Alot of our fans have been calling our AD's head for years. Even when we get the invite to the WAC, it wasn't because of anything he did, it was inspite of him. Now with UTSA going to CUSA he has people calling for his head, because it must be because of him that Texas State is not going to CUSA. And alot of Texas State fans are wrongly still bothered by the old Sun Belt image, that it is a crappy conference.

However, that is not all of our fans, there are alot of fans that are knowledgeable about the Sun Belt, and are very happy to be apart of it. There where certainly alot of fans that would have preferred the Sun Belt to the WAC before realignment destroyed the WAC..... Don't let the uneducated minority influence your feels about Texas State fans as a whole....

(05-02-2012 01:43 PM)FIUFan Wrote:  Uninvite them and let them go back to the WAC; I'm sure NMSU and Idaho would welcome them back.

Seriously, screw Tx. State....what a bunch of ingrates. They get yanked off a sinking ship and say 'ohh, I was kinda hoping for something a little nicer'.

Excellent metaphor.

Isnt FIU looking for something nicer?

(05-02-2012 02:22 PM)samsquanch Wrote:  Yea our AD is probably the WORST when it comes to public speaking and dealing with media. At the end of the conference it was painfully akward to watch. The WAC Presser a year and half ago was just as bad. And yes, there are knuckleheaded bobcat fans out there that need to realize that this is an extremely positive move. A good stable conference that's not going to implode.

Just wait until you hear Sam Baker of Georgia Southern. He is full retard. Never go full retard.

(05-02-2012 02:30 PM)GaSouthern Wrote:  Just wait until you hear Sam Baker of Georgia Southern. He is full retard. Never go full retard.

(05-02-2012 02:22 PM)samsquanch Wrote:  Yea our AD is probably the WORST when it comes to public speaking and dealing with media. At the end of the conference it was painfully akward to watch. The WAC Presser a year and half ago was just as bad. And yes, there are knuckleheaded bobcat fans out there that need to realize that this is an extremely positive move. A good stable conference that's not going to implode.

This is the truth, expecially about pressers being akward. Even the presser to annouce Dennis Franchione as our HC was an apology fest....

There is vocal part of our fans that despise everything that he does. In there minds we got the WAC invite a year and a half ago inspite of him. In their minds, had we not had him as our AD, we probably would be in the SEC already. When we hired Dennis Franchione as our HC, even though we brought in a big name search firm, Franchione was only hired because he is "friends" with our AD. Now with UTSA going to CUSA, in their minds, the only reason we didn't get into CUSA must be because of him....

I can understand Tex St's unhappiness at not following UTSA to CUSA. But like people have said....that invite didn't come, and until the SBC invite came, you guys were on a sinking ship.

Relax and enjoy the ride. Conference moves will happen again.

(05-02-2012 02:27 PM)SM_Bobcat Wrote:  There where certainly alot of fans that would have preferred the Sun Belt to the WAC before realignment destroyed the WAC..... Don't let the uneducated minority influence your feels about Texas State fans as a whole....

There was some chatter on bobcatreport about the Sun Belt being a good fit a couple of months ago, even then I thought it made the most sense. Personally, I like the geographic footprint. And please for the love of everything holy don't let the uneducated minority influence you guys.

(05-02-2012 01:43 PM)FIUFan Wrote:  Uninvite them and let them go back to the WAC; I'm sure NMSU and Idaho would welcome them back.

Seriously, screw Tx. State....what a bunch of ingrates. They get yanked off a sinking ship and say 'ohh, I was kinda hoping for something a little nicer'.

Most Texas State fans, are very happy to be in the Sun Belt. There is a small group that would rather be in the Sun Belt than in the current CUSA. Myself included.

But, there is a very vocal section of our fan base, that thinks that everything positive that happens for Texas State is inspite of our AD, and that thinks that if we only had a good AD, even better things would have happened.

(05-02-2012 02:15 PM)Glassonion Wrote:  

(05-02-2012 02:08 PM)b0ndsj0ns Wrote:  Good luck with that. I'm going to enjoy what's going to happen in September.

Glad you've come over from the dark side, you'll enjoy being an App fan!

(05-02-2012 02:08 PM)b0ndsj0ns Wrote:  

(05-02-2012 01:37 PM)Glassonion Wrote:  

(05-02-2012 01:31 PM)BLEEDITRED Wrote:  If we add App and GaSouthern, I think we'll find ourselves ahead in this "perception" race in 10 to 15 years.

Cut that to 5 years, for our part we'll take out ECU in Sept, and Michigan again in 2014.

Lets get this done.

Good luck with that. I'm going to enjoy what's going to happen in September.

OK UTSA-East bring it on. Hope your knuckle dragging fans can drag themselves up from the swamps to see our new type offense. Expect there to be a big ESPN special that night on the new way to play football. Hope your football coach doesn't just pull your players off the field in the third quarter and give up in frustration.

