VideoEagle

Payouts dont matter in CUSA. All bowl payouts go to league to cover team travel costs and the rest is divided up.

Since 2001, every time NT is in a bowl, some "ranking" or another lists it as terrible and "unwatchable." And every time, the folks in Bristol later report they were pleased with the results. Since a large number of people are off work between Christmas and New Years (plus those "working" are doing a lot of streaming on their computers) and being the only football game on at the time, it appears we are like to once again be just fine.

Not sure why. Would NOT going to a bowl game make them more interested? In the past few years, I know Baylor, Alabama and A&M all had great classes after losing bowl games. In 2013, Boise was badly beaten by Hawaii with an interim coach and still had a pretty good class. WKY lost in Detroit in 12 and got enough of a class that once they were experienced enough to start have made them a power in CUSA. I'll grant you that winning the bowl game likely makes it more likely we'll get a higher quality of recruit. But, the coaches standing in the kid's living room making a pitch to the family really is more important that any bowl game, win or lose.

If you find something that works, please let me know.

Yes! You build a program by teaching fans to show up no matter whom you are playing. The opponent will make a difference around the margins, but the vast majority of the crowd should be there to watch NT play and not care if it's Alabama or the Texas School for the Blind.

Back in 78, we were 9-2 at the end of the regular season and one of the reasons given for being passed over for a bowl was our lack of attendance. Back then, NT often had home crowds no larger than 12K and thanks to a rain storm had a roughly 10K crowd with Independence Bowl officials watching from the press box. La Tech had been in the bowl the year before and had a good crowd. They looked at our crowd and picked La Tech again. La Tech got two visits to the Indy bowl in a row. And we had beaten La Tech by at least 20 points both years! To have a bowl WANT NT for it's crowd is a huge improvement! And to be eligible because of our academics is icing on the cake!

You missed a perfect chance to use the ninja face!

Don't care as the coaches found it bad enough to dismiss them - not suspend but dismiss. I know some student conduct fall under similar disclosure rules as HIPPA and the university can get in trouble if the information comes out. If the coaches thought it was that's bad I'm not going to second guess them.

Someone is going to get a great coach in Les Miles. He couldn't beat Alabama, at least not consistently, so that wouldn't work for LSU. But for schools NOT in the SEC West and with significant resources, he's going to be a very good coach. And everything I've read suggests he wants to prove LSU was wrong to let him go.

Yes. There was a study an a few years back that looked at 10 to 14 years of FBS records on new coaches. It was rare for a losing program to turn around in less than three years, something like less than 1 in 5 did it. To many football fans, that just means 80% of college coaches are bad and if you just get "the right one" miracles are certain to happen. I suspect some of those same fans have lotto wins as a significant part of their retirement plans. This does NOT mean a coach has forever but expecting first or second year miracles is like expecting three hard 10s when playing craps. Yes, it happens but simple math shows it doesn't happen often! We need to recognize we are very lucky this year and hope the luck continues in a bowl game.

There is a reason the marketing people write stuff and THEN it's approved by the lawyers and not the other way around!

Jones was a whole lot further along in the process than Morris ever got. Folks I know at Baylor say Morris was never offered and they had moved toward someone else already. And the newspaper article says the same thing. This situation is closer to what happen when UT was courting Briles and Baylor gave him a raise to match what UT was talking about. Morris did very little and got a nice payday out of it.

Correct, but years ago the average family didn't move every three years. The average person with a job averaged over 12 years with that job and now it's under 5. It's soon to be 2017 - we can't turn back the clock to 1964.

Yes, it's vastly different! No pass no play always had the option of coming back once a student's grades improved. Your proposal is you move, your done and goodbye varsity. No pass no play was also passed by the Legislature, not the UIL council. There is even LESS chance someone facing an election would consider that as it was mean certain defeat in the next election. Also, no pass no play was based on the actions of the student, not some third party of which the student has no control. And don't forget, the massive complaints caused a lowering of the no pass no play rules. This would be more extreme. Simply adding to the review process on transfers would pass muster.

It's a nuclear bomb to kill a nat. No family could buy a new house, get divorced or take a better job without their child suffering a consequence through no fault of their own. Putting aside any lawsuits, the UIL Legislative Council would never pass it. Any of them who voted in favor would be vilified in the the press and probably have to resign. I honestly doubt you could find a member willing to even propose something that draconian. Perhaps one of the attorneys here could comment on the chances of that withstanding a lawsuit. As I understand it, the local UIL committee and later one in Austin both found that Dillman DID transfer for athletic purposes. I could be wrong on that one.

Actually, it's DO the 2016 MGC numbers get released?

Correct. Everything I've ever seen say it doesn't draw much in ad dollars.

Many years ago, recruiting was rampant among the PUBLIC high schools in the San Antonio area. Since transfers were much more difficult once a kid was in high school, the junior highs were carefully watched for talent. Now since you couldn't actually pay the kids, someone would talk to someone else and a parent would get offered a better job than they currently had and encouraged to move into the area. It certainly wasn't following the rules, but it also gave so very poor families a chance at better living conditions. I never heard of a case of the new job going away if the kid didn't become a star or after graduation.

Very true. The two are tine and patients if you are going to build it right and not cheat. EDIT: Need to re-read before I post! Patience is needed to build a football team. Patients are needed to build a medical practice.

Many lower ones, but not all and certainly not the Cotton.

Wow, that could be a real mess.

These are the folks in 2012 that actually told the Indy Bowl committee to wait for La Tech to explore every possible other option before accepting the Indy Bowl. I can't imagine why the Indy Bowl wouldn't like that and moved on leaving La Tech to sit in Rust-on. I'm not sure their fan base even knows the AFB even exists as there no mention of it anywhere as a possiblitily. And they still seem to think that somehow the B1G is going to send a team to HOD. I would say it's a good thing the fans aren't the one's making the choice, but it was the administration that caused the problem 2012.

The Tech folks want to play a P5 team, pretty much any P5 team and pretty much anywhere. Reading their board, if there isn't a P5 team in the HOD and they can play one someplace else, their fans would rather go someplace else. ETA: reading BB&B this morning and the fans have shifted from any P5 to Heart of Dallas against a Big 10 team. I thought the Big 10 wasn't going to have enough teams to supply on to HOD, but the Tech fans seem certain that it will.

Forget it. He's rolling.

So you're saying they are do for more?