(05-31-2018 08:37 AM)Bleacher Eagle Wrote: (05-30-2018 08:30 PM)eaglebeaver Wrote: Uhh, maybe finishing in the Top 20 three times.
So 3 Top 20s in nearly 60 years of D1 football. That's like once every 20 years or so. How frequently do we do that in baseball? Every couple years?
(05-30-2018 08:30 PM)eaglebeaver Wrote: maybe winning 2 small college national championships
I don't dispute we could drop down to FCS and compete for National Titles. But we are talking today's program, which competes in FBS.
(05-30-2018 08:30 PM)eaglebeaver Wrote: maybe beating Bama and Brer Bryant
A single win over a guy who died nearly 40 years ago? You might as well brag about small college championships from the 50s... Oh wait.
(05-30-2018 08:30 PM)eaglebeaver Wrote: maybe defeating more top 20 teams than anyone in C-USA combined.
The tallest midget.
(05-30-2018 08:30 PM)eaglebeaver Wrote: maybe destroying TCU's and Houston's run to a BCS Bowl.
Two examples of programs that have accomplished much more than us and left us in the dust. Both of those teams have played in Access Bowls (i.e., modern day BCS Bowls), so we certainly didn't destroy anything.
(05-30-2018 08:30 PM)eaglebeaver Wrote: maybe turning out 2 NFL HOFers
Just 1 behind Jackson State.
(05-30-2018 08:30 PM)eaglebeaver Wrote: maybe having nearly 20 winning seasons
Again, the best of which got us to the Liberty Bowl.
Look, the point is simple:
We have been nationally relevant in baseball.
We will be nationally relevant in baseball.
We can win a National Title in baseball.
^^^NONE of these things are true for football.
Apples and Oranges>
1- Small college these days (Delta State, Miss College, N Alabama) was not small college when MSC won 2 championships....as a matter of fact, our schedule was tougher THEN than it is NOW......We've really only been a major college since 1976, so all this talk about what we've done the last hundred years is, well, doo doo..
2- ...and by the way, doesn't matter if it was a hunert years ago, who else beat Brer Bryant at home?
3- OK, so we've beaten more top 20 teams than ECU, Memphis, we-got U-Conned, Tulsa and purty much everyone else in AAC. So, do that make us a short person instead of a tall midget?
4- TCWho and Yooston?...Gee, do you think BOTH schools being in 2 of the largest metro areas in 'murica had anything to do with it? Do ya think being former members of the Southwest Conference had anything to do with it? Jeeezus
5-Do you remember something called segregation? Grambling and Jax State had their pick of basically all the black athletes in the South. They should have a brazillion HOF'ers!
6-IF (yes IF) 18 winning seasons in a row is no big deal, why doesn't everyone else do it?
Some of you folks need to become Wal Mart Bummer or Corn Dawg LSWHO fans so you can crow everyday how much better you are than everyone else. Anyone so bitter about USM needs to have a back up plan like BDR so you can shout S-E-C S-E-C and pretend you are somebody
As for me, I'm proud of USM and our history, which doesn't mean I'm proud of where we are right now, but life sucks sometimes.