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    ….Just wondering where the Cajuns would rank in a possible P5 move up among the G5 teams…Memphis I think tops and just who could go where…Tulane thinks that they are in play per their board…but we go nowhere ever without fans….what in the hell happened?


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    Quote Originally Posted by Boomer View Post
    ….Just wondering where the Cajuns would rank in a possible P5 move up among the G5 teams…Memphis I think tops and just who could go where…Tulane thinks that they are in play per their board…but we go nowhere ever without fans….what in the hell happened?
    What happened? Greed has destroyed collegiate sports. Money rules the day. Look at what SMU had to do to get an ACC invite. A multi-year, several hundred million dollar deal where they do not get TV money for a while. I don't know if there is another school that could have done that deal, and they only got that because of the huge Dallas market.

    If there are any more G5 schools joining a "P5" league, it will be as a replacement school for the Big-12. I'll just give you a list of the schools that I think are ahead of us for that invite.

    Memphis
    Tulane
    Oregon State
    Washington State
    San Diego State
    UNLV
    Colorado State
    Air Force
    UTSA


    Translation - there will be no invite coming.

    As the top of FBS becomes a professional group, we need to focus on being the best of the collegiate group. In that sense we are in a major collegiate league already. Let's all focus on Louisiana Saturday Nights.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Boomer View Post
    ….Just wondering where the Cajuns would rank in a possible P5 move up among the G5 teams…Memphis I think tops and just who could go where…Tulane thinks that they are in play per their board…but we go nowhere ever without fans….what in the hell happened?
    No chance

    Our media market is useless to the P4 conferences, and we aren't even the most popular school in Lafayette

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    It’s all about $$$ and if Memphis doesn’t have enough, we sure as hell don’t.


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    There is no longer a “P5”

    It’s now P4, which makes being included even more difficult. It was a pipe dream before, now it’s a fantasy.


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    Quote Originally Posted by sportsfanatic21 View Post
    There is no longer a “P5”

    It’s now P4, which makes being included even more difficult. It was a pipe dream before, now it’s a fantasy.
    Its not a fantasy, even if it was no reason to not try be the best university that it could be specially when it comes to sports!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ragin9221 View Post
    Its not a fantasy, even if it was no reason to not try be the best university that it could be specially when it comes to sports!
    I don’t think I said anything at all about not trying to be the best we can be.

    The conversation was about getting an invite to join one of the P4 leagues…for sports.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sportsfanatic21 View Post
    I don’t think I said anything at all about not trying to be the best we can be.

    The conversation was about getting an invite to join one of the P4 leagues…for sports.
    Well we havent done the necessary things to build fan support, more fan support more money, in turn better facilities etc i dont think we even close to reaching our true potential.

    We as fans and the university think we are trapped in this box. We are not trapped in a box, we just been in the box for so long we never really figured out how to crawl out of it!

    Look at teams like TCU, Cincinnati, Louisville, San Diego St., UCF, Houston they all were like we are now, and they were able to climb out of it and reach their potential.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ragin9221 View Post
    Its not a fantasy, even if it was no reason to not try be the best university that it could be specially when it comes to sports!
    It's 100% is a fantasy

    Early in Hud's tenure our athletic program was reaching new heights and having success across the board, and our admin decided that was the time to try and posture as an up-and-coming P5 candidate.

    We raised prices annually. We started planning for a stadium that holds 2-3x our average attendance. And most importantly, we started removing or pricing out many of the small-school traditions that helped build a fanbase -- specifically tailgating.

    Pretending to be a viable P5 school is the root cause for almost every single issue we have today with attendance.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ragin9221 View Post
    Well we havent done the necessary things to build fan support, more fan support more money, in turn better facilities etc i dont think we even close to reaching our true potential.

    We as fans and the university think we are trapped in this box. We are not trapped in a box, we just been in the box for so long we never really figured out how to crawl out of it!

    Look at teams like TCU, Cincinnati, Louisville, San Diego St., UCF, Houston they all were like we are now, and they were able to climb out of it and reach their potential.
    We all want the same things for our university.

    But the schools you listed are not the same as we are…starting immediately with media market.

    I like your ambition and hope it comes to fruition at some point. I just happen to disagree with you that there’s a snowball’s chance in hell that we get a P4 invite. At least in most of our lifetimes.

    And I’d absolutely love to be dead wrong about it.

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