(11-15-2013 03:16 PM)exflash Wrote:  

(11-15-2013 03:07 PM)CajunFanatico Wrote:  

(11-15-2013 02:54 PM)WKUFan518 Wrote:  

(11-15-2013 02:39 PM)CajunFanatico Wrote:  

(11-15-2013 02:14 PM)WKUFan518 Wrote:  I have come to the conclusion NIU should be in the Big Ten next season..

I have nothing but respect for NIU and what they've accomplished these last few years. I'd love to see the Cajuns play them in a bowl game.

But from the little I know about their program, the Big Ten? Seriously? Is anyone in the Big Ten discussing this option?

Sorry I should have used my smart ass button or this when I posted my comment above....This NIU poster who came over thinks he too good for everyone in the G5....Just because NIU has had two really good seasons, one in which they got destroyed in Orange Bowl, they all of sudden act like they are world beaters..You had your chance last season and did not even belong on a thread of the same football field vs. FSU....See how they are next season after Lynch graduates...

Ah okay, we need one of those dripping with sarcasm emoticons.

------Is there any possible way that the Huskies would come to NO and bring 5-10 with UL's 50K and play in the NO Bowl??? Boy what a matchup against a 10-2 Ragin' Cajun team---It hasn't been done but if the gods keep it going --I would live to see Lynch!!!

No...Go Daddy would not voluntarily swap their MAC team out this year. NIU will either go to Poinsettia, Mobile, or the BCS.

My best bet is that Ball State will be the Mobile opponent.

(11-15-2013 02:06 PM)HuskieTap22 Wrote:  

(11-15-2013 01:36 PM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  

(11-15-2013 01:00 PM)epasnoopy Wrote:  No offense, but if we don't go to a BCS bowl then i hope we go to Poinsettia or get swapped for a game against a BCS team.

I don't blame ya, but understand that the Go Daddy Bowl didn't sign a backup contract with the MAC, they signed a full contract. What's in it for them if the MAC simply takes any good team that might be slotted for the bowl and shops them?

No offense but the MAC has more than one good team to offer the Go Daddy: Ball State, Toledo, BG, Buffalo. All quality MAC teams that are just as capable of winning the Go Daddy as NIU. If NIU goes 13 - 0 and gets left out of BCS games, you are delusional to think the MAC won't try to find them the best game possible. Even if that game ends up being playing someone like Boise in San Diego or Notre Dame in Detroit.

They don't wish to play you. Or any of us.

You have a great team and program. But you are still a serf just like the rest of us. So don't go looking down the nose.

(11-15-2013 03:32 PM)ark30inf Wrote:  

(11-15-2013 02:06 PM)HuskieTap22 Wrote:  

(11-15-2013 01:36 PM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  

(11-15-2013 01:00 PM)epasnoopy Wrote:  No offense, but if we don't go to a BCS bowl then i hope we go to Poinsettia or get swapped for a game against a BCS team.

I don't blame ya, but understand that the Go Daddy Bowl didn't sign a backup contract with the MAC, they signed a full contract. What's in it for them if the MAC simply takes any good team that might be slotted for the bowl and shops them?

No offense but the MAC has more than one good team to offer the Go Daddy: Ball State, Toledo, BG, Buffalo. All quality MAC teams that are just as capable of winning the Go Daddy as NIU. If NIU goes 13 - 0 and gets left out of BCS games, you are delusional to think the MAC won't try to find them the best game possible. Even if that game ends up being playing someone like Boise in San Diego or Notre Dame in Detroit.

They don't wish to play you. Or any of us.

You have a great team and program. But you are still a serf just like the rest of us. So don't go looking down the nose.

No one is looking down anything. The MAC has four bowl tie-ins this season, nowhere in there does it say we have to go to Go Daddy.

(11-15-2013 03:37 PM)HuskieTap22 Wrote:  

(11-15-2013 03:32 PM)ark30inf Wrote:  

(11-15-2013 02:06 PM)HuskieTap22 Wrote:  

(11-15-2013 01:36 PM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  

(11-15-2013 01:00 PM)epasnoopy Wrote:  No offense, but if we don't go to a BCS bowl then i hope we go to Poinsettia or get swapped for a game against a BCS team.

I don't blame ya, but understand that the Go Daddy Bowl didn't sign a backup contract with the MAC, they signed a full contract. What's in it for them if the MAC simply takes any good team that might be slotted for the bowl and shops them?

