TexasTerror

Thought I'd share Old Dominion's current schedule for 2009, their first year. They have nine games with six of those being home games. The schedule includes one Div II team (Chowan), one non-scholarship FCS (Jacksonville), two partial-scholarship FCS (CCSU and Monmouth) with the rest being full-scholarship FCS teams. If they can get one more home game, that'd be more than impressive for a schedule for a first-year program. Problem for Lamar is there are not as many FCS schools in the region to pluck from. Most of those games for ODU are a few hour drive from their school. Lamar, pending the help they get from the SLC and SWAC schools, will probably have a few more sub-Div I schools on the slate, especially since all SLC schools play each other on weekly basis with no bye week set... Sept 5 - Chowan Sept 12 - Central Connecticut Sept 19 - at Jacksonville Sept 26 - Monmouth Oct 3 - NC Central Oct 10 - Presbyterian Oct 24 - at Savannah St Oct 31 - Georgetown Nov 21 - at VMI

Link? Just an FYI -- any links posted here with LU or SLC football articles, I send up to this web site that gets several thousand hits a day from FCS football enthusiasts. You guys got to help me out some!

As we have learned, budgets don't mean anything when you have a school like them that has constantly held down the cellar in the conference. Compared to McNeese where the goal is 8,000. For a school that is much larger, is in between two major cities, and everything else that would benefit them more than that of the Lake Chuck institution. Set it so low for a reason, I suspect...

Texas State - San Marcos, currently in the midst of an effort to obtain Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) status has cut shoulder pads from their budget in a line by line removal of needs on the athletic department budget. Before the admins get worked up, this is absolutely factual, as an unofficial group of boosters on the BobcatFans message board is currently in the process of raising the funds for this project. [Hidden Content] How can it be, that a program with the deepest pockets in the Southland Conference, one that aspires to play at a division that they perceive as higher than FCS, not have the necessary funds to buy shoulder pads? I understand that unofficial groups raise moneys for 'wants', but this is a 'need' that the athletic department does not have the funds to purchase for the program. As one fan put on the thread, " We'll do whatever we can to help Brad (Wright), but we really shouldn't have to raise money for basic needs for our sports teams". This is reality slapping the program in the face. If you want to move up to FBS, you need to do things the right way. While I am not a proponent of SHSU moving up under the current climate of football, a failure by the school in San Marcos would make it harder for SHSU and Lamar, both schools in the same system, from ever moving up.

Rice is a definite. They will be better than last year's team and you guys need to let me know what you think of their facility upgrade...Tech is going to be a close game, but advantage Lamar with the game in Beaumont.

Through Texas A&M...thanks to some bad coaching decisions! We had a few Golden Triangle guys come through, but we do not build a team around them. Long has a talented group of receivers, believe one was from Nederland... Not as many Golden Triangle guys on the roster this year...can't tell if we have any more, my mind is skipping me now... 87 King, Freddie WR 5-10 180 Fr. Port Arthur, TX (Memorial) 99 Choate, Trace DT 6-4 233 Sr. Lumberton, TX (Lumberton)

That's incorrect. Lamar would have to be FBS for that to happen. C-USA does not allow member schools to travel to FCS schools.

Actually, Rice and Tulane both did studies related to possibly going FCS or even Div III...a good friend of mine (and a former all-SWC offensive lineman) was very active in fighting to keep them playing Division I.

Nicholls plays five or six on an annual basis. They need the money and are in a complete different situation than the rest of the conference... I come up with my two money game rule as I got it from a conference that is striving to improve their RPI. They say two games against opponents who will not return the game. Obviously, a tournament situation is different and is exempt from that rule, though teams do get guarantees for participating in tournaments... As it relates to sub-Div I, we should limit those to two games anyway.

Any idea what tourney? These tourney things are changing by the year. Posted this on KatFans.com, let me post here about how a few teams are getting as many games exempt as possible...

The ESPNU news is great for the SLC... As it relates to the schedule, I am surprised Lamar has three $$$ games. In an ideal world, SLC schools would limit to two games, the amount of games that are not returned. Figured Lamar would be the front-runner in that, guess not. SHSU had two $$$ games last year (San Diego State and Saint Louis). Would hope they'd duplicate that again. We're keeping tabs on the SLC schedules OOC... [Hidden Content]

LU won't sell season tickets until they have an idea of how many home games they are having. Figure we'll begin hearing about LU football schedules for down the road soon. One would believe that LU would take deposits on season tickets in the not so distant future in order to start putting butts in the seats.

