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Then NCAA lost all credibility on the Ohio State issue when they didn't suspend the players for last year's Sugar Bowl. Sadly a 1 year bowl ban and 9 scholarships is a big punishment for the NCAA.

Since we love to try to make every college football story out there about us... I contend the Ohio State bowl ban is good for the Sun Belt and UNT. The Big Ten has 8 bowl slots to fill. The Big Ten usually has 9-10 bowl eligible teams, that number shrinks by one next season because of Ohio State's post season ban. Ohio State will be a better program next year and bump off one or two of those borderline bowl eligible teams. Big Ten will come up a team short for Little Caesars bowl against the MAC. That should sit well for the SBC to fill the spot.

Stop. Just stop. A bowl game at Apogee. I love our school too, but lets come back to to earth on this one.

As much as I want to see it happen I don't see how the WAC folds. The Mountain West would have to have its BCS bid denied. The MWC-CUSA merger would have to go forward. The MWC would have to take a team from the WAC (Utah State or San Jose State) and the Sun Belt would have to take two teams (LA Tech and New Mexico State or UTSA).

Didn't Michael Irving's cousin play for us in the mid-90's?

And then they announced they sold 19,000. http://www.nola.com/nobowl/index.ssf/2011/12/louisiana-lafayette_hoping_to.html I can't imagine the New Orleans bowl required allotment is 18,000. The BCS Championship game allotment is 17,000, the Sugar Bowl is 17,500, but the Little Caesars Bowl is 5,000. The NO Bowl has a lower payout ($375,000) because it has a reduced ticket option. The NCAA requires every bowl to have a payout of at least $750,000, but bowls can go below that number if they change the ticket option.

I've read over 40,000 tickets were sold for the New Orleans Bowl, 19,000+ through the UL-L ticket office. Makes sense that its a 3-1 turnout. I also saw an ESPN article that listed the Big Ten's bowl allotments and saw the smaller bowls required 5,000-8,000 in ticket allotments, so I'm guessing both SBC bowls are in that range.

Reading about VA Tech's inability to sell out their allotment of 17,500 tickets for the Sugar Bowl got me wondering, what's the ticket allotment requirement for the R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl and Go Daddy.com Bowl? I've read that UL-L has passed the allotment and sold 19,000 tickets. But I haven't seen anything that says what the actual allotment is.

The UT transfers are because of the coordinators changes. The OU transfers are because they just found out they have to live in Norman.

That's not true, but that doesn't really matter. Our turnout for a single game isn't the issue. We need to cease to participate worring about what everyone else is doing and worry about what we can control... For Students: Its attendance. Go to the games, all the games. As many games as you can. For Alumni: Season ticket sales. Basketball ticket sales. As fans we can impact the primary indicators conferences looks for in new members.

I'd like to see: 1. More people buying/renewing season tickets. About a year and half ago I was at chamber of commerce event with TCU's AD. When asked what the number one thing people could do to help the program, he said buy season tickets. Season tickets sales are an important number conference look at. 2. Buy/go to basketball games. If you want to impress CUSA, show them you care about your school by buying tickets.

Because those are bad ideas. Occupy CUSA, the campus paper? And what are you reading about "other" schools? What newspaper is publishing LA Tech efforts? Everything written about the CUSA/MWC merger and expansion is mostly obvious. They need to decided if they want to go with all sports, they are waiting to see what the Big 12 and Big East do next.

"As for the potential merger, the source said a possible scenario is Texas-El Paso moving over to what would be a Western division and giving that side nine football-playing schools. That would leave the Eastern half with eight schools, but speculation has listed Louisiana Tech as an expansion candidate to even the numbers. If Louisiana Tech isn't added -- and the source wasn't sold it would be -- the Western division could add Utah State and keep UTEP in the East." I think this tells us a lot. LA Tech is the leading perception candidate for expansion, but the conferences knows they don't bring anything when it comes to market share. If they can't find a good market partner, the MWC side would prefer a Mountain time zone school, Utah State.

I thought we got to count the Rangers as our baseball team? If there not ours why else would we reschedule football games around them?

Does going to the annual banquet really count as a social function? Let's quit pretending there is inside information. Of course we are lobbying (and so are others). The first thing that has to happen is they have to decide is the merger will be for all sports, then they have to decide if they will let Hawaii in for Olympic sports. These two issues have to be resolved before they can figure out what program(s) to add.

This is news? The same crack journalism that revealed UTSA was on the CUSA "short list" with a dozen other teams. UNT needs to worry about UNT.

You need to click on salary to get the real order. It's a job. Everyone wants the coaching job that pays the most money for the longest period of time.

We should buyout all billboards around the CUSA offices.

The SBC has been a good home. A good place to build programs that wouldn't fit in anywhere else. CUSA is better regional home, with a bigger payout. It is obviously advantageous for us to move to CUSA. Even if that doesn't happen in this next round of realignment, the Belt is still a good place to grow a D1 program.

1. The football only part is stupid. CUSA and MWC are both full membership conferences, so there no reason they would be looking for football only members. 2. We should really stack this poll in favor of UNT. 3. You can vote multiple times if use other devices, so must out your ipads.

In other news I will also be staying at my current job, because someone else won't pay me more at this time. The attacks on JJ are in poor form. Coaches are professionals who are allowed to explore new job offers. Folks on this board sound petty, jealous and self righteous when criticizing Jones. Recruits now know he's out of here after next season, there's no reason to try to smear the guy.

So why would they add two teams from the east? How would they change their divisions. The 12th spot in CUSA was between UTEP vs. UNT vs. LA Tech, so we know two of the schools are still in the running. We also know that UTSA is on the "short list" which is actually a dozen teams which includes almost the entire Belt. And if Temple was such a catch why did the Big East throw them out? We know market size matters, but so does location, facilities, fan base and level of competition.

Of course academics matter, but being in a " better " conference doesn't improve your academic standing.

Why would CUSA add two teams from the East? It would make more sense to add FIU or FAU in the east. And add UNT and or LA Tech or UTSA in the west.

Umm...2001-2004 years grew the fan base and set the stage for the capital campaign for the new stadium possible. And to be fair TD made a good spokesperson for the new stadium.