Which G5 Program would you like for us to play?
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A team we might have a chance to give a battle. So not Georgia or one of those schools. My preference would be match up dependent are they a good or bad matchup for us. But picking a name that theoretically we might have a chance to compete with if we have a real strong season I would pick Clemson. They are still a name though they have fallen off the last few years. But still top 25 but also a team that could potentially lose to a lesser team.
G5 generally refers to the Group of Five conferences (AAC, CUSA, SUN, MAC, MWC) not the Power 5 conferences (SEC, B1G, B12, ACC, PAC12), though the current iteration is more of a P4:G6. So Georgia and Clemson aren't what lobby is referring to here.
I have a soft spot for Coastal Carolina, but I'd want to see us play the top end of the G5 which would have meant Liberty or JMU this past season--though in fairness we couldn't handle Boise who were ranked well below either of those schools last year.
G5 not P5
Tulane I guess
Not many or maybe any G5 schools left that I’d be excited to see.
Tulane I guess
Not many or maybe any G5 schools left that I’d be excited to see.
We didn't handle Boise well, but Kansas would have cleaned the clock of UCLA, and UCLA easily beat Boise. Unfortunately for UNLV, they played poorly against BSU, and BSU had a very good game. In regards to Liberty, I think they were a paper tiger which showed when Oregon State beat them 45-6. I think SMU would be a good team, also Tulane and JMU
I did mean Oregon, not sure why I put state into the sentence. Didn't know SMU was in the ACC.
You mean Oregon, which a 39 point loss to Oregon is different than Oregon State (even though they were solid last year), they would have been the G5 representation in the expanded playoff last year.
SMU is now in the ACC.
I always have a hard time doing the paper/rock/scissors of this team beat this team and this team would have with no real evidence. Realistically I could say UNLV only beat two programs at or above .500 last year and one of those was without a starting QB who was fundamental to their offense. You start playing that moving shell game and you can say we're better than Kansas because we beat Wyoming, who beat Texas Tech, who beat Kansas. Too much conjecture for me to draw anything real from those sorts of statements.
Oh right in that case no team really excites me so maybe UConn because I could drive there in an hour or so to see the game.
Yes. For me it’s always UNLV first. But I’ve lived in Lafayette for the last 20 years. So so UL and LSU are both pretty fun to watch.
In basketball McNeese is having a heck of a year too.
Not sure I have a preferred G5 to play. They all seem to change year to year as to which one is good.
I think this is Lobby subtly hinting that we are negotiating scheduling a certain G5. If that's the case, I'd take Memphis and/or Tulane. Both seem to have a higher likelihood of sustained success.
Notre Dame.. Does that count? Feel like the Go-Go offense could put up enough points against that historically stout defense..
Not to nitpick, but relevant is misspelled on your handle......
Not to nitpick, but relevant is misspelled on your handle......
Bro...
A mispelling is the least of that dudes issues.
Let me paint you a picture...
He sits near me at the football games.
One game he wore white tie dyed yoga pants, what appeared to be a Care Bear Tie dye shirt, a plastic green cowboy hat with a Golden Knights sticker on it and a UNLV bath robe. Oh and there may have been a glow stick..The cowboy hat really brought the ensemble together.
Now...
Imagine trying to explain to your pretty conservative, West Point Graduating, retired Lt Colonel, Vietnam Vet father that the guy wearing a plastic green Cowboy hat and a bath robe is 'probably harmless.'
A misspelling won't phase him a bit.
Ha ha!
As a kid we would tie dye our own jeans, and I had a tie dyed shirt too. Grooovy!!
