(05-12-2014 12:40 PM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  

(05-12-2014 08:27 AM)Cat79 Wrote:  

(05-12-2014 12:48 AM)chiefsfan Wrote:  

(05-11-2014 11:53 PM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  

(05-11-2014 10:31 PM)chiefsfan Wrote:  ASU will go to the Go Daddy Bowl every year they have us. Our fans love it in Mobile. I think we'd like to get a shot at New Orleans simply because we got stuck with the bowl in the Katrina year and never got to see the whole NOLA experience, but if you told our fan base we would be Go Daddy bound for a 4th straight year, we'd all take it in a heart beat.

I'm also not entirely sure Go Daddy would just take USA for sure. There is a lot to filling hotel rooms, and South fans would not have to travel. An ASU or a ULL would bring much more to an area from an economic sense, and Ticket Sales would work out the same.

I think USA would do well in Montgomery.

Y'all should love it there...you never seem to lose there.. even during the regular season

But that being said....filling the stadium > filling hotel rooms. Remember the bowl gets the gate from the stadium. The bowl gets a much smaller, and indirect portion of the hotel taxes. For the first year that USA is a legitimate bowl team...the GDB should want them.

Next year could get a bit nasty. Lets say that USA, ULL, Troy, and Ark State all finish with winning records but none of us go access bowl. Ark State probably should be working some phones in that scenario. I think with more bowls that the Belt should get 4 in. Starting the following year, it should be even less of an issue.

In that scenario it would probably come down to records. If ASU and ULL are 9-3 each and troy and USA go 7-5...my guess is ASU and ULL get placed first, with the conference hoping one of them could be siphoned off to an open bowl game scenario.

If No game is open...then I think the weaker record gets left out.

I like how you guys are counting us out. We have a good team and should be the spoiler this year. I will say that Ark State or ULL one of the two is going to lose to Texas State this coming year.

I'm not counting you out. But ULL, USA, and Troy now have 'hometown bowls'. That was my point. The three other teams that are looking to compete for a bowl this year (Texas State, ULM, and Arkansas State) should be watching the bowl situation closely. Last year by week 3 it was obvious that there would be no bowl for a SBC team outside the contractual bowls. This year, there's a better chance of that happening.

Ark State travels well, but they've been to the same bowl 4 years running. USA has never been to a bowl, so it will be interesting to see how that shakes out. Especially with a hometown bowl (and one controlled locally). Montgomery, being owned by a network, might have less pressure to play 'homer' on that one.

The NOLA Bowl is by no means our hometown bowl. It's a two hour drive but we Cajun fans do like to have a good time and we buy up hotel rooms, go to restaurants and the younger crowd hit the bars for up to a week before game day. We also have a ton of alumni here in the city. We would bring close to 40,000 to Houston and Mobile. Dallas would probably mean a plane ride so I'm saying 30,000 and father away like Florida about 20,000. I live 40 minutes from Armstrong airport so I'm game for wherever accept for an extremely expensive trip like Hawaii or the Bahamas. I think ASU would bring a good crowd to NOLA. I would like to see the turnout. Just MHO.