(04-04-2014 11:05 PM)DaSaintFan Wrote:  

(04-04-2014 06:18 PM)Side Show Joe Wrote:  

(04-03-2014 10:22 AM)AndreWhere Wrote:  The bottom line for me is that the current conference structure is completely unacceptable to USM. I would rather drop football than play in this conference. Anyone who thinks CUSA can be tweaked or promoted into something that works for us is a fool. I don't want to think our AD is a fool. We'll see, though. The dude may just be making noise because he knows that our fans are pissed.

The conference doesn't need to be tweaked for any schools. It is the responsibility of your university to function within the structure of the conference. What has this conference done to wrong Southern Miss?

Joe, ignore Andre, that's the best advice I can give. He seems to think we should be in the SEC _Yesterday_ and the fact we're not is because the school was screwed by the powers that be that run the SEC.

That's not quite right. I think we should be in the AAC and I think the people who screwed us were and are living right in Hattiesburg. Giannini talked up CUSA until he was blue in the face and then hauled ass right before the decent schools left. Now McGillis is trying to be a CUSA booster and if he means it, he's an idiot. I don't care if CUSA gets 0 tournament bids. CUSA can rot.

This is exactly the reason why conference tournaments are trash. Two co-champs and better teams were left out while Tulsa sneaks in and loses immediately. We need our best teams in the tournament.

(04-03-2014 10:48 AM)FIU4Ever Wrote:  

(04-03-2014 10:40 AM)AndreWhere Wrote:  

(04-03-2014 10:33 AM)FIU4Ever Wrote:  

(04-03-2014 10:26 AM)MUsince96 Wrote:  

(04-03-2014 10:22 AM)AndreWhere Wrote:  The bottom line for me is that the current conference structure is completely unacceptable to USM. I would rather drop football than play in this conference. Anyone who thinks CUSA can be tweaked or promoted into something that works for us is a fool. I don't want to think our AD is a fool. We'll see, though. The dude may just be making noise because he knows that our fans are pissed.

I'm not sure how you think a new conference comprised of C-USA and SBC teams will be better off for Southern Miss. Compared to the current C-USA comprised of C-USA and SBC teams with a dash of WAC and FCS.

based on his constant reference to UCF I think he wants a conference where USM has the largest market and budget, essentially a smaller pond so they can be the biggest fish.

USM has never been in the situation you describe and never will be.

I want USM to not be in CUSA. Period, story complete. CUSA has been the death of USM. Schools like yours trick us into being an extra in your story. We must find an alternative or die trying.

You claimed CUSA 1.0 and 2.0 never wanted to be associated with USM and bailed as soon as they could. By your logic, maybe you should look at what has been a constant in CUSA 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0 for the problem...

You're right.....freaking UAB...

Let me first of state that as a long time Southern Miss supporter, I am excited about the future of CUSA. Is it the conference we all wish it would be in our dreams? No. However, it is what we have now. USM fans who think we are going to some other conference are just dreaming. It's not happening in the near future, so we all need to build our schools and our conference to be the best we can. I think that basketball and football ,basketball especially, is going to be vastly improved in the coming few years. I love the ideas and leadership our AD is providing to move the conference forward. We have the worst commissioner in the country and he needs to be fired. That said, the idea of a new conference does not work for me. Wish it did, but the NCAA has too many road blocks. USM is in CUSA and I will be a big supporter of it. Not a fan of *&#^ing in your own nest. USM was one win (a game we were heavily favored to win)away from a BCS game just 3 years ago, and I believe our present football coach will take us back to that level quickly. We have one of the best basketball coaches in the nation and our teams are consistently very good now. We just need to upgrade our OOC schedule, which is being taken care of. All CUSA schools need to take care of our issues and work together to make improvements. The better each of us is, the better all of us are.

