PreGame 2011 New Orleans Bowl - Walking To New Orleans

[Zeebart21]

We are 8-4 for the season and lost most of our games against real tough competition. Lost at Michigan, at home vs TCU and Boise State.

We averaged 41,000 per game and lead te MWC in attendance. Yes, more than TCU or Boise State.

Ronnie Hillman is the real deal. One of the very best running backs in the nation.

We know very little about your team, but 8-4 tells us you are fairly tough and will have a home field advantage. The Aztecs do not travel well (or haven't in the past) to Bowl games on the road. In fact we have only been to about 4 D1 Bowl Games ever and have been playing D1 football since 1969 or so.

This should be a real good game.

Hey, is this the school that "Bo" Lamar attended? That guy could shoot lights out.

Bo Lamar...one and the same.

Z

[03cajunalum]

Hea guys, Aztec here. Congrats on a bowl game. As pointed out above, we play on grass (same stadium the Chargers play in), and actually most of the other teams play on turf in the MWC.

A little about us: run pro set. Ronnie Hillman is a super soph that has over 3k yards in 2 years, smaller back but quick and can battle a little for extra yards, explodes through holes. Our Sr. qb holds basically every passing record but is wildly inconsistent and inaccurate, we lost two wrs to the nfl last year and that hasn't helped. But, we're a balanced offense, lots of power-0 and play pass. Lost Brady Hoke to Michigan and maybe more importantly Al Borges as OC to michigan so playcalling has suffered a bit.

Defense: 3-3-5, Rocky long the head coach basically created the defense and it's predicated on blitzing most downs, corners are physical and on an island. Haven't created a lot of turnovers the last few weeks after creating a lot the first 3/4 of the season

Special teams: punter has a big leg, place kicker is god awful, 5-12 on the year, missed a pat and 2 chippies vs WYoming in our most disappointing couple point loss

Last 10 weeks we've started absurdly slow, spotting teams 3 scores before rallying back. Defense is quick, but rocky sometimes over blitzes particularly early, o-line is experienced but maybe not as good as last year, dropped a lot of bombs for tds.

Good luck, a lot of us are trying to get flights together, so hopefully we'll have a decent turnout.

Go Aztecs

Don't undersell too much, 8-4 in a pretty good conference isn't too bad. However, I hope your assessment of your QB, pass defense, and kicker are accurate.

[RaginScotsman]

I hope they stick with that reference.

[Hammer58]

I'm sure the fax machines are smoking in moanroe from all the notices complaining about referencing us as Louisiana. Wright Waters' phone is probably ringing off the hook.

[SteveAztec]

Yes, the Q's. Wilt Chamberlain was the coach for one season. Of course Wilt was really there to play ball, but the NBA filed a lawsuit to stop him from playing that year.

[Big Poppa]

I'm extremely excited to see the Cajuns play on turf, does anyone know if SDSU plays on natural grass or turf?

The Cajuns play every home game on turf.

[Just1More]

The Cajuns play every home game on turf.

And they practice on the old Superdome turf.

Turf advantage: Cajuns

[ULGrad@HOU]

Here's a positive......the late start of the Bowl game will put it longer in Prime Time on the West Coast.

[jllanclos]

“We couldn’t be more excited to have the San Diego State Aztecs represent the Mountain West Conference in this year’s game. We’re thrilled to have two teams that have never played in the R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl before, and we can’t wait to show them the one of a kind bowl experience that only New Orleans can deliver.”

I bet you could be more excited about this if you tried really hard. LOL yeah, we're like totally pumped to San Diego State over teams like SMU and Tulsa in our bowl. Right. Sure you are :-)

[HoustonCajun]

I'm sure the fax machines are smoking in moanroe from all the notices complaining about referencing us as Louisiana. Wright Waters' phone is probably ringing off the hook.

Glad to see the Louisiana reference by the bowl. They should have used our more current circular logo.