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Clearly more about the media markets than the institutions: DFW / Denver / Seattle / San Antonio, etc.

[quote name="bigred360" post="878231" timestamp="1287331102"] Yes, I read it on katfans this morning and here is my reply. I heard the "where are they now" sigment last night with Billy Tubbs and Bo Brown as I was leaving work. It is funny how two different people can hear the same thing and get a different message. IMO, Billy Tubbs was not dogging the SLC. He did state in his opinion it was a bad decision to drop football and leave the Sun Belt conference. I did not hear him say one bad word about the SLC. He stated in his opinion it would have been easier to go FBS if we never left the Sun Belt and that is true. (See South Alabama) He also mentioned the old rivalries with La Tech, North Texas, SW Louisiana (now ULL) and Arkansas State. Then he stated he thought bringing back football and all the excitement around SE Texas will run over into fan attendance in other sports at Lamar. Asking a honest question here; would you think it would be a mistake to go back to DII for financial reasons it that were to happen at SHSU? (I know it will not happen at SHSU I'm just using a hypothetical.) I say yes it would be a huge mistake and it was a mistake for Lamar to leave the Sun Belt for those reasons. Just my opinion. Coach Tubbs mentioned he and a few other administrators including Dr. Simmons are looking at all situations and monitoring conference realignment at Lamar. We have to get better in our athletic department, fielding better teams including football. Plus, we have to raise money for a move to a FBS conference. I believe I've read on here that you guys are monitoring the situation with conference realignment too. No one knows what the SLC will be if you lose 2 Texas schools and a couple from Louisiana due to budget issues. For TexasTerror, he did resign as AD and is Special Assistant/Consultant to the President. He helped bring back football and has made several great hires as in Coach Tidwell now AD/WBB HC, the strenght and conditioning coach Scott Reeves, Brian White men's golf, Dewi Hardman women's soccer, Ron Wesbrooks director of tennis operations, Justin Gibert volleyball, Trey Clark men's and women's cross country, media relations and other athletic administrative positions. If Coach Roc has a breakthrough season like I heard Coach Tidwell state he believed was going to happen after watching them practice in the off season program you can add him to the list a good hires by Coach Tubbs. Billy Tubbs has served Lamar University for a total of 25 years. He was involved in the winning of eight conference championships as a coach, and since he returned to the school as athletics director in 2002, Lamar teams have accounted for 20 Southland Conference championships in eight different sports. [/quote] This is how I heard it too, but thanks for posting it on anygivensaturday.com

[i]Re: Ousted Lamar AD Takes Shots at Southland     Quote Originally Posted by TexasTerror View Post     Per JJWooten on KatFans.com, Lamar's ousted athletic director (yes - he did resign - but let's get beyond the "wording") - resorted to dogging the SLC at halftime of Lamar vs South Alabama...     Come on Billy Ball - you still are linked to the Lamar program in a heavy way and are viewed as someone who speaks on behalf of the school/department because of your current role as a special advisor.     Okay, we know that TXST had plenty of folks 'dog' the Southland a few years ago, but none were employed by the school - they were members of the Drive committee with a few of those people taking shots at the academic quality of the other SLC schools having already pre-established reputations for their actions in other happenings during previous years...[/i] Did anyone else hear it as reported above by JJWooten on KatFans.com and TexasTerror on anygivensaturday.com?

[quote name="JJWooten" post="878060" timestamp="1287293954"] I wasn't there, but I watched every minute of it online, for what it's worth. [/quote] Aren't you an SHSU fan? as in the negative LU posts on Katfans.com: JJWooten Hero Member *****[i] Posts: 1280 on Katfans.com?   Re: Lamar AD Looking to Leave SLC « Reply #18 on: October 16, 2010, 08:48:13 PM »    Billy Tubbs on the halftime show for the USA game trashed the SLC pretty hard. He talked about how bad of a decision it was for Lamar to leave the Sunbelt for the Southland, and that's the reason why Lamar has struggled so much for the past two decades. He basically explained that his role as "advisor to the president" is to help them get out of the SLC if the opportunity comes up[/i]