No offense but the MAC has more than one good team to offer the Go Daddy: Ball State, Toledo, BG, Buffalo. All quality MAC teams that are just as capable of winning the Go Daddy as NIU. If NIU goes 13 - 0 and gets left out of BCS games, you are delusional to think the MAC won't try to find them the best game possible. Even if that game ends up being playing someone like Boise in San Diego or Notre Dame in Detroit.

They don't wish to play you. Or any of us.

You have a great team and program. But you are still a serf just like the rest of us. So don't go looking down the nose.

No one is looking down anything. The MAC has four bowl tie-ins this season, nowhere in there does it say we have to go to Go Daddy.

Which bowl has first pick for the MAC?

(11-15-2013 03:39 PM)cajunbane Wrote:  

(11-15-2013 03:37 PM)HuskieTap22 Wrote:  

(11-15-2013 03:32 PM)ark30inf Wrote:  

(11-15-2013 02:06 PM)HuskieTap22 Wrote:  

(11-15-2013 01:36 PM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  I don't blame ya, but understand that the Go Daddy Bowl didn't sign a backup contract with the MAC, they signed a full contract. What's in it for them if the MAC simply takes any good team that might be slotted for the bowl and shops them?

No offense but the MAC has more than one good team to offer the Go Daddy: Ball State, Toledo, BG, Buffalo. All quality MAC teams that are just as capable of winning the Go Daddy as NIU. If NIU goes 13 - 0 and gets left out of BCS games, you are delusional to think the MAC won't try to find them the best game possible. Even if that game ends up being playing someone like Boise in San Diego or Notre Dame in Detroit.

They don't wish to play you. Or any of us.

You have a great team and program. But you are still a serf just like the rest of us. So don't go looking down the nose.

No one is looking down anything. The MAC has four bowl tie-ins this season, nowhere in there does it say we have to go to Go Daddy.

Which bowl has first pick for the MAC?

We were talking about this on our board and we think it may be Detroit. A ranked Kent State made GMAC last year and Detroit ended up with 6 - 6 Central Michigan. Who by the way, as a reminder to that annoying WKU poster on this thread, won the game...

(11-15-2013 03:46 PM)HuskieTap22 Wrote:  

(11-15-2013 03:39 PM)cajunbane Wrote:  

(11-15-2013 03:37 PM)HuskieTap22 Wrote:  

(11-15-2013 03:32 PM)ark30inf Wrote:  

(11-15-2013 02:06 PM)HuskieTap22 Wrote:  No offense but the MAC has more than one good team to offer the Go Daddy: Ball State, Toledo, BG, Buffalo. All quality MAC teams that are just as capable of winning the Go Daddy as NIU. If NIU goes 13 - 0 and gets left out of BCS games, you are delusional to think the MAC won't try to find them the best game possible. Even if that game ends up being playing someone like Boise in San Diego or Notre Dame in Detroit.

They don't wish to play you. Or any of us.

You have a great team and program. But you are still a serf just like the rest of us. So don't go looking down the nose.

No one is looking down anything. The MAC has four bowl tie-ins this season, nowhere in there does it say we have to go to Go Daddy.

Which bowl has first pick for the MAC?

We were talking about this on our board and we think it may be Detroit. A ranked Kent State made GMAC last year and Detroit ended up with 6 - 6 Central Michigan. Who by the way, as a reminder to that annoying WKU poster on this thread, won the game...

Things didn't go as well for the Ranked Kent State team though...

(11-15-2013 03:46 PM)HuskieTap22 Wrote:  

(11-15-2013 03:39 PM)cajunbane Wrote:  

(11-15-2013 03:37 PM)HuskieTap22 Wrote:  

(11-15-2013 03:32 PM)ark30inf Wrote:  

(11-15-2013 02:06 PM)HuskieTap22 Wrote:  No offense but the MAC has more than one good team to offer the Go Daddy: Ball State, Toledo, BG, Buffalo. All quality MAC teams that are just as capable of winning the Go Daddy as NIU. If NIU goes 13 - 0 and gets left out of BCS games, you are delusional to think the MAC won't try to find them the best game possible. Even if that game ends up being playing someone like Boise in San Diego or Notre Dame in Detroit.

They don't wish to play you. Or any of us.

You have a great team and program. But you are still a serf just like the rest of us. So don't go looking down the nose.

No one is looking down anything. The MAC has four bowl tie-ins this season, nowhere in there does it say we have to go to Go Daddy.

Which bowl has first pick for the MAC?

We were talking about this on our board and we think it may be Detroit. A ranked Kent State made GMAC last year and Detroit ended up with 6 - 6 Central Michigan. Who by the way, as a reminder to that annoying WKU poster on this thread, won the game...

