(12-19-2016 05:42 PM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  

(12-19-2016 05:34 PM)CajunAmos Wrote:  

(12-19-2016 05:20 PM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  

(12-19-2016 05:03 PM)Louisiana99 Wrote:  

(12-19-2016 04:58 PM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  I define better as 'having more exposure', which I define as ratings and likelihood of people watching it. Most people aren't going to even know that CBSSN is on their cable package. Or where it is. ESPN didn't hype the game or its results either. It went into the ether largely. That was a missed opportunity for the conference IMHO.

The UCF team didn't even go through the pre-bowl activities. I'm not sure it was a real reward for stAte winning the conference.

You're free to define it using some other metric.

You went to Orlando? Again you seem to think you speak for everyone...the stAte guy whose team went to Nola last year and Orlando this year disagrees with you but let's be honest this is only about you Tom. Ask the stAte players if they hated Orlando.

If stAte wishes to punt on an ESPN bowl to playing in a game that isn't well promoted, isn't watched at the same level as an ESPN bowl, and where the results aren't going to be prominently discussed...that's their deal. I understand that CBSSN did a good job with the production, but there's still a huge gap in exposure.

Troy to NO, App to Mobile and stAte to Montgomery would have been better for the conference IMHO.

Placing a team that has lost SEVEN straight FBS OOC games and has lost TEN of their last ELEVEN in a higher profile tier isn't a good way to promote the conference. Especially if they really didn't earn it in conference play.

You seem to try and pretend that the NO Bowl is just the same as the Cure or Tucson Bowls. But then you spend a lot of effort defending ULL's stranglehold on it.

How many tickets did the ULL office sell for the game?

About half of the stadium was red (about 17K-18K). Maybe slightly more. My supposition is that most of those were purchased thru Ticketmaster and not the local ticket office like previous years, mostly due to costs and a large drive up business.

So ULL and the Belt won't even get much of the money from the supposed ULL attendance at the game? Well then there's that too. I thought that was one of the reasons why ULL deserved this game. If all ULL did through its ticket office was sell 10k, then the argument that ULL in the NO Bowl helps the Belt because they sell more tickets and make more money for the conference isn't particularly valid. Okay.

How much money did Arkansas State give to the conference last year? How much as any team other than UL provided to the conference from a bowl? I'm thinking it's none as they never enacted the rule until the Cajuns brought enough fans (and sold enough tickets) to a bowl to actually make a profit. You sure you're not from California or New York?