(04-11-2014 08:42 AM)NueDaeEagle Wrote:  Let me first of state that as a long time Southern Miss supporter, I am excited about the future of CUSA. Is it the conference we all wish it would be in our dreams? No. However, it is what we have now. USM fans who think we are going to some other conference are just dreaming. It's not happening in the near future, so we all need to build our schools and our conference to be the best we can. I think that basketball and football ,basketball especially, is going to be vastly improved in the coming few years. I love the ideas and leadership our AD is providing to move the conference forward. We have the worst commissioner in the country and he needs to be fired. That said, the idea of a new conference does not work for me. Wish it did, but the NCAA has too many road blocks. USM is in CUSA and I will be a big supporter of it. Not a fan of *&#^ing in your own nest. USM was one win (a game we were heavily favored to win)away from a BCS game just 3 years ago, and I believe our present football coach will take us back to that level quickly. We have one of the best basketball coaches in the nation and our teams are consistently very good now. We just need to upgrade our OOC schedule, which is being taken care of. All CUSA schools need to take care of our issues and work together to make improvements. The better each of us is, the better all of us are.

Say "hi" to Coach Tyndall for me. I'm sure you'll run into him in the hallway sometime soon

(04-11-2014 08:42 AM)NueDaeEagle Wrote:  Let me first of state that as a long time Southern Miss supporter, I am excited about the future of CUSA. Is it the conference we all wish it would be in our dreams? No. However, it is what we have now. USM fans who think we are going to some other conference are just dreaming. It's not happening in the near future, so we all need to build our schools and our conference to be the best we can. I think that basketball and football ,basketball especially, is going to be vastly improved in the coming few years. I love the ideas and leadership our AD is providing to move the conference forward. We have the worst commissioner in the country and he needs to be fired. That said, the idea of a new conference does not work for me. Wish it did, but the NCAA has too many road blocks. USM is in CUSA and I will be a big supporter of it. Not a fan of *&#^ing in your own nest. USM was one win (a game we were heavily favored to win)away from a BCS game just 3 years ago, and I believe our present football coach will take us back to that level quickly. We have one of the best basketball coaches in the nation and our teams are consistently very good now. We just need to upgrade our OOC schedule, which is being taken care of. All CUSA schools need to take care of our issues and work together to make improvements. The better each of us is, the better all of us are.

Well said.

Some are delusional.

(04-12-2014 08:35 AM)ATTALLABLAZE Wrote:  

(04-11-2014 08:42 AM)NueDaeEagle Wrote:  Let me first of state that as a long time Southern Miss supporter, I am excited about the future of CUSA. Is it the conference we all wish it would be in our dreams? No. However, it is what we have now. USM fans who think we are going to some other conference are just dreaming. It's not happening in the near future, so we all need to build our schools and our conference to be the best we can. I think that basketball and football ,basketball especially, is going to be vastly improved in the coming few years. I love the ideas and leadership our AD is providing to move the conference forward. We have the worst commissioner in the country and he needs to be fired. That said, the idea of a new conference does not work for me. Wish it did, but the NCAA has too many road blocks. USM is in CUSA and I will be a big supporter of it. Not a fan of *&#^ing in your own nest. USM was one win (a game we were heavily favored to win)away from a BCS game just 3 years ago, and I believe our present football coach will take us back to that level quickly. We have one of the best basketball coaches in the nation and our teams are consistently very good now. We just need to upgrade our OOC schedule, which is being taken care of. All CUSA schools need to take care of our issues and work together to make improvements. The better each of us is, the better all of us are.

Well said.

Some are delusional.

There's no delusion on my part.

The dude you replied to is either a plant or he's too young to have ever really witnessed USM's heyday.

If you want to see what real fans think (i.e. people who are old enough to have kissed a girl and who don't draw a paycheck from the USM athletic department) go read EaglePost.net.

No one there is excited about (or even tolerant of) C-USA. Our historical rivals and peers (Memphis, Houston, Tulane, ECU...) are all gone. We screwed the pooch and they're gone. It's miserable, it's 100% our fault, and it just sucks. Most of us in our honest moments will admit that we're looking for other things to fill the void left by USM athletics.

