In 10 years?

[Clutch0364]

How about a 2005 softball national championship to boost us into the future and into the minds of a lot more people out there.

[CajunRebel]

Here is my realistic view of UL football in 10 years.

While I do see us greatly improving, I don't think that we will be playing in any Sugar Bowls...

I think that after 10 years we will still be in the Sun Belt. Our current budget is among the very lowest among DI-A schools. With as little money as we have had to work with, it is amazing to me that we have had the success that we have had here. That reason alone will keep us out of C-USA, the only conference that we could really end up in.

But the Sun Belt we see 10 years form now will be much different from the one we see today. I think that after 10 years this conference will certainly flourish. We will be among the ranks of the WAC or C-USA.

We will still be in Cajun Field, which will have completed swamp gates but no completed student side upper deck. I think that we will have consistant crowds of over 25k.

Plans for the indoor practice facility will still be stuck in the state legislature. God Bless Louisiana.

By the end of 10 years, we will have gone to the New Orleans Bowl twice, and a new Sun Belt Bowl twice.

We won't be national champions, we won't beat LSU, we probably won't beat ULM either, but we will be out of the toilet and at a respectable level with the rest of our sports.

After so many years of watching a poor product at Cajun Field, I will be happy with being "respectable."realistic