Cajuns' bowl foe to have quick turnaround

[CajunEXPRESS]

How do you figure? In terms of UL, GaSo avoided a 7-5 Arkansas State by playing a God awful 1-11 Idaho. In terms of Arkansas State, GaSo avoided an 8-4 UL by playing a 3-9 Troy. Again, they are 8-0. Champions by rule. Still doesn't mean its a clear cut champion.

We played a God Awful NMSU vs their God awful Idaho. Ark State was not the stAte of earlier years with a idiot coach new qb, and a young line. IMO they are fortunate to finish fourth. I am pretty sure we played Troy. as did Ga Southern. In fact the only difference in quality if you call it that than stAte, and I am very confident they beat stAte. In any case 7-1 does not trump 8-0 especially when the 8-0 includes App State that dominated both us and stAte.

In the history of football there has always been champions based on not playing each other. In his heyday, the Bear would schedule more SEC games than anyone else and sometimes won based on percentage of wins vs loses.

Frankly this continued b*t^h session about who they did not play looks like spoiled grapes to anyone else not wearing vermilion sunglasses.

Turbines argument is that both newbies should have had the hardest schedule, and ignores what NMSU and Idaho both new to the conference should have played.

Here is the bottom line. The Cajuns finished in the middle of most game stats league wise. The Cajuns had the worst pass defense in the league and made every quarterback look like Brian Mitchell reborn. Brodway consistently could not connect on long passes letting teams crowd the line of scrimmage. Our tackles consistently let people get to Broadway very quickly, great run line not so much pass protection. It caught up to us vs App State who said Brodway YOU beat us with the pass.

[Clutch0364]

You are probably right, I do not know their team and could not name one player or where they came from. I have never been to their website even. I have to believe they have some players that could not get into larger universities because of their grades and are making an impact. Again I do not know but I think it will be harder to recruit for them going forward.

Couldn't we say the same thing about UL? Not necessarily about not having the grades to get in but where would we be with Eli? If not for us being the only knowing he was graduating early, we probably don't land him.

I just don't buy into the idea of FCS programs being good due to transfers. The whole idea of recruiting is to make your team better whether that is with high school kids, JUCO or transfers. UL had been pretty damn successful in the transfer game and I'm not made about that.

I think a lot of people discount Ga Southerns team and its wrong. That system can neutralize talent. It's the same reason Navy, army and Air Force run similar systems. You can take less talented kids and win. Hell look at what georgia tech had been able to do with it in the ACC.

I ramble way to much haha

[Clutch0364]

Here is the bottom line. The Cajuns finished in the middle of most game stats league wise. The Cajuns had the worst pass defense in the league and made every quarterback look like Brian Mitchell reborn. Brodway consistently could not connect on long passes letting teams crowd the line of scrimmage. It caught up to us vs App State who said Brodway YOU beat us with the pass.

This is the point I don't think people are looking at enough. We just weren't good enough to win the league. Ga Southern played a soft schedule and so did we. I would have loved to play them but let's move on.

[zephyr]

And app won both. That says a lot about how good app finished this season. At the end of the season, I think they were playing the best football of anyone in the SBC .

Yes. I would have loved to have seen them go play Ga Southern at the end of the year as I think that game could have been different. App State had a hell of a run at the end of the season and most of it was on the road.

[Cajun_RH]

Actually, I think in the end, it's pretty similar

Savannah State didnt win a game this year, Navy is 6-5 with a game to go, NC State is 7-5 and towards the bottom of the ACC and Georgia Tech is a pretty good team in the top 25.

Southern finished with the best record in the SWAC and is playing for a conference championship tomorrow. LaTech is playing for CUSA Championship tomorrow, Boise is playing for a MWC championship tomorrow, and Ole Miss is a top 25 team.

So yeah except for Ga Tech and Ole Miss being pretty even, the rest of the games are not even close.

[CajunRage]

We played a God Awful NMSU vs their God awful Idaho. Ark State was not the stAte of earlier years with a idiot coach new qb, and a young line. IMO they are fortunate to finish fourth. I am pretty sure we played Troy. as did Ga Southern. In fact the only difference in quality if you call it that than stAte, and I am very confident they beat stAte. In any case 7-1 does not trump 8-0 especially when the 8-0 includes App State that dominated both us and stAte.

In the history of football there has always been champions based on not playing each other. In his heyday, the Bear would schedule more SEC games than anyone else and sometimes won based on percentage of wins vs loses.

Frankly this continued b*t^h session about who they did not play looks like spoiled grapes to anyone else not wearing vermilion sunglasses.

Turbines argument is that both newbies should have had the hardest schedule, and ignores what NMSU and Idaho both new to the conference should have played.

Here is the bottom line. The Cajuns finished in the middle of most game stats league wise. The Cajuns had the worst pass defense in the league and made every quarterback look like Brian Mitchell reborn. Brodway consistently could not connect on long passes letting teams crowd the line of scrimmage. Our tackles consistently let people get to Broadway very quickly, great run line not so much pass protection. It caught up to us vs App State who said Brodway YOU beat us with the pass.

I believe we both played NMSU. Here's the deal. You can't look at who beat who how. They struggled against NMSU (8pt win) and Texas State (3pt win) where we beat the dog crap out of both of those teams. GaSo finished 8-0. They win the conference. Still, they did not play a harder schedule.

And just because we looked ugly doing it, we still finished 7-1. You are taking your frustrations on what you think our team should be and letting them skew your thoughts on this. Arkansas State also may not be what you think they should, but they finished 4th in the conference. So GaSouthern didn't play the 2nd and 4th team in the conference while those teams had to play each other and both did not get the luxury of playing 1 (each) of the worst teams in college football.

[Turbine]

Turbines argument is that both newbies should have had the hardest schedule, and ignores what NMSU and Idaho both new to the conference should have played.

I didn't mention any schools, just the long standing pattern that the SBC has demonstrated in both football and basketball that they cater to DII transfers.

But now that you mention it NMSU and Idaho were NOT moving up in classification, so making them play the previous champs fits the proven SBC pattern.

[CajunRage]

I just don't buy into the idea of FCS programs being good due to transfers.

I think there is some weight to the idea that the top FCS schools (App st and GaSo included) are better than the worse FBS schools. A lot of those happen to be in the Sunbelt.

[CajunEXPRESS]

No doubt the SBC FCS move ups are better tha most C USA SCHOOLS period

[CrazyCajun]

Just throwing it out there... Southerns gimmick offense gives them a leg up, I would imagine the more times people see it, they will begin to figure out a way to stop it... There is a reasons only 3 teams do it and it's not because it's unstoppable