I posted this already, a couple of days ago, but I think that USM has far more hope of enhancing its academic reputation (for example, getting back into Tier 1 of the USNWR classifications) than of ever being relevant in sports again. And by "being relevant", what I really mean is "doing anything that does justice to our history".

You are a piece of work. Even other USM fans are laughing at you. Stop whining.

If Yale woke up one morning, and by some horrible twist of fate the Ivy League looked like this:

Yale
SUNY Maritime Academy
City College of New York
Fordham
University of Phoenix
Coast Guard Academy

how would they react?

Or, what would Georgia think if they awoke one horrible day to find the SEC East looking like this:

Georgia
ECU
UAB
Southern Miss
Florida International
Memphis
Georgia Southern

would they be expected to tolerate this with a smile?

If you can see the absurdity of these hypothetical situations, I would ask you, what in the Hell is so different about Southern Miss that some of us pretend to tolerate such things?

I get what you are saying. As a fan of Uab, sure I would have preferred that we moved on with every other cusa school that left. If we had a stadium built or being built I think things may have been different. But right now there is nothing I can do about that. I will support Uab and the conference. Nobody is saying this conference is better than previous versions, but right now it's where we are at. We can all either work together and try and make it the best that we can, or we can ***** and moan and be a fake fan who only supports our school in good times. Nothing is changing right now so bitching doesn't seem very effective.

(04-09-2014 06:11 PM)AndreWhere Wrote:  That's not quite right. I think we should be in the AAC and I think the people who screwed us were and are living right in Hattiesburg. Giannini talked up CUSA until he was blue in the face and then hauled ass right before the decent schools left.

So instead of directing your wrath at the conference, maybe you should redirect that wrath towards USM officials. Your rant about how bad you think this conference has become is rather bothersome and annoying......like yourself.

(04-12-2014 06:22 PM)BamaScorpio69 Wrote:  

(04-09-2014 06:11 PM)AndreWhere Wrote:  That's not quite right. I think we should be in the AAC and I think the people who screwed us were and are living right in Hattiesburg. Giannini talked up CUSA until he was blue in the face and then hauled ass right before the decent schools left.

So instead of directing your wrath at the conference, maybe you should redirect that wrath towards USM officials. Your rant about how bad you think this conference has become is rather bothersome and annoying......like yourself.

That is exactly where my wrath is directed. I'm sorry if that was unclear.

I've been far more critical of our AD, and his two predecessors, than I have been of any other C-USA school.

My criticism of the conference itself has been limited to saying that it's just a poor fit for Southern Miss, and that being here is nothing for us to take pride in. UNT, La Tech... by all means y'all should take pride in the fact that you moved up where ULM, Troy, etc. did not. Our situation is 180 degrees opposite.

I've also been just about the only Southern Miss fan here to call B.S. on our AD's recent comments. It's not C-USA's job to get us into a postseason tournament. That's just bunk. If we want to be in a multi-bid league, we should get into one. C-USA used to be a 4 or even 5-bid league. It's not any more. We'll slip in two in a very, very good year... maybe.

If Bill McGillis doesn't like it, he knows where the door is... just follow Louisville, USF, ECU, TCU, UCF, Tulsa, Houston, Memphis, Tulane, St. Louis, Marquette, Cincy... you catch my drift.

(04-12-2014 09:45 AM)AndreWhere Wrote:  

(04-12-2014 08:35 AM)ATTALLABLAZE Wrote:  

(04-11-2014 08:42 AM)NueDaeEagle Wrote:  Let me first of state that as a long time Southern Miss supporter, I am excited about the future of CUSA. Is it the conference we all wish it would be in our dreams? No. However, it is what we have now. USM fans who think we are going to some other conference are just dreaming. It's not happening in the near future, so we all need to build our schools and our conference to be the best we can. I think that basketball and football ,basketball especially, is going to be vastly improved in the coming few years. I love the ideas and leadership our AD is providing to move the conference forward. We have the worst commissioner in the country and he needs to be fired. That said, the idea of a new conference does not work for me. Wish it did, but the NCAA has too many road blocks. USM is in CUSA and I will be a big supporter of it. Not a fan of *&#^ing in your own nest. USM was one win (a game we were heavily favored to win)away from a BCS game just 3 years ago, and I believe our present football coach will take us back to that level quickly. We have one of the best basketball coaches in the nation and our teams are consistently very good now. We just need to upgrade our OOC schedule, which is being taken care of. All CUSA schools need to take care of our issues and work together to make improvements. The better each of us is, the better all of us are.

