What if the I Bowl called us a few weeks ago...

[angeleast]

exactly BASIN BEAR Its no Kennedy assassination secret... but the info is starting to leach out

[GeauxCajuns]

We may have most certainly turned them down, but it wasn't without hearing what they had to say.
If the info is from an stAte fan who is connected and this is the reason they don't go to a bowl, wouldn't you take his side of the story as one of three sides??

[Bandwagon King]

Did the I bowl not snub their nose at UL several years ago? Is this the big payback to the I bowl, now that UL can prove that we have bowl following power?

[Bandwagon King]

We may have most certainly turned them down, but it wasn't without hearing what they had to say.
If the info is from an stAte fan who is connected and this is the reason they don't go to a bowl, wouldn't you take his side of the story as one of three sides??

Just listen to Jay's show tomorrow afternoon. By that time, he'll have it all figured out that there is no truth to this rumor, and even if it is complete fact, it's all the fault of the I bowl officials. The blessed administration doesn't make narry a mistake.

[CajunDreDog]

If this did happen, is it possible the I-Bowl just didn't offer us enough $$$$ for the game?

[Cajun Monkee]

From what was said on the sunbelt board , benson wanted us to go to Shreveport so ASU and a third sunbelt team could go to New Orleans and mobile .

So what if independence low-balled us? And another rumor is the ACC didn't want to play us.

And there are contingencies to our invitation? What if they want us to wait until they're sure of who we play? And then we lose to USA? And they end up inviting a PAC 10 team to play the ACC team?

And ASU goes to New Orleans and WKU goes to mobile. And the champion is accommodated and we stay home?

[Boomer]

Why would we go through all the BS of having the 3 bowl tickets package and the rest if we were already destined for t he Big eazy???? Oh it was all a well played charade!!!! A HA you mean all that time on the phone with a certain # for each bowl just in case!!!!! A HA booking hotels in NO, Mobile, and S-Port!!! A HA The head football coach not being informed or if informed going against his wishes!!!! A HA Do you think that after the Softball fiasco he would not have this thing gone over in the tiniest of detail with HUD and T-Joe???? Could be true but I am not biting yet!!!

[TuffGuy84]

Oh man, but I remember hearing that the ACC didn't want a SBC team...I'm just gonna plop right down here and eat some popcorn.

[DaddyCajun]

If this did happen, is it possible the I-Bowl just didn't offer us enough $$$$ for the game?

Or the I-Bowl did not offer the N O Bowl enough money for the LACK of fans that would go to the NO Bowl and/or to their City in their restaurants and their Hotels! NO Bowl has a figure in their heads that the Cajuns in New Orleans means to the bowl and their City and the N O Bowl is in the drivers seat saying if the I Bowl wants the Cajuns it will cost them this to buy us out!

[TechAlum05]

If this did happen, is it possible the I-Bowl just didn't offer us enough $$$$ for the game?

Assuming the rumors are true for a second, it would be possible that the Independence Bowl offered a payout to your school that is lower than the payout for an SEC school. The bowl game reduced the payouts to Ohio and UL-Monroe in 2012 by $600,000 and $100,000 respectively compared to the original payout for teams from the ACC and SEC (as shown on Page 13 of the latest Legislative Auditor report on the I-Bowl Foundation). I don't remember what the payouts were for Louisiana Tech and Northern Illinois back in 2008, but the payouts were also lower than usual.

http://app1.lla.state.la.us/PublicRe...E/00035F5B.pdf