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More than ever, this conference needs a flagship bowl
(12-04-2017 08:14 AM)polkhigh Wrote:  
(12-04-2017 06:36 AM)Ragu Wrote:  A G5 playoff makes more sense. I mean Toledo got the sun belt runner up too...

Really there is no difference between winning your conference and going 7-5 in terms of these bowl games ...

Loser talk. Win games, grow your fan base, carry clout. Nothing is given.

It's not loser talk. It's a fact. Toledo has a fanbase. And they've been good for awhile. They get the runner up from the sun belt ...

There should be better bowl slots for the better teams. With G5 conferences, the champs are not rewarded. The bowls are virtually the same whether you dominate the conference or go 7-5

Winning the conference title is awesome. But whether you are 2 or 5 in the conference standings , it really doesn't matter

And as others have pointed out, the eastern champ in this conference can get screwed a lot with our bowl setup.
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(12-04-2017 12:23 AM)Side Show Joe Wrote:  
(12-03-2017 11:32 PM)Saint Greg Wrote:  I like HOD for the top western team. We need to try to get an eastern bowl with a P5 tie in for our top eastern school.

I liked the HOD too. Too bad C-USA doesn't have it anymore. The stupid conference leadership still hasn't publicly addressed how or why we lost it.

Thought it was fairly obvious. ESPN didn’t want us in it, so they told us could trade or lose it when our contract came up for renewal.

(12-04-2017 02:30 AM)Dawgxas Wrote:  
(12-04-2017 12:22 AM)WKUYG Wrote:  Western choose Miami vs USF in 2015 and BOCA vs Memphis in 2016

Other than Houston, South Florida was the hottest team in the AAC at the end of the 2015 season.

Some of you put too much into playing a 6-6 P5 school. I believe S. Miss vs Washington was one of the lowest watched CUSA bowl games. I think the AD of a school knows their fans and what's best for their school that most of us. Western does not recruit in Dallas or hardly west of the Mississippi. Western does recruit Fla, hard. Western had 75 fans at the Rice game last year (myself and son 2 of those). Western had well over 600 when you play at FIU or FAU.

Honestly if some of you think people actually care if your team plays a 6-6 P5 team probably 8th or lower in their conference...

you are mistaking. What I see is mostly "water cooler" type of bravo.

Maybe I'm wrong but unless you are playing a UGA or a FSU type P5 in a really down year for them. And lets get that straight it's going to be a really bad year..almost getting a coach fired type of season or something else going on. CUSA is going to get the 6-6 Pitt type school or 6-6 west coast team.

Personally those teams don't move the needle for me.

That was the Southern Miss vs ULL NO Bowl last year. The USM vs Washington game was lowest attended HOD bowl to date.

Can’t blame us. Was the first time it was the day after Christmas and we still brought over 7,500 fans. Washington brough like 3,000.
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I have been a firm believer in developing a flagship bowls since Louisiana Tech joined this conference in 2013. In the golden years of college football when tradition held sway, The SEC had the Sugar, The Big10 and PAC8 had the Rose. Big8 the Orange and the SWC had the Cotton. Every conference had a bowl game. I even give credit to the SunBelt for striving so hard to develop the New Orleans Bowl but I am afraid that creating or developing a flagship bowl in this era is just not reasonable. Her is a list of reason why.

1. Our programs simply aren't big enough to send a large group of fans to the same bowl game every single year. The Rose bowl is a big deal for Big10 teams because they send 30K fans to it every time regardless of whether they have play in it 5 times in a row. G5 schools just can't sustain that. Fanbases that have been more than twice would certainly fall off by the third time especially if it was a long trip.
2. This Conference is far too spread out to have one singular bowl as the standard bearer. UTEP to the Bahamas? ODU to the New Mexico Bowl?
3. No P5 Conference is going to guarantee a team to be cannon fodder for the best of a conference every year. IF we were to get a P5 to fill the other side it would be like a #9 seed that may or may not show up and be 6-6 or 7-5 at best. Is that what we want for our Champion?
4. If WE contracted with the MAC or Sunbelt would we be restricting our best team to another G5 opponent every single year? Yup
5. The fluidity of our bowl line up right now has given our conference a shot at multiple great match ups. WE put 9 teams in a bowl this year and that is AMAZING!! Having a structured lineup would guarantee mismatches and horrible travel for some teams every year.

