Final Rankings for 2009 Season
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Re: Final Rankings for 2009 Season
Final Rankings for 2009 Season
Nunzio42 said
What we need to hope for is more competition in the belt, more bowl tie ins, and some more big wins as a conference vs large programs on national TV.
More bowl tie-ins will come as new bowls emerge and/or bowls switch their allegiance to us once we start travelling well.
If the Sun Belt is going to add teams, it needs to add teams like Appalachian State. Western Kentucky is a good add. South Alabama played football this season and won every game, although they won against teams like Hargrave. Look at the attendance though:
26,783 for the first game. Sound familiar? From the pictures it looks like attendance dropped after that. They have an awesome stadium though so they should probably land some decent recruits and the fanbase will pick back up.
Really the Sun Belt should require a couple of things for all members schools:
- Provide a 30,000 seat stadium.
- Play at least one local school per season that could draw well.
- Provide at least 5000 student beds on campus (I actually think this is the most important but I know it's not really the conference's place to ask for this)
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Wise Owl
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Re: Final Rankings for 2009 Season
owlcountry said
More bowl tie-ins will come as new bowls emerge and/or bowls switch their allegiance to us once we start travelling well.
Agree.
In the past the Belt's problem was not the lack of Bowl tie-ins, but the lack of producing teams that were Bowl-eligible. It was difficult to build allegiance with Bowl games when we couldn't produce teams to play in them. That is changing so we should see more progress in this area.
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