Cajuns hoops crowds top SBC

[CajunRebel]

How about start the ground work for a Battle for the Boot (All Louisiana team tournament). Get, UL, LSU, Tulane, La Tech, ULM all on board with the first tournament played at a neutral site....Smoothie King?

Somehow finagle a way to have tournament scheduled yearly with the winner getting to host the next years' tournament. What this will do is get a decent rpi field of teams together, playing "locally" with the potential of hosting numerous years....If not, it's not a terrible travel for a weekend tournament to Baton Rouge, New Orleans, Ruston, or Monroe.

Lay the ground work now, do some leg work to remove the kinks with the plan to have it in place in the next few years.....

This doesn't necessarily change the home schedule, but gives you the possibility to get all of these teams under one roof and on your schedule (minor travel costs included)

LSU, Tulane, and La Tech don't want to play us. And ULM is in our conference so we can't play them either. A southland school might go for it, but we already schedule them anyway, and they can't play each other so you can only invite one. So now all we're left with is crappy schools, which kind of defeats the purpose.

[CrazyCajun]

we are about to play latech for the 3rd straight year

[BirdofParadise]

You aren't a pompous ___? Seriously?

If I thought you were a dip____ I wouldn't insult you publicly by calling you one.

[CajunRebel]

Did you know as a person who spends his money on entertainment, I'm intelligent enough to know what interest me... I don't give a ___ if I'm by myself in the cajundome. I know what I want to see, I don't care about your statistics, I know I wont drop 50$ to watch Milligan college get run over. I don't know why you are taking this so personal. Our scheduling sucks I mentioned people who Id like to see us play and you go off on some tangent that fits your agenda, this isn't your radio show, you aren't gonna patronize me and hangup. Interest is lost in the program, we are trying to think of ways to regain interest. Sounds like you have given up and bought into the hopelessness that is college basketball in the south. I haven't...yet. I will not keep buying season tickets to watch teams that I have to google to figure out wth they are. It's someons job to fix it, not mine. However, I'll gladly discuss with you the things I am paid to fix for a living and my customers and bosses won't put up with the excuses of why I can't get it done, they find someone who will.

Can you give me an example of a public G5 school in our region that has an OOC schedule that you would find acceptable?

[scotto_25]

I shouldn't have included ULM, you are correct....

This whole LSU, TULANE, & LA TECH wont play us nonsense has got to stop. I'm beginning to feel that it may have been an issue in the past, but it's turned into one big arse fishing story.

Work on it, schedule, do whatever needs to be done and make it a 4 team tourney:

UL
LSU
TULANE
TECh

[CrazyCajun]

Can you give me an example of a public G5 school in our region that has an OOC schedule that you would find acceptable?

Can you explain how latech playing us 3 consecutive years means they won't play is?

[Rebel02]

Did you know as a person who spends his money on entertainment, I'm intelligent enough to know what interest me... I don't give a ___ if I'm by myself in the cajundome. I know what I want to see, I don't care about your statistics, I know I wont drop 50$ to watch Milligan college get run over. I don't know why you are taking this so personal. Our scheduling sucks I mentioned people who Id like to see us play and you go off on some tangent that fits your agenda, this isn't your radio show, you aren't gonna patronize me and hangup. Interest is lost in the program, we are trying to think of ways to regain interest. Sounds like you have given up and bought into the hopelessness that is college basketball in the south. I haven't...yet. I will not keep buying season tickets to watch teams that I have to google to figure out wth they are. It's someons job to fix it, not mine. However, I'll gladly discuss with you the things I am paid to fix for a living and my customers and bosses won't put up with the excuses of why I can't get it done, they find someone who will.

I'll drop $50 to watch the Cajuns play, not the opponent.

[BirdofParadise]

Can you explain how latech playing us 3 consecutive years means they won't play is?

It took forever to get Mike White to agree and he did so because he was going to have his best two teams of his tenure.

We whipped him and took his damn lunch money. And, he refused to renew the contract. Then he got the Florida job and the new coach agreed to play.

My guess is after we take his lunch money, he won't play us again either.

[CajunRebel]

I shouldn't have included ULM, you are correct....

This whole LSU, TULANE, & LA TECH wont play us nonsense has got to stop. I'm beginning to feel that it may have been an issue in the past, but it's turned into one big arse fishing story.

Work on it, schedule, do whatever needs to be done and make it a 4 team tourney:

UL
LSU
TULANE
TECh

I think it would be a great idea. I'm sure UL would jump on that in a second. I know Coach Marlin has floated the idea of bringing back the Bayou Classic in Lafayette for a long time now. I don't know for sure why it hasn't happened, but if I had to guess it comes down to $$$. But even if it does happen one day, I seriously doubt Tulane or LSU would be involved.

[Rebel02]

Can you explain how latech playing us 3 consecutive years means they won't play is?

Answer his question first.