Congrats....We lost the game....

actually it sounds like Notre Dame might end up in Shreveport vs. an ACC team

I agree with the other poster, TSISB would consider it beneath themselves to play in Detroit against the MAC. I think the payout is only 500K.

I'm sick of this P5 school crap. If we end up in Mobile again instead of playing a mediocre also-ran #8 choice P5 school, so be it. Their loss. Plus the Big Whatever/Ford Field are kicking the MAC out of Detroit for next year's bowl. The Little Caesar had to look elsewhere for a location. Boise or Fresno would be good too but I don't see that happening.

F 'em.

(11-15-2013 04:55 PM)NIU007 Wrote:  I agree with the other poster, TSISB would consider it beneath themselves to play in Detroit against the MAC. I think the payout is only 500K.

I'm sick of this P5 school crap. If we end up in Mobile again instead of playing a mediocre also-ran #8 choice P5 school, so be it. Their loss. Plus the Big Whatever/Ford Field are kicking the MAC out of Detroit for next year's bowl. The Little Caesar had to look elsewhere for a location. Boise or Fresno would be good too but I don't see that happening.

F 'em.

Whoever represents the SunBelt in Mobile will give NIU all they want.

(11-15-2013 01:00 PM)epasnoopy Wrote:  No offense, but if we don't go to a BCS bowl then i hope we go to Poinsettia or get swapped for a game against a BCS team.

Scared? Just kidding. That QB you guys have is amazing. I would love for us to get a shot at NIU.

(11-15-2013 02:06 PM)HuskieTap22 Wrote:  

(11-15-2013 01:36 PM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  

(11-15-2013 01:00 PM)epasnoopy Wrote:  No offense, but if we don't go to a BCS bowl then i hope we go to Poinsettia or get swapped for a game against a BCS team.

I don't blame ya, but understand that the Go Daddy Bowl didn't sign a backup contract with the MAC, they signed a full contract. What's in it for them if the MAC simply takes any good team that might be slotted for the bowl and shops them?

No offense but the MAC has more than one good team to offer the Go Daddy: Ball State, Toledo, BG, Buffalo. All quality MAC teams that are just as capable of winning the Go Daddy as NIU. If NIU goes 13 - 0 and gets left out of BCS games, you are delusional to think the MAC won't try to find them the best game possible. Even if that game ends up being playing someone like Boise in San Diego or Notre Dame in Detroit.

That isn't going to work. You are the highest ranked team, and therefore provide the highest profile matchup. The MAC tried last year to do the same thing. They found out very quickly that the GDB has a contract. Trading out an unranked Buffalo for a ranked NIU isn't a viable trade.

(11-15-2013 02:06 PM)HuskieTap22 Wrote:  

(11-15-2013 01:36 PM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  

(11-15-2013 01:00 PM)epasnoopy Wrote:  No offense, but if we don't go to a BCS bowl then i hope we go to Poinsettia or get swapped for a game against a BCS team.

I don't blame ya, but understand that the Go Daddy Bowl didn't sign a backup contract with the MAC, they signed a full contract. What's in it for them if the MAC simply takes any good team that might be slotted for the bowl and shops them?

No offense but the MAC has more than one good team to offer the Go Daddy: Ball State, Toledo, BG, Buffalo. All quality MAC teams that are just as capable of winning the Go Daddy as NIU. If NIU goes 13 - 0 and gets left out of BCS games, you are delusional to think the MAC won't try to find them the best game possible. Even if that game ends up being playing someone like Boise in San Diego or Notre Dame in Detroit.

But if you go to MOBILE....hope UL plays you guys

(11-16-2013 11:09 AM)Buzz Lightyear Lite Wrote:  

(11-15-2013 02:06 PM)HuskieTap22 Wrote:  

(11-15-2013 01:36 PM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  

(11-15-2013 01:00 PM)epasnoopy Wrote:  No offense, but if we don't go to a BCS bowl then i hope we go to Poinsettia or get swapped for a game against a BCS team.

I don't blame ya, but understand that the Go Daddy Bowl didn't sign a backup contract with the MAC, they signed a full contract. What's in it for them if the MAC simply takes any good team that might be slotted for the bowl and shops them?

No offense but the MAC has more than one good team to offer the Go Daddy: Ball State, Toledo, BG, Buffalo. All quality MAC teams that are just as capable of winning the Go Daddy as NIU. If NIU goes 13 - 0 and gets left out of BCS games, you are delusional to think the MAC won't try to find them the best game possible. Even if that game ends up being playing someone like Boise in San Diego or Notre Dame in Detroit.