[quote name="coachacola" post="874509" timestamp="1287068529"] It was originally reported that Lamar would play Hawaii in 2012, Oklahoma State in 2013 and Texas A&M in 2014.  Now it looks like Lamar will not be playing Hawaii in 2012, but Texas A&M instead.  If that's true then I hope both Hall and Johnson are playing for Lamar because they'll be needed for that game. I also read that Central Arkansas backed out of their game next year against UH so they could play Arkansas State, but they must find a team to replace them.  I wonder if Lamar may try to take that game with UH but not sure if there's a game already scheduled for that date.  That game with UH would pay Lamar about $275K. [/quote] The UH game would be a 'cheap travel' game, but the payout may not be inline with what LU needs from their OOC FBS games each year - that's why OSU and TAMU are on the schedule. I wouldn't put too much stock in the games that are scheduled beyond 2012 with Big 12 teams staying. The conference shakeups will cause a lot of scheduling issues and may create new opportunities or eliminate existing ones. Will be interesting to see how the future schedules play out.

South Alabama Coach on the game with Lamar: [Hidden Content]

Great photos! Thanks for sharing!

[quote name="puddin tane" post="865395" timestamp="1286165664"] [quote author=coog4life link=topic=73893.msg865095#msg865095 date=1286137932] [quote author=77 link=topic=73893.msg864953#msg864953 date=1286124163] Its always as good as you make it, enjoy! [/quote]I guess so.  Its my fault that a 40 year old power drinker and a two pack a day smoker sat next to me and my daughter.  Yea thanks alot. [/quote] can i have your tickets? [/quote] Made me laugh out loud.  ;D

[quote name="77" post="846262" timestamp="1284384699"] [quote author=WOS95 link=topic=72367.msg846228#msg846228 date=1284381583] [quote author=wildcat58 link=topic=72367.msg846008#msg846008 date=1284347380] I cant for the life of me figure out the stupid subject of lamar going FBS. For what? We have had no football for 21 years, now we are back with a great FCS! facility and some good local talent. We can recruit and take athletes from Mcneese and SFA and other schools and in a few years have an opportunity to establish a solid program at the FCS level. We could maybe become like Montana, Appalachian St,and Richmond and have a annually ranked team. In doing so we could have continued local excitement, success, and a full stadium, and compete for a real FCS championship settled on the field.I love texas football at all levels and understand somewhat the desire to play at a higher level , but to what end?  Your dreaming if you think lamar could ever recruit well enough to challenge any big schools. What is the purpose of playing on a FCS level and bringing big schools in to play here.yeah that would be great  TCU 68 Lamar 3,   Texas ATM 51 lamar 10,   Uof H 65 lamar 16  baylor 47  lamar 13, yeah that would be great fun. Hey look at us , look what we did, we went FCS and brought in big name schools for all to see, and in our first three years we went 5-31-0. We beat 2 FBS teams and UL monroe, North tx, and Ark state. wow! now the area fans we could have made happy being a solid FCS team now do not care to support a losing program. Complaints begin, meetings are held,football is to expensive and BOOM right back to 1989. No football. Be glad we are back let us prosper at this level in the SLC. Go Big RED. ;D   [/quote] this is the smartest post that ive seen so far concerning Lamar football... 8) [/quote] [/quote] Amen

Thanks for sharing Terror. Good article.

Any update on Game 3?

[quote name="westendfirst" post="763075" timestamp="1266642533"] [quote author=westendfirst link=topic=66293.msg763071#msg763071 date=1266642234] I'm trying to come up with a new name to put on the bag that I wear on my head for the next men's home game.  Any suggestions?  I've come up with a few:  Lastmar, Losemar, Can'tinals, Big Ded, How about a Who Dat chant?  "Who dat?  Who dat?  Who dat talking 'bout [u]losing [/u] to them Cardinals, who dat!" "Lastmar to thee we're singing, voices heard on low...." [/quote] Or maybe this chant  "We're number 256, we're number 256...." [Hidden Content] [/quote] 263 now...getting worse

