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RE: Will CUSA's avoidance strategy of top Sun Belt teams hurt CUSA's reputation?
(04-13-2015 10:02 PM)Ole Sleepy Wrote:  
(04-13-2015 05:56 PM)12thmonarch Wrote:  
(04-13-2015 02:19 PM)Ole Sleepy Wrote:  
(04-13-2015 08:42 AM)Herd_fever Wrote:  That's cool, CUSA is not the only G5 ranking plus you didn't play ULL or Arkansas State

Marshall
La Tech
UCF
ECU
Cincy
Memphis
Boise State
Fresno State
Colorado State
Houston
Rice
WKU
San Diego State

Those schools are all better right now then Georgia Southern. And even in the Sun Belt I would take ULL and Arkansas State ahead of Georgia Southern

I could entertain arguments for every team listed above...except for Rice. That's a stretch.

Even before you go there lets see what you have done last year to be called a top team.

The following is just pertinent to 2014 and is not a Jab at any one.You beat a FCS Team in Savannah St, App St before they got hot in the middle of the season, An average USA, ULM, TxSt, and a subpar group in GaSt, Troy, NMSU, Idaho. You lost at NC State, GT and lost to Navy by good margin. Before you take a shot at any one see if you really achieved enough to do that. App St has done better than you folks last year so stop being pompous.

Remember, App lost at home to Liberty. We led both NC State and GT with over a minute and about 30 seconds to go in both games.

Did those two games go down as losses in the record book, or "almost wins"?
04-14-2015 09:57 AM
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RE: Will CUSA's avoidance strategy of top Sun Belt teams hurt CUSA's reputation?
(04-14-2015 09:57 AM)ARandomHerdFan Wrote:  Did those two games go down as losses in the record book, or "almost wins"?

I guess to this ditz an "Almost Win" is like the "Good Loss" we kept hearing last year. There is no such thing as either an "Almost Win" or a "Good loss".

Here are thing as a Marshall fan I hope I never see:

1: A 1-1 with SlAppy State, the last time Marshall played in Boone NC in 1996 it was horrid for the Marshall fans, I know, I was one of them. Once the game was over I had to stop and buy a new shirt to put on. I was drenched in Beer, ketchup and nacho cheese. Plus the stadium was horrid also, and you can't put lipstick on a pig and call it better and that's what SlAppy done.

2: A 1-1 with a transitional, delusional GA Southern, Statesboro is in the middle of no mans land and a lil over an hour away from any civilization in Savannah. Just because you rolled over a crappy SB Conference doesn't means you have arrived. Sooner or later you will understand why only a handful of teams run the option in IA.

Also Ive heard that GA Southern will be so great because all of the GA kids will flock to GA Southern. Well GA Southern had 13 kids from GA in their last recruiting class. Marshall had 5, and in those 5 Marshall had 3 higher rated kids than GA Southerns highest rated GA Kid.

I don't want to go to 16 but if CUSA loses UAB, they just might as well take 3 SB teams and go to 16 and kill the SB while they are at it.
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RE: Will CUSA's avoidance strategy of top Sun Belt teams hurt CUSA's reputation?
(04-14-2015 12:03 PM)HerdZoned Wrote:  2: A 1-1 with a transitional, delusional GA Southern, Statesboro is in the middle of no mans land and a lil over an hour away from any civilization in Savannah. Just because you rolled over a crappy SB Conference doesn't means you have arrived. Sooner or later you will understand why only a handful of teams run the option in IA.

Let me guess...because people will "figure it out", right? Is that why teams with better athletes on defense struggle to stop Navy and why Georgia Tech was able to make a resurgence this past season even though people were saying their offense was "figured out"?

I'm not even really sure we are a true "option team" now. We're a team that runs a lot that uses a lot of inside zone and we don't really do the same type of stuff that coaches in the Paul Johnson coaching tree do.

(04-14-2015 12:03 PM)HerdZoned Wrote:  Also Ive heard that GA Southern will be so great because all of the GA kids will flock to GA Southern. Well GA Southern had 13 kids from GA in their last recruiting class. Marshall had 5, and in those 5 Marshall had 3 higher rated kids than GA Southerns highest rated GA Kid.

Bad conference or not (people like to point at La-Tech and USM's wins over the SBC but ignore the wins against the MWC and our 7th place team beating a bad ACC team), we finished 51 in the RPI while being shorthanded with scholarships and having players that had no recruiting stars from recruiting websites. You can't watch Kevin Ellison and Matt Breida (guys with zero stars) play and tell me they aren't first-rate G5 players. It's not luck that we got those guys as an FCS team. That's an example of how well we can recruit in our state.

Does this mean success is guaranteed? No, it doesn't. A bad coaching hire or an indifferent administration assuming power can set things back. But I think we have a high ceiling and won't apologize for saying that.