But if you go to MOBILE....hope UL plays you guys

if stAte winds up in Mobile against NIU, it will be payback time. 2 years ago we jumped to an early lead with our make-shift cluster of interim coaches. It was clear that we didn't have the leadership to keep the lead and make adjustments. It was also clear that we were every bit the team talent wise as NIU and if we get that chance again, hopefully we will have a full coaching staff at the helm.

We would love a shot at NIU...as would any SBC team.

That being said, I am far more concerned about Texas State, Georgia State, and Western Kentucky.

(11-16-2013 11:24 AM)Rik Flair Wrote:  

(11-16-2013 11:09 AM)Buzz Lightyear Lite Wrote:  

(11-15-2013 02:06 PM)HuskieTap22 Wrote:  

(11-15-2013 01:36 PM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  

(11-15-2013 01:00 PM)epasnoopy Wrote:  No offense, but if we don't go to a BCS bowl then i hope we go to Poinsettia or get swapped for a game against a BCS team.

I don't blame ya, but understand that the Go Daddy Bowl didn't sign a backup contract with the MAC, they signed a full contract. What's in it for them if the MAC simply takes any good team that might be slotted for the bowl and shops them?

No offense but the MAC has more than one good team to offer the Go Daddy: Ball State, Toledo, BG, Buffalo. All quality MAC teams that are just as capable of winning the Go Daddy as NIU. If NIU goes 13 - 0 and gets left out of BCS games, you are delusional to think the MAC won't try to find them the best game possible. Even if that game ends up being playing someone like Boise in San Diego or Notre Dame in Detroit.

But if you go to MOBILE....hope UL plays you guys

if stAte winds up in Mobile against NIU, it will be payback time. 2 years ago we jumped to an early lead with our make-shift cluster of interim coaches. It was clear that we didn't have the leadership to keep the lead and make adjustments. It was also clear that we were every bit the team talent wise as NIU and if we get that chance again, hopefully we will have a full coaching staff at the helm.

Yea that's true, you'd have revenge on your side. ASU pretty much stopped our running game, they just didn't stop the passing game.

This year, we seem to make adjustments at halftime as we give up a lot fewer points in the 2nd half. Would be an interesting game. Didn't go last time but would make the trip this time if that game happened.

(11-15-2013 02:06 PM)HuskieTap22 Wrote:  

(11-15-2013 01:36 PM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  

(11-15-2013 01:00 PM)epasnoopy Wrote:  No offense, but if we don't go to a BCS bowl then i hope we go to Poinsettia or get swapped for a game against a BCS team.

I don't blame ya, but understand that the Go Daddy Bowl didn't sign a backup contract with the MAC, they signed a full contract. What's in it for them if the MAC simply takes any good team that might be slotted for the bowl and shops them?

No offense but the MAC has more than one good team to offer the Go Daddy: Ball State, Toledo, BG, Buffalo. All quality MAC teams that are just as capable of winning the Go Daddy as NIU. If NIU goes 13 - 0 and gets left out of BCS games, you are delusional to think the MAC won't try to find them the best game possible. Even if that game ends up being playing someone like Boise in San Diego or Notre Dame in Detroit.

No offense, but get used to playing in Mobile unless there is some kind of clause that lets you out. Godaddy gets first pick from the MAC and the second pick from the Sun Belt. No other bowl will want you unless they can sell it out with the other team. Why would Godady give up a 13-0 team for another MAC team that will travel just a poorly as NIU (agian, no offense).

(11-16-2013 07:13 PM)WErLOUISIANA Wrote:  

(11-15-2013 02:06 PM)HuskieTap22 Wrote:  

(11-15-2013 01:36 PM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  

(11-15-2013 01:00 PM)epasnoopy Wrote:  No offense, but if we don't go to a BCS bowl then i hope we go to Poinsettia or get swapped for a game against a BCS team.

I don't blame ya, but understand that the Go Daddy Bowl didn't sign a backup contract with the MAC, they signed a full contract. What's in it for them if the MAC simply takes any good team that might be slotted for the bowl and shops them?

No offense but the MAC has more than one good team to offer the Go Daddy: Ball State, Toledo, BG, Buffalo. All quality MAC teams that are just as capable of winning the Go Daddy as NIU. If NIU goes 13 - 0 and gets left out of BCS games, you are delusional to think the MAC won't try to find them the best game possible. Even if that game ends up being playing someone like Boise in San Diego or Notre Dame in Detroit.

No offense, but get used to playing in Mobile unless there is some kind of clause that lets you out. Godaddy gets first pick from the MAC and the second pick from the Sun Belt. No other bowl will want you unless they can sell it out with the other team. Why would Godady give up a 13-0 team for another MAC team that will travel just a poorly as NIU (agian, no offense).

