Originally Posted by weunice
That's neat and all, but Tech was already in the conference. Does any of that help us in any way? Are they going to share that money with us?
So the real comparison is:
Conference they were in: CAA - Tech CUSA
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That's neat and all, but Tech was already in the conference. Does any of that help us in any way? Are they going to share that money with us?
So the real comparison is:
Conference they were in: CAA - Tech CUSA
3 weeks of heavy downpours caused Pugh's Creek underneath The Joe to rise to the surface for that month of football.
Louisiana Tech University
Flagship of the University of Louisiana System
I and our oldest daughter were there.
I was there with my dad...
Maybe the Bret Farve USM game in 86? had harder rain?
But those games are 1A and 1B is the terms of frog stranglers...
''Don't be a bad dagh..."
Adding a state flagship and decent school at that was a good move for CUSA.
YES! the Favre (USM) game had much harder rain during the game itself. That's why it's called the "Rain Bowl." We lost 26-19 in that monsoon. But we beat USM in the infamous "Snow Bowl" of 1976, 23-22.
The 1982 game(s) were played in a long period of consistent rain, not that it actually rained hard during the game(s) itself. Although it did for short bursts. In The Rain Bowl the hard rain never let up.
LOL, I remember that USM game. The water was like a raging river rolling down the steps.
That was my point. Those metrics are precisely why universities choose who they do. I work at an R1 and I have been in a lot of meetings listening to decision makers decide who they consider their peers in a variety of contexts. It matters. Our biggest problem is that when some other conference comes calling, we just added a school they might take ahead of us --- but hey, we need to up our game. It is just the way it is.
You think we're better off than we'd otherwise be athletically than if we hadn't spent 10 years in a conference with Rice? Did our volleyball team get some good research projects done while they were over in Houston? And now they only get to do spiritual formation with their Liberty opponents instead (or instead if we hadn't added Delaware, since now they do get to add "played conference games against the volleyball team of an R1 school" to their diplomas?).
I know you're saying that this is how school presidents think, not necessarily you. What I am saying is that it is a stupid (and usually disingenuous anyway) thing for them to think and act on, even though they do so. And that I am VERY jaded about it as "positive" selling point when it comes to conference realignment/expansion. I mean, silver linings and all - sure. Better an R1 you don't want than an open enrollment you don't want, I guess (depending on how good their sports are, and where they are, and how much money they might get added to your media package, and what level of interest your fans might have in playing them). But all things being equal? Like if we had to choose between Delaware and Delaware State? Yeah, ok,
Already longing for the days of short road trips to North Texas, Southern Miss, UAB.
To my wife’s once existent football enthusiasm she sat there with me through the whole thing. We didn’t dare move under our little umbrella and yes every stadium step was like a waterfall. Now she hasn’t been to a game in about 10 years. What once was Tech football is no more.
My wife and I were at the 2011 game in a tropical storm @ USM. We had a whole mini-vacation that was washed out.
Speaking of field conditions only:
-the USM game was a gametime torrential downpour, from what I remember mostly second half.
-the Delaware game concluded a three-week rain monsoon season, causing Pugh's Creek drainage design below to reach pool stage at The Joe's field level.
Louisiana Tech University
Flagship of the University of Louisiana System
I was there, in the press box, doing stats.
The 1984 State Fair game was a wet one, Tech 5 NSU 0
Remember that one too.
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