(11-19-2013 09:12 AM)BirdofParadise Wrote:  Here's my $0.25 (inflation)

1. If the Cajuns aren't in New Orleans, you have a story. New Orleans wants them back. The Cajuns want to go there. The ONLY way the Cajuns aren't in New Orleans is if they'll agree to go to Mobile to play NIU, and for that to happen godaddy would have to compensate New Orleans for the loss of revenue in ticket sales.

2. Do not discount Troy going to Mobile if they beat Texas State. Bowls aren't about who finished in what place. It's about selling tickets. Troy is 2 1/2 hours away from Mobile. I'm not saying it will happen. I'm saying don't discount it.

3. Three SBC schools, max, are going bowling. I project 76 bowl eligible teams with the MAC and SBC keeping three home, each (yes, I'm projecting Troy and ULM to be bowl eligible.)

4. Little Caesar's is definitely in the mix for an SBC school, but a CUSA school could wind up there because they'll have an extra team to slot (FAU will win their last two and become bowl eligible.) Even a Pac-12 school is a possibility as they will need to slot two teams.

5. Arkansas State has a bit of a dilemma. If the Cajuns are in New Orleans, godaddy may not want ASU for a third straight year and ASU fans may not want it either. If Shreveport is open (and I think it will be), That's a possibility. But Shreveport will make a push to get the Cajuns and the thought of playing an ACC school could be enticing for Louisiana.

6. Forget the projections you're reading about TUlane in the NOB. They're using the excuse of wanting to leave town for their players to experience the bowl experience, but the reality is they want NO part of the Cajuns. Louisiana beat them four touchdowns last year and Tulane doesn't want the embarassment of having more visiting fans wearing red than home fans wearing green. Rice or North Texas are MUCH more likely than Tulane.

The key is where the Cajuns wind up. The odds are 85/15 it's New Orleans. After that, godaddy will have an interesting choice to make.

Agree with most of your points. After the last two years of nearly 100% hotel capacity with stAte, the GoDaddy would have to consider whether or not Troy fans would come for the weekend and spend the money that stAte fans spend in Mobile. Troy might bring as many or more fans to the game, but I doubt they would stay for multiple nights in Mobile and blow the cash. Same thing for Shreveport and ULM. stAte fans would also spend more time in the hotels/restaurants in Shreveport then ULM and would bring more fans then anyone else besides ULM.

(11-19-2013 09:44 AM)EdisonDoyle Wrote:  

(11-19-2013 09:12 AM)BirdofParadise Wrote:  6. Forget the projections you're reading about TUlane in the NOB. They're using the excuse of wanting to leave town for their players to experience the bowl experience, but the reality is they want NO part of the Cajuns. Louisiana beat them four touchdowns last year and Tulane doesn't want the embarassment of having more visiting fans wearing red than home fans wearing green. Rice or North Texas are MUCH more likely than Tulane.

The key is where the Cajuns wind up. The odds are 85/15 it's New Orleans. After that, godaddy will have an interesting choice to make.

Ah, so you're the one stirring this nonsense up. Should have known.
Sure the cajuns beat us by 4 TDs last year; And ULM beat us by 7 TDs...how did that work out for them this year? Tulane has beaten 2 teams in ECU and UNT better than anyone ULL has beaten; we've also lost to teams worse than anyone ULL has lost to either. We have a much better defense; ULL has a much better offense. It's actually a good football matchup.
As for this attendance stuff, the comparisons are going to be made ad nauseum whether the cajuns play there or not. If Tulane doesn't play in the NOLA bowl it means we were able to secure a higher level game than the cajuns; if the cajuns don't play there, it means they were able to secure a higher level matchup than tulane.
ULL fans have been tulane-fixated for 30 years, obviously stirred up by the Lafayette media. How about that "tulane is keeping us out of C-USA" excuse? I guess our long arm is still doing it. Fortunately, the ULL administration doesn't invent enemies and strawmen....they are actually doing tangible things to monetize the good run in football and make some tangible gains and improvements.

I don't know where you get your facts from but all Cajun Fans are not fixated on what Tulane does. Personally I could care less and wish all state schools the best. We will have to make our own way as to where we want to be in the future. Now looking at your schedule you claim you have beaten two teams better than anyone we've played don't let the records fool you. The SBC have some pretty good teams and you also loss to S. Alabama. So either your team is lucky or bad you choose. Last thing if you truly believe that a Cajun/Greenwave match up would be a good game I'd like some of that ish you're smoking. We do have a good offense and a defense that may bend but won't break. You have no one on offense that would worry our defense. Unless something has changed two weeks ago I was in New Orleans and saw coach Johnson on tv talking about how he'd love to go to the New Orleans bowl. Maybe it just the fear of the Cajun Nation.

I can add that C-USA is not confident about their ability to get FAU into a bowl. MAC, ACC, Pac-12, Sun Belt and Conference USA are all projected to have a surplus of bowl-eligible teams. ACC and PAC12 extras will most definitely get slotted before any MAC, Belt, or C-USA teams.

Also, a couple of the bowls with openings already have C-USA as a tie-in. C-USA can't play itself in a bowl so those slots will go to MAC or Belt schools.

(11-19-2013 09:44 AM)EdisonDoyle Wrote:  

(11-19-2013 09:12 AM)BirdofParadise Wrote:  6. Forget the projections you're reading about TUlane in the NOB. They're using the excuse of wanting to leave town for their players to experience the bowl experience, but the reality is they want NO part of the Cajuns. Louisiana beat them four touchdowns last year and Tulane doesn't want the embarassment of having more visiting fans wearing red than home fans wearing green. Rice or North Texas are MUCH more likely than Tulane.

