(12-28-2018 01:04 AM)GE and MTS Wrote:  

(12-27-2018 10:16 AM)TrueBlueDrew Wrote:  

(11-16-2018 10:13 PM)GE and MTS Wrote:  What's the best case scenario opponent wise if we somehow get a connection into the Myrtle Beach Bowl? App State? Marshall? I have no idea as C-USA, MAC, and Sun Belt schools are the bottom of the totem pole. Any Sun Belt school would be playable in the Cure Bowl if the AAC couldn't fulfill their slot. But playing against an AAC opponent gives us the chance to potentially play UCF, USF, Cincinnati, Houston, Memphis, Navy, etc. I'm not convinced the Cure Bowl is a better choice for LU than the Myrtle Beach Bowl, but we'd be in potentially better company.

Another way to look at this is look at the other bowls. How many P5 vs. G5 matchups are there? We can count on one hand the number, right? P5 schools want to play other P5 and the bowls and networks find it most profitable and advantageous to set it up that way. I don't know that we should voluntarily limit ourselves to the bottom of the G5.

You aren't doing it voluntarily. You are the bottom of the G5. That is where you are. You just moved up from the FCS, and already believe you are too good to play G5 teams in bowl games? Not only that, but you believe you can voluntarily pick which P5 bowl games you want to play in? Get real, guy.

I'm sorry but I'm aiming high for Liberty. Of course we aren't there yet! But I sure as heck don't want to be mistaken for a Sun Belt, MAC, or C-USA school. The premise of the thread is to debate if we would prefer the Myrtle Beach Bowl or the Cure Bowl, thus me stating my preference as if we had a voluntary option between the two. As far as I know, that is not reality but that is irrelevant for the thread.

And nowhere did I state we are P5 but I used them as an example for how our mindset should be. Do you want to associate with Liberty through a bowl game or otherwise? If not, why do you think Liberty should want to associate with you?

But that's just it. There is only one P5 independent and that's Notre Dame. You won't hopscotch over BYU, Army, or even UMass anytime soon. If Liberty really didn't want to associate themselves with the Sun Belt, CUSA, and the MAC, y'all wouldn't have signed a home-home deal with a majority of those schools. The reality is this: Liberty didn't choose the Cure Bowl because it was your athletic department aiming low, y'all got the Cure Bowl because, right now, it's all you can get.