Win Saturday = Independence Bowl Bid ?

We will go at some level, we will not be 40,000 strong , but we will go. I do not like the I-Bowl because of how they treated us , but I will be there . Go dogs! This assumes we win Saturday, and that is not a given looking at our record in games that mean something.

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Originally Posted by Houston Techsan

What fan base? You mean all of those thousands of fans in Shreveport/Bossier City who won't drive 75 miles to Ruston are now going out to the ghetto part of town and fill the Stadium. No way.

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I work a mile from Independence Stadium. I will be at the game if Tech is there. We have a Junior Hockey team playing at the Hirsch that averages 3000 a game.

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Originally Posted by sportdawg

Indy is the best bowl for THIS team. I don't think we'd have the turnout in Dallas or NOLA as we had in the past 3 years. Those teams had an excitement factor built in that we wanted to see.

If we're in I-Bowl, a large portion of our fanbase doesn't have to travel. We just act like its a normal game day and drive to the game.

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Yes! Another month of practice and play a 6-6 Duke one week after signing day. This year is the first that HS players can sign Dec. 20-22. I-Bowl vs an ACC P5 would help recruiting IMO.

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Originally Posted by sportdawg

I work a mile from Independence Stadium. I will be at the game if Tech is there. We have a Junior Hockey team playing at the Hirsch that averages 3000 a game.

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Your Junior Hockey team draws more than Tech does Shreveport/Bossier Tech Alums?

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Originally Posted by Houston Techsan

Your Junior Hockey team draws more than Tech does Shreveport/Bossier Tech Alums?

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the Mudbugs lead the league in attendance

https://lscluster.hockeytech.com/dow...-report-1.html

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Originally Posted by Houston Techsan

What fan base? You mean all of those thousands of fans in Shreveport/Bossier City who won't drive 75 miles to Ruston are now going out to the ghetto part of town and fill the Stadium. No way.

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For whatever reason, bowl games draw a separate segment of the fanbase above the normal participants. They will come out to the Independence Bowl. As for the location, I've been to Legion Field and the Cotton Bowl for games recently. It's comparable.

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Originally Posted by Blue Dawg

How about no. Last thing I want this year is to lose to ULLL

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Same here. This is NOT the LA Tech team I want meeting up with other Louisiana teams.

I don't think you guys understand how very bad ULLL is. Tech could run their world-famous zone-read-run offense all day on them and their DB's are just horrendous. Score would be somewhere around 52-21.

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Originally Posted by DJDAWG

I don't think you guys understand how very bad ULLL is. Tech could run their world-famous zone-read-run offense all day on them and their DB's are just horrendous. Score would be somewhere around 52-21.

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But, our DB's fall down a lot. Seriously. Our DB's gave up two TD's to UTEP last week because they apparently couldn't stand up on their 2 feet like 99% of our American population. It's the one thing Holtz expressed legitimate frustration about in his press conference this week. They do fall down a lot.

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Originally Posted by HogDawg

But, our DB's fall down a lot. Seriously. Our DB's gave up two TD's to UTEP last week because they apparently couldn't stand up on their 2 feet like 99% of our American population. It's the one thing Holtz expressed legitimate frustration about in his press conference this week. They do fall down a lot.

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I thought defense wasn't a problem tho /s

F... NO!

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Originally Posted by Blue Dawg

I thought defense wasn't a problem tho /s

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Take away one slip, likely negates 80 or whatever yards one of their TDs went for.

If we win Saturday we need to take whatever bowl is played latest in December.

And not against a SBC team please.

NO bowl would be much easier for me to attend because of proximity and being on a Saturday. But I would prefer the I-bowl this year. Particularly against a 6-6 ACC team. It would be a tough one for me to go to but I will make sure I am there. I don't have a good feeling about this weekend though.

Sans the WKU win, our 2017 Dawgs haven't won a game that appears to be a toughie going in. High time we do just that!

This team has been trapped in a "funk" all year. Suffered some bad luck, and were their own worst enemy at times too. But now they stand on the threshold of being able to salvage something from this year. Beat UTSA....win a bowl game...that's the way to end the year. And that's the way our seniors should go out! Just think, if they do accomplish that. All four years in a Tech uniform they were a bowl champion!

In the bigger picture nationally. Tech is one of just 9 programs riding a three-game bowl win streak. Let's make it four in a row!