(09-26-2021 01:00 PM)Yosef Himself Wrote:  imagine what that leaves Tech as

(09-26-2021 02:52 PM)Franko Wrote:  

(09-26-2021 01:08 PM)WKUApollo Wrote:  Coastal appears to have a good team, however, it'd be nice if their schedule was a bit tougher. Their opponents so far are 3-11 against Division 1 schools. Their strength of schedule is the 2nd worst of the 24 teams in the SBC and CUSA and one of the worst in all of the FBS.

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I like that a G5 team is ranked reasonably high at 17 but I don't believe they are that good. They beat a Buffalo team by 3 that just beat a very mediocre ODU team by 1. Now I know comparing scores is not always a good measure but can be viable. I agree their outside of conference schedule is much below average.

CCU is good but I’m not convinced they are #16 good. I think App will beat them.

(09-26-2021 12:59 PM)Dawgxas Wrote:  

(09-26-2021 12:37 PM)FrankyP Wrote:  As much as I think ULM is working to turn things around, no way in hell they beat Coastal. And App and UL for that matter.

LaCajunFan, Coastal is on a different level than ULL. They have earned it, no farce 2020 covid wins or ranking. Coastal is legit, ULL not so much

LaTurds respectable baseball season must’ve been due to Covid too? Also that NIT appearance?

(09-26-2021 01:14 PM)Dawgxas Wrote:  

(09-26-2021 01:00 PM)Yosef Himself Wrote:  imagine what that leaves Tech as

Playing Miami at the Independence Bowl with 2.37 million viewers vs App playing UAB with 963k viewers (one of poorest rates TV viewership bowls in 2019)

App fans really thought they would get a trade to go play a P5 at the Independence Bowl.

Oh btw Tech is 10-1 vs the Sunbelt

That salty Miami team finished 6-7

Iowa St. finished in the Top 10 with a NY6 Bowl Win…your ceiling was met years ago.

(09-26-2021 06:40 PM)Big Buds Wrote:  

(09-26-2021 12:59 PM)Dawgxas Wrote:  

(09-26-2021 12:37 PM)FrankyP Wrote:  As much as I think ULM is working to turn things around, no way in hell they beat Coastal. And App and UL for that matter.

LaCajunFan, Coastal is on a different level than ULL. They have earned it, no farce 2020 covid wins or ranking. Coastal is legit, ULL not so much

LaTurds respectable baseball season must’ve been due to Covid too? Also that NIT appearance?

funny how that logic all works in their discourse of covid/2020

(09-26-2021 06:40 PM)Big Buds Wrote:  

(09-26-2021 12:59 PM)Dawgxas Wrote:  

(09-26-2021 12:37 PM)FrankyP Wrote:  As much as I think ULM is working to turn things around, no way in hell they beat Coastal. And App and UL for that matter.

LaCajunFan, Coastal is on a different level than ULL. They have earned it, no farce 2020 covid wins or ranking. Coastal is legit, ULL not so much

LaTurds respectable baseball season must’ve been due to Covid too? Also that NIT appearance?

Wrong forum to being referring to La Tech that way, right FrankyP?

(09-26-2021 02:36 PM)winston70 Wrote:  

(09-26-2021 12:33 PM)FrankyP Wrote:  

(09-26-2021 12:01 PM)winston70 Wrote:  

(09-26-2021 08:54 AM)Big Buds Wrote:  

(09-26-2021 08:34 AM)winston70 Wrote:  ULM's budget and fan support is really bad

And Tech is just barely in front of ULM in that regard. LaTech only had 2,722 more butts in the seats last night than the Warhawks.

Okay Bud

Just curious Winston, was there anything not true in what bud said?

It was only a 1 game comparison on attendance - probably would be better to look at the last 5-10 years. Our budget is small but it thankfully much larger than ULM's

We have plently of problems in Ruston mostly to late game coaching I think - maybe we will meet the Cajuns in a bowl game later this year

Well, I agree with part of your attendance post, but not your statement on budgets. But I won’t get into that with you here, since I’m just a visitor.

As for attendance though, I think the best comparison would be to compare yours to App State: both very similar in size and pretty isolated towns. Yet everyone can see the kind of crowds and enthusiasm they draw/have. It’s truly awesome.

I further posit that being small and isolated has it’s advantages. With a lot less going on in the area it should make it a whole lot easier to get butts in seats with fired up fans. Guess the product on the field and game day experience both play a big factor in making that happen.

Just my thoughts.

