(09-19-2021 08:19 PM)NewTimes Wrote:  

(09-19-2021 07:53 PM)panama Wrote:  

(09-19-2021 05:30 PM)NewTimes Wrote:  Because LU is a lightning rod that gets fans riled. Just look at how posters react when the school is mentioned on this board. Even myself being a LU fan, longer than most LU fans, as I attended FB games in the 1970s, I get banged on and negative rapped on the LU board when writing posts as these. Because, there are some over zealous LU fans who drink the Kool-Aid, lack free thinking, unlike Curtis, who view the school realistically rather than through rose colored glasses. And it still makes for great theatre.

Ya know, none of this is personal. But let's not pretend to be ignorant of who makes ultimate decisions about conference invites and what their background motivations are. There is a reason why Rutgers and Maryland got added to the B1G and why Pitt and Syracuse are in the ACC despite none of them putting any fear into anyone in decades. If the decisions were based upon performance now , sure maybe Liberty makes a short list. But the reality is that this thread is about whether not Liberty has a shot a conference that invited Tulane and Tulsa over Marshall, ECU and USM in 2012. They are not changing their thinking in 2021-22. Liberty isn't even R2 when the AAC has access to a number of R1s as candidates. So sit down an have a beer and take it like a man like everyone else.

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"But the reality is that this thread is about whether not Liberty has a shot a conference that invited Tulane and Tulsa over Marshall,..."

So the heading of this post, "Does Liberty have a snowball chance in hell..." is not about Liberty. Funny how two people can read the same, exact, identical item, and how one interpretation can be the exact opposite of the other.

Not sure how you came to this conclusion based on the statement.

Tulane and Tulsa were invited over Marshall, despite not performing as well on the field historically, for other reasons.

Everyone in this thread who is saying Liberty does not have a snowballs chance is saying that because of non-performance based reasons.


The Tulane/Tulsa over Marshall example was given for very relevant historical context to make the same point everyone has been making all along about this topic: There is much more to be considered here than just performance on the field, and everything outside of performance on the field is outweighing the benefits of said performance.