A side note: FAU had a great season and their coach was garnering National Attention this season. Even the Bama message board had an entire thread dedicated to the CUSA title game. I find it inconceivable that the folks at CUSA HQ would purposely not want to exploit the "Fighting Kiffins" this season. I believe the choice to stay in Boca rest solely on the shoulders of the FAU staff and Admin and they rolled the dice but came up snake eyes on the opponent.
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(12-04-2017 09:20 AM)EagNBran Wrote:  
(12-04-2017 12:23 AM)Side Show Joe Wrote:  
(12-03-2017 11:32 PM)Saint Greg Wrote:  I like HOD for the top western team. We need to try to get an eastern bowl with a P5 tie in for our top eastern school.

I liked the HOD too. Too bad C-USA doesn't have it anymore. The stupid conference leadership still hasn't publicly addressed how or why we lost it.

Thought it was fairly obvious. ESPN didn’t want us in it, so they told us could trade or lose it when our contract came up for renewal.

(12-04-2017 02:30 AM)Dawgxas Wrote:  
(12-04-2017 12:22 AM)WKUYG Wrote:  Western choose Miami vs USF in 2015 and BOCA vs Memphis in 2016

Other than Houston, South Florida was the hottest team in the AAC at the end of the 2015 season.

Some of you put too much into playing a 6-6 P5 school. I believe S. Miss vs Washington was one of the lowest watched CUSA bowl games. I think the AD of a school knows their fans and what's best for their school that most of us. Western does not recruit in Dallas or hardly west of the Mississippi. Western does recruit Fla, hard. Western had 75 fans at the Rice game last year (myself and son 2 of those). Western had well over 600 when you play at FIU or FAU.

Honestly if some of you think people actually care if your team plays a 6-6 P5 team probably 8th or lower in their conference...

you are mistaking. What I see is mostly "water cooler" type of bravo.

Maybe I'm wrong but unless you are playing a UGA or a FSU type P5 in a really down year for them. And lets get that straight it's going to be a really bad year..almost getting a coach fired type of season or something else going on. CUSA is going to get the 6-6 Pitt type school or 6-6 west coast team.

Personally those teams don't move the needle for me.

That was the Southern Miss vs ULL NO Bowl last year. The USM vs Washington game was lowest attended HOD bowl to date.

Can’t blame us. Was the first time it was the day after Christmas and we still brought over 7,500 fans. Washington brough like 3,000.


We played HOD like noon the day after Christmas.
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(12-04-2017 08:36 AM)Ragu Wrote:  A G5 playoff makes more sense. I mean Toledo got the sun belt runner up too...

It's not loser talk. It's a fact. Toledo has a fanbase. And they've been good for awhile. They get the runner up from the sun belt ...

Minor correction: The Rockets get the Sun Belt Co-Champs

As for the G5 playoff, why would any G5 voluntarily accept the step down? How would you make up the guaranteed $10m+ per conference earned via the CFP along with the potential of an additional $6m for the NY6? Do you really believe the autonomous will continue to give money in perpetuity if the G’s walk away from the CFP?

Instead of self relegation, how about the PTB just improve the current system by expanding to 8 and guarantee the top G a spot in the bracket?
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G5 Playoffs would mean sanctioned segregation and no more shot at an access bowl. I believe that the AP or the Coaches should just vote Central Florida the G5 National Champs like they used to in the old days.
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If our champ ran the table, they'd get to play a P5 team.
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(12-04-2017 02:03 AM)WKUYG Wrote:  You do that early in the season when it actually matters not when you have another 9 months to go before you play another game.

2016 Sept 24th Western gives Vandy the game after leading for all but the last 1 second when Vandy tied it and then won in OT. Win that game and there's a very good chance Western plays a NY6 game. Play that game in a bowl it's still means something but just a win.

If you want to elevate this conference you do it during the season. Not beating a 6-6 9th place team in a P5 conference for a bowl no one (nationally) cares about.

You can win that game 5 years in a row and it means very little going into the next season.

Yes, but when half (or more) of your P5 games are against the likes of Alabama, Wisconsin, Georgia, or Oklahoma, we have a very small window for a good P5 sculp.
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(12-04-2017 01:12 PM)goliath74 Wrote:  
(12-04-2017 02:03 AM)WKUYG Wrote:  You do that early in the season when it actually matters not when you have another 9 months to go before you play another game.