Well said.

Some are delusional.

There's no delusion on my part.

The dude you replied to is either a plant or he's too young to have ever really witnessed USM's heyday.

If you want to see what real fans think (i.e. people who are old enough to have kissed a girl and who don't draw a paycheck from the USM athletic department) go read EaglePost.net.

No one there is excited about (or even tolerant of) C-USA. Our historical rivals and peers (Memphis, Houston, Tulane, ECU...) are all gone. We screwed the pooch and they're gone. It's miserable, it's 100% our fault, and it just sucks. Most of us in our honest moments will admit that we're looking for other things to fill the void left by USM athletics.

I posted this already, a couple of days ago, but I think that USM has far more hope of enhancing its academic reputation (for example, getting back into Tier 1 of the USNWR classifications) than of ever being relevant in sports again. And by "being relevant", what I really mean is "doing anything that does justice to our history".

"The dude you replied to is either a plant or he's too young to have ever really witnessed USM's heyday. "

Now that's funny since I was in school when Ray Guy was playing for the Eagles back in the 70's. And not a "plant" either. I just know we don't have the market that the conferences are looking for.

(04-12-2014 09:54 AM)AndreWhere Wrote:  If Yale woke up one morning, and by some horrible twist of fate the Ivy League looked like this:

Yale
SUNY Maritime Academy
City College of New York
Fordham
University of Phoenix
Coast Guard Academy

how would they react?

Or, what would Georgia think if they awoke one horrible day to find the SEC East looking like this:

Georgia
ECU
UAB
Southern Miss
Florida International
Memphis
Georgia Southern

would they be expected to tolerate this with a smile?

If you can see the absurdity of these hypothetical situations, I would ask you, what in the Hell is so different about Southern Miss that some of us pretend to tolerate such things?

USM is not the only one in that situation. Rice, UTEP, USM, Cincy, USF, UConn, and others are in the same position. But never-ending trashing of the conference doesn't do a thing.

At some point, you make the best you can out of a situation. ODU, Charlotte, and a few others have potential to help.

(04-12-2014 09:45 AM)AndreWhere Wrote:  

(04-12-2014 08:35 AM)ATTALLABLAZE Wrote:  

(04-11-2014 08:42 AM)NueDaeEagle Wrote:  Let me first of state that as a long time Southern Miss supporter, I am excited about the future of CUSA. Is it the conference we all wish it would be in our dreams? No. However, it is what we have now. USM fans who think we are going to some other conference are just dreaming. It's not happening in the near future, so we all need to build our schools and our conference to be the best we can. I think that basketball and football ,basketball especially, is going to be vastly improved in the coming few years. I love the ideas and leadership our AD is providing to move the conference forward. We have the worst commissioner in the country and he needs to be fired. That said, the idea of a new conference does not work for me. Wish it did, but the NCAA has too many road blocks. USM is in CUSA and I will be a big supporter of it. Not a fan of *&#^ing in your own nest. USM was one win (a game we were heavily favored to win)away from a BCS game just 3 years ago, and I believe our present football coach will take us back to that level quickly. We have one of the best basketball coaches in the nation and our teams are consistently very good now. We just need to upgrade our OOC schedule, which is being taken care of. All CUSA schools need to take care of our issues and work together to make improvements. The better each of us is, the better all of us are.

Well said.

Some are delusional.

There's no delusion on my part.

The dude you replied to is either a plant or he's too young to have ever really witnessed USM's heyday.

If you want to see what real fans think (i.e. people who are old enough to have kissed a girl and who don't draw a paycheck from the USM athletic department) go read EaglePost.net.

