re: Ten Reasons ULL didn't make it to a bowl LSU#5

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Any other school would be mad to go to the Independence Bowl!!

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Really? Tennessee, Auburn, Arkansas, Mississippi State, Texas A&M, Colorado, Kansas State, Iowa State, and Baylor probably wouldn't have minded.

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Any other school would be mad to go to the Independence Bowl!!

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To be honest, when we went to the Independence Bowl in Dinardo's 1st year, all the LSU students were quite happy. That's how bad we sucked.

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He couldn't justify spending $300.

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I know people that paid that price for one ticket to the Bama game.

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Here you go:
Attendence for the 5 N. Ill. home games.
Indiana St. - 20,936
Miami (Ohio) - 17,444
Toledo - 22,092
Bowling Green - 17,163
C. Michigan - 13,543
Total 91,178 Average - 18,235

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N. Ill played six home games. The sixth home game was against Navy.

Here is a slightly dated (2004-2005 school year numbers), but still telling disclosure of ULL's athletic program. Use the drop-down to find them.

Note for football, guarantees, i.e., "body bag games", brought in more revenue ($700K) than ticket sales ($427K).

Note something that they include as revenue, but is not revenue at all. Direct Institutional Support = $3.2 million. That, LA folks, is money out of your pocket as a hard working taxpayer.

I've heard, though don't have a link, that the number has climbed now to ~$5 million. The techsters and others get something similar.

If left to support themselves, ULL, Latech, etc. would be no higher than Division II.

2004-2005 NCAA Member Athletic Budget Information

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When I worked at KSMB in Laf, you couldnt give ULL tickets away most of the time. In fact they do give away at least 1/3 of them if not half.

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I work in Lafayette. We have four (4) ULL season tickets. The company employees rarely want them. I usually have to call a few people before I can find someone to take them. Thats during a good year (6-6). Last year, they went un-used for some games.

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5. LSU – There’s no way LSU could be behind this, right? Don’t be so sure. For a certain segment of Ragin’ Cajun Nation, anything and everything that goes wrong is due to in-state arch-nemesis LSU. There’s a lot of pent-up animosity here from conspiracy theory yore about how LSU does everything in its power to keep UL down, from foiling its name change to stealing its money in the state Legislature. You’ve got to reach pretty far to pin the bowl snub on LSU, but Independent Weekly reader John Mikell called in with what could be the missing link: Independence Bowl Executive Director Missy Setters is not only an LSU alum but also worked in the LSU Sports Information office for three years.

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This reminds me of the "BDS" sufferers populating sites like the Daily Kos. Or the people at U La La have a mighty high opinion of themselves if they think that LSU cares their bowl prospects.

UL is Louisville. Man when will those people realize they are ULL or U-LA-LA. It cracks me up the way they push the UL thing.

#1 reason is nobody wants their sorry arse team in their bowl. Go back to div 1AA and be competitive.

But we're good at softball and table tennis!

Doesn't Louisville have UL Trademark??

No doubt. It'll prob be at least another 10-20 years before they schedule McNeese again. McNeese didn't just whoop ULL's @ss they embarassed them. Hell McNeese took a knee around ULL's 15 yard line to end the game, as bad as the loss was it could have been worse.