(06-16-2022 06:27 PM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(06-16-2022 03:58 PM)inutech Wrote:  

(06-16-2022 02:03 PM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(06-16-2022 01:36 PM)ballantyneapp Wrote:  

(06-16-2022 12:29 PM)quo vadis Wrote:  IMO, LA-Tech has the most incomprehensible view of itself of all FBS schools. And that's saying something, as the competition in that domain is extremely fierce.

it was a shocking amount of hubris, and a very pertinent reminder that all but the bluest of bloods are always on shaky ground.

Either way it made a great storyline and engendered lots of hatred between the louisiana schools and if they were in the same conference we'd be looking at lots of sold out stadiums.

LA Tech is just hard to figure out, and I am in Louisiana. They seem to have an inflated image of themselves. The bowl fiasco was just the best example of that.

I mean, I know, *every* school thumps its chest and has an inflated image of itself. But they seem to be operating on another level of misperception, IMO.

Not even being stranded in the rumpest of rump conferences seems to have dented that.

The bowl fiasco was as much about the I-bowl committee ego as it was about Tech's.

We'd have played there if they'd have given us another hour or so.

IIRC, they invited you. LT said "can you give us until "X" to decide"? They said "we need a decision now", and you decided to take your chances and keep looking at other bowls, so they picked someone else. I don't recall if LT actually told the IB it was looking at other bowls or not.

At that time, I read an article (long since forgot where) that equated what LT did to something along the lines of a high school girl getting asked to a dance by a clarinet player, and saying "well, can you give me until Monday to decide?" In the hopes that the stud QB will ask her out. And then the clarinet player asks another girl, and the QB never calls her, so she ends up at home for the dance.

IMO, that's all on LT, not the IB. LT gambled, and lost.

If you're Ohio State or Florida, or even Ole Miss or Iowa State, you can expect a low-tier bowl to wait for you to decide. If you're LA-Tech, you can't. You have to know where you are in the food chain, and I don't think LT did. Or does.