No one there is excited about (or even tolerant of) C-USA. Our historical rivals and peers (Memphis, Houston, Tulane, ECU...) are all gone. We screwed the pooch and they're gone. It's miserable, it's 100% our fault, and it just sucks. Most of us in our honest moments will admit that we're looking for other things to fill the void left by USM athletics.

I posted this already, a couple of days ago, but I think that USM has far more hope of enhancing its academic reputation (for example, getting back into Tier 1 of the USNWR classifications) than of ever being relevant in sports again. And by "being relevant", what I really mean is "doing anything that does justice to our history".

You may not be delusional but you just went full retard. The words true fans and eagle post do not go in the same sentence.
I can think of one true fan that post only on ep and his initials are SD.

The rest of that group is a trouble making accounting professor who likes to shoot puppies, a physical plant employee who is a ole miss turd and the still pissed off turd of a son of a fired head coach.
Not much to draw from as far as "true fans". In fact if you try to be positive you get banned over there.
Only the ep group could ***** and whine the night after beating houston in 2011.
Screaming for the ad's plan or vision his first day on the job doesnt make you a true fan. Neither does being critical just because its cool and asking for everyone to be fired.
Ive liked and disliked coaches but one thing is constant. Ive been there. I keep writing checks and buying tickets.

Either support the program or shut your stupid ass up. All you and your ep buddies are doing is giving our enemy's ammo to use against us. Attracting athletes to this league is hard enough without coaches being able to show prospects the negative attitude of you and your buddies/

(04-12-2014 11:15 PM)Thegoldstandard Wrote:  

(04-12-2014 09:45 AM)AndreWhere Wrote:  

(04-12-2014 08:35 AM)ATTALLABLAZE Wrote:  

(04-11-2014 08:42 AM)NueDaeEagle Wrote:  Let me first of state that as a long time Southern Miss supporter, I am excited about the future of CUSA. Is it the conference we all wish it would be in our dreams? No. However, it is what we have now. USM fans who think we are going to some other conference are just dreaming. It's not happening in the near future, so we all need to build our schools and our conference to be the best we can. I think that basketball and football ,basketball especially, is going to be vastly improved in the coming few years. I love the ideas and leadership our AD is providing to move the conference forward. We have the worst commissioner in the country and he needs to be fired. That said, the idea of a new conference does not work for me. Wish it did, but the NCAA has too many road blocks. USM is in CUSA and I will be a big supporter of it. Not a fan of *&#^ing in your own nest. USM was one win (a game we were heavily favored to win)away from a BCS game just 3 years ago, and I believe our present football coach will take us back to that level quickly. We have one of the best basketball coaches in the nation and our teams are consistently very good now. We just need to upgrade our OOC schedule, which is being taken care of. All CUSA schools need to take care of our issues and work together to make improvements. The better each of us is, the better all of us are.

Well said.

Some are delusional.

There's no delusion on my part.

The dude you replied to is either a plant or he's too young to have ever really witnessed USM's heyday.

If you want to see what real fans think (i.e. people who are old enough to have kissed a girl and who don't draw a paycheck from the USM athletic department) go read EaglePost.net.

No one there is excited about (or even tolerant of) C-USA. Our historical rivals and peers (Memphis, Houston, Tulane, ECU...) are all gone. We screwed the pooch and they're gone. It's miserable, it's 100% our fault, and it just sucks. Most of us in our honest moments will admit that we're looking for other things to fill the void left by USM athletics.

I posted this already, a couple of days ago, but I think that USM has far more hope of enhancing its academic reputation (for example, getting back into Tier 1 of the USNWR classifications) than of ever being relevant in sports again. And by "being relevant", what I really mean is "doing anything that does justice to our history".

You may not be delusional but you just went full retard. The words true fans and eagle post do not go in the same sentence.
I can think of one true fan that post only on ep and his initials are SD.