[quote name="badndn" post="755519" timestamp="1265384809"] [quote author=PURPLE 4EVER link=topic=65236.msg754592#msg754592 date=1265222954] [quote author=etbu link=topic=65236.msg752328#msg752328 date=1264903548] Is the lack of support bc Lamar is a comuter school? [/quote] The reason there is lack of support is because the Triangle residents identify with their hometown high school football team. It is not just the Lamar football team that suffered... Any one remember the Beaumont Golden Gators...... [/quote] BINGO. All the more need to recruit local talent, which Woodard has done a good job with so far. [quote author=PURPLE 4EVER link=topic=65236.msg754592#msg754592 date=1265222954] I do think the # of students living at Lamar has drastically increased since I was there in the late 80's. This can only help the attendance at the football games. [/quote] Hasn't helped for Basketball yet. I am very dissapointed in the LU student sections or lack thereof. LU gets 3K-4K at every game of which maybe 200 are students in the student section. SHSU gets 2K-3K every game of which over half are students. If the students would show up (it's free for gods sake) over 1000 each night, that place would be rockin' to the tune of 5K-6K and I promise more wins. I've been there when we have big crowds and it gets loud and the team feeds off of it (BYU, Tx Tech, Both W's) [/quote] Doesn't look like the problem is winning at home....their road record s-u-c-k-s.

[quote name="AJ25" post="755372" timestamp="1265340507"] [quote author=mffl link=topic=65653.msg755357#msg755357 date=1265338093] [quote author=AJ25 link=topic=65653.msg755349#msg755349 date=1265336886] He has to redshirt this year then. [/quote] Why does he have to red shirt? I thought that was a J.C. His film on rivals looks impressive, he seems like he is capable of delivering some hard hits! [/quote] Duh, college at the end of Dean College is a give away. Ha my fault [/quote] Dean College is a 2-year institution. He should not have to red-shirt. Just like Blinn College is 2-yr, Lone Star College is 2-yr, etc. The word college does not mean 4-yr.

[quote name="coachacola" post="743362" timestamp="1263405566"] Here's a few annoying things about the LU athletics website: The last entry to the Construction Blog was made on September 16th, almost 4 months ago! The Facilities and Directions link doesn't include the football stadium or the new soccer stadium. North Texas created a website just for their new stadium with drawings and other nice features.  Lamar has done nothing to show off what the renovated stadium will look like.  How will that draw recruits? The Photo Galleries link hasn't been updated with stadium renovations since the summer. Can't they recruit some students to help update the website? [/quote] Amen...

It would just be nice to have the construction blog update once a week. Hell I'd take every other week, or once a month. The last update was 9/16. Seriously???? That is not a blog.

[quote name="coachacola" post="716441" timestamp="1259015438"] Wasn't SFA winless just a few years ago?  I don't think it's as hard to build a winning program at the FCS level as it is at the FBS level. [/quote] Just a reminder: Lamar tried building a winning program from the late 60's until the 80's...and was unsuccessful. Let's hope this go-round is different.

Definitely wishing Terror and his family the best.

Aside from the financial benefit of Reliant buying out the game, I don't see this being a big draw. Hopefully Reliant is paying for buses to get students from Nacogdoches and Huntsville to the game...and hopefully both teams have competitive records going into the game. Otherwise, I see this as being about as big of a draw as the SLC Basketball Tourney being held in Houston. ???

Highlanders - 45 PAM - 6

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Each visiting team is given an allotment of tickets that are sold through their own box office. Seats are usually in undesirable areas of the stadium...but you're with your fans.

Can you provide proof? Trying to find something on this page ([Hidden Content]) from the Center for Distance Education. All "on-campus"-type fees (i.e. Student Health Center, Rec Center, Setzer Center) are removed for those who only take distance classes. Would have to assume athletics is included since that's an "on-campus" type fee. Then again, the student service fee was on there last year and that is where athletics fee typically comes from. Now, is it different that athletics has their own fee separate from that? I completed my last semester fully online and never spent a day in a classroom. I paid every last fee listed. The way it was explained to me was the definition of distance learning classes at the time (maybe that changed this year). In any case if the class was offered online and in a classroom you pay the fee. If it is only offered online no fee. Make sense?

I do not see complete credibility in those numbers for athletic purposes, if not all students (the 3k-5k who are through that online teaching program/whatever) are paying student fees pertaining to athletics. Didn't we come to that conclusion - that athletic fees were not coming from those students? With SFA and SHSU adding bowling - you guys are next! Hope UCA adds as well. Then, we can get Ark St and La Tech as affiliate members for SLC bowling! Or are you going to add sand volleyball? I think that most the SLC is. All students - even online students pay the athletic fees. Th number is credible.

LMAO...you can tell San Antonio has no football.