If a Tech fan could dream????

[BOSTON]

I was reading an article on Steve Spurrier's coaching future and the possible schools he may be coaching at in the next year or so......Now before you all tune me out....just imagine it for a moment.....A man like Spurrier left Florida because he had proven there was nothing left for him to prove at the college level so he left for the NFL. Now as we all know, the old fun & gun didn't quite go over too well in the NFL...but he still loves coaching.....AND.... he still has the drive to prove something to himself and to all those involved in football.. ..Now we all know that he's already rich, so money may not be the driving force for him anymore.....But to take a small Div IA school such a Tech from rural Northern Louisiana to national (possible BCS) contention would be one heck of a challenge.....YEA...YEA...YEA....when donkeys fly.....stupid pipe dream...right???
But just think about it for a minute...picture it in your minds eye what all could happen......just the act of signing Steve Spurrier as the next Tech coach would probably more than double our attendance alone just in the first year.....then throw in the recruiting talent and news/TV exposure and marketing that would result.......It would be unbelieveable!!!!
Now don't forget the next generation of top assistant coaches would be lined up outside Tech's door just for the opportunity to work with Spurrier and work for nearly league minimum....Tech plays a season or two under the new coach and by the 3rd year...just watch all that money roll in and by that time we will be able to afford to keep all the coaches and TA-DA....the SEC is kicking Vandy out of the conferance and Tech takes their place.

[Dawgbitten]

All it would take is a little sales effort. You never know until you ask.

By the way, he LOVES golf!

[Nuke Dawg]

Man, I was thinking the same thing not too long ago. I even almost wrote a similar type thread, but thought of all the negativity usually associated with such a dream by others on this board. Sometimes it is tough being an optimist. Hell, he even is fairly familiar with the area from his dealings with Patrick Ramsey.

On another note, I just returned from graduation at Slidell High where I teach and coach. We have just recently begun using weighted grades so we had ten honor grads, too many to have a valedictorian and salutatorian. Anyhow, of the ten, THREE are going to Tech. Two in mechanical engineering and one in industrial engineering! I think LSU managed to get two, Tulane one, and the rest were the Washington University, Stanford types. I was sitting there very impressed. Despite our shortcomings, we are very well respected and holding our own down here. NOW WE JUST NEED TO WIN!!!!!!!!

Nuke

[aubunique]

What a sweet dream!

Nuke, say hello to the people in Carriere if you happen to get lost in Picayune. I may still have relatives there.

[BigEasyBulldog]

I dont think it's TOO crazy of an idea. Thing is, our admin. would have to push hard to make the sale, and you see how well they do that. But I still think it could be done with the right people making the pitch. We would have to hound him night and day and play up the fact that we have a talented group of players, who with his instruction could shine...yada yada. Its not like we have no talent on the team. We could be a VERY scary team THIS year under his helm. I also like the fact that everybody seems to hate him. Because now, as a tech fan, it seems everybody hates us as well. It really would be a good match. We could collectively(sp) tell everybody to kiss our ass.

Anything is possible, if you bust your ass for it. Just do it! Sometimes good isnt good enough, go for the best. Hiring him would do more for our program than any cusa invite would. Louisiana Tech would instantly become a household name. I am not saying all our problems would go away, but man things would get a whole lot easier.

Here's the 3 step plan:
1. Hire steve
2. Go independent (just for a year or two, because with coach s. we can confrence shop anyway after awhile.)
3. Start kicking everybody's a$$

Sounds good to me. I know its a little out there, but I can hope.:icon_wink

[TechDawgFan]

You know, the same thing could have been done with RC after the A&M deal. We never followed up to my knowledge. It is like the administration is scared to ask if they think the answer might be no.

TDF

[BlueRaiderPride]

I was reading an article on Steve Spurrier's coaching future and the possible schools he may be coaching at in the next year or so......Now before you all tune me out....just imagine it for a moment.....A man like Spurrier left Florida because he had proven there was nothing left for him to prove at the college level so he left for the NFL. Now as we all know, the old fun & gun didn't quite go over too well in the NFL...but he still loves coaching.....AND.... he still has the drive to prove something to himself and to all those involved in football.. ..Now we all know that he's already rich, so money may not be the driving force for him anymore.....But to take a small Div IA school such a Tech from rural Northern Louisiana to national (possible BCS) contention would be one heck of a challenge.....YEA...YEA...YEA....when donkeys fly.....stupid pipe dream...right???
But just think about it for a minute...picture it in your minds eye what all could happen......just the act of signing Steve Spurrier as the next Tech coach would probably more than double our attendance alone just in the first year.....then throw in the recruiting talent and news/TV exposure and marketing that would result.......It would be unbelieveable!!!!
Now don't forget the next generation of top assistant coaches would be lined up outside Tech's door just for the opportunity to work with Spurrier and work for nearly league minimum....Tech plays a season or two under the new coach and by the 3rd year...just watch all that money roll in and by that time we will be able to afford to keep all the coaches and TA-DA....the SEC is kicking Vandy out of the conferance and Tech takes their place.

