Arkstfan

Today's system prevents a national title except under the most bizarre of circumstances. Miami's first never would have happened under the modern system because Nebraska would have been playing Texas that year. While in New Orleans had a chance to visit with a knowledgeable observer of the league. His opinion was that the football is poised to really come forward. He noted that four of the top five spots in the standings were occupied by coaches with four seasons or less under their belt and that money is being spent on facilities and expectations of what should be delivered were rising. His opinion was that administrative expectations had more to do with success than anything other than hiring quality coaches.

Rick your low inventory rant could be substituted for a lot of teams. One business in Jonesboro would keep a light inventory of ASU and large inventory of UA. When cornered they would say, they sell more UA. Finally someone asked them to look at how long their ASU inventory was staying on the rack. Duh, if you order 5X more Hog stuff than ASU and the ASU stuff sells out long before the UA stuff, you aren't ordering enough ASU in the first place. Likewise UNT is generally not going to sell well compared to UT, TAMU and the Cowboys but if they are selling out the UNT shipment before those others, they are under-ordering. WARNING. THIS post made under the influence of drugs for my cold and impacted wisdom tooth, I make no guarantee it makes it any sense.

The game staying close kept people from tuning out helping the average numbers. I hollered at a group of three UNT fans as we were unloading our van.

Humm how to respond... You have a book?

If you are baseball junkie, you want XM no need to look further. If you want NFL games, you want Sirius. There are a few Sun Belt games on Sirius. If those aren't factors in your decision, it really comes down to what hardware you like and which contract you prefer.

Believe that is the closest. USM took advantage of ASU's mistakes, ASU failed to score off USM's. Simple as that. Very easily could have been a 10 point halftime lead for ASU but just as easily a 10 point lead for USM.

Wow little losing turned you into a no class piece of crap in a hurry. Oh scratch that, a lot of losing. Ya'll going to use the Kentucky recruiting plan to turn the program around? Violation Summary: Recruiting inducements for prospective student-athletes and high-school coaches; impermissible tryout; unethical conduct; academic fraud; falsification of recruiting records; institutional control of recruiting funds; failure to control salary of employee; violation of supplemental pay provision; failure in fiscal control of outside agency; failure to monitor and a lack of institutional control. Also, numerous secondary violations.

I know but I didn't make it. At least it doesn't say Sunblet.

They need to pay attention to what happened in Shreveport. Started out as a Southland team vs. at-large and though the game teetered on the verge of being bankrupt a number of times they kept just making it. Now they pay out something like $1.3 million per team WITHOUT A TITLE SPONSOR. The local sponsors who used to want to be on the prime New Year's Eve date now want the game earlier because they are filling up their hotels on New Year's Eve any way and want them full those earlier dates. Right now they are slated to have 7,200 out-of-state visitors between South Carolina and Missouri who will spend money and go home. A few years ago Arkansas and Missouri brough 24,000 people to town and there wasn't a hotel to be found within 20 miles of Shreveport.

Very cool. As to Texas, that is the attitude at most big name schools. Very few schools "get it" when it comes to the internet. All you have to do is look at their web sites. They know they need of them web site things but don't have a clue as to what they should do with it when they get it.

That right there is what makes college football so much fun. 119 I-A schools and if you can't find someone to hate for any reason whether reasonable or not... you just ain't watching enough games.

Maybe it says something about what the voters think of UT's opponents. Ohio State #4 Texas Tech #18 Maybe it says something about what the voters think of USC's opponents. Notre Dame #5 Oregon #6 UCLA #17

Don't be silly. The ticket allotment numbers are set at a level that that insures the game will break even. The only financial risk belongs to ASU and USM.

Historically the New Orleans Bowl ain't got what they wanted. They wanted MTSU in 2001 and got UNT. In 2002 they wanted Tulane and got Cincinnati (thanks to Cincy having already played in Hawaii that year and getting in a brawl to boot). In 2004 they wanted Troy to such a degree that they were willing to find a site for USM if UNT failed to find a berth elsewhere. The fact that they have honored their committments despite not getting their wish doesn't offend me in the least.

Nor at Southern Miss. They are estimating taking 3,000 to 5,000.

Bush got it despite competing for attention against last year's winner ON THE SAME TEAM. That speaks volumes about what Bush did this season.

Depends on the sport. Football players normally don't leave for a road trip until after classes on Friday unless they are going a really long distance or they are playing a mid-week game. Basketball players will often miss Thursday and Friday on road swings. Baseball... jeez those guys just disappear in the spring semester, playing a lot of day games and going to tournaments. They rarely if ever fly so they bus and long trips mean more missed class than for the hoops players going to the same location.

They bid.

When the average student works finishing school on the pre-ordained timetable just doesn't happen. One of my fraternity brothers was an engineering major who worked part-time in a local factory. Starting his junior year the company moved him into a training program for industrial engineers and he started working 40 hours a week and going to school. Took seven years to get out. My wife needed 6 hours to graduate when I started law school and rather than her commuting 2 days a week or 3 days a week to finish she was offered a full-time editor's position in our community and didn't finish for another 9 years.

Learn something new every day. I thought everyone played their title games at pre-determined site. Some just make sense because of facility (ie. Missouri playing at the Edward Jones Dome, Iowa playing at Northern Iowa's dome) and some due to geography Tennessee playing in Nashville or Murfreesboro, Arkansas playing in Little Rock.

Good PowerPoint use is a great aid. Bad use is bad. The best speakers using it will insert some blank slides to get the focus to what they are saying rather than the bullet points. Chalkboards ain't great if you have professor with lousy handwriting. When I took Fed Jur in law school the professor had an outline on the board and told us to copy it down because that was the entire class right there. We spent the next three months filling in the branches of that outline.

Or you could run the entire Sun Belt (no non-football schools) for that amount.

I was suprised with ASU's numbers. We didn't have any really well attended games like last year's sellout against Memphis but then we didn't have two Thursday night games in the November rain either. Thanksgiving weekend is just lousy for football unless you are a mega-school with a tradition of playing on Thanksgiving weekend. I would have come down for the UNT game with my family but it meant leaving my sister-in-law's house at 8:00 pm on Friday and driving 450 miles, much of it two-lane to get to Denton.

Just more of the positive press the bowl has received the past five years. Screw 'em.