LTU still getting hammered

DeepGreen · July 13, 2005

Louisiana Tech seems to have lost favor with many CUSA board fans. This was previously posted on GMG, but the brutality still goes on. 5 pages worth.

CUSA Board

Not the correct link.

Edited July 13, 2005 by DeepGreen

GreenEddieNT · July 13, 2005

Louisiana Tech seems to have lost favor with many CUSA board fans. This was previously posted on GMG, but the brutality still goes on. 5 pages worth.
CUSA Board
Not the correct link.

OUCH! That's gotta hurt, LOL. Tech is making enemies in all the wrong places. They're hated in the Sun Belt, C-USA doesn't want them, and the WAC only wants them for about 5 years so they can keep the NCAA bb units and then they'll be thrown out on the street.

P.S. Here's the correct link.

http://www.ncaabbs.com/forums/confusa/invi...ST&f=22&t=26797

Edited July 13, 2005 by GreenEddieNT

emmitt01 · July 13, 2005

I think this about sums it up (from a Clemson fan):

Correction...the WAC was more respected. Now the WAC is just an oversized Big West. You replaced teams in media markets like Dallas, Houston, Tulsa and El Paso with teams in Moscow, ID, Logan, UT, and Las Cruces, NM. You bash the Belt....yet you took two of the Belt's cellar dwellars and another team that never had a winning record while a member of the Belt. The only respected teams in the WAC are Boise and Fresno...and they'll have to play a Murder's Row OOC slate to overcome how weak the WAC schedule just became.
The problem with La Tech is they feel like their program is a lot more prestigous than it really is. You brag about beating Oklahoma State in '02...but fail to mention you followed that groundbreaking opening day event up with only three more wins the rest of the season. You brag about beating Michigan State....but again just three more wins the rest of the way. Your coach is in over his head, and the Dr Jeckll/ Mr Hyde style that your team plays with is a prime indicator of that. I knew he was a fool after the '01 Humanitarian Bowl, where our worst defensive team in 35 years at Clemson punked your supposedly high octane offense. Bicknell was crying after the game that we ran up the score and there would be payback in the regular season game in '02. Then came your big win over Okie State and your fans really started woofing then. Only to be pimp slapped even worse than you were the year before. Typical La Tech...all bark and no bite.
Your facilities would be second rate in 1-AA. Your budget would be average in 1-AA, as would your team. You are an afterthought in your region to a school located 250 miles away. You are losing ground every day that facilities are being upgraded in Denton, Troy, and elsewhere. You have very little wiggle room budget wise because your travel expenses for conference games in every sport to got a little higher. The conference who's "respectability" you cling to like a life preserver is a MWC overture away from being decimated even more than it already was. The "bell cow" program of your athletic department is dying a slow death because it can't keep up withthe new powers in women's basketball money wise. Your already pathetic attendance is going to be hurt even more by the fact that the closest conference team to you is 1000 miles away, and you have played a grand total of 31 games against the members of your conference combined.
But you go ahead and let pride decide your fate. Meanwhile North Texas, Troy, and others enjoy progressing while you pridefully fall that much further behind.