PAC 12

[HoustonCajun]

$13.4M dollars is really hard to turn down.

With that said, every away conference game would be in the mountain and pacific time zones. Away basketball games would start at 8-9pm. Away football games would usually start at 10:30pm. And I suspect all our home games would be early because we’d be the only team in the conference that could fill an early time slot. So brutal for the fan base.

I think a lot of their games are day games, especially in winter.

[HoustonCajun]

I was told last summer that Texas State had launched an athletic and overall university initiative in the Hill Country region that angered UTSA and UT-Austin, and some of those school's external "important people".

I know we've done that SOME ourselves, but have we done enough of that. While that promotion doesn't seem to have improved TX State athletics at least wins/losses wise for this current athletic year, it sure seems to have helped in gaining some eyes.

As a market, the PAC 12 is looking at Texas State because they are right in the middle of Austin and San Antonio and are claiming those markets.

UL is right in the middle of Baton Rouge and Lake Charles. If we similarly claim those markets combined with Lafayette, we have a bigger market than Tulane does. We need to sell this. And we need to sell our athletic facilities and R1 academic status.

[Boomer]

As a market, the PAC 12 is looking at Texas State because they are right in the middle of Austin and San Antonio and are claiming those markets.

UL is right in the middle of Baton Rouge and Lake Charles. If we similarly claim those markets combined with Lafayette, we have a bigger market than Tulane does. We need to sell this. And we need to sell our athletic facilities and R1 academic status.

...Could Alex and maybe the thib/Race/M city be taken in the mix?

[UL_Cajuns]

Remember Tech in the WAC? lol. Point made.

[Turbine]

Remember Tech in the WAC? lol. Point made.

Yeah, the WAC annual payout was out of whack with reality, it didn't justify their presence.

[angeleast]

We need an athletic department with a pulse. We can't even plan ahead for water at a hot football game.. Will never happen.

[HoustonCajun]

...Could Alex and maybe the thib/Race/M city be taken in the mix?

Why not? Thib/Race/M City could more readily be considered part of CajunCountry.

[Turbine]

Why not? Thib/Race/M City could more readily be considered part of CajunCountry.

They are 100%

KATC marketing created that fracture.

[ULGrad@HOU]

We need an athletic department with a pulse. We can't even plan ahead for water at a hot football game.. Will never happen.

Agree, we are a poorly run Athletic Dept, when it comes to growth and national recognition, mainly by design of those above Dr. Maggard.

[Duckster]

I don't forsee Memphis, Tulane or USF in the Big 12 or the ACC. This is why they are considering the PAC membership today. They have been chasing the Big 12 dream for some time now.

There will be another split at the top 40 to 50 programs and they will have the highest TV Revenue package and their own playoff system. The rest will remain exactly where they are at today, or a in a conference with members like Oregon State and Washington State that will not make the Top 40 or 50. Moving conferences at that point will only become a schedule alliance because it doesn't achieve the goal of joining those programs that have split from the old P4 conferences for Football.

OK you're saying there will be a Top Tier 50 schools max. Then there will be a Middle Tier consisting of P4 has beens with a serving of high level G6ers, maybe three dozen or so schools, leaving another three dozen FBS schools looking up from the bottom of the barrel for eternity. We know with certainty UL and every other G6er is shut out of the future Power 50. Making the middle tier requires being proactive, now. A wait and see strategy results in a chronic crick in your neck from looking up all the time. If we look back over the past 15 years, UL deserves credit for being very proactive with multiple facility upgrades. The latest and largest one the new football stadium. We've come a long way. Time is right for next step up.