(12-12-2016 06:27 PM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  

(12-12-2016 04:46 PM)AstroCajun Wrote:  I'm just glad to see my dream of a 50 page thread (which I called on page 44) come to fruition.

Kudos to Tom for making that happen.

No worries. Know that it took that many pages for your side to put up every argument under the sun as to why you deserved the NO Bowl in perpetuity.

First it was about attendance. Of course ULL didn't have the highest attended game this year. Or last year. Or the year before that.

Then it was 'USA sucks' and 'no one wants them'. We'll upon further review, it is pretty obvious that someone did want USA over our conference champion (a team that travels well and does so to places outside their footprint).

Then it was about keeping the bowls happy. Of course the very same bowls accept requirements from the other conference partner.

Then it was about some issue with our waiver. Of course, that ended when I asked why the New Orleans Bowl would care if Idaho were playing in Boise or Tucson...Never got an answer there.

Then it was about matchups...In other words ULL should have played USM because USM was the weakest team the Belt will face in a bowl. Oddly enough, it didn't follow that way for any of the other bowls.

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Any other arguments that you guys put up there to defend your apparent permanent lock hold on one of the three Sun Belt ESPN bowls? I didn't think so. Took 50 pages to establish that there really isn't any reason for ULL to have the NO Bowl in perpetuity.

You're free to move the goal posts some more if you'd like.

You'd have a point if I raised any of those arguments.

The bowl picked us not the other way around. What do you want us to do, turn it down?

I also noticed you ignored my point that if we were bowl eligible in 2015 there was a plan to move us. Not exactly what one would call "in perpetuity".

But carry on. Your 50+ page tirade has been a joy to behold.