Texas State bemoaning belt already?

[Harry]

The Bobcats have no rival, hype or energy for the football program. These qualities were lost, repeatedly, in 2012 after every close game. At least the University of Texas-San Antonio has the University of North Texas, University of Texas-El Paso and Rice University joining them in Conference-USA. There will not be another Texas football team in the Sun Belt.

Texas State has not even released an official 2013 schedule because its conference is getting picked apart again. UTSA has an unfinished schedule, but the school enticed Oklahoma State University, a team that was in the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl just last season, to travel to the Alamodome. The Roadrunners additionally have the University of Houston in 2013 at home. UTSA, sadly, can draw bigger programs than Texas State because of the larger venue and city and stronger backing.

Fixing the scheduling issues, which is at times out of Texas States hands, is only a portion of the solution. The game day atmosphere could be a whole lot better.

When UTSA hosted Texas State, its stadium was filled with excitement. It felt like a true rivalry game. The hosting university held contests for fans so spectators could win prizes during timeouts and between quarters. H-E-B even sponsored UTSAs tailgating parking lot. The stadium was like an ocean of orange and blue. Throwing shirts and passing out pizza boxes in the stands just is not enough anymore, if it ever was, to keep fans engaged through all the lulls in college football games.

On that day, I realized Texas State could use an upgrade. The games can be dull. This is not necessarily from the game play, but because there is little excitement for the fans outside of the competition itself. The Texas Tech game was a tease of what a Texas State football game could be.

Read more: http://star.txstate.edu/node/6517

[CurveItAround]

Sounds familiar. Think what will happen if ULL and/or ArkSt eventually end up in CUSA instead of them. TxSt is in a very vulnerable spot right now. If they end up in CUSA, their fortunes will turn around. If not, they will suffer through the same demoralizing spiral we did for 10 years. Not an enviable position.

[PlummMeanGreen]

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Sounds familiar. Think what will happen if ULL and/or ArkSt eventually end up in CUSA instead of them. TxSt is in a very vulnerable spot right now. If they end up in CUSA, their fortunes will turn around. If not, they will suffer through the same demoralizing spiral we did for 10 years. Not an enviable position.

All of the content of that article concerning TSU-SM was most predictable. Now they have an idea how UNT felt in the old SBC. Unfortunately for TSU-SM, most of us in the new CUSA need to schedule schools with higher profiles (and Top 25 rankings) for our OOC schedules. I think the Bobcats are going to be all dressed up for the Prom but with no one who'll take them. I do not envy their present situation but as we of the Go5 all know, that can change in a Big East minute.

GMG!