If that happens,Eaglewave wrote:Not if your talent level is not up to par. You only get you tail kicked by better opponents and lose confidence. The loss of confidence only makes you fall apart to the Rice's and UAB's of the world. I just hope CJ brings in all of the "beast" he is saying that he has on the way. We are expected to be ranked pretty high for the 2013 class.
NOLABigSteve wrote:If that happens,Eaglewave wrote:Not if your talent level is not up to par. You only get you tail kicked by better opponents and lose confidence. The loss of confidence only makes you fall apart to the Rice's and UAB's of the world. I just hope CJ brings in all of the "beast" he is saying that he has on the way. We are expected to be ranked pretty high for the 2013 class.
1. It is on the coach
2. You have some sorry ass players
You're right, we have. And it sucks.Eaglewave wrote:Well, we sure have seen it happen here plenty of times in the past.
+1waveclem wrote:Juuust my opinion, but i think our schedule is already pretty dumb. Conference usa sucks and we cant even win these games. Stop lowering the bar. Drop the loser mentality.
NOLABigSteve wrote:+1waveclem wrote:Juuust my opinion, but i think our schedule is already pretty dumb. Conference usa sucks and we cant even win these games. Stop lowering the bar. Drop the loser mentality.
I agree. There is no way playing tougher program will help us right now. We need a weak 2013 schedule that can get this 120th ranked program some wins. What is going to kill our program is going 4-8, 2-10 and 3-9 every year. Going 7-5 and 8-4 is going to keep our program in the FBS untill we get the correct talent in to compete against bigger and better teams. A winning season will give these players some much needed confidence going into 2014.LSU Law Greenie wrote:Or we can play a tougher schedule and go 0-12, 3-9, 2-10 and 1-11 over the next 4 years ... looks like a good way to kill a program to me!
Says the man who won a bowl game in 2002. After that ugly 2001 season, the 2002 schedule was far from a tower of power. In fact, division I-AA Southern was the first game of the season that year and the crowd was at 40k+. You should be one of the main posters here wanting to see a FCS team on the 2013 in order to build some confidence to these kids who don't know how to win. This season is going to end ugly. We need another 8 win season asap.NOLABigSteve wrote:You never want to dumb down the schedule.
The schedules were pretty much identical. We played Southern both years, LSU in '01 and Texas in '02, so your argument doesn't hold. Playing FCS teams does not build confidence. And coming from a player, I can tell you that is the truth. Never do you feel good or feel like you're a force to be reckoned with when you whoop up on a weak, Div II team. In fact, it is the exact opposite. The locker room was never more amped than when we did play LSU and Texas, even though we lost. Recruits don't want to come in and play Southern, etc.Eaglewave wrote:Says the man who won a bowl game in 2002. After that ugly 2001 season, the 2002 schedule was far from a tower of power. In fact, division I-AA Southern was the first game of the season that year and the crowd was at 40k+. You should be one of the main posters here wanting to see a FCS team on the 2013 in order to build some confidence to these kids who don't know how to win. This season is going to end ugly. We need another 8 win season asap.NOLABigSteve wrote:You never want to dumb down the schedule.
sader24 wrote:It's going to be really hard to recruit good players when they see a schedule filled with nobodies. Good players want to play good teams in all sports. I'd rather go 6-6 against a good schedule than 10-2 against nobodies and FCS teams.
NOLABigSteve wrote:The schedules were pretty much identical. We played Southern both years, LSU in '01 and Texas in '02, so your argument doesn't hold. Playing FCS teams does not build confidence. And coming from a player, I can tell you that is the truth. Never do you feel good or feel like you're a force to be reckoned with when you whoop up on a weak, Div II team. In fact, it is the exact opposite. The locker room was never more amped than when we did play LSU and Texas, even though we lost. Recruits don't want to come in and play Southern, etc.Eaglewave wrote:Says the man who won a bowl game in 2002. After that ugly 2001 season, the 2002 schedule was far from a tower of power. In fact, division I-AA Southern was the first game of the season that year and the crowd was at 40k+. You should be one of the main posters here wanting to see a FCS team on the 2013 in order to build some confidence to these kids who don't know how to win. This season is going to end ugly. We need another 8 win season asap.NOLABigSteve wrote:You never want to dumb down the schedule.
NO FCS TEAMS.
Man please! That era is over. Most of these kids want to play. Why do you think you are seeing more and more FCS teams beating FBS in this era? Why do you think you are seeing more FCS players and non BCS conferance players in the NFL? Kids don't want to wait untill their senior year to start anymore. They want to play now and shine on the field against LSU or SLU. I am not worried bout what type of recruits CJ is bringing to Tulane because he is a great recruiter. I am more worried about having a chance to have winning seasons at this point. Not winning more that 5 games in a season since 2002 really sucks.sader24 wrote:It's going to be really hard to recruit good players when they see a schedule filled with nobodies. Good players want to play good teams in all sports. I'd rather go 6-6 against a good schedule than 10-2 against nobodies and FCS teams.
My argument holds because I was on the team, in the locker room, and on the practice field. The losing sucked, but the experience was well worth it. We all much rathered running out onto the field and playing in front of 94,000+ in Tiger Stadium vs. 40k at the Dome vs. Southern any day. The Texas game in the Dome during the evacuation week was more exciting than a Southern game too.Eaglewave wrote:Yeah. Ok. I guess you guys were fired after taking a 48-17 lost to LSU in 2001 and a 49-0 lost to Texas in 2002.
Both 01 and 02 FCS Southern games brought wins and 40 to 41K to the dome. My argument holds because the 2002 was a weak C-USA era, and the schedule was a watered down after the 3-9 2001 season.
