[QUOTE=CajunDave1;2079004]Originally Posted by sportdawg
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EXCLUSIVE: Sun Belt Executives CLASH Over Louisiana Tech's Potential Entry.
Don't think we are going anywhere, folks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7H-H6zs5hyI
unreliable narrator. He’s in it for the clicks and views.
What a know-nothing clown! Perfect voice for the Belch.
According to Sean Fox, the league visited Ruston this week
I saw a post from UTSA that they have had talks with the PAC-12 probably as a travel partner for Texas State, but I can't find the info again. So, not sure if there is any smoke there.
Could other Texas schools join Texas State in new look Pac-12? Here’s one sleeper to keep an eye on | Austin Sports Journal
The AAC requires 27-month notice and a $10 million exit fee for schools to leave the conference. Schools can leave earlier than 27 months, but the exit fee is then negotiated. SMU paid a $25 million exit fee when it moved from the AAC to the ACC in this past year.
Does anyone know what Dallas Baptist's exit fee would be to leave CUSA baseball?
Whether we remain in CUSA or not, losing DBU would be a severe blow to CUSA baseball.
Nothing would be a more fitting end to our 35 year journey to escape all these schools we are now begging to let us play with them. We never should have left.
It wasn't that one although I missed that article. The one that I came across actually had quotes from their coach talking about recent conversations with the Pac-12. SMU had more than enough money, Rice probably does as well. I don't know if UTSA has alums with deep enough pockets.
Well, we win the campus eye test over WKU for sure.
This is from a CSNbbs thread posted by the Bird of Paradise, aka Jay Walker, long time Cajun sportscaster. This provides a few historical reasons why a large majority of fans in the Belt are not in favor of adding the bulldogs. Note: I couldn't find the date of this post, but sure it's from several years ago.
"Post: #31RE: Why does seemingly everyone in the Sun Belt West want LA Tech to die in agony?
This will be long, but it will answer your question:
You can ask anyone who was in the SBC administration in the '90s and they will tell you Louisiana Tech was always the most uncooperative folks in the league. They were not in favor of growing the league unless there was something in it for them. And, they did have the "we are better than you" attitude and for the life of me I don't understand it.
When it was time to form the SBC football league, Louisiana Tech and Central Florida were part of the plan. Tech decided they were too good for the Sun Belt and applied for membership in the WAC. UCF said they weren't going without Tech. Wright Waters was still able to put together a football league but it wasn't easy. North Texas, Arkansas State, Louisiana, Idaho, New Mexico State, Middle Tennessee and ULM were the charter members (Idaho and ULM were football only.)
When Tech made their decision, the Women's SBC tournament was pulled out of North Louisiana. Tech cried foul.
Meanwhile, Tech joined the WAC where Rice, SMU, Tulsa and UTEP resided. They believed being associated with those schools would help them get a CUSA invite. (Tech made no bones about the fact CUSA was their desired league. But it backfired in 2004 when those schools left and Louisiana Tech was on an island. Their closest "rival" was New Mexico State, which was farther from Ruston than Pittsburgh.
When Derek Dooley was named athletic director, Tech sent out an email to see what schools might be willing to schedule home and home in football. Louisiana received one of those emails and immediately called. The deputy AD said "that was sent to you by mistake, we can't gain anything by playing you." David Walker, then the Cajuns' AD, got on the phone with Tech's associate AD Van de Velde and asked if the statement was true. When he was told yes, he responded that UL would honor any existing contracts between the two schools, but they would never schedule Louisiana Tech in any sport until there was a signed agreement for a football home and home with the first game at Cajun Field. (This was in 2007).
Now, Tech is hemorrhaging money in travel costs and ULM stopped playing them as well. They were having trouble making a non conference schedule where they could bus to everything (talking Olympic Sports here). Van de Velde called Walker and they worked out dates for football. Van de Velde stated now the other sports could schedule and Walker cut him off. "Do you think I'm f******g stupid? I said SIGNED CONTRACTS. Van de Velde said he'd sign them. He never did. The boycott continued.
Tech kept UL out of the Independence Bowl in 08. They denied it, but an Independence Bowl committee member confirmed it the following year.
The story of Tech sitting home rather than play ULM in the Independence Bowl is well documented.
Two years later, Tech agreed to the home and home to be played in 2014-2015, right when they joined Conference USA.
Louisiana and Tech play multiple sports non conference. And, yes, their fans are insufferable. At one of the basketball games a few years ago. They listed us as ULL, USL, LAF, and rotated them throughout the game on their scoreboard. Tommy McClelland didn't respond to my email, but they didn't do it again.
Other schools have similar stories. Tech tried to put ULM out of business. Arkansas State has stories as well.
Tech still won't schedule any of us in football. We both had openings last year after COVID affected our schedules and we made the call.
Memories are long here in the Sun Belt as it relates to Tech. But if Tech wanted to come in, the two Louisiana schools would say yes. Tech is part of the UL system with Louisiana and ULM. It would be bad politically to say no. But the Louisiana schools would have to convince others.
Like I said, memories are long here.
Here’s the whole thread, actually one of many. Any doubts, read it.
https://csnbbs.com/thread-929683.html
Found the date of the thread with the link, September 15, 2021.
Oh well, guess we'll just stay in CUSA then...shucks!
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