2016 Sept 24th Western gives Vandy the game after leading for all but the last 1 second when Vandy tied it and then won in OT. Win that game and there's a very good chance Western plays a NY6 game. Play that game in a bowl it's still means something but just a win.

If you want to elevate this conference you do it during the season. Not beating a 6-6 9th place team in a P5 conference for a bowl no one (nationally) cares about.

You can win that game 5 years in a row and it means very little going into the next season.

Yes, but when half (or more) of your P5 games are against the likes of Alabama, Wisconsin, Georgia, or Oklahoma, we have a very small window for a good P5 sculp.

It is done that way for a reason. The lessers of the P5 world would much rather take a loss from each other or schedule an FCS game for less than risk the embarrassment the bring to their Conference by losing to us. We will see a total segregation within the next ten years. I am for a flagship Bowl or Bowls but they will be against G5 Champions not P5 dreggs.
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(12-04-2017 01:29 PM)pilot172000 Wrote:  I am for a flagship Bowl or Bowls but they will be against G5 Champions not P5 dreggs.

Agree.

Because the league is so spread out I think we have a flagship for each division champ -- put the a West champ in the HOD, and the East champ in Florida (Gasparilla?). Each can face a MWC/MAC/Sun Belt school

North Texas, Tech, Southern Miss, UTSA, even UTEP would all fill up the Cotton Bowl (NT has already done it twice).

East needs a good bowl and I think the Florida ones work well enough.

One issue is yeah, G5 schools do not have he fan bases or the sway to make it work for the bowls. This is why we are G5 schools. FAU couldn't fill up their stadium. NT hasn't had a sellout in a 30K venue.

So we are hoping a Bowl that will have to rely on TV money to choose one of us and they have the same problem: They need P5 fans to tune in. We are at the mercy of P5 fan bases.

Right now the best bowls IMO are these:

HOD
NOB
CURE
ST PETE
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(12-03-2017 10:25 PM)rileylives Wrote:  The first year of the Boca Bowl, 2014, was champion v champion.

I agree, I don't mind the Boca Bowl, we just need to get them to tie in one or two P5 conferences into the affiliation. I think as of now, it's just MAC and CUSA.

2015 was Toledo vs #24 Temple. Toledo had Kareem Hunt and Temple All American
Nagurski and Bednarik Award winner Tyler Matakevich.
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(12-04-2017 02:03 AM)WKUYG Wrote:  You do that early in the season when it actually matters not when you have another 9 months to go before you play another game.

2016 Sept 24th Western gives Vandy the game after leading for all but the last 1 second when Vandy tied it and then won in OT. Win that game and there's a very good chance Western plays a NY6 game. Play that game in a bowl it's still means something but just a win.

If you want to elevate this conference you do it during the season. Not beating a 6-6 9th place team in a P5 conference for a bowl no one (nationally) cares about.

You can win that game 5 years in a row and it means very little going into the next season.

It means a lot from a recruiting perspective. Using USM's situation now. Our recruiting can benefit a lot more from beating a 6-6 FSU team than a 10-2 Troy team. Bowl season is when many recruits are making their decision. Hell, even losing to a 6-6 FSU team vs beating a 10-2 Troy team helps recruiting with some of these kids.
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(12-04-2017 05:54 PM)va-eagle Wrote:  
(12-04-2017 02:03 AM)WKUYG Wrote:  You do that early in the season when it actually matters not when you have another 9 months to go before you play another game.

2016 Sept 24th Western gives Vandy the game after leading for all but the last 1 second when Vandy tied it and then won in OT. Win that game and there's a very good chance Western plays a NY6 game. Play that game in a bowl it's still means something but just a win.

If you want to elevate this conference you do it during the season. Not beating a 6-6 9th place team in a P5 conference for a bowl no one (nationally) cares about.

You can win that game 5 years in a row and it means very little going into the next season.

It means a lot from a recruiting perspective. Using USM's situation now. Our recruiting can benefit a lot more from beating a 6-6 FSU team than a 10-2 Troy team. Bowl season is when many recruits are making their decision. Hell, even losing to a 6-6 FSU team vs beating a 10-2 Troy team helps recruiting with some of these kids.

Maybe, but how do you really know ?

