re: Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns Athletic Complex Virtual Tour

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ULL's mistake was insisting on remaining division 1 years ago. Compete against SFA, Sam Houston, Southeastern, Nichols, McNeese, Northwestern, etc. That's your station. Dominate that level rather than forever be stuck at the bottom.

What's better? Finally getting a Sun Belt conference championship or winning an FCS national title? Will these facility improvements vault ULL all the way to the Beef O'Brady's Bowl?

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Ah, the same ole "know your place" cry.



New facility improvements/enhancements are one-way tickets to better conferences so we don;t have to play teams like Nichols and Troy. They're your number one marketing tool in order for a program to grow. Plain and simple. If you look at schools who are moving to bigger and better conferences, take a look at each of their stadiums and facilities. Almost every single school went under a facility upgrade. And guess what? Most of them were STATE FUNDED. As of 2012, there were only 23 universities that were self-sufficient.

You think we would be able to attract teams like Boise State, Oklahoma State, or Kansas State to Lafayette by being FCS? No, because FBS schools don't travel to FCS schools.

Not to mention, being ranked in the preseason top 50 doesn't really consider you to be "stuck at the bottom." Like I mentioned in a previous post, there's always people who look at the negative side whenever another in-state school not named LSU tries to grow or improve themselves.