(12-06-2016 04:19 PM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  

(12-06-2016 04:18 PM)Louisiana99 Wrote:  

(12-06-2016 04:11 PM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  

(12-06-2016 04:02 PM)TheRevSWT Wrote:  I have to wonder how many of these fine fine folks who are claiming they are doing it for the inequity of the system and to right a wrong... Where TF were you the last few years when we did have more than 1 bowl tie in and NOLA was still taking the Cajuns?

Oh that's right, it's only an inequity when it adversely affects your team.

Sun Belt: We'll cry about anything we can.

Easy there Rev.

You do realize that your closest bowl wont take Texas State? Do you see that as a problem. IIRC, many Texas State fans believe that they didn't bowl a few years back because of geography (there was more to it than that, but you guys had an argument).

Lets recap...
2011. ULL finished 3rd. Got the NO Bowl.
2012. ULL finished 2nd. Got the NO Bowl.
2013. ULL finished tied for 1st. Got the NO Bowl.
2014. ULL finished 2nd. Got the NO Bowl
2015. ULL was not bowl eligible
2016. ULL finished FIFTH. Got the NO Bowl.

By the way, the reason Ark State played in Mobile so many times in a row was because the NO Bowl, who has the first pick for some reason I can't fathom, kept picking NOT Ark State over and over again and then Mobile had no choice but to take them. They weren't terribly unhappy with that, but it wasn't good for the Bowl or stAte.

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This is a problem. And it has a fix

1) Simply find another bowl partner that will treat our teams equitably. Everyone wins except ULL. We might even find a western bowl partner
2) If we keep the NO Bowl tie in, make it a ULL only bowl slot so we can get another bowl certified that our other teams can play in.
3) Enact rules prohibiting any bowl from taking the same team more than 2 times in a 5 year period.

That isn't a fix based on reality,you are living in a dream world with no financial consequence...you would be painting the conference in a corner to lose its ass 2 maybe 3 years in a row...how is that equitable? You want to put the entire conference position in college athletics at stake simply to be fair to the fans so they can "go other places" If the bowl wants you,they treat the players right, you get good matchups and make money that's what is best for everyone.

The current situation is best for ULL. And not for anyone else. Period. It wasn't better for stAte be playing UCF on their home field after they finished higher than you in the standings. It wasn't better for App to play in the same bowl they did last year after winning the conference. I'm not sure it was better for Troy to play in the same stadium twice in the same season after finishing higher than you in the standings.

The numbers next to the bowl have nothing to do with rank, its order of locked based on seniority of the bowls. Nola isn't even the highest payout. You gonna play all 5 bowls in New Orleans? Which I would be fine with and I won't apologize or deny playing in New Orleans is best for us but just because it's good for us doesn't mean it's bad for the conference. Send app to mobile, troy to cure and stAte to montgomery, all change of scenery and good matchups... but instead it's easier to spin this theory that we ruined our conferences bowl season.