Hell, I think we at MT recruit better when we don't even go to a bowl.
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(12-04-2017 05:54 PM)va-eagle Wrote:  
(12-04-2017 02:03 AM)WKUYG Wrote:  You do that early in the season when it actually matters not when you have another 9 months to go before you play another game.

2016 Sept 24th Western gives Vandy the game after leading for all but the last 1 second when Vandy tied it and then won in OT. Win that game and there's a very good chance Western plays a NY6 game. Play that game in a bowl it's still means something but just a win.

If you want to elevate this conference you do it during the season. Not beating a 6-6 9th place team in a P5 conference for a bowl no one (nationally) cares about.

You can win that game 5 years in a row and it means very little going into the next season.

It means a lot from a recruiting perspective. Using USM's situation now. Our recruiting can benefit a lot more from beating a 6-6 FSU team than a 10-2 Troy team. Bowl season is when many recruits are making their decision. Hell, even losing to a 6-6 FSU team vs beating a 10-2 Troy team helps recruiting with some of these kids.

Anything to back that up on other than a opinion?

2015 S. Miss played and loss to a 6-6 Washington team in a bowl game. S.Miss was 6th in recruiting for 2016

Behind
Marshall
FAU
UAB
Tech
Middle

2016 S. Miss beat ULL in the NO Bowl

2017 CUSA recruiting
S. Miss was 2nd behind FAU

2008 S.Miss beat Troy in a bowl game
2009 S. Miss was 1st in CUSA recruiting

Bowl games are not playing a huge role, if any, in recruiting...at least not who you are playing
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(12-04-2017 12:22 AM)WKUYG Wrote:  Western choose Miami vs USF in 2015 and BOCA vs Memphis in 2016

Other than Houston, South Florida was the hottest team in the AAC at the end of the 2015 season.

Some of you put too much into playing a 6-6 P5 school. I believe S. Miss vs Washington was one of the lowest watched CUSA bowl games. I think the AD of a school knows their fans and what's best for their school that most of us. Western does not recruit in Dallas or hardly west of the Mississippi. Western does recruit Fla, hard. Western had 75 fans at the Rice game last year (myself and son 2 of those). Western had well over 600 when you play at FIU or FAU.

Honestly if some of you think people actually care if your team plays a 6-6 P5 team probably 8th or lower in their conference...

you are mistaking. What I see is mostly "water cooler" type of bravo.

Maybe I'm wrong but unless you are playing a UGA or a FSU type P5 in a really down year for them. And lets get that straight it's going to be a really bad year..almost getting a coach fired type of season or something else going on. CUSA is going to get the 6-6 Pitt type school or 6-6 west coast team.

Personally those teams don't move the needle for me.

I guess Georgia State moves the needle for you.
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(12-04-2017 05:54 PM)va-eagle Wrote:  
(12-04-2017 02:03 AM)WKUYG Wrote:  You do that early in the season when it actually matters not when you have another 9 months to go before you play another game.

2016 Sept 24th Western gives Vandy the game after leading for all but the last 1 second when Vandy tied it and then won in OT. Win that game and there's a very good chance Western plays a NY6 game. Play that game in a bowl it's still means something but just a win.

If you want to elevate this conference you do it during the season. Not beating a 6-6 9th place team in a P5 conference for a bowl no one (nationally) cares about.

You can win that game 5 years in a row and it means very little going into the next season.

It means a lot from a recruiting perspective. Using USM's situation now. Our recruiting can benefit a lot more from beating a 6-6 FSU team than a 10-2 Troy team. Bowl season is when many recruits are making their decision. Hell, even losing to a 6-6 FSU team vs beating a 10-2 Troy team helps recruiting with some of these kids.

va-eagle is spot on!
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(12-04-2017 08:02 PM)goherd24herdfans Wrote:  
(12-04-2017 12:22 AM)WKUYG Wrote:  Western choose Miami vs USF in 2015 and BOCA vs Memphis in 2016

Other than Houston, South Florida was the hottest team in the AAC at the end of the 2015 season.

Some of you put too much into playing a 6-6 P5 school. I believe S. Miss vs Washington was one of the lowest watched CUSA bowl games. I think the AD of a school knows their fans and what's best for their school that most of us. Western does not recruit in Dallas or hardly west of the Mississippi. Western does recruit Fla, hard. Western had 75 fans at the Rice game last year (myself and son 2 of those). Western had well over 600 when you play at FIU or FAU.

