Just say no to the Indy Bowl
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Just say no to the Indy Bowl
Have you ever been to Boone, NC?Originally Posted by dawg80
So true.
I will cheer the Dogs on no matter the opponent, but it is SO much easier to get casual fans interested in a P5 opponent. It just reaches more people and sounds more impressive for marketing our name, than a G5 - especially a belt team.
Funny that all these Holtz groupies are worried about a loss to a Sunbelt team. They are our peers, but we own them.
Algiers > Shreveport
Pay the man!
Yes, once, and only briefly. Happen to be on a Saturday, gameday for them. The whole town turned out to tailgate. Driving along the main drag I thought there was to be a parade, and maybe there was later, because folks were lining the street, little tailgates up and down the street in the parking lots of businesses. We stopped at a McDonald's earlier that morning and the place was packed with Appy State fans all decked out in their garb. Spoke to a fellow there with his family, his kids sporting the colors. Very nice, humble fellow. I think it was their first year in the Belch but that fellow said they had bigger aspirations, like joining CUSA. When I told him I was a Louisiana Tech fan he was very, very complimentary of us.
We had plans to spend more time there, but it appeared Boone was shut down for the game. Learned later Appy State lost that day, to Georgia Southern, I think it was. But the support I saw by their fanbase was impressive.
You obviously have an opinion of Boone, you are itching to share. So...
I have never been there for a football game or on a gameday. But have vacationed there. An absolutely beautiful place in a great part of the country.
A loss is not the problem. Win or lose, it does nothing to up our name brand. THAT is the issue!
Not so much of an opinion of Boone but more of the area around Boone, the "High Country" of WNC. Banner Elk, Beech Mountain, Grandfather Mountain, Linnville Falls, Blue Ridge Parkway, etc... As Bulldog Tom said, it's a beautiful area of the country.
Yes it is. My wife and I have vacationed there for the last 5 years. We liked it so much that we decided to buy a condo on top of Beech Mountain last year. Beech Mountain is the highest incorporated city east of the Rockies at 5500 feet. It never gets above 80 degrees in the summer. It's the perfect place to go to get out of the Louisiana heat.
Where did you stay when you went up there?
The players we are going after are being recruited by Sunbelt teams. We need those occasional victories to put them in their place. Especially since we have chosen not to participate in the pay to play stipend and some of our peers have. THAT is the issue!
Getting that twitch again ...
I've stated before that Appy should be one of Tech's benchmarks for attendance. Of 130 FBS programs, only seven are G5s not located in a metro area: Tech, Appy St, Wyoming, Troy, Ohio, Ga Southern, & Cen Mich.
Some important qualifiers, though -- Appy has a significantly higher student population than Tech, and Boone has a significantly higher per capita income (& corresponding lower poverty rate) than Ruston
I'm fine with a trip to the Indy Bowl, as long as we get a quality, P5 opponent. For example, playing Florida St would be fantastic. Sure, it a "down season" for the 'Noles, but they are still a big name opponent with a bowl quality team. Let's not forget how some LA Tech fans criticized our 2001 H-Bolw matchup with Clemson fbecause Clemson was only 6-6. Puleeeze, Clemson spanked us like children. LOL!!
We might have played better if our several of our key players had gotten some rest the night before the game.
Just curious how are you defining a "metro area"? Are you defining Hattiesburg, MS (45K), Jonesboro, AR (67K), Monroe, LA (48K), Huntington, WV, (49K), Bowling Green, KY (58K), etc....as Metro areas?
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