(09-27-2021 05:59 AM)FrankyP Wrote:  

(09-26-2021 02:36 PM)winston70 Wrote:  

(09-26-2021 12:33 PM)FrankyP Wrote:  

(09-26-2021 12:01 PM)winston70 Wrote:  

(09-26-2021 08:54 AM)Big Buds Wrote:  And Tech is just barely in front of ULM in that regard. LaTech only had 2,722 more butts in the seats last night than the Warhawks.

Okay Bud

Just curious Winston, was there anything not true in what bud said?

It was only a 1 game comparison on attendance - probably would be better to look at the last 5-10 years. Our budget is small but it thankfully much larger than ULM's

We have plently of problems in Ruston mostly to late game coaching I think - maybe we will meet the Cajuns in a bowl game later this year

Well, I agree with part of your attendance post, but not your statement on budgets. But I won’t get into that with you here, since I’m just a visitor.

As for attendance though, I think the best comparison would be to compare yours to App State: both very similar in size and pretty isolated towns. Yet everyone can see the kind of crowds and enthusiasm they draw/have. It’s truly awesome.

I further posit that being small and isolated has it’s advantages. With a lot less going on in the area it should make it a whole lot easier to get butts in seats with fired up fans. Guess the product on the field and game day experience both play a big factor in making that happen.

Just my thoughts.

I can agree with you on that. Bigger cities just have so much to offer as alternatives to fans going to the game. Personally, that’s why I like the idea of JMU.

(09-27-2021 08:08 AM)Ewglenn Wrote:  

(09-27-2021 05:59 AM)FrankyP Wrote:  

(09-26-2021 02:36 PM)winston70 Wrote:  

(09-26-2021 12:33 PM)FrankyP Wrote:  

(09-26-2021 12:01 PM)winston70 Wrote:  Okay Bud

Just curious Winston, was there anything not true in what bud said?

It was only a 1 game comparison on attendance - probably would be better to look at the last 5-10 years. Our budget is small but it thankfully much larger than ULM's

We have plently of problems in Ruston mostly to late game coaching I think - maybe we will meet the Cajuns in a bowl game later this year

Well, I agree with part of your attendance post, but not your statement on budgets. But I won’t get into that with you here, since I’m just a visitor.

As for attendance though, I think the best comparison would be to compare yours to App State: both very similar in size and pretty isolated towns. Yet everyone can see the kind of crowds and enthusiasm they draw/have. It’s truly awesome.

I further posit that being small and isolated has it’s advantages. With a lot less going on in the area it should make it a whole lot easier to get butts in seats with fired up fans. Guess the product on the field and game day experience both play a big factor in making that happen.

Just my thoughts.

I can agree with you on that. Bigger cities just have so much to offer as alternatives to fans going to the game. Personally, that’s why I like the idea of JMU.

Now don’t get me wrong, no one is more aware of our pitiful attendance numbers than UL fans. Extremely frustrating esp given all the recent success we have had. We just need to overcome issues and deal with it. That’s one of the reasons we just love our AD so much. For the home opener when we had 25k there concessions were beyond horrific. He stepped right in after, owned the problem and fixed many of the issues before the next game. Still, when u struggling to get fans in those kind of things really hurt.

(09-26-2021 08:54 AM)Big Buds Wrote:  

(09-26-2021 08:34 AM)winston70 Wrote:  

(09-26-2021 08:27 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(09-26-2021 07:51 AM)Tech80 Wrote:  ULM has a Bowden at the helm, and offensive genius Rich Rodriquez as OC. The Chickenhawks will soon be challenging Coastal for Belt supremacy.

It will be interesting to see them mentioned in the realignment threads then.

ULM's budget and fan support is really bad

And Tech is just barely in front of ULM in that regard. LaTech only had 2,722 more butts in the seats last night than the Warhawks.

What are you crowing about? ULL didn't have but 17K fans in attendance at the last home game against Ohio.

(09-27-2021 04:42 PM)HogDawg Wrote:  

(09-26-2021 08:54 AM)Big Buds Wrote:  

(09-26-2021 08:34 AM)winston70 Wrote:  

(09-26-2021 08:27 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(09-26-2021 07:51 AM)Tech80 Wrote:  ULM has a Bowden at the helm, and offensive genius Rich Rodriquez as OC. The Chickenhawks will soon be challenging Coastal for Belt supremacy.

It will be interesting to see them mentioned in the realignment threads then.

ULM's budget and fan support is really bad

And Tech is just barely in front of ULM in that regard. LaTech only had 2,722 more butts in the seats last night than the Warhawks.

What are you crowing about? ULL didn't have but 17K fans in attendance at the last home game against Ohio.

I know…on a Thursday night with off/on rain.

I’ll admit we should do better.