Thanks coachacola. That minority is sometimes rather vocal on this board... I am interested in Woodard's walk-on program. He seems to be putting a huge emphasis on it and I think we'll see lots of Golden Triangle guys get their chance through it, but once the program builds up and gets a nice balance each year in terms of scholarships, fewer walk-ons will be on the roster.

WOS95 -- just about every school does this nowadays, surprised you thought Lamar did it "in house"... Lamar uses CSTV (check out their web site address, GameTracker and all that they use, it's clearly out there that they do this). Lots of schools either use CSTV or JumpTV (formerly XOS). The SLC uses JumpTV as does SHSU and some other schools. JumpTV is a head of the game as far as the web-streaming goes and the SLC uses it for SouthlandTV. CSTV has some good features as well, think JumpTV's sales staff moved quicker than tech side of things (see that awful Gamewatcher!)...

Sure there are people in the Golden Triangle that can get the job done, but the way some individuals on this board talk, you would think that this your only recruiting spot and that you can build a winner solely from the Golden Triangle. Seems that too many individuals here rub a few too many elbows in the area... Good thing for your program, Woodard knows better and while he'll have a few guys from the Triangle on his team, he's not going to bank the program on these players. Reminds me of a story. Supporters of a program were telling a Div I coach that they need to look at XYZ because they were getting looked at by so many colleges. When the Div I coached asked that player's head coach what programs, it was all NAIA schools and bad ones at that. Kid could not play at Div I level at all.

How can you not say there are narrow-minded people on this board? There's a fair share of posters here who are all about Golden Triangle recruits and coaches. They want ____ from West Brook and Silsbee as coaches and _____ from Nederland and Vidor as players...

Not sure most of the USL/ULL gang knows much about Lamar nowadays... They smack talk McNeese left and right...then the Pokes go in there, kick their tail on the gridiron. Pokes go in to Lafayette and go head to head on the Cajuns' turf for recruits too.

You hang around Deer Park, the least romantic city in America?

Nice group of coaches on the speakers list and Woodard was a part of it. Funny to note that ULL had McNeese's coach among those speaking considering he went in to Cajun Country and stomped them! HS coaches were at this thing, so perhaps Woodard was laying some foundation in the Pelican State.

TexasTerror comes from the old Houston Arena football team that may have been around when you were just barely walking around...did live in Houston most of my life outside of the last three years...

Just trying to throw some Beaumont smack your way since it seems most of you are under the impression that it's some sort of mecca and that SETX is the second coming of whatever it may be...I don't quite get it! As far as football, I'm not too concerned with your program seeing as SHSU has expanded our recruiting area in prep for Lamar and even more FCS/FBS teams heading this way. We're bringing in kids from states and parts of Texas that we have never looked before. If anything, I hope Woodard is not as narrow-minded as some of the folks on this board when it comes to the Golden Triangle. He needs to be more far-sighted... I still think Lamar is going to have problems catching up with the McNeeses and Central Arkansas of the SLC...

I've heard lots of good things about Conway. Have not been there as I have to Huntsville, Nacogdoches, Hammond, Thibodaux, San Marcos and Beaumont...but Conway is apparently a pretty nice place. Dare I quote UNLV and say, "does size always matter?"

This can't be good for Lamar and Beaumont, this kind of publicity that is... The 10 Worst Places to Raise a Family (from best to worst) Springfield, Missouri Dayton, Ohio Corpus Christi, Texas Flint, Michigan (Country's highest violent-crime rate) Columbia, South Carolina Waco, Texas Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Fayetteville, North Carolina Beaumont, Texas (Long-standing air-quality challenges) Clarksville, Tennessee (Low educational spending: $6,729 per student) [Hidden Content]

Doubt ULL gets on the slate. I think LU was not too friendly to the Cajuns a few years ago with scheduling.

Curry is probably the highest paid coach in FCS... Georgia State has offered new football coach Bill Curry an annual salary of $350,000, according to documents obtained by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution through the Freedom of Information Act. This is not a contract but a memorandum of understanding. Curry has three months to sign the document. When Georgia State introduced him as head coach last week, Curry had agreed to a five-year contract. In addition to his salary, he will receive an annual $50,000 bonus that's tied to certain athletic and academic achievements that will be included in the contract. He will also receive a $500 month car allowance. He will have a pool of $450,000 with which to hire six assistant coaches, a director of football operations and an administrative assistant. [Hidden Content]