At least something came out of this thread. If we are going to put 30-50 thousand fans in a stadium in Ruston, football at Tech has to become a social event.Originally Posted by NathanDarby
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At least something came out of this thread. If we are going to put 30-50 thousand fans in a stadium in Ruston, football at Tech has to become a social event.
This is just my personal philosophy, never be happy with how/where you are, you can always do a little better...I think Tech should be like this as well. We should always be wanting more both academically and athletically. We simply put should want to be the best. Not the best in Louisiana, not the best in the WAC, not the best in the South, but the absolute best.
Best post of this thread. For all those that made fun of us being in the SEC, remember we used to be in the "small college division". Never be satisfied with where you are. It might take many steps, but my dream is to one day see Tech in one of the bcs aq conferences and competing for National Championships. It should be all our dream.
Also, for those that think fan support is the problem - put us in the SEC and see how fan support across Louisiana and in the tri-state area booms.
Barring some kind of government intervention, regionally mandated conferences, or something else; the SEC is the least likely conference for us to get in out of just about all of them.
We bring pretty much nothing to the SEC.
1. We don't bring any money to the conference.
2. We don't bring particularly strong athletics to the table.
3. The markets we have access to are already controlled by LSU, Arkansas, Ole Miss, and MS State.
4. We don't bring academic prestige or large federal research to the conference.
If you want to make a plan, start with what we bring to the table that lots of other schools in the southeast don't bring.
I could see us going to a conference like the Big 12 or something if they felt they wanted to get a stronger foothold in Louisiana for recruiting purposes. Our buffer zone from BCS schools would make it easier to carve a nich from the BCS programs in North LA, South Ark.
If you have a few billion lying around you could probably improve Techs lot in college athletics and academics enough to make these talks less fantastical. If we had a billion dollar endowment like Tulane, a great football team like TCU, a great basketball team like Memphis, or a new untapped market that they could take over then maybe we could make a good case for inclusion.
If the opportunity presents itself we should go after it whatever it is. Right now the C-USA looks like our next step. We need to do everything we can to improve our school for whatever comes next.
Last edited by detltu; 04-26-2010 at 04:46 PM.
I cant believe this thread was even started
Football season is a long way away. We're bored.
That's the bottom line. I GUARANTEE that we could do more with MSU's budget than they have done. And if we were taking Arkansas's spot in the conference we'd have half a million fans within a 2 1/2 hour radius overnight, as we'd be an automatic lock for those in these parts who love to hate lsu.
You guys who pull in this "you can't even beat Nevada" crap crack me up. You can't look at competition without also looking at the $$$$. All I'm saying is that if we had the kind of conference payout that the SEC schools get, we'd easily more than quadruple our LTAC donations, our recruiting in the 4 main sports (football, M & W basketball, and baseball) would shoot through the roof, and we'd hit Reneau's 15k enrollment cap all in about 6 months. The Haynesville Shale wouldn't have nothin' on the Ruston Dawgs.
It's 10x better than still listening to the AAU bitchin' babies over in Karl's Kourt.
+1 I have a hard time going to Karl's Kourt to look at it.
WWDog
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Its undeniable that given an SEC budget we could compete. The problem is we don't bring our own SEC budget. SEC membership would also instantly cause our recruiting to get much better and our attendance to skyrocket. We would only be cannibalizing markets from current SEC teams though so we would bring basically no new fans to the picture and no new money.
Personally I love the discussion on Karl's Kourt. I think it is really hilarious. But maybe that is because I never shy away from an argument.
Dreams and wishes are great. I am sure everyone on this board would love to see TECH in the SEC with a big BCS budget and we should all aspire to be the best we can. But if we ever truly want to be in that position, we will have to plan and act on that plan. We will have to overcome some current disadvantages that are out of TECH's control. We will have to move faster and farther in every area that counts than everyone else that dreams of moving up.
The current move by the large BCS conferences to form super conferences could be the final blow in killing the dreams of the have nots becoming the haves. Once these super conferences are formed, then moving up could be blocked due to there being no room to move up and forcing your way in will require overwhelming superiority in the areas that count.
I too am enthusiastic over every move up we take big and small. If we want to get to the top, we better do more than want though.
WWDog
La Tech
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Flagship of the University of Louisiana System
They hit a billion in 2007.....I wonder how 2008/2009 treated those investments.
edit....$1.04 billion for 2008....geesh....and they slashed athletic spending starting in June of 2009.......http://blog.nola.com/tulanebeat/2009...lements_m.html
What is Tulane saving its 1 billion endowment for?
That's for sure....
But if you really think about it, someone else I was talking to stated it beautifully. "Just think about what he's going to be telling Darius all summer long in Florida".
I'd say that the chances of Darius returning are less than 50% almost completely because the whining baby aau coach.
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