The rest of that group is a trouble making accounting professor who likes to shoot puppies, a physical plant employee who is a ole miss turd and the still pissed off turd of a son of a fired head coach.
Not much to draw from as far as "true fans". In fact if you try to be positive you get banned over there.
Only the ep group could ***** and whine the night after beating houston in 2011.
Screaming for the ad's plan or vision his first day on the job doesnt make you a true fan. Neither does being critical just because its cool and asking for everyone to be fired.
Ive liked and disliked coaches but one thing is constant. Ive been there. I keep writing checks and buying tickets.

Either support the program or shut your stupid ass up. All you and your ep buddies are doing is giving our enemy's ammo to use against us. Attracting athletes to this league is hard enough without coaches being able to show prospects the negative attitude of you and your buddies/

I support USM. I support USM athletics to the extent that they help USM. I support CUSA to the extent that it helps USM. Those conditions I mentioned in my second and third statements just aren't necessarily true any more.

(04-12-2014 06:22 PM)BamaScorpio69 Wrote:  

(04-09-2014 06:11 PM)AndreWhere Wrote:  That's not quite right. I think we should be in the AAC and I think the people who screwed us were and are living right in Hattiesburg. Giannini talked up CUSA until he was blue in the face and then hauled ass right before the decent schools left.

So instead of directing your wrath at the conference, maybe you should redirect that wrath towards USM officials. Your rant about how bad you think this conference has become is rather bothersome and annoying......like yourself.

+1

(04-13-2014 02:37 PM)Irish Rowdy Wrote:  

(04-12-2014 06:22 PM)BamaScorpio69 Wrote:  

(04-09-2014 06:11 PM)AndreWhere Wrote:  That's not quite right. I think we should be in the AAC and I think the people who screwed us were and are living right in Hattiesburg. Giannini talked up CUSA until he was blue in the face and then hauled ass right before the decent schools left.

So instead of directing your wrath at the conference, maybe you should redirect that wrath towards USM officials. Your rant about how bad you think this conference has become is rather bothersome and annoying......like yourself.

+1

Tradeoff: you get to play a football team that actually existed before 1980, and has something resembling a tradition, but you have to deal with its pissed-off fans. You're MORE THAN WELCOME to leave. Believe me, no one associated with USM will lose any sleep.

(04-13-2014 01:41 PM)AndreWhere Wrote:  

(04-12-2014 11:15 PM)Thegoldstandard Wrote:  

(04-12-2014 09:45 AM)AndreWhere Wrote:  

(04-12-2014 08:35 AM)ATTALLABLAZE Wrote:  

(04-11-2014 08:42 AM)NueDaeEagle Wrote:  Let me first of state that as a long time Southern Miss supporter, I am excited about the future of CUSA. Is it the conference we all wish it would be in our dreams? No. However, it is what we have now. USM fans who think we are going to some other conference are just dreaming. It's not happening in the near future, so we all need to build our schools and our conference to be the best we can. I think that basketball and football ,basketball especially, is going to be vastly improved in the coming few years. I love the ideas and leadership our AD is providing to move the conference forward. We have the worst commissioner in the country and he needs to be fired. That said, the idea of a new conference does not work for me. Wish it did, but the NCAA has too many road blocks. USM is in CUSA and I will be a big supporter of it. Not a fan of *&#^ing in your own nest. USM was one win (a game we were heavily favored to win)away from a BCS game just 3 years ago, and I believe our present football coach will take us back to that level quickly. We have one of the best basketball coaches in the nation and our teams are consistently very good now. We just need to upgrade our OOC schedule, which is being taken care of. All CUSA schools need to take care of our issues and work together to make improvements. The better each of us is, the better all of us are.

Well said.

Some are delusional.

There's no delusion on my part.

The dude you replied to is either a plant or he's too young to have ever really witnessed USM's heyday.

If you want to see what real fans think (i.e. people who are old enough to have kissed a girl and who don't draw a paycheck from the USM athletic department) go read EaglePost.net.

No one there is excited about (or even tolerant of) C-USA. Our historical rivals and peers (Memphis, Houston, Tulane, ECU...) are all gone. We screwed the pooch and they're gone. It's miserable, it's 100% our fault, and it just sucks. Most of us in our honest moments will admit that we're looking for other things to fill the void left by USM athletics.

