GreenEddieNT

South Alabama?

WAC and CUSA have better bowls because they have better fan support. Sun Belt schools can't even get fans into their own stadiums. When was the last time a Sun Belt team sold out its stadium? Never, and we're not even talking about big stadiums at the Sun Belt level. The average Sun Belt stadium seats 30K and they struggle to fill 2 thirds of that. Half the schools in the conference can't even put more than 15K in the seats. The bowls are well aware of this. They can cry and complain till the cows come home about getting only one bowl bid but as long as the Sun Belt can't have even one measly school average 25K in attendance(let alone 30 or 40K like some other non-bcs leagues) the bowls are not going to have enough confidence in us to offer us more tie-ins.

Seemed more like a Memphis home game. Whenever a call happened to go against Memphis the place would erupt in boos but whenever MUTS got a call or scored or did something positive no one cheered.

Wouldn't surprise me. We always do everything on the cheap.

CUSA has 6 bowl games and the Sun Belt has one. Counting bowl games and championship games CUSA appears on national tv(ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPN Classic, FSN, CSTV, Versus, ABC, CBS, and NBC would count as national) 40-45 times a year whereas the Sun Belt can count on maybe 10 in a good year. That along with facilities, coaching, and fan support are what matters to recruits. CUSA has the Sun Belt by the balls on all those categories and they have more money to boot. Maybe moving to the WAC is not a bad idea. It is not CUSA but it is still an upgrade over the Sun Belt. You are judged by the company you keep and it is obvious that being in the Sun Belt makes us less attractive in the eyes of players, coaches, and fans.

If we were winning no one would complain. That's the issue. Regardless of whether we are running with DD or passing with TD the end result is the same...losing.

True, we have to get to the point where we actually make more money from home games, against anybody, than we do from going on the road for payouts. We need the money....especially when we are supposedly trying to raise money for a stadium.

How much money are they paying us anyway? Is it more than we would make if we were hosting a I-AA school?

I agree. The bottom line is that we don't have the horses on offense or defense. Wether that will change in the future remains to be seen but right now our talent level is no better than it was during the Dickey regime.

If the defense is the strength I'd hate to see the weaknesses.

Exactly. Nobody can run up the score on a team that actually plays defense.

Well, they've gone in for halftime. At least that will momentarily stop them from scoring.

Well, the scary thing is that at this point I'm not even sure we could compete with Boise State or Appalachian State either.

Yup, it's gonna take AT LEAST 2 years...if ever. DD left the cupboard bare. Dodge is really starting from scratch. We have no players, no stadium, no fans, nothing!

Yup, the talent disparity is incredible. I can't believe Boise State was actually able to beat these guys.