But how could ya'll afford it?

[dawg80]

It never hurts to dream and think outside the box. Lord knows, north Louisiana needs a healthy dose of both!

But, Spurrier is way beyond our means. He could end up back at Duke, if he wouldn't mind sharing the limelight with Coach K. Or, perhaps a Vandy or a Baylor, where he'd be in a major conference but at programs without any history of success.

You can be sure of one thing, SS will look at Saban's contract and want at least $1 more. We ain't in that kind of league.

[BlueRaiderPride]

It never hurts to dream and think outside the box. Lord knows, north Louisiana needs a healthy dose of both!

But, Spurrier is way beyond our means. He could end up back at Duke, if he wouldn't mind sharing the limelight with Coach K. Or, perhaps a Vandy or a Baylor, where he'd be in a major conference but at programs without any history of success.

You can be sure of one thing, SS will look at Saban's contract and want at least $1 more. We ain't in that kind of league.

Steve Spurrier is from Tennessee originally. I could very well see him at a very rich school like Vanderbilt who could afford him and with a football tradition that would be a challenge for him to build, not to mention the chance of playing hated rival Phillip Fulmer and his Vols.

[BigEasyBulldog]

This may be a little OT, but were not THAT damn poor are we? I know 2.5 to 3 mill is out of the question, but if we wanted to (more like needed to)we could swing 1 to 1.5 mill range huh? All of this cusa stuff has people thinking we are in poverty or something. Tech looked fine while I was there, I mean we never looked like some juco. Hell, we have a beautiful campus.


And on another note, most of these people talking about how bad our facilites are, make me want to puke. Most of them havent even been to Tech, much less toured our sports complexes. All they are talking about is our football field anyway. The TAC is up there with the best of them, and our baseball field looks great. Could we use some improvement, yes, but its not that bad at all.

[TechsasDawg]

You're abslutely right, BigEasy! Unfortunately we have a lot of posters on this board that think it's cute to trash LaTech and everything about it. But again, a lot of them have never set foot on campus, and have no idea what they're talking about.

TD
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[BlueRaiderPride]

This may be a little OT, but were not THAT damn poor are we? I know 2.5 to 3 mill is out of the question, but if we wanted to (more like needed to)we could swing 1 to 1.5 mill range huh? All of this cusa stuff has people thinking we are in poverty or something. Tech looked fine while I was there, I mean we never looked like some juco. Hell, we have a beautiful campus.


And on another note, most of these people talking about how bad our facilites are, make me want to puke. Most of them havent even been to Tech, much less toured our sports complexes. All they are talking about is our football field anyway. The TAC is up there with the best of them, and our baseball field looks great. Could we use some improvement, yes, but its not that bad at all.

I don't know, dude, but there was a ranking done by the NCAA on each school's athletic budget and Louisiana Tech's was around $9.1 million which would rank 6th in the Sun Belt.

Alot of people assume just because the Sun Belt is the worst-rated conference in football, that it is sorry in everything else whether it be sports, academic programs, or money and facilities, but that is not true.

The schools in the Sun Belt have already spent over $340 million in facility improvements with an additional $190 million in current and future improvements being made.

[BigEasyBulldog]

I don't know, dude, but there was a ranking done by the NCAA on each school's athletic budget and Louisiana Tech's was around $9.1 million which would rank 6th in the Sun Belt.

Alot of people assume just because the Sun Belt is the worst-rated conference in football, that it is sorry in everything else whether it be sports, academic programs, or money and facilities, but that is not true.

The schools in the Sun Belt have already spent over $340 million in facility improvements with an additional $190 million in current and future improvements being made.

Have you ever been to Tech?....dude
Blah Blah sun belt. I dont care about the sun belt, I care about Tech. "Facilities" as they are being used in the argument against us are overated. You and your belt boys can go circle jerk about how nice your "facilities" are all day. Bottom line is your still in the sun belt, and therefore nobody gives a damn. Now go away.

[RealityCheck]

Have you ever been to Tech?....dude?

Doubtful. BRP likes to flame on any conference or university board unaffiliated with his own school.

