Will Louisiana Tech "blowout" SoMiss in MS for the second time in History?

[Blue Dawg]

Would be the best thing to solve many problems with conference realignment and how champions are selected for regular season and post-season.

Too bad all the major power in college sports would never allow it.

Its not just that. Many schools are affiliated with conferences for things like academics rather than athletics. Imagine the conversation at Northwestern when they get told their football team isn't doing well enough so they're being kicked out of the conference for a while.

That system works great...for private institutions that aren't tied to universities.

I suspect the best system anyway is private amatuer teams owned by universities and subject to free market principles anyway.

[Dogsince65]

Since Tech hired a Southern Miss assistant in 1967 (Maxie Lambright), we have played USM 21 times. Interestingly, we have done better in Hattiesburg (6-6) than in Ruston (3-6).

Record: 9-12-0

1 W 11-02-1968 27 Hattiesburg, MS 20 2 L 11-01-1969 23 Ruston, LA 24 3 W 11-14-1970 27 Hattiesburg, MS 6 4 L 11-13-1971 20 Ruston, LA 24 5 W 09-16-1972 33 Hattiesburg, MS 14 6 L 10-25-1975 14 Ruston, LA 24 7 W 11-13-1976 23 Ruston, LA 22 8 W 11-12-1977 28 Hattiesburg, MS 10 9 L 09-20-1980 11 Hattiesburg, MS 38 10 W 11-20-1982 13 Hattiesburg, MS 6 11 L 09-17-1983 10 Hattiesburg, MS 28 12 L 09-15-1984 0 Hattiesburg, MS 34 13 L 09-07-1985 0 Hattiesburg, MS 28 14 L 11-12-1988 19 Ruston, LA 26 15 W 11-16-1991 30 Ruston, LA 14 16 L 09-19-1992 13 Hattiesburg, MS 16 17 L 09-25-2010 12 Ruston, LA 13 18 L 09-03-2011 17 Hattiesburg, MS 19 19 W 11-09-2013 36 Ruston, LA 13 20 W 10-25-2014 31 Hattiesburg, MS 20 M M Roberts Stadium 21 L 11-28-2015 24 Ruston, LA 58 Joe Aillet Stadium

411

Totals

457

I can't predict a blowout, but I would say motivation is on our side this year.

thank you for not posting the 1967 Shreveport game... we had no quarterback--the guy we had tossed 6 ints on Thanksgiving week

[TYLERTECHSAS]

My favorite game of the year. I wish we had more teams culturally similar in this conference.

Add:
Georgia Southern
Arkansas State
UL
ULM
USA
Troy
Coastal or App

Get rid of:

Utep
Utsa
Fiu
Fau
Rice
Old Dominion
Charlotte - North Carolina is nice, but Charlotte has become pretty liberal.

Troll.

[SouthernMiss3613]

Troll.

Not sure what you mean by that. I have been posting on your board for years. My point is I would love to see a more regional conference with many games within driving distance. Sadly, that is not how college football works. It is all about getting more teams from major cities in your conference for TV ratings.

[Blue Dawg]

Not sure what you mean by that. I have been posting on your board for years. My point is I would love to see a more regional conference with many games within driving distance. Sadly, that is not how college football works. It is all about getting more teams from major cities in your conference for TV ratings.

His point was adding ULLL and ULM would be far worse than any of the bottom dwellers CUSA has right now.

[HogDawg]

Not sure what you mean by that. I have been posting on your board for years. My point is I would love to see a more regional conference with many games within driving distance. Sadly, that is not how college football works. It is all about getting more teams from major cities in your conference for TV ratings.

Oh sure....all we have to do is see the high TV ratings being posted by "major city" programs Charlotte, FIU, FAU, UAB, UTSA and UNT to see how great that theory is working out.

[Cool Hand Clyde]

Not sure what you mean by that. I have been posting on your board for years. My point is I would love to see a more regional conference with many games within driving distance. Sadly, that is not how college football works. It is all about getting more teams from major cities in your conference for TV ratings.

There is no way the University of Louisville is interested in your conference plan. Hence, the troll remark.

[HogDawg]

Not sure what you mean by that. I have been posting on your board for years. My point is I would love to see a more regional conference with many games within driving distance. Sadly, that is not how college football works. It is all about getting more teams from major cities in your conference for TV ratings.

You really are a dumbass if you don't "get this". Just saying....

[Champ967]

Yall are being inhospitable to the visitors.

[collinellis]

The Rivalry in Dixie has mainly been one-sided in wins by more than 20 (Louisiana Tech 4 [1935; 1949, 1970, 2013], USM 11). Total series is 15 Tech to 32 SoMiss.

Only win with a "blowout" score in MS was 1970 with a score of 27-6 for Louisiana Tech.

In 2013, Rice embarrassed Louisiana Tech at Rice. In 2014, Louisiana Tech returned the favor to win the division.

In 2015, SoMiss embarrassed Louisiana Tech with the blowout score. In 2016, I predict Louisiana Tech will return the favor, as Holtz did to Rice.

No we will not. We will be good to get a win. With our special teams and lack pass coverage I can't imagine Mullens and co not to atleast get 35+. We will need to score more than 40 to have a good chance against USM

[dawg80]

Yall are being inhospitable to the visitors.

I agree.

Y'all play nice in the sand box.

[Cool Hand Clyde]

No we will not. We will be good to get a win. With our special teams and lack pass coverage I can't imagine Mullens and co not to atleast get 35+. We will need to score more than 40 to have a good chance against USM

Their Rice score was 44-28. I see a blowout in our favor. And we average 44 points per game so scoring 40 is no big whoop.

[HogDawg]

My favorite game of the year. I wish we had more teams culturally similar in this conference.

Add:
Georgia Southern
Arkansas State
UL
ULM
USA
Troy
Coastal or App

Get rid of:

Utep
Utsa
Fiu
Fau
Rice
Old Dominion
Charlotte - North Carolina is nice, but Charlotte has become pretty liberal.

Okay. We'll play nice. But this is our board, so remove the stupid *&^#^&%$ "UL". Louisville will not be joining our conference.

[BearDawg137]

No we will not. We will be good to get a win. With our special teams and lack pass coverage I can't imagine Mullens and co not to atleast get 35+. We will need to score more than 40 to have a good chance against USM

I disagree, apparently SoMiss is having Special teams problems as well, not to mention Ito Smith has been their only bright spot. It seems Mullens has regressed with the loss of players (based off SoMiss fan comments from the CSNbbs). Let's compare our scores @ UNT in the next few weeks, and we'll reasses.

[BearDawg137]

Okay. We'll play nice. But this is our board, so remove the stupid *&^#^&%$ "UL". Louisville will not be joining our conference.

Bummer for Louisville, but you know we could invite William Carey U in Hattiesburg instead of ULM

They don't even play FBS football, but they would be much more competitive