TexGator

The attendance numbers don't seem to currently necessitate expansion. The updated locker rooms = a great step, but I don't think adding seating even to get to a full 20K is needed until the Golden Triangle community starts to show up. Now, if they start scheduling home games against schools that travel well, that's a different story. Doing the math, if we add 4K to the East Side, at $50/seat, that'd be an extra $200K/game in revenue that has to be shared with the visitor, depending on the contract... so it's not necessarily a straight dollars-and-cents decision. Whether it's getting a H&H (or even 2-for-1) against a G5 school or a SWAC school that travels, there just isn't the demand to spend what would probably be over $20M to upgrade the East Side of PUS. Spending money just to "upgrade" is what gets you what Sam Houston is dealing with this year- $70M to not add any additional seating (at least the last time I checked, the price had increased to that... and the seating capacity wasn't being expanded). All for the low, low price of: - articles ridiculing the turnout - games 90 minutes from campus - being the #2 team on the ESPN Bottom 10 for weeks O'Malley is working on the student/fan experience with the on-field success being the most important part of it. Here's to hoping the improvements continue. Now, Rice doing it is potentially advantageous for them because they can't get schools to come to them w/o the promise the game will be sold to NRG (when was the last time UT, TAMU, OU, or LSU played in Rice Stadium? Without checking every year's schedule, I'd guess 1997, when Texas showed up).

Sweet. Gotta get this win... can't take any opponent for granted. The way UIW has beaten us the last 2 years should be sufficient inspiration, but I'm sure they've been working hard to keep focus.

Planning on being there. Hate that the visiting side is 100% "General Admission" bleacher seats.

I'm with NOTB (and not because they agreed with me). It all becomes moot if the team doesn't take care of business this weekend so let's hope the guys TCB this weekend in San Antonio- remembering what they did the last 2 years.

While I don't think he's on the Committee, we know there's a lack of people who are focusing on projecting the bracket. 2025 FCS playoff bracket predictions entering the final month of the season | NCAA.com His projection is based on: 1) No slipping up against the two "should win" games AND also beating SELA 2) SFA winning out He put SFA as the #15 and Lamar as the #16. Like I said, it's not the be all, end all.... but it's a decent way to frame it that we know that if we win 3 of 4, we're probably in. I'd rather have the guys sweep and be in position to potentially get a bye.

I agree that it helps our case for an At-Large bid... but I'd rather have the "Conference Champion" trophy since it'd definitely mean a home playoff game (no way they're sending a 11-1 SLC Champ on the road for the 1st Round, given that we've already moved up to the top 15.

I think the 2 that the NCAA website lists are the 2 to follow, as well as the one the committee puts together, but isn't updated weekly since it clues people in on what they're thinking so you know, if you're on their list (of 10), you just need to keep winning and you'll likely get one of the 8 byes. We weren't on that last list 2 weeks ago, but I think sweeping the last 4 games would get them that bye (that comes with a home game 2nd Round game).

As much as I'd love for the Southland to be a 3-bid league (would be a testament to the strength of the conference), my FIRST priority is for Big Red to be playing December football. While the Info Guide doesn't have the dates on games before 1950, but in the last 75 years, we've played a total of 3 games in December. I'd love to add to that number.

Yesterday was the last "easy" game. I don't care if UIW is down this year- they have a championship pedigree. They know how to win and their wins are over good teams. Can't overlook them at all.

All that said, the Cards need to win convincingly. They can worry about UIW after they sing postgame.

It's a nice "problem" to have to that Coleman is sitting close to being 3rd in career passing yards on the bench, should McCown need to take a game off. I'd prefer to have him in there... and for it to turn into a controlled scrimmage quickly like the Texas Southern game. As I said about the TSU game, we need to "make it late... early." Just put them away early and make the Demons get off-schedule where we can easily win and shift the focus to UIW.

We should have better supported the team in the '80s. McNeese, Sam Houston, and others ascended with less competition in the '90s and '00s.

You do realize you could have just googled "1985 Lamar Cardinals football" and the Wikipedia page would have produced the information. ChatGPT isn't needed.

As long as that's true about the players being at practice... that's all I ask.

I sit corrected. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_NCAA_Division_I-AA_football_rankings#NCAA_Division_I-AA_Football_Committee_poll