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The stAte and ULL can wonder why we got picked, but we always knew that there were good reasons to pick us:

“We are tremendously excited to have Florida Atlantic University in the 2008 Motor City Bowl,” said Executive Director Ken Hoffman. “The Owls are one of college football’s great success stories, having been the youngest program in NCAA history to earn a bowl berth when they won the New Orleans Bowl last year. FAU only began playing football in 2000. We believe that they will represent the Sun Belt Conference quite competitively in the Motor City Bowl.”


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2007 Sun Belt Football Champions 2007 New Orleans Bowl Champions 2008 Motor City Bowl Champions 2011 Sun Belt Basketball Champions No Bowls without Owls
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Are any of you guys near the football players? Are they going crazy tonight?

I hate to ask but has word reached the rest of the campus? Are any of the resident students celebrating?

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illinoisowl said

Are any of you guys near the football players? Are they going crazy tonight?

I hate to ask but has word reached the rest of the campus? Are any of the resident students celebrating?

I saw a handful or players at Chilis. I'm not sure what the reaction in the dorms was, but I doubt it was anything. I doubt that many people even know. I know in the apartments that no one said anything. I'm going to put a flyer or something tomorrow congratulating the team or something like that and when to watch it and junk like that.
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SeminOWL2006 said

The stAte and ULL can wonder why we got picked, but we always knew that there were good reasons to pick us

I saw some comments on the ULL Advertiser paper site announcing our bowl bid, they were pretty pissed.

Maybe they will come around and route for us as a belt team, maybe they won't. But we need to in this one and make ourselves 2-0 in bowl games… god that sounds nice!!!!

Plus take back our recruits!
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The only team that ULL should be pissed off at is LA-Tech who blackmailed the Independence Bowl into not allowing a Sun Belt team.  Also, they, and Ark State should be pissed at Walters for saying we had alternate contracts which wasn't true.  The Sun Belt didn't lose the Independence and Papa Johns bowls to 7-5 teams, they lost to two 6-6 teams from other conferences, exactly what the new tie-ins were supposed to do.

FAU did what it had to do, we didn't go after THEIR bowls, we went after whatever we could get, Hawaii and Motor City, and came out ahead.  Other Sun Belt teams have no reason to be mad at us, Motor City was never in the discussion.

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2007 Sun Belt Football Champions 2007 New Orleans Bowl Champions 2008 Motor City Bowl Champions 2011 Sun Belt Basketball Champions No Bowls without Owls
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SeminOWL2006 said

The only team that ULL should be pissed off at is LA-Tech who blackmailed the Independence Bowl into not allowing a Sun Belt team.  Also, they, and Ark State should be pissed at Walters for saying we had alternate contracts which wasn't true.  The Sun Belt didn't lose the Independence and Papa Johns bowls to 7-5 teams, they lost to two 6-6 teams from other conferences, exactly what the new tie-ins were supposed to do.

FAU did what it had to do, we didn't go after THEIR bowls, we went after whatever we could get, Hawaii and Motor City, and came out ahead.  Other Sun Belt teams have no reason to be mad at us, Motor City was never in the discussion.

From what I understand, the tie-ins were only assured if a belt team was 7-5 or better.  So a 6-6 belt team has no assurances of being in those bowls and would get the same considerations as a 6-6 team from another conference. For example, if FAU would have gone 7-5 then they would be in one of the bowls because of the tie-in, as a sure thing with no doubts.
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b_rider72 said

SeminOWL2006 said

The only team that ULL should be pissed off at is LA-Tech who blackmailed the Independence Bowl into not allowing a Sun Belt team.  Also, they, and Ark State should be pissed at Walters for saying we had alternate contracts which wasn't true.  The Sun Belt didn't lose the Independence and Papa Johns bowls to 7-5 teams, they lost to two 6-6 teams from other conferences, exactly what the new tie-ins were supposed to do.

FAU did what it had to do, we didn't go after THEIR bowls, we went after whatever we could get, Hawaii and Motor City, and came out ahead.  Other Sun Belt teams have no reason to be mad at us, Motor City was never in the discussion.

From what I understand, the tie-ins were only assured if a belt team was 7-5 or better.  So a 6-6 belt team has no assurances of being in those bowls and would get the same considerations as a 6-6 team from another conference. For example, if FAU would have gone 7-5 then they would be in one of the bowls because of the tie-in, as a sure thing with no doubts.

The way I understood the new tie-ins were as long as you are bowl eligible (at least 6 wins) and if conferences with tie-ins to those bowls didn't have enough teams to fill those slots (which they didn't) then they would chose from bowl eligible Sun-Belt schools. If you were 7-5 I'd like to imagine you'd be going bowling somewhere but then again Troy had 8 wins last year and got screwed so who knows

My two favorite teams are FAU, and who ever is beating FIU!
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The problem with the whole Sun-Belt team must be 7-5 is that they never talked about it when they announced it….if that was in the contract its BS, especially since Troy could have taken a fall against Ark State to get the conference an additional bowl.

LA Tech blackmailed the Independence Bowl, said they would go to Texas if they brought in ULL.  One of those two bowls should have had a Sun Belt team.

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