(12-23-2012 12:42 PM)Ragu Wrote:  

(12-23-2012 11:38 AM)OsageJ Wrote:  

(12-23-2012 10:10 AM)Ragu Wrote:  

(12-22-2012 08:14 PM)warhawk09 Wrote:  

(12-22-2012 07:05 PM)MTPiKapp Wrote:  Come on man yourself. Where did a fau fan say they were a "great program" so far as I can tell all they've done is defend themselves against a ulm blowhard going on and on about what a bottom feeder they are.

Don't let what actually get said get in the way of a good story chump

I have said multiple times that FAU isn't a great program. None of the Sun Belt programs are great programs. Some of you guys on here need a reality check. Major college football programs think all of our schools are joke programs. Just stating facts.

Yes ULL has done better lately than FAU. You guys have 2 bowl wins in back to back to years. However those are your only bowl wins all time.. You go back 4 and 5 years and FAU would be the team with back to back bowl wins while ULL would have none.

But people on this board seem to concentrate solely on the past 2-3 years in football alone to determine an entire schools worth. It is hilarious to say the least. And like I said, FAU has not been a bottom feeder in sports like baseball and basketball. To be a bottom feeder overall, you have to suck in everything as a whole. While FAU has been down in football the past 3-4 years, it isn't as if every program has been down.

Sorry but I am not going to just sit here and let the idiots on here put down my school especially when the junk they are spewing is false.

For a short period FAU had some decent teams and still were lucky to get 10,000 fans in the stands. So bottom feeder still fits.

No it really doesn't. The basketball and baseball aren't bottom feeders in the Sun Belt. I swear some of you guys don't know the definition of a bottom feeder team in a conference. Ark St just lost to FIU/FAU in bball this season for God sakes.

But hey to Ark St/ULL etc fans on here all that matters is the last 2-3 years of football and nothing else to measure a school's worth. Again it is laughable to say the least.

Losing FAU and FIU didn't do much to damage the Belt. Few of our teams recruit there. They didn't pull much support even when they had a winning record in football. UNT has more support, but they haven't been able to win in football in a very long time. In basketball, FIU is a dumpster fire. FAU and UNT are okay but haven't raised the profile of the Belt in basketball. To be clear, FIU and FAU have some passionate fans, but the problem is that they don't have very many of them.

MTSU was the one that damaged the Belt by leaving. But that's it. MTSU was a good program, but the real damage was the loss of stability that resulted from MTSU's departure as WKU and stAte want to stay with them.

We can't do much about Waters' disaster of a TV contract. The bowl situation is changing so that even CUSA will be losing bowls in the future, so its unlikely we will get more than 1 more bowl tie in in the future in the Belt. So CUSA will have more money in the short run. And will have more bowl access. Benson will do what he can in that area, but his room for action in those areas is limited for the time being.

What the Belt can do, is to keep outperforming in football and to try to fix our basketball problem.