[CARTEK]

Coaches like Spurrier and Slocum have all the money they will ever spend! Give 'em a lot at the golf course and pay 'em $250,000 with incentives based on winning, bowl games, and attendance...you never know unless you ask...and we haven't asked!

[BlueRaiderPride]

Doubtful. BRP likes to flame on any conference or university board unaffiliated with his own school.

To be quite honest with you, I was trying to be rational even though I have a vile hatred toward people, groups, and institutions that show the characteristics of disloyalty, selfishness, and that do all they can to hurt people if just to lift themselves up.

Only two schools in all Division 1-A exhibit these traits: Utah State and Louisiana Tech.

You may say every school does what USU and LTU did just to "better" themselves but that's horsecrap.

So, yes, I hate Louisiana Tech.

No, what I said originally was not a flame. La Tech is either dirt poor or mediocre wealthy in which there are five Sun Belt schools with more money and Middle Tennessee State is one of them!! Ya'll need to quit living in a fantasy and face reality!

Yes, I hope La Tech stays in the WAC for as many years as possible gutting your athletic budget of every last cent until you have nothing left! And it's coming.

Pride comes before the fall and pride is one of the seven deadly sins. Pride in the way Dan Reneau has handled the Sun Belt is not the type of pride that fans show at sporting events. The kind of pride that Reneau is showing on behalf of La Tech is the kind of pride the winds up destroying the people that exhibited it like Reneau.

Bottom line, La Tech doesn't have the money and could never ever ever EVER afford a coach as good as Steve Spurrier!

[BlueRaiderPride]

Have you ever been to Tech?....dude
Blah Blah sun belt. I dont care about the sun belt, I care about Tech. "Facilities" as they are being used in the argument against us are overated. You and your belt boys can go circle jerk about how nice your "facilities" are all day. Bottom line is your still in the sun belt, and therefore nobody gives a damn. Now go away.

No one cares about the Sun Belt? CUSA's Britton Banowsky will be if he loses Central Florida and Memphis to the Big East, and do you know why?

MARKET & RECRUITING

CUSA already has a presence in Louisiana with Tulane. They won't need another Louisiana school. Tulane covers the vastness of that state! However, CUSA WILL be looking to restore their markets in Florida and Tennessee before they look anywhere else and last I checked neither the MAC, Mountain West, or the WAC will have presences in either of those states!

Oh, but the Sun Belt does.

Middle Tennessee brings the Nashville market and the state of Tennessee back to CUSA while Florida Atlantic and Florida International bring back the Florida recruiting grounds as well as the markets of Miami, and Boca Raton/Fort Launderdale!

And as far as Louisiana is concerned Tulane already delivers that state's only REAL market--the one that has all the pro-sports teams which is New Orleans home of Mardi Gras and everything famous is Louisiana.

So just keep right on believing that no one gives a dang about the Sun Belt, because if the Big East expands forcing CUSA to expand, La Tech may STILL be without a home before it's all over with!

Oh, and by the way, it really is nice football stadiums like the one where MTSU kicked the living crap out of La Tech to the tune of 49-21 the last time the two played that really has the higher conferences' eyes on schools like MTSU.

Let's not forget the MAC had their eye on us.

[dawgpound]

The original theme of this thread is a great idea. As seems to happen a lot lately, these Sun Belt posters have changed the theme to explain what a great conference the Sun Belt is.

Back to the original idea. I think hiring Spurrier or some other big name coach that is not currently employed is a great idea. Attendance would increase greatly and we might even win some games. Yes, if they are successful, they will leave in 2-3 years, but there should be an assistant on the staff who could step in and maybe stay for some time.

We desperately need something like this.

[Cal&Ken]

I have a feeling that if were told we could get Spurrier for 3 years and here is what it would cost, the money could be raised very quickly. But, it is great to live in a dream world. Unfortunately I can't see it happening. We could solve all kinds of problems - attendance, excitement, recruiting, JBIII, with a single hire.

[BigEasyBulldog]

I have a feeling that if were told we could get Spurrier for 3 years and here is what it would cost, the money could be raised very quickly. But, it is great to live in a dream world. Unfortunately I can't see it happening. We could solve all kinds of problems - attendance, excitement, recruiting, JBIII, with a single hire.

Exactly! If there was a plan to hire somebody like Spurrier, we could raise the money. I really dont think that would be the problem. Hell, there would be a big boost in excitement and interest, if tech just released a press clip saying that we were active in trying to get spurrier. Just leak the story to a reporter, and bam, instant interest in la tech. We could do that.:icon_wink