2012 New Orleans Bowl

[Boomer]

Well we got 6 more bowls to go and a chance to outdraw the Go Daddy (K State and ASU) and maybe the compass Bowl (O Miss and Pitt)----ergo # 15 out of 35 Bowls----So definitely in the top third of all bowls and for sure #s of Butts in the seats!!! Also with the overwhelming # of Cajun fans in the mix (45K plus) it is a huge rallying cry for our program----Now we need to get the # of tickets sold by the schools and start SELLING this to recruits, politicians, fans, and CONFERENCES!!! Big Silly is there a way to get the tickets sold by school or the butts in seats stats????

[Zeebart21]

I think the early game actually helped our numbers. People where able to drive in that morning, watch the game and drive home. Last year, no human being in their right mind could have left New Orleans at midnight or later and tried to make it home. I like the early start, made Bourbon much easier to navigate on Saturday night, shoe shiners not withstanding.

Or the lesbians on Meth!!

Z

[cajunhawk]

Or the lesbians on Meth!!

Z

Can't forget them...

[CharlieK]

Hopefully we still clear some profit from this. What we produced in New Orleans rivals anybody anywhere in the country. I don't give a damn how close we are to New Orleans. Alot of teams are close to there bowl games and don't produce like us.

[CajunRebel]

I do not think most of the readers and posters on this board are stupid. It was clear to me what he intended to say. Farmer, UL, had a chance to vote on it, it was not something imposed without our input. I never for one second thought it implied that Farmer was giddily voting yes, this is good, let me cast a vote with the majority.

Why do you feel the need to defend Farmer? His actions and non actions speak far more than his words.

I am always pro UL, not so with employees who have other agendas open and important to them.

I wasn't defending Farmer in this thread. I was just trying to make it clear he voted against the bowl revenue sharing deal because in this and other threads people were under the impression he voted for it.

As far as other threads are concerned I feel Farmer tends to get slammed for things he doesn't deserve to get slammed for. For example he gets blamed for not doing enough to raise our budget but since he's been here the budget has gone from about about 12 million dollars to 15 million dollars and he's taken some great steps to increase it further. He also gets most of the blame on here for us not us not getting into C-USA. There is a false narrative people like to bring up that Farmer is perfectly content with the SBC and did nothing to lobby C-USA. Some believe the only reason we didn't get into C-USA is because Farmer didn't beg them enough. Of course the reason we didn't get in is because we didn't have the budget or media market that C-USA desires it's members to have. That's why UTSA, a Southland school with a 2 year old football program was chosen before any Sun Belt schools were. Plus there is literally zero evidence Farmer "did nothing" and plenty of evidence to the contrary.

If you want to criticize him for a lack of communication with fans, especially during a tumultuous time when fans need to hear something from their "leader," I think that's a more than valid criticism. If you want to criticize him for giving Marlin an extension and pay raise I completely understand. But some of the things he gets criticized for are ridiculous.

[CajunRebel]

Have you ever heard of a politician that did nothing for his district, but comes home waving his voting record? "Just for the record... I voted "NO"". Yes... but what else did you do? Farmer helped create the platform for this buyout vote. He was an outspoken advocate for the future of UL in the SBC. Just like this bowl revenue sharing change... announced precisely AFTER we sell a record number of tickets (all Cajun money)... Scott's support of the SBC led to that. He and T-Joe have created this "fence around the SBC" by their support of the SBC. While the healthiest members of the SBC were out courting membership in other conferences (and probably telling Scott and T-Joe how committed they also were to the SBC) UL was telling all of their local advisors - who tell them the same BS right back - that the SBC would just hunker down and wait until the conference realignment was over. We're outsmarting everyone else.

I'm not very impressed to hear of fence building when half the healthiest livestock already exited the property.

Ok... that's yesterday's news. What T-Joe and Scott have left to do... unless they want to see hyper erosion like UL has never experienced... is to go bold with athletics... Cajun Field first and right away... and as they meet with and speak with the best regional programs for future partnership... they build an undeniable resume and an even more ambitious proclamation of investment in our program. They need to treat private support as a vehicle that occurs well after the launch... not as a condition of the launch.

So he lobbied every other SBC member to vote yes so he could vote no?
Do you really think Farmer wasn't lobbying C-USA?
Why do think it would have been a good idea for Farmer to publicly trash the SBC?

[RedTails]

So he lobbied every other SBC member to vote yes so he could vote no?
Do you really think Farmer wasn't lobbying C-USA?
Why do think it would have been a good idea for Farmer to publicly trash the SBC?

I don't think we're asking for him to publically trash the SBC. Most of what we heard from Scott (until the Buckley interview) was that the SBC was the place for us to be. I suppose we would have liked to hear what he said in TB's interview much sooner. Much more action, and a lot less reaction.

[CajunRebel]

I don't think we're asking for him to publically trash the SBC. Most of what we heard from Scott (until the Buckley interview) was that the SBC was the place for us to be. I suppose we would have liked to hear what he said in TB's interview much sooner. Much more action, and a lot less reaction.

Like I said in my earlier post I agree that Farmer's communication with the fanbase has been poor. That Buckley interview should have taken place a year ago. Better yet he shouldn't have had to wait for a reporter to drag all this info out of him. He should have come out with an open letter or a press release on his own outlining UL's position on conference realignment and what he was doing to put UL in a better position.

[Zeebart21]

So he lobbied every other SBC member to vote yes so he could vote no?
Do you really think Farmer wasn't lobbying C-USA?
Why do think it would have been a good idea for Farmer to publicly trash the SBC?

Was he?

[CajunRebel]

Was he?

Yes.

But it was kind of like picking up a chick at the bar. You use your best lines but she was never interested in you because she heard from a friend how small your media market was. Then she walks up to FIU and FAU. They're both fat and ugly but they have enormous media markets. She's just one of those girls who likes a big media market. So all you can do is go home and curse the fact that you were born with such a tiny media market.