WAC deal done to add UTSA, TSU and DU

[Geaux Dawgs]

Really do hope you guys get what you want and that is not the SBC. I really like what you guys have done over the last few years and hope you are rewarded for your efforts and hate that events out of your control have caused you some problems and concerns but hopefully it will work out to your advantage.

Best wishes for your program in the future.

Thanks Roller Girl

[SBC Fan]

Thanks Roller Girl

Sorry, I really did not get that.

Whenever I hobnob with the Memphis side of the family I do put in good word for your school. My family has maintained sky box over there forever and because my cousin, who pays for the gig, has the largest real estate firm in the South, the AD at Memphis at least looks like he is intrested.

[glm47]

Benson sounds a lot like Les Miles.

As dumb as Les is, he's a hell of a lot smarter than benson.

[glm47]

The Sunbelt doesn't fit that description at all because it causes automatic forfeiture of big donor support.

Then I would go tell those big donors to step up and finish out the funding for the end zone addition and call in their chips to get us in another conference.

[glm47]

But winning ANY league for 5 years would put butts in seats, and at least this way we wouldn't have top boosters jumping ship.

I've said it elsewhere, but the bottom line is that as bad as the new WAC is, moving to the sunbelt explicitly sends the following message: Louisiana Tech does not care at all about its athletic program.

The lifeboat we are in from the shipwrecked WAC is not taking us in the direction we want to head; but it sure as hell beats jumping into the shark-infested waters of the belch and trying to find our own way to shore.

More practically, I'd rather hear the talking heads pity the plight of the WAC since the departure of the big boys than to hear them talk about how desperate our program was, such that CUSA passed us over and we had to come crawling back to a conference we left.

And then there is the fact that the mantra of our lsu-loyal Tech alumni and students is that Tech just needs to get back to the belch where "y'all" belong. If we jet the WAC for the belch before the WAC officially implodes, THE TERRORISTS WIN.

What message do you think DR has been sending for the last 20 years?

[StrongBad]

What message do you think DR has been sending for the last 20 years?

[parisdog]

Good. That's just way too far to travel. Things will work out favorably by 2012; probably way before.

Are you being serious? or sarcastic?

[LookingForResults]

Are you being serious? or sarcastic?

Serious. If they leave it will save us untold amounts of travel money. As long as Boise, Fresno and Nevada were in the WAC the Hawaii travel could be tolerated as a price to pay to be in a "better" conference. Without those schools, the diminished reputation of the WAC does not justify the Hawaii travel. Even though any Hawaii replacement would be of lesser reputation than Hawaii, the reduced travel cost would more than offset any further reduction in WAC respectability.

The WAC has already been broad-sided. Any further damage can only be at the margins.

[RealityCheck]

Serious. If they leave it will save us untold amounts of travel money. As long as Boise, Fresno and Nevada were in the WAC the Hawaii travel could be tolerated as a price to pay to be in a "better" conference. Without those schools, the diminished reputation of the WAC does not justify the Hawaii travel. Even though any Hawaii replacement would be of lesser reputation than Hawaii, the reduced travel cost would more than offset any further reduction in WAC respectability.

The WAC has already been broad-sided. Any further damage can only be at the margins.

The WAC still has a men's basketball auto-bid. If Hawai'i leaves that bid is in serious jeopardy if not gone altogether.

The Pac 10 will almost certainly not fill all of its bowl bids most years if it tries to maintain 7 bids. The Big 12 will almost certainly have to drop one of its 8 bids or it may have more than one bid it can't fill each year.

[hookdown]

The perspective from SJSU:

http://blogs.mercurynews.com/college...an-jose-state/

[Lilfido]

The Sunbelt doesn't fit that description at all because it causes automatic forfeiture of big donor support.

Does the new WAC fit that description? I can see big donors really digging deep because of Texas St., UTSA, Utah ST., Idaho, San Jose..........oh I cant even go on.

[dawg80]

The perspective from SJSU:

http://blogs.mercurynews.com/college...an-jose-state/

Have to, ahem! admire SJSU's enthusiasm. "Won't be the bottom of the barrel." Wanna bet? Don't sell yourselves short, SJSU, of course you will be.

Any WAC school that has been left behind that celebrates this shake-up like: Hey! the good teams are gone, now we, as a big loser ourselves, have a chance to be at the top of the loser mountain....is such a LOSER, they deserve what they get.

[gomemphistigers1]

Sorry, I really did not get that.

Whenever I hobnob with the Memphis side of the family I do put in good word for your school. My family has maintained sky box over there forever and because my cousin, who pays for the gig, has the largest real estate firm in the South, the AD at Memphis at least looks like he is intrested.

if Memphis was "interested" why did we no-vote La Tech during expansion? UTEP was/is the better program...and if UCF leaves, you simply add FAU with their new stadium and keep on moving...i'd love to attend a game in Boca

[DogtorEvil]

#117

http://www.masseyratings.com/cf/compare.htm

[gomemphistigers1]

#117

http://www.masseyratings.com/cf/compare.htm

it still says CUSA next to our name...