Email from Missy Setters

[champion110]

I was familiar with that estalishment my freshman year (1971-72).

Ahhhh........ Ya'll make me feel so young!!!!!!!

[champion110]

I agree. I actually had HotHands (hand warmers) in my pockets during that game.

Same here...... I remember absolutely freezing.

[cajunflo]

Same here...... I remember absolutely freezing.

yeah, but was it misting???

[Tech77]

yeah, but was it misting???

We don't know. The stadium was so full it was hard to tell.

[BhadDawg]

Yes, the late, great linebacker Joe McNeely WAS the police of this wonderful joint on Thursday nights!

Cheniere exit was the stop on the way to Monroe to the Electric Circus and on the way back to Ruston at midnight. 1972-74 were the last years.

Thanks for the history, that was ten years before my time. They all sounded like a lot of fun though!

[counselingdawg]

would someone please bury this horse.

[TYLERTECHSAS]

would someone please bury this horse.

Will you local/LA guys bury the new proposed I-Bowl tax increase issue I hope?

[techman05]

I agree. I actually had HotHands (hand warmers) in my pockets during that game.

I was so proud of my 8 month pregnant wife making it through that game.

[70TECHGRAD]

would someone please bury this horse.

Don't know about burying this horse........BB&B is only known for beating a dead horse. "We leave no dead horse unbeaten."

[HogDawg]

FINALLY! I'm very glad to hear this. It's about time LA Tech fans and alumni showed the I-Bowl folks how important we are to their season ticket and sponsorship base.

The bottom line is, LA Tech --just like any other school with 9 wins-- wanted to wait until Sunday to make it's bowl decision. But the I-Bowl wouldn't wait, despite the fact that neither of their alternative teams (ULM or Ohio) were highly sought after. It would have literally cost the I-bowl NOTHING to wait, and the potential upside from waiting was HUGE for the I-Bowl.

Make no mistake, the I-Bowl was the big loser in this one. Yes, I feel bad for our 31 seniors....but LA Tech will come out of this mostly unscathed. (Especially since we no longer have a coaching staff anyway.) The I-Bowl is in a free fall right now. Corporate sponsors are fleeing, local Tech fans --which make up a large block of the I-Bowls season ticket base-- are angry, and the local media is bitter with this outcome. Yep, the I-Bowl is the big loser here.




HD

4- Years later.......

Truer Words have never been spoken. LOL!

[Dwayne From Minden]

I think the I-Bowl is in a real existential situation here. Due to an overabundence of hubris from their management, they have continuially alienated one of their largest potential core constituencies and every year that passes is less prestigious than the year before.

It is clear that Tech football and the I-Bowl are on divergent paths and it does us no good to focus too much attention on their struggles. Tech football will be here 10 years from now and in probably much better shape than it is even now. Can the same be said for the I-Bowl? Or will its existence be contained entirely within a glass display case on Clyde Fant next to Bradshaw's jersey and a Shreveport Steamer helmet?

I know that they feel like they needed to "teach us a lesson" and "put us in our place", but I really think the Bowl's only hope is a top-to-bottom change in the decision makers.

Pretty clairvoyant post - given the fact we are 4 years removed from this event...

In those 4 years Tech has somehow managed 3 bowl wins and two divisional titles and added about $40 million of privately funded capital improvements to JAS...

The I-Bowl has done what?

[detltu]

Pretty clairvoyant post - given the fact we are 4 years removed from this event...

In those 4 years Tech has somehow managed 3 bowl wins and two divisional titles and added about $40 million of privately funded capital improvements to JAS...

The I-Bowl has done what?

Withered.

[WWDog]

[dawg80]

Well, at the end of the day, ulm LOST! 45-14 to a MACster! How the hell do you get blown out by a MAC team? The MAC has been getting smacked in bowls.

Of course, that game represented a lot of firsts. It was the first time I ever rooted for the Ohio Bobcats. Now, I'll go back to not caring about Ohio....

Me, my nephew, and two of his buds attended the game. We four and about 19K others....tops. It was frickin' cold. But, my green Ohio sweatshirt (layered on top of thermal) was fine. In 2012 the MAC got smacked, except for the Idiot Bowl, and this year they went 0-6. That right? I'll ask again, how do you get smushed by a MACster? Only the nlu juco injuns know how!

[70TECHGRAD]

Pretty clairvoyant post - given the fact we are 4 years removed from this event...

In those 4 years Tech has somehow managed 3 bowl wins and two divisional titles and added about $40 million of privately funded capital improvements to JAS...

The I-Bowl has done what?

It has become the TOILET BOWL!!!!