FAU

[ManAboutTown]

We should EXPECT to field a team competitive enough to get a top 10 bracket seed.

Consistently being a 12-16 seed is not a recipe for success.

We need the following in order to accomplish.
- New MBK HC
- Stronger out of conference schedule with two premier home games (I.E. Houston, LSU, Memphis)
- Strong N.I.L for three highly ranked players similar to J. Brown/Orien Green
- Better marketing and fan engagement.

LETS GEAUX

[ZoomZoom]

FAU needs to be invited back to the SBC. We need a footprint in Florida.

Tell me how I’m wrong.

FAU got lucky with the timing of this. AAC needed someone to replace Houston as a basketball leader, and an equal to Memphis.

[Cajunsmike]

FAU needs to be invited back to the SBC. We need a footprint in Florida.

Tell me how I’m wrong.

You are not wrong. However I believe FAU is headed to the American next season. Makes it unlikely they would be interested in the SBC.

[ZZeebart21]

You are correct Mike!

Z

[ZZeebart21]

Im looking at the folks looking in on this thread and there are still alot of you that I know. You may not want to admit that you know me though and thats okay. I wouldnt want to admit I know me either.

Z

[Million$Mullet]

We should EXPECT to field a team competitive enough to get a top 10 bracket seed.

Consistently being a 12-16 seed is not a recipe for success.

We need the following in order to accomplish.
- New MBK HC
- Stronger out of conference schedule with two premier home games (I.E. Houston, LSU, Memphis)
- Strong N.I.L for three highly ranked players similar to J. Brown/Orien Green
- Better marketing and fan engagement.

Good luck with that.

[ZoomZoom]

Good luck with that.

Yeah, that was amusing. The SBC is consistently a 12-16 seed…like that’s changing.

I always knew success was hard for a public non power program was harder to sustain, but after looking at the NCAA list of champions and runner ups, darn.

I’m not saying why try, we should. But my goodness, the deck has been stacked for decades. UTEP was an anomaly that politically at the time was untouchable. UNLV was in the doghouse for years. ..they hated Tark. USL, although not a finalist, got jacked with the death penalty. Memphis always on the edge of NCAA issues.

We should find a way to be the best we can be. The sooner Marlin’s new deal is done (or he retires) the better. The process can start. Even if he retires they’ll be some posters and posers here mad because they won’t like the choice.

[Cajunrunner]

Im looking at the folks looking in on this thread and there are still alot of you that I know. You may not want to admit that you know me though and thats okay. I wouldnt want to admit I know me either.

Z

Ain’t that the dang truth.

[ManAboutTown]

Yeah, that was amusing. The SBC is consistently a 12-16 seed…like that’s changing.

I always knew success was hard for a public non power program was harder to sustain, but after looking at the NCAA list of champions and runner ups, darn.

I’m not saying why try, we should. But my goodness, the deck has been stacked for decades. UTEP was an anomaly that politically at the time was untouchable. UNLV was in the doghouse for years. ..they hated Tark. USL, although not a finalist, got jacked with the death penalty. Memphis always on the edge of NCAA issues.

We should find a way to be the best we can be. The sooner Marlin’s new deal is done (or he retires) the better. The process can start. Even if he retires they’ll be some posters and posers here mad because they won’t like the choice.

Had we beaten Coastal and taken Texas to the wire, The Cajuns could easily have been an 11-12 seed this year.

[fanof71]

Coastal cost us 1 seed up for sure...

[ZoomZoom]

Had we beaten Coastal and taken Texas to the wire, The Cajuns could easily have been an 11-12 seed this year.

I would initially agree with you, but FAU, with a great NET, was only a nine seed. They got hosed seeding wise.

[CajunRebel]

I swear this thread comes up every year.

“Why can’t we be that one mid-major team out of 200 that has one good NCAA run in their program’s history?”

We can, but 1 in 200 odds make that really tough.

But we don’t want to be that team. We don’t want to trade programs with FAU, George Mason, Loyola-Chicago, etc. Except for one flash in the pan year, these programs are all garbage. We’re better than them. They aren’t who we should aspire to be.