CUSA - Bowl Savy

[MeanGreen61]

July 07, 2006

Mitch Vingle

C-USA looks bowl savvy; recruiting updates; West sculpture

YE OLDE notebook:

Conference USA may not be a Bowl Championship Series league.

But in the business of bowls, it certainly must be considered a champion.

ARTICLE

http://www.wvgazette.com/section/Sports/2006070640

[GreenEddieNT]

  MeanGreen61 said:

July 07, 2006 

Mitch Vingle

C-USA looks bowl savvy; recruiting updates; West sculpture

YE OLDE notebook:

Conference USA may not be a Bowl Championship Series league.

But in the business of bowls, it certainly must be considered a champion.

ARTICLE

http://www.wvgazette.com/section/Sports/2006070640

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Someone needs to forward this article to Wright Waters. Here you have CUSA with 12 teams and they're going to send 5(and in some years 6 according to the article) teams to bowls and then you have the 8-team(football) Sun Belt which has a similar southwest/southeast geographic footprint as CUSA and yet the 'Belt is only guaranteed one bowl team per year. Granted most of the CUSA bowls are under a million in payout but the benefits of all these bowl tie-ins are more than just money. CUSA coaches can all but guarantee a recruit that he'll be playing in bowl games if their team is eligible. They also get the benefits of the extra practices allowed for bowl teams and one more game on national tv against a good opponent. Add in that CUSA has much better tv contracts and WW is getting his ass kicked by Britton Banowsky. At some point you have to lay some of the blame at the feet of Wright Waters when another mid-major conference commissioner in the same region as him is able to get all these advantages for his schools and WW can't.

Edited July 9, 2006 by GreenEddieNT

[VideoEagle]

  GreenEddieNT said:

Someone needs to forward this article to Wright Waters.  Here you have CUSA with 12 teams and they're going to send 5(and in some years 6 according to the article) teams to bowls and then you have the 8-team(football) Sun Belt which has a similar southwest/southeast geographic footprint as CUSA and yet the 'Belt is only guaranteed one bowl team per year.  Granted most of the CUSA bowls are under a million in payout but the benefits of all these bowl tie-ins are more than just money.  CUSA coaches can all but guarantee a recruit that he'll be playing in bowl games if their team is eligible.  They also get the benefits of the extra practices allowed for bowl teams and one more game on national tv against a good opponent.  Add in that CUSA has much better tv contracts and WW is getting his ass kicked by Britton Banowsky.  At some point you have to lay some of the blame at the feet of Wright Waters when another mid-major conference commissioner in the same region as him is able to get all these advantages for his schools and WW can't.

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WW has said he doesn't want to add a second bowl till the SBC consistently has two qualified teams. To have a guaranteed spot in most bowls, the conference would need to put up some cash. Our basketball schools don't want to do that and it is a waste for the others if we only have one bowl qualified team.

Most of the posters on the CUSA boards have a much, much lower opinion of BB!

[DallasGreen]

  MeanGreen61 said:

July 07, 2006 

Mitch Vingle

C-USA looks bowl savvy; recruiting updates; West sculpture

YE OLDE notebook:

Conference USA may not be a Bowl Championship Series league.

But in the business of bowls, it certainly must be considered a champion.

ARTICLE

http://www.wvgazette.com/section/Sports/2006070640

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This is why it is soooo important that the new administration and BOR show a total $$$ committment to athletics. That's what these other smaller lower tiered schools are doing. There is NO reason that we can't be as committed as places like UCF, Marshall, Rice, Tulsa, etc. It is a key to see how Rick V. reacts to the new Pres. I await word on his view of the new Lady Pres. The best news so far is the reup to the BOR of C. Dan Smith who has totally committed himself to seeing that we have an improved athletic program, and football in particular.

[UNTFan23]

This year's schedule is perhaps the easiest we've had in years. With only one "money game", it is feasible that we could post a 11-1 record? Will it happen, who really knows (that's why the game is played). If more SBC teams play similar schedules as we are this season, then it will be easier for more SBC teams to post a winning record.

[GreenBat]

  UNTFan23 said:

This year's schedule is perhaps the easiest we've had in years.  With only one "money game", it is feasible that we could post a 11-1 record?  Will it happen, who really knows (that's why the game is played).  If more SBC teams play similar schedules as we are this season, then it will be easier for more SBC teams to post a winning record.

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Are you selling that stuff you're drinking or smoking. If you are, can I get some.

What makes you think, after a 2-9 season, that this football team has the talent to win 11 games, let alone an OOC game.

[UNTFan23]

  GreenBat said:

Are you selling that stuff you're drinking or smoking. If you are, can I get some. 

What makes you think, after a 2-9 season, that this football team has the talent to win 11 games, let alone an OOC game.

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I said feasible. I didn't say we'd actually do it.

[eulesseagle]

The Sun Belt Conference is lucky to have two teams at the end of the season that have winning records.

That is why it is important for UNT to be consistant winners of the SBC so when the next conference shake up happens.....because.....like "Reaganomics" UNT may only gain on the "trickle down effect" of other teams leaving other conferences.

IMHO the next conference wanting to expand its football playing schools is the Big East.

As to, paraphrase part of a quote what Clayton Williams once said when he was running for governor of Texas in the mid-80's.......he was refering to a question on rape.....(and I paraphrase) ......rape is like fog so you might as well let it happen until it clears up......