VideoEagle

He works for SMU.

IF he'd been successful, yes. But he was a abysmal failure.

I'm not sure the conference has much, if anything, to do with the TV scheduling of OOC games. Viewers with ESPN expect a game to be on at Noon Eastern and ESPN finds a way to have one.

An AD that stupid should be fired. ALWAYS assume any microphone is on a recording, even cellphones around you!

I started to do the "ha ha" but your comment is openly true today.

It was my freshman year. Growing up in Edinburg, I didn't snow very often and NEVER at a football game. I didn't know to take plastic to sit on. With that I had as it was cold and then wet.

Don't feed the trolls and they will go away.

No kidding! From 1971 thru 1975, FSU went 19-43. We brought them in for an easy win. It was Bowden's first year.

I hate those kind of articles. They are based on imagination - there is no actual market place to set a price, just the opinion of the author who gets to choose how he values intangibles.

And the next morning, it's an angry bear!

He was commenting on 730 or 8pm starts. But as a parent of two under 4 year olds, I wouldn't be able to do any thing later than a 630 kick and get back by the kiddos bedtimes. Actually late bed times for them. Both of them enjoy going to the games.

I think you are right. There are lots of conversations at the AFCA which leads to assistants form successful programs getting opportunities. Those aren't always moves "up" from the perspective of fans, but they are moves they assistants wan to try. They get to work and learn from new people, do new things and experience different situations. I'm sure a lots of fans at their previous schools thought both Littrell and Harrell were crazy to take jobs at NT. Part of the price of getting better is losing assistants. It happens at every level. The schools that sustain success find a way to I've with it. That has been NTs problem for ever, when we have success we don't sustain it.

You mean the detail that both Utah and TCU are now P5 schools?

While I don't like it, this isn't a major problem. We're talking a potential of 32 or so guys out of over 4000 players who play in bowl games each year. And it's only a potential of that many as a lot of the best players still participate in the bowl games. How often has the Heisman or other major trophy winners sat out? Not a lot. Only a very, very few players can't improve their draft chances by playing a good bowl game. NFL teams don't care for middle round players who are too scared of injury to play.

Don't read for a couple of days and now this thread makes no sense at all. It started talking about the being nine bowl games with lower attendance than the NO bowl. It seems to have morphed into a discussion about our team only winning 6 games. Not sure how that is true - the scoreboard reads 9 wins. I can understand not counting moral victories, but victories where the final score has us ahead of the other team pretty much means we won. How much is completely immaterial. Without looking, how many games on our other nine win seasons were by less than seven points? Don't know? Neither does anyone else - all that matters is the nine wins. There's nothing left for rational discussion!

I don't care the UTEP is having a down year - we won in El Paso for the first time in a really, REALLY long time. We got our first conference win in our first game as opposed to weeks later as we have the last few years. McCasland is getting MUCH better results. Now, don't expect miracles*, but finishing a few games over .500 is very likely this year. * Oldtimers will recognize that phrase!

Will NT's defense improve? God, I hope so.

Representatives of the committee were at the Army game, not the whole committee. They could be wrong, but I've read things from folks closer to the committee that it became political and the majority wanted Southern Miss if they had to take a CUSA team.

I hope we will some day. I hope for more of a "play anyone, anywhere and win attitude." The whole it's better to lose to X over Y really is #olddenton. As for playing for a small crowd, the whole point of this thread is nine bowl games so far had smaller announced crowds. The Indy Bowl made it clear that IF theyhad to take a CUSA team, they wanted Southern Miss. It appears to have been based on internal politics of the committee, not some "failure" of the CUSA commissioner or Baker. I've read the Indy was looking ANY P5 team and had they found old they would have used an escape clause to bypass a CUSA team altogether. At least that is what I've read from people who's views have proven true in the past.

Thats not what multiple folks from different schools including people with connections to the bowl committee have written. They could be wrong, but those people have been proven right in the past. Some members of the committee wanted USM over any other CUSA team I'd they couldn't find a P5. Edit - I didn't down vote you!

Oh good grief. Multiple sources have reported the Indy Bowl wanted to find a P5 to play FSU. Any P5 and they find a way to get out of inviting a CUSA team. Since no P5 was available, the committee at the Indy Bowl wanted a known commodity in USM. The committee is very familiar with USM and I've read committee members didn't want to take a chance on any other CUSA team for reasons of their own. This has been reported by multiple folks from multiple different schools. It's not "speculation." It's not a failure of the CUSA office. It's not some giant conspiracy against NT fans. As for NM verse NO, have you ever been to Albuquerque? There are a lot of great destinations in New Mexico, but Albuquerque isn't one of them. As for the game, you had a 7-5 Colorado State team with no significant wins or a 10-2 Troy team that beat LSU. Causual fans who follow the SEC ALL heard about Troy beating LSU. They might not know what conference Troy is in, but if you watched college football in 2017, you heard about Troy beating LSU. Colorado State, not a lot of coverage for beating San Jose State and New Mexico. Don't give some silly "perception" argument as this season fans who watched ESPN or other sports TV saw that Troy was better in dozens of news stories. Since there never was any option for NT to play a P5 school, Baker took the best available choice. It was the best available team in the best available location.

Actually, they do care. There are ESPN events people who's bonuses are tied to local advertising dollars generated by the HOD, Armed Forces and Frisco bowls. They want the best attendance possible, but have to sell to local and regional businesses that look more at the history of football programs rather than current standings.

This is certainly good news for both NT and Troy. They showed they will travel to a bowl game despite scheduling challenges. That makes both of us more attractive in the future. The Indy and HOD bowls made it clear to our athletic department they were not going to invite us. We did NOT choose New Orleans over either one. I wish that fiction would stop. USM didn't somehow cast a magic spell - the Indy bowl wanted to wait to see if a P5 school, ANY P5 school, would be available. If not, they planned early to ask USM and NOT either FAU nor NT.

I suspect there will be a drop in the size of donations but only a very small drop in the total number of donations made. Corporations will still want to entertain clients and alumni with deep pockets will still like to have perks. If someone was looking for a donation purely to not give the money to the IRS, there were multiple places before where they could get a 100% deduction. And with lower corporate and personal rates, the actual amount of money saved was going to drop even with the 80% deduction.

This was on the front page at the top. The loss of the ticket location deduction has some worried. But even the congressman representing College Station says that's a loophole to close so tuition, especially for grad students, can stay deductible. Here's the story, but it might be behind a paywall.