Sounds like Napier is not headed to Baylor

https://www.dallasnews.com/sports/baylor...inia-tech/

The list seems to be narrowing rapidly. The Athletic’s Bruce Feldman reported that Louisiana coach Billy Napier, another top top-tier candidate, will remain in Lafayette.

Good for the Sun Belt Conference. Tough for the Sun Belt teams.

Expectations are very high for next season, lets hope the team can live up to them. I do think attendance will start to return to the peak days of Hud (25-30K) next season with fans finally realizing that we have a pretty good deal going at UL in football again. If we lose Napier next season, we still have our great AD Dr. Maggard. I have confidence he will make another sterling hire.

Maybe next season we can break the losing streak to a certain school on the opposite end of the conference.

(01-16-2020 11:46 AM)CW Fishman Wrote:  Expectations are very high for next season, lets hope the team can live up to them. I do think attendance will start to return to the peak days of Hud (25-30K) next season with fans finally realizing that we have a pretty good deal going at UL in football again. If we lose Napier next season, we still have our great AD Dr. Maggard. I have confidence he will make another sterling hire.

Maybe next season we can break the losing streak to a certain school on the opposite end of the conference.

Maybe we can do the same as well.....

(01-16-2020 12:36 PM)slycat Wrote:  

(01-16-2020 11:46 AM)CW Fishman Wrote:  Expectations are very high for next season, lets hope the team can live up to them. I do think attendance will start to return to the peak days of Hud (25-30K) next season with fans finally realizing that we have a pretty good deal going at UL in football again. If we lose Napier next season, we still have our great AD Dr. Maggard. I have confidence he will make another sterling hire.

Maybe next season we can break the losing streak to a certain school on the opposite end of the conference.

Maybe we can do the same as well.....

Ga State and CCU in line with you guys . Here's to one more year of waiting!

I'm hoping to break our own losing streak against the redneck school of Ga to the South.

(01-16-2020 12:36 PM)slycat Wrote:  

(01-16-2020 11:46 AM)CW Fishman Wrote:  Expectations are very high for next season, lets hope the team can live up to them. I do think attendance will start to return to the peak days of Hud (25-30K) next season with fans finally realizing that we have a pretty good deal going at UL in football again. If we lose Napier next season, we still have our great AD Dr. Maggard. I have confidence he will make another sterling hire.

Maybe next season we can break the losing streak to a certain school on the opposite end of the conference.

Maybe we can do the same as well.....

Sorry, not next season.

(01-16-2020 12:36 PM)slycat Wrote:  

(01-16-2020 11:46 AM)CW Fishman Wrote:  Expectations are very high for next season, lets hope the team can live up to them. I do think attendance will start to return to the peak days of Hud (25-30K) next season with fans finally realizing that we have a pretty good deal going at UL in football again. If we lose Napier next season, we still have our great AD Dr. Maggard. I have confidence he will make another sterling hire.

Maybe next season we can break the losing streak to a certain school on the opposite end of the conference.

Maybe we can do the same as well.....

We've got lots of teams we need to break long (in some cases, eternal) losing streaks to.

App, GS, Louisiana, and Troy we're a combined 0-fer against since we've all 5 been in the SBC. That's, uh, its not good...

(01-16-2020 03:47 PM)_x_ Wrote:  

(01-16-2020 12:36 PM)slycat Wrote:  

(01-16-2020 11:46 AM)CW Fishman Wrote:  Expectations are very high for next season, lets hope the team can live up to them. I do think attendance will start to return to the peak days of Hud (25-30K) next season with fans finally realizing that we have a pretty good deal going at UL in football again. If we lose Napier next season, we still have our great AD Dr. Maggard. I have confidence he will make another sterling hire.

Maybe next season we can break the losing streak to a certain school on the opposite end of the conference.

Maybe we can do the same as well.....

We've got lots of teams we need to break long (in some cases, eternal) losing streaks to.

App, GS, Louisiana, and Troy we're a combined 0-fer against since we've all 5 been in the SBC. That's, uh, its not good...

I knew we were always a bad to average-at-best team but never expected to be an embarrassingly bad team. Maybe in a couple more year we can get back to average.

(01-16-2020 11:30 AM)Yosef Himself Wrote:  Good for the Sun Belt Conference. Tough for the Sun Belt teams.

Napier is a smart man. He knows that it's easier to win in a G-5 school than a P-5 school.

You realize a HC in the SBC could leave to be a coordinator for a P5 school and double, if not triple, their current pay.

(01-16-2020 07:02 PM)JoeJag Wrote:  

(01-16-2020 11:30 AM)Yosef Himself Wrote:  Good for the Sun Belt Conference. Tough for the Sun Belt teams.

Napier is a smart man. He knows that it's easier to win in a G-5 school than a P-5 school.

Sort of, it’s easier to stay when you make $1M+ and you can be a little more selective with job selection. Not all P5 jobs are equal.

The carousel is still spinning, Mark Dantonio just stepped down at Mich St.

(02-04-2020 03:01 PM)Usajags Wrote:  The carousel is still spinning, Mark Dantonio just stepped down at Mich St.

Cincinnati is going to lose Fickle for sure

(02-04-2020 03:06 PM)Yosef Himself Wrote:  

(02-04-2020 03:01 PM)Usajags Wrote:  The carousel is still spinning, Mark Dantonio just stepped down at Mich St.

Cincinnati is going to lose Fickle for sure

How much will Michigan State pay Fickle? He's being paid pretty well at the moment. They could look to Jim McElwain considering he is already in Michigan and MSU is in desperate need of a modern offense.

(02-04-2020 03:33 PM)ericsaid Wrote:  

(02-04-2020 03:06 PM)Yosef Himself Wrote:  

(02-04-2020 03:01 PM)Usajags Wrote:  The carousel is still spinning, Mark Dantonio just stepped down at Mich St.

Cincinnati is going to lose Fickle for sure

How much will Michigan State pay Fickle? He's being paid pretty well at the moment. They could look to Jim McElwain considering he is already in Michigan and MSU is in desperate need of a modern offense.

Fickle makes 2.4 million. Dantonio was making more than double that at 5.6 million

Cincinnati can only dodge the bullet for so long, I think this is the one that gets them, that is of course MSU wants him.

(02-04-2020 03:39 PM)Yosef Himself Wrote:  

(02-04-2020 03:33 PM)ericsaid Wrote:  

(02-04-2020 03:06 PM)Yosef Himself Wrote:  

(02-04-2020 03:01 PM)Usajags Wrote:  The carousel is still spinning, Mark Dantonio just stepped down at Mich St.

Cincinnati is going to lose Fickle for sure

How much will Michigan State pay Fickle? He's being paid pretty well at the moment. They could look to Jim McElwain considering he is already in Michigan and MSU is in desperate need of a modern offense.

Fickle makes 2.4 million. Dantonio was making more than double that at 5.6 million

Michigan State is going to need to offer at least $5.6 to get Fickle to leave Cincy, I believe. However it is in his footprint as a coach and on a personal level so who knows?

I would imagine, even with the buyout of Dantonio, finding for money for Fickle shouldn’t be a big deal, if they want him bad enough they will find the cash.

(02-05-2020 04:31 PM)moehler Wrote:  I would imagine, even with the buyout of Dantonio, finding for money for Fickle shouldn’t be a big deal, if they want him bad enough they will find the cash.

Dantonio resigned.

Even better