU, UFC and Cincinnati) have a P5 within 45 miles of their campus. The rest of your list is irrelevant as it doesn’t pertain to the original example. Plus they are in P5 conferences. UL isn’t.

[lafman1]

Corvalis, Oregon has a 59k pop. (Oregon State)
Manhattan, Kansas has a 54k pop. (Kansas State)

...there are many more.

I have said this a million times. The only difference between Louisiana and Kansas State is
the conference we call home. There is no proverbial 8 ball to overcome. There is no ticket to punch. We just need luck and time for people to realize just how little difference there is between Louisiana and most P5 schools. There are a lot of P5 schools that are getting gutted by the portal just as much as we were.

With the 12 team playoff and our recent excellence on the field, it's time for perceptions of old to be thrown away like yesterdays trash.

The only real barriers we have as a program that still hold it back are in the minds of our fanbase and our haters who can't let go of the past.

And millions of dollars from major bowl appearances, millions from TV contracts, national TV exposure weekly, etc., money for well known coaches, etc. The differences are night and day.

[Turbine]

And yet not one of the universities originally mentioned in the post (TCU, UFC and Cincinnati) have a P5 within 45 miles of their campus. The rest of your list is irrelevant as it doesn’t pertain to the original example. Plus they are in P5 conferences. UL isn’t.

While their spoon fed Baby Huey upbringing created disparity, the school across the Basin is irrelevant to Louisiana's current issues.