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Dude you dropped the ball handing out your weak cred on this board after your attempts at flaming. You made Memphis proud.
The number of flamers we get is and indication of how close we are to our goal. Why else would they be coming here to sling their $^!+. What they don't realize is that they don't make a bit of difference in the process. Take all this as an indication of good things to come and that there will be some POed flamers in the near future.
WWDog
La Tech
Region and hyphen free since 1894!
Flagship of the University of Louisiana System
Tech's stadium would rank about sixth in the Sun Belt.
Their basketball arena would rank about eighth in the Sun Belt.
Their baseball stadium would be dead, f-ing last in the Sun Belt.
Their budget would be about fifth in the Sun Belt.
Who sounds like the Sun Belt team?
Here's C-USA's list right now:
1. Temple
2. MTSU
3. Western Ky.
4. UNT
5. Tech
I think Tech's a shoo-in
Somebody with a screen name like "gomemphistigers" sounds like a cheerleader to me.
Here's a pic of the cheerleaders at Southwest Tennessee last year.
I peg gomemphistigers as the one in the middle of the 2nd row ??
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I bet Memphis does look like Harvard from your perspective! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwe...munity_College. Good luck kid.
The Memphis talk did get me interested in the last time we played them (in a real sport).
Nov 14, 1959 in Ruston - Tech 10 Memphis 8
WWDog
La Tech
Region and hyphen free since 1894!
Flagship of the University of Louisiana System
Last edited by hoppinmad; 08-26-2010 at 08:33 PM.
Last time around, it was a somewhat close call for me whether C*USA should take LaTech or UNT (Texas solidarity), though I ultimately chose Tech. This time, though, it isn't even close. UNT was actually good last time around and right now they can't compete in the country's worst I-A conference. Louisiana Tech has been hit-and-miss, but at least they are competing in a conference equal to or better than C*USA. Further, right now it's *really important* that the new team be able to contribute. Last time around, C*USA's future looked brighter than it does this time around. Memphis and UAB were competitive, Marshall looked like an instant contributor, and Southern Miss was really strong. Southern Miss has been sliding (though I am partial to USM and hope that they get back to where they were), Marshall has proven to be mediocre, and Memphis and UAB fell off a cliff (though UAB is improving). Maybe UNT will rebound, but C*USA simply can't afford to bring in a team with a pretty stadium but a poor team playing on it. I also think that SMU is going to be a problem for them. UNT fell out of contemplation pretty early on last time around rumored to be because of SMU. Maybe they've kissed and made up, but I don't think their playing one another proves it.
Neither here nor there, but at Coogfans, we're hearing some pretty distressing things about that. One of our general informers says that C*USA is playing hardball and demanding in excess of $10m in damages. We have no idea why they would or on what basis they came to that determination (if we are worth that much, we are *seriously* being shafted with out current payouts), but the guy saying it is in a position to know such things. Whether they'll be able to get it is a different matter. Sounds like we'll end up in court if the invite comes. I'm not optimistic about our chances at the moment, though.