I posted this already, a couple of days ago, but I think that USM has far more hope of enhancing its academic reputation (for example, getting back into Tier 1 of the USNWR classifications) than of ever being relevant in sports again. And by "being relevant", what I really mean is "doing anything that does justice to our history".

You may not be delusional but you just went full retard. The words true fans and eagle post do not go in the same sentence.
I can think of one true fan that post only on ep and his initials are SD.

The rest of that group is a trouble making accounting professor who likes to shoot puppies, a physical plant employee who is a ole miss turd and the still pissed off turd of a son of a fired head coach.
Not much to draw from as far as "true fans". In fact if you try to be positive you get banned over there.
Only the ep group could ***** and whine the night after beating houston in 2011.
Screaming for the ad's plan or vision his first day on the job doesnt make you a true fan. Neither does being critical just because its cool and asking for everyone to be fired.
Ive liked and disliked coaches but one thing is constant. Ive been there. I keep writing checks and buying tickets.

Either support the program or shut your stupid ass up. All you and your ep buddies are doing is giving our enemy's ammo to use against us. Attracting athletes to this league is hard enough without coaches being able to show prospects the negative attitude of you and your buddies/

I support USM. I support USM athletics to the extent that they help USM. I support CUSA to the extent that it helps USM. Those conditions I mentioned in my second and third statements just aren't necessarily true any more.

You're USM's fitbud, congrats

(04-13-2014 02:52 PM)randaddyminer Wrote:  

(04-13-2014 01:41 PM)AndreWhere Wrote:  

(04-12-2014 11:15 PM)Thegoldstandard Wrote:  

(04-12-2014 09:45 AM)AndreWhere Wrote:  

(04-12-2014 08:35 AM)ATTALLABLAZE Wrote:  Well said.

Some are delusional.

There's no delusion on my part.

The dude you replied to is either a plant or he's too young to have ever really witnessed USM's heyday.

If you want to see what real fans think (i.e. people who are old enough to have kissed a girl and who don't draw a paycheck from the USM athletic department) go read EaglePost.net.

No one there is excited about (or even tolerant of) C-USA. Our historical rivals and peers (Memphis, Houston, Tulane, ECU...) are all gone. We screwed the pooch and they're gone. It's miserable, it's 100% our fault, and it just sucks. Most of us in our honest moments will admit that we're looking for other things to fill the void left by USM athletics.

I posted this already, a couple of days ago, but I think that USM has far more hope of enhancing its academic reputation (for example, getting back into Tier 1 of the USNWR classifications) than of ever being relevant in sports again. And by "being relevant", what I really mean is "doing anything that does justice to our history".

You may not be delusional but you just went full retard. The words true fans and eagle post do not go in the same sentence.
I can think of one true fan that post only on ep and his initials are SD.

The rest of that group is a trouble making accounting professor who likes to shoot puppies, a physical plant employee who is a ole miss turd and the still pissed off turd of a son of a fired head coach.
Not much to draw from as far as "true fans". In fact if you try to be positive you get banned over there.
Only the ep group could ***** and whine the night after beating houston in 2011.
Screaming for the ad's plan or vision his first day on the job doesnt make you a true fan. Neither does being critical just because its cool and asking for everyone to be fired.
Ive liked and disliked coaches but one thing is constant. Ive been there. I keep writing checks and buying tickets.

Either support the program or shut your stupid ass up. All you and your ep buddies are doing is giving our enemy's ammo to use against us. Attracting athletes to this league is hard enough without coaches being able to show prospects the negative attitude of you and your buddies/

I support USM. I support USM athletics to the extent that they help USM. I support CUSA to the extent that it helps USM. Those conditions I mentioned in my second and third statements just aren't necessarily true any more.

You're USM's fitbud, congrats

I don't remember much about that dude other than the fact that he was an assclown. Also, he tried to take full credit for anything good that happened to any college west of the Mississippi river.