The key is where the Cajuns wind up. The odds are 85/15 it's New Orleans. After that, godaddy will have an interesting choice to make.

Ah, so you're the one stirring this nonsense up. Should have known.
Sure the cajuns beat us by 4 TDs last year; And ULM beat us by 7 TDs...how did that work out for them this year? Tulane has beaten 2 teams in ECU and UNT better than anyone ULL has beaten; we've also lost to teams worse than anyone ULL has lost to either. We have a much better defense; ULL has a much better offense. It's actually a good football matchup.
As for this attendance stuff, the comparisons are going to be made ad nauseum whether the cajuns play there or not. If Tulane doesn't play in the NOLA bowl it means we were able to secure a higher level game than the cajuns; if the cajuns don't play there, it means they were able to secure a higher level matchup than tulane.
ULL fans have been tulane-fixated for 30 years, obviously stirred up by the Lafayette media. How about that "tulane is keeping us out of C-USA" excuse? I guess our long arm is still doing it. Fortunately, the ULL administration doesn't invent enemies and strawmen....they are actually doing tangible things to monetize the good run in football and make some tangible gains and improvements.

You mean an ECU team without 7 starters on the field? ECU would blast Tulane by 2 or more touchdowns if that game were played with all starters for both teams on the field.

I have no interest in playing a mediocre Tulane team in Dome anymore then they want to play UL. As for as your big wins over UNT and ECU, check the power rankings and rpi, UL is ranked above Tulane. No strawman and no enemies...just the facts!

(11-19-2013 11:14 AM)BeliefBlazer Wrote:  I can add that C-USA is not confident about their ability to get FAU into a bowl. MAC, ACC, Pac-12, Sun Belt and Conference USA are all projected to have a surplus of bowl-eligible teams. ACC and PAC12 extras will most definitely get slotted before any MAC, Belt, or C-USA teams.

Also, a couple of the bowls with openings already have C-USA as a tie-in. C-USA can't play itself in a bowl so those slots will go to MAC or Belt schools.

A lot of this depends on which bowls wind up open:

The Pac-12 will probably be two over. The Pinstripe will want one of them. The second could be in Idaho, especially if it's Washington State.

If the ACC gets two in the BCS, they should fill their slots.

CUSA will have one over. The MAC will have three (CMU is going to get there, with EMU and UMASS left.

I'm projecting 76 teams for 70 slots. Little Caesars could take a Belt school or the seventh CUSA school. I think Beef O' Bradys and the Independence Bowl will also have openings.

It'll be interesting to see how it shakes out.

Did some bowls go out of business? Usually there is an anxious moment or tow as to whether there will be enough bowl eligible teams to fill the available bowls.

(11-19-2013 11:55 AM)CajunExpress Wrote:  Did some bowls go out of business? Usually there is an anxious moment or tow as to whether there will be enough bowl eligible teams to fill the available bowls.

More teams in FBS this season and more teams than ever are getting a near automatic win against FCS opponents.

Might be more teams like FIU, GaSt, and USM upsetting nobody near getting eligible.

Well, this answers the question about who gets the MAC #1 pick this year.

http://www.littlecaesarspizzabowl.com/Te...fault.aspx

(11-19-2013 02:56 PM)epasnoopy Wrote:  Well, this answers the question about who gets the MAC #1 pick this year.

http://www.littlecaesarspizzabowl.com/Te...fault.aspx

Huh? That's last year's match up.

(11-19-2013 03:11 PM)Psychored Wrote:  

(11-19-2013 02:56 PM)epasnoopy Wrote:  Well, this answers the question about who gets the MAC #1 pick this year.

http://www.littlecaesarspizzabowl.com/Te...fault.aspx

Huh? That's last year's match up.

Yes, and it says LCB bowl deferred the #1 pick, Kent State, to the GDB and will have #1 pick in 2013.

(11-19-2013 09:44 AM)EdisonDoyle Wrote:  

(11-19-2013 09:12 AM)BirdofParadise Wrote:  6. Forget the projections you're reading about TUlane in the NOB. They're using the excuse of wanting to leave town for their players to experience the bowl experience, but the reality is they want NO part of the Cajuns. Louisiana beat them four touchdowns last year and Tulane doesn't want the embarassment of having more visiting fans wearing red than home fans wearing green. Rice or North Texas are MUCH more likely than Tulane.

The key is where the Cajuns wind up. The odds are 85/15 it's New Orleans. After that, godaddy will have an interesting choice to make.

Ah, so you're the one stirring this nonsense up. Should have known.
Sure the cajuns beat us by 4 TDs last year; And ULM beat us by 7 TDs...how did that work out for them this year? Tulane has beaten 2 teams in ECU and UNT better than anyone ULL has beaten; we've also lost to teams worse than anyone ULL has lost to either. We have a much better defense; ULL has a much better offense. It's actually a good football matchup.
As for this attendance stuff, the comparisons are going to be made ad nauseum whether the cajuns play there or not. If Tulane doesn't play in the NOLA bowl it means we were able to secure a higher level game than the cajuns; if the cajuns don't play there, it means they were able to secure a higher level matchup than tulane.
ULL fans have been tulane-fixated for 30 years, obviously stirred up by the Lafayette media. How about that "tulane is keeping us out of C-USA" excuse? I guess our long arm is still doing it. Fortunately, the ULL administration doesn't invent enemies and strawmen....they are actually doing tangible things to monetize the good run in football and make some tangible gains and improvements.

That inevitable ass whipping is coming ED. Whether its in the NO Bowl or when we return the visit to NO. You can run, but yu cant hide.

Z