Lamar @ Oklahoma State Predictions

[coachacola]

I was watching mike gundy's show today on one of the fox sports networks and he said they are expecrting the largest crowd in osu history. That should be a fun atmosphere for LU to play in. I hope LU can keep it interesting for the whole game.

[Guest NorthoftheBorder]

I was watching mike gundy's show today on one of the fox sports networks and he said they are expecrting the largest crowd in osu history. That should be a fun atmosphere for LU to play in. I hope LU can keep it interesting for the whole game.

 

Why do they think this will be the largest crowd in history?? I would think that OU would generate that!!

[LAZEEK]

First game in recently renovated Boone-Pickins!!!

[Guest NorthoftheBorder]

First game in recently renovated Boone-Pickins!!!

 

So the next home game after LU will probably break that record??

[Guest CardAmbassador]

I'm liking that this scandal stuff is breaking this week.

 

Okie State gets distracted and doesn't see us coming, then we pull off the marquee upset of the year? ;D

[Lamarcard81]

At this stage in our development I wish we were not playing Bacone either. We dont get anything out of winning 75-0 or losing 63-7. The very fact that no one on this board gives us a chance to win is reason enough not to play. I understand the money but if Caleb Berry gets hurt our chance of really competing in conference for the first time in 24 yrs is diminished. I never suggested we were sending lambs to slaughter.

If we are beating Bacone 28-0 at the end of the first quarter I hope we start seriously substituting right then. The following week at Grambling will be a much better preparation game for our conference talent level and I would risk injury for solid preparation... not money or stats. If Caleb spends all night running for his life for money on regional TV it does nothing for LU or Caleb.

 

All said I am going to watch and hope for the best. I know the Cards will lay it all on the line.

Go Big Red

 

 

[LUSportsFan]

I agree about teams like OPSU and Bacone. I'm sure Oklahoma State fans feel the same about playing FCS teams. In defense of the AD, I suspect one of the reasons we have scheduled two sub DI teams this year may be that Georgia State backed out of their game scheduled in Beaumont. Cancellations of games scheduled in the future is fairly common, but it would have been nice to have replaced GaSt with an FCS team.

 

Too bad they backed out. We would probably have had a pretty good chance of beating them here this year based on their record so far.

 

http://blog.beaumontenterprise.com/inthecards/2013/02/21/georgia-st-backs-out-of-agreement-with-lamar/

 

Part of the problem may be getting other FCS teams to come here and to the other SLC members. In a "The Sports Network" (TSN) article discussing some of the new tools put in place to select teams for the FCS Championship round, UCA's coach Clint Conque had some comments related to scheduling challenges.

 

"... The SRS will factor in all of a team's games against FCS, FBS and Division II competition. In past years, a game against a Division II opponent did not count toward a team's resume.

 

But the new system will incorporate them into the equation and rightfully differentiate the levels of wins, including both home and away, which will provide a true strength of schedule tool. It will be recalculated on a weekly basis through the final regular-season games on Nov. 23 and the announcement of the playoff field the next morning.

 

The selection committee also will consider potential at-large teams with six wins against Division I competition, when in the past it basically considered seven to be the benchmark.

 

Conque says the new factors will help teams in conferences like his Southland and the Big Sky, where there are many fewer FCS schools geographically than the Northeast, Midwest and Southeast, and almost forces their members to play both a Division II school and an FBS opponent in a season. In the past, that could have hamstrung the chance to get to seven Division I wins.

 

"To be able to get credit for difficult scheduling, having to play a quality Division II school and the FBS, that balances out a little bit the fact we can't get a game with Valparaiso, Butler or Saint Francis or Drake or people like this," Conque said..."

 

http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=sportsnetwork&page=cfoot2/news/news.aspx?id=4623767

 

Grambling will be an interesting game. They fired their head coach last week. Grambling's running backs coach is completing the season.

 

http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/9661928/grambling-state-fires-football-coach-doug-williams

 

Back to our game with Oklahoma State, I'll be watching the game. I'm looking forward to a good showing by the Cardinals. I've had the dvr set up for a couple of weeks now. :)

[austin badbyrd]

As far as the controversy is concerned, it may work for us or against us. But all things being equal (or as equal as it can be and that's not saying much) I just hope the Cards don't embarrass themselves. I hope it will be a little competitive.

With that said......

OSU 45

LU 20

 

...and that's being optimistic.