Honestly if some of you think people actually care if your team plays a 6-6 P5 team probably 8th or lower in their conference...

you are mistaking. What I see is mostly "water cooler" type of bravo.

Maybe I'm wrong but unless you are playing a UGA or a FSU type P5 in a really down year for them. And lets get that straight it's going to be a really bad year..almost getting a coach fired type of season or something else going on. CUSA is going to get the 6-6 Pitt type school or 6-6 west coast team.

Personally those teams don't move the needle for me.

I guess Georgia State moves the needle for you.

I don't believe I said anything about Ga St but beating a good Memphis and USF team the last 2 years did. At least more so than a 6-6 Washington team. Playing a team like UGA or FSU is a little different...they have a name. So 10 years from now (like S. Miss fans do) you can point to beating that 6-6 FSU team, who was playing without a coach and just going through the motions......

and act like they were the "good" FSU team

Lets be honest here. That's what those of you that get off on the P5 are hoping for. Beating that P5 school while they are rock bottom. Then taking credit for the win many years later when they are top 5 again.

I've seen it on this board time after time
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(12-04-2017 07:12 PM)WKUYG Wrote:  
(12-04-2017 05:54 PM)va-eagle Wrote:  
(12-04-2017 02:03 AM)WKUYG Wrote:  You do that early in the season when it actually matters not when you have another 9 months to go before you play another game.

2016 Sept 24th Western gives Vandy the game after leading for all but the last 1 second when Vandy tied it and then won in OT. Win that game and there's a very good chance Western plays a NY6 game. Play that game in a bowl it's still means something but just a win.

If you want to elevate this conference you do it during the season. Not beating a 6-6 9th place team in a P5 conference for a bowl no one (nationally) cares about.

You can win that game 5 years in a row and it means very little going into the next season.

It means a lot from a recruiting perspective. Using USM's situation now. Our recruiting can benefit a lot more from beating a 6-6 FSU team than a 10-2 Troy team. Bowl season is when many recruits are making their decision. Hell, even losing to a 6-6 FSU team vs beating a 10-2 Troy team helps recruiting with some of these kids.

Anything to back that up on other than a opinion?

2015 S. Miss played and loss to a 6-6 Washington team in a bowl game. S.Miss was 6th in recruiting for 2016

Behind
Marshall
FAU
UAB
Tech
Middle

2016 S. Miss beat ULL in the NO Bowl

2017 CUSA recruiting
S. Miss was 2nd behind FAU

2008 S.Miss beat Troy in a bowl game
2009 S. Miss was 1st in CUSA recruiting

Bowl games are not playing a huge role, if any, in recruiting...at least not who you are playing

Your data is meaningless. Our HC took a job right before the 2015 singing day. Left his staff trying to hold the class together.

When you said WKU recruits FL, so does the rest of us. Those kids respect a FSU win over a win against a very good Troy team. These are the same kids that make decisions based on if they'll be wearing Under Armor or Nike.

Common sense, no data required.
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Fans going to bowls is not why we all are G5. Has ZERO to do with bowl season.
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(12-04-2017 08:02 PM)goherd24herdfans Wrote:  
(12-04-2017 12:22 AM)WKUYG Wrote:  Western choose Miami vs USF in 2015 and BOCA vs Memphis in 2016

Other than Houston, South Florida was the hottest team in the AAC at the end of the 2015 season.

Some of you put too much into playing a 6-6 P5 school. I believe S. Miss vs Washington was one of the lowest watched CUSA bowl games. I think the AD of a school knows their fans and what's best for their school that most of us. Western does not recruit in Dallas or hardly west of the Mississippi. Western does recruit Fla, hard. Western had 75 fans at the Rice game last year (myself and son 2 of those). Western had well over 600 when you play at FIU or FAU.

Honestly if some of you think people actually care if your team plays a 6-6 P5 team probably 8th or lower in their conference...

you are mistaking. What I see is mostly "water cooler" type of bravo.

Maybe I'm wrong but unless you are playing a UGA or a FSU type P5 in a really down year for them. And lets get that straight it's going to be a really bad year..almost getting a coach fired type of season or something else going on. CUSA is going to get the 6-6 Pitt type school or 6-6 west coast team.

Personally those teams don't move the needle for me.

I guess Georgia State moves the needle for you.
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