(05-02-2012 02:34 PM)Fanof49ASU Wrote:  I can understand Tex St's unhappiness at not following UTSA to CUSA. But like people have said....that invite didn't come, and until the SBC invite came, you guys were on a sinking ship.

Relax and enjoy the ride. Conference moves will happen again.

The apologetic presser, which unfortunately for our AD is the norm. Had nothing to do with being upset about being in the Sun Belt. It was a I am doing everything that I can do. I invited CUSA to come, ect. But, because of the media market, they where not interested in us, and no different AD could have done a better job.

Most Bobcat fans, now fully understand that the WAC is dead, and that the Sun Belt is much better than no conference and are happy to be in the Sun Belt. Being unhappy with being in the SunBelt is not the issue, the issue is to many fans are unhappy with the AD.

(05-02-2012 02:36 PM)samsquanch Wrote:  

(05-02-2012 02:27 PM)SM_Bobcat Wrote:  There where certainly alot of fans that would have preferred the Sun Belt to the WAC before realignment destroyed the WAC..... Don't let the uneducated minority influence your feels about Texas State fans as a whole....

There was some chatter on bobcatreport about the Sun Belt being a good fit a couple of months ago, even then I thought it made the most sense. Personally, I like the geographic footprint. And please for the love of everything holy don't let the uneducated minority influence you guys.

I am not going to let the idiots influence me....

Also, whoever shot that video better have not been from our mass communication department.....

(05-02-2012 02:37 PM)b0ndsj0ns Wrote:  

(05-02-2012 02:15 PM)Glassonion Wrote:  

(05-02-2012 02:08 PM)b0ndsj0ns Wrote:  Good luck with that. I'm going to enjoy what's going to happen in September.

Glad you've come over from the dark side, you'll enjoy being an App fan!

I hope ECU will give us another shot too, the last two games were too close and we deserve another try! GATA!

(05-02-2012 01:20 PM)slycat Wrote:  I'm not trying say what he did was right. And you are also right in saying that the league is harder than it LOOKS. To the average fan they remember how bad the Sun Belt was. A smarter fan will realize how they have played against CUSA compitition more recently.

I'm happy y'all let us join. We will be lucky to win the league in five years. Things usually don't happen overnight.

When is the last time you've won the Southland ?

(05-02-2012 02:57 PM)KAjunRaider Wrote:  

(05-02-2012 01:20 PM)slycat Wrote:  I'm not trying say what he did was right. And you are also right in saying that the league is harder than it LOOKS. To the average fan they remember how bad the Sun Belt was. A smarter fan will realize how they have played against CUSA compitition more recently.

I'm happy y'all let us join. We will be lucky to win the league in five years. Things usually don't happen overnight.

When is the last time you've won the Southland ?

2008 season

(05-02-2012 02:41 PM)GoApps70 Wrote:  

(05-02-2012 02:08 PM)b0ndsj0ns Wrote:  

(05-02-2012 01:37 PM)Glassonion Wrote:  

(05-02-2012 01:31 PM)BLEEDITRED Wrote:  If we add App and GaSouthern, I think we'll find ourselves ahead in this "perception" race in 10 to 15 years.

Cut that to 5 years, for our part we'll take out ECU in Sept, and Michigan again in 2014.

Lets get this done.

Good luck with that. I'm going to enjoy what's going to happen in September.

OK UTSA-East bring it on. Hope your knuckle dragging fans can drag themselves up from the swamps to see our new type offense. Expect there to be a big ESPN special that night on the new way to play football. Hope your football coach doesn't just pull your players off the field in the third quarter and give up in frustration.

(05-02-2012 02:57 PM)KAjunRaider Wrote:  

(05-02-2012 01:20 PM)slycat Wrote:  I'm not trying say what he did was right. And you are also right in saying that the league is harder than it LOOKS. To the average fan they remember how bad the Sun Belt was. A smarter fan will realize how they have played against CUSA compitition more recently.

I'm happy y'all let us join. We will be lucky to win the league in five years. Things usually don't happen overnight.

When is the last time you've won the Southland ?

Not saying that Texas State will be competing for the Sun Belt championship in a year or two, because we won't. The first few years will be VERY ugly. But, Texas State for the first time in forever, is actually putting money towards our Athletics Programs. And has gone out and hired real coaches....

It will be a long hard process, but the Texas State athletics department now adays actually cares about winning. Which for the longest time was not the case.

Texas State was fortunate to catch a ferry that was taking them from Purgatory (Southland Conference) to what they envisioned as the "land of opportunity" (WAC) The ferry sank and the Coast Guard (Sun Belt) came to your rescue and tossed you a life ring. You didn't go down, so be thankful that you were rescued. The alternative really sucks.