The biggest myth I always hear from people on this board is that success at the FCS means nothing for going to the FBS. This is always said by people who don't know much about the FCS and think WKU's national championship 5 years before they moved up is comparable to the sustained success of former FCS teams like Georgia Southern, App State, and Marshall. What you do in FCS is a reflection of what you are as a program.

I'm not drawing any conclusions on why we haven't gotten more home-and-homes and I think the premise of this thread is silly, but you can't tell me (at least for now) that Georgia Southern isn't on a trajectory similar to what Marshall was in the late 90s. On that note, I suspect GS fans here may know more about Marshall's IAA career and their early MAC days than some of the Marshall fans here.
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04-15-2015 11:17 AM
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RE: Will CUSA's avoidance strategy of top Sun Belt teams hurt CUSA's reputation?
(04-10-2015 02:45 PM)GSU Eagles Wrote:  
(04-10-2015 12:59 PM)HerdZoned Wrote:  
(04-10-2015 11:20 AM)GSU Eagles Wrote:  We had the #8 team in the country all but beat until a terrible replay reversal stole the ball from us. Then they had to drive the field and score a TD with 20 seconds left to take the win.

If we can hang with GT on the road, no reason why We couldn't play with Marshall.

That last part of your post would fall in the "ad hominem" category so I won't respond. Go google what that means.

Had them beat and beating them are 2 different things. You LOST...

As I said in a previous post I don't care if we ever play GA Southern again. The Eagles from Statesboro just don't move the needle for me. I don't hate you, don't like you and well don't care if you exist or not. Same with Appy.

I know all of GA Southern and Appy fans were drooling over playing Marshall and just knowing it would happen in the 1st 3-5 years. Now that you understand 95% of Marshall fans and their admin don't care about Boone NC or Statesboro GA it hurts your widdle fweeing.

(04-10-2015 12:20 PM)chiefsfan Wrote:  We've tried. It was a very brief conversation...came about the time Louisville dropped you guys. You'll notice you were not called out. We're not trying to get you guys to drop your Ohio rivalry...nor a P5 game. We're just openly wondering what the point of playing the FCS is.

I know for a fact he's called basically every single CUSA school. He did not actually get hung up on or told no 14 times as people believe.

Terry Mohajir is very sly. His favorite thing to do is make controversial statements (CUSA is ignoring us, won't return our calls...but we're in a better league anyway) and see what happens. He knows very well that we're not on CUSA's expansion list, and he also knows very well that our fans see us as superior to part CUSA anyway. So he can run his mouth...call out very specific schools that he knows our fans hate anyway...and see what happens.

Im not going to argue you over weather you tried to schedule Marshall or not. But what I will say with 100% conviction is your AD is an IDIOT. Thank goodness he belongs to you.

The days of playing teams you like to beat up on are over. Marshall can schedule Miami of Ohio, but it looks bad to the playoff committee. Marshall and all other programs that are serious contenders for the G5 bowl should be scheduling each other. That is what our AD is trying to do, but Marshall is still stuck in the old system train of thought. Any inkling of running from tough games will not go over well with the committee. Marshall's schedule reeks of avoiding tough G5 teams.

It does not matter, the Access Spot is Boise's to lose from G5...Why is this so hard for anyone to understand? As long as Boise does not lose more than 2 games, everyone on that committee wants Boise in that game as they feel they are the ones who could move the needle...
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RE: Will CUSA's avoidance strategy of top Sun Belt teams hurt CUSA's reputation?
You know I could buy into some of what you guys say about how much better CUSA is except so many of your teams came out of SBC. Then you have : UTEP....no winner there. Rice has done fairly well. USM has been a train wreck so no...it's a wash. BTW earlier in the thread Smaug was hanging his hat on thumping Troy...and yes a few years ago that would have been impressive but not now. Even their fans would say that. If that is what UAB is bragging on maybe it explains why football left that school. You guys need to get over yourselves....sheesh.
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RE: Will CUSA's avoidance strategy of top Sun Belt teams hurt CUSA's reputation?
(04-09-2015 07:40 PM)RougeDawg Wrote:  I don't care if Georgia Southern can shoot rainbows out of their ass. Up until about a year ago I had never heard of y'all. A schedule with Georgia Southern elicits a huge yawn.

Show a little humility man. Good Lord . . . "Sunbelt Champs".

You have no idea......humility skipped over Statesboro.
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RE: Will CUSA's avoidance strategy of top Sun Belt teams hurt CUSA's reputation?
C'mon guys. We should really just see the big picture. Next year GSU will form the GSAA and compete in the in Conference GSUSA Belt. They will go 12-0 (8-0)* and defeat the University of Aintdonecrap in the Conference GSUSA Belt Championship. They will obliterate Narcissism U. in the Statesboro bowl and win the GSAA Universal Championship Sponsored by Wishwewereasawesomeaswethink.com.

*All games played in Statesboro
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