And the GoDaddy doesn't have a history of making 'deals' either. When a top 10 Louisville team tried to turn down a bid from GDB that the Bowl took as it pick from CUSA, the Mobile Bowl people responded with "well that's disappointing, because we've made our pick from CUSA this year. If you don't come here, then we won't be picking a CUSA team and you can explain to your conference why one of your otherwise bowl eligible teams will not be bowling this year'. Louisville came to Mobile that year. Last year, the MAC tried to send a ranked Kent State team to Boise and fob off another, less desirable, team on the GDB. Kent State played in Mobile.

The MAC will probably have teams looking for slots in excess of your allotment this year. If NIU rejects the GDB, expect the Louisville treatment. The GDB will simply pick no one from the MAC. And a MAC team will likely be sitting at home as a result. Will it be NIU? No. But it will be someone.

(11-17-2013 02:12 AM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  

(11-16-2013 07:13 PM)WErLOUISIANA Wrote:  

(11-15-2013 02:06 PM)HuskieTap22 Wrote:  

(11-15-2013 01:36 PM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  

(11-15-2013 01:00 PM)epasnoopy Wrote:  No offense, but if we don't go to a BCS bowl then i hope we go to Poinsettia or get swapped for a game against a BCS team.

I don't blame ya, but understand that the Go Daddy Bowl didn't sign a backup contract with the MAC, they signed a full contract. What's in it for them if the MAC simply takes any good team that might be slotted for the bowl and shops them?

No offense but the MAC has more than one good team to offer the Go Daddy: Ball State, Toledo, BG, Buffalo. All quality MAC teams that are just as capable of winning the Go Daddy as NIU. If NIU goes 13 - 0 and gets left out of BCS games, you are delusional to think the MAC won't try to find them the best game possible. Even if that game ends up being playing someone like Boise in San Diego or Notre Dame in Detroit.

No offense, but get used to playing in Mobile unless there is some kind of clause that lets you out. Godaddy gets first pick from the MAC and the second pick from the Sun Belt. No other bowl will want you unless they can sell it out with the other team. Why would Godady give up a 13-0 team for another MAC team that will travel just a poorly as NIU (agian, no offense).

And the GoDaddy doesn't have a history of making 'deals' either. When a top 10 Louisville team tried to turn down a bid from GDB that the Bowl took as it pick from CUSA, the Mobile Bowl people responded with "well that's disappointing, because we've made our pick from CUSA this year. If you don't come here, then we won't be picking a CUSA team and you can explain to your conference why one of your otherwise bowl eligible teams will not be bowling this year'. Louisville came to Mobile that year. Last year, the MAC tried to send a ranked Kent State team to Boise and fob off another, less desirable, team on the GDB. Kent State played in Mobile.

The MAC will probably have teams looking for slots in excess of your allotment this year. If NIU rejects the GDB, expect the Louisville treatment. The GDB will simply pick no one from the MAC. And a MAC team will likely be sitting at home as a result. Will it be NIU? No. But it will be someone.

They were prepared to let ASU out last year, but it would have been kicking and screaming. I know the bowl is ticked off because New Orleans has this nasty habit of picking very early in the game and not seeing things through.

That is one group of bowl officials you do not want to cross. Heck part of the reason they pick an SBC team yearly is because CUSA screwed with them so much.

(11-15-2013 02:54 PM)WKUFan518 Wrote:  

(11-15-2013 02:39 PM)CajunFanatico Wrote:  

(11-15-2013 02:14 PM)WKUFan518 Wrote:  I have come to the conclusion NIU should be in the Big Ten next season..

I have nothing but respect for NIU and what they've accomplished these last few years. I'd love to see the Cajuns play them in a bowl game.

But from the little I know about their program, the Big Ten? Seriously? Is anyone in the Big Ten discussing this option?

Sorry I should have used my smart ass button or this when I posted my comment above....This NIU poster who came over thinks he too good for everyone in the G5....Just because NIU has had two really good seasons, one in which they got destroyed in Orange Bowl, they all of sudden act like they are world beaters..You had your chance last season and did not even belong on a thread of the same football field vs. FSU....See how they are next season after Lynch graduates...

We are working on 4 straight seasons with 11 wins or more and we've only had 2 losing seasons since 2000 (one of them was a 6-7 season where we lost to LT in a close game). The Orange Bowl was 17-10 in the 4th qtr and the way FSU has killed teams these last two years, we gave them one of their toughest tests.

As for Lynch, we heard the same thing after Chandler Harnish graduated and was drafted by the Indianapolis Colts.