Pirates still buzzing about bowl matchup

[HaulingBull Sucks]

If we only win 4 bowl games in 28 years I'd be shocked.  And how many years before 1978 did ECU play and not go to a bowl game?

Right now, you're 0 wins in 10 years.  Great start.      

0 bowl wins in 5 years i believe, since we were not in 1-A before that.  yes, it is a great start.  thank you for noticing.  again, how many years did ECU play division 1 football before you played in a bowl game?

Unless you win, there's really nothing to write home about...especially the bottom of the pile bowl.

[windbane]

Ok, it became obvious none of you ECU fans were going to answer my question, so I did a little research.  ECU was an independant NCAA 1-A team in 1932.  Until 1997 (C-USA), they were mostly Independant with some time spent in the North State Conference, Carolinas Conference, and Southern Conference.  They have 5 conference championships, 1 in North State and 4 in Southern (someone tell me if you have heard of these extinct conferences, maybe they are 2-A?).

Anyway, started football in 1932 and won a Bowl game in 1978.  Come back in 46 years to see if we have won a bowl game yet.  Or a few weeks, whatever.

[windbane]

If we only win 4 bowl games in 28 years I'd be shocked.  And how many years before 1978 did ECU play and not go to a bowl game?

Right now, you're 0 wins in 10 years.  Great start.      

0 bowl wins in 5 years i believe, since we were not in 1-A before that.  yes, it is a great start.  thank you for noticing.  again, how many years did ECU play division 1 football before you played in a bowl game?

Unless you win, there's really nothing to write home about...especially the bottom of the pile bowl.

The fact to "write home about" is going to a bowl game at all in that short period of time.  Unlike the 46 years it took ECU to reach a bowl game.

[HaulingBull Sucks]

Ok, it became obvious none of you ECU fans were going to answer my question, so I did a little research.  ECU was an independant NCAA 1-A team in 1932.  Until 1997 (C-USA), they were mostly Independant with some time spent in the North State Conference, Carolinas Conference, and Southern Conference. They have 5 conference championships, 1 in North State and 4 in Southern (someone tell me if you have heard of these extinct conferences, maybe they are 2-A?).

Anyway, started football in 1932 and won a Bowl game in 1978.  Come back in 46 years to see if we have won a bowl game yet.  Or a few weeks, whatever.

Let's be fair, how many conference have the Bulls won on any level?

If this was 1932 USF wouldn't be going to the Pizza.com Bowl.

Compare bowl elegibilty back then to what it is today.  Which bowl would a team that finished tied for 4th in a conference like the BE have been invited to?

[Kyle76]

Ok, it became obvious none of you ECU fans were going to answer my question, so I did a little research.  ECU was an independant NCAA 1-A team in 1932.  Until 1997 (C-USA), they were mostly Independant with some time spent in the North State Conference, Carolinas Conference, and Southern Conference.  They have 5 conference championships, 1 in North State and 4 in Southern (someone tell me if you have heard of these extinct conferences, maybe they are 2-A?).

Anyway, started football in 1932 and won a Bowl game in 1978.  Come back in 46 years to see if we have won a bowl game yet.  Or a few weeks, whatever.

Wow.  Not surprising you don't know anything about college football history since your school has none.  Do a little more research and you'll find we won a few "small college" bowls back in the 1960s (one was the Tangerine Bowl, precursor to the Citrus Bowl, which I belive we won twice) when we were one of the top "small college" teams in the nation running the single wing offense under a coach named Clarence Stasavich.  There was no 1-A and 1-AA back then.  You might not remember since there probably was no USF, either.  In the 1970's, after winning three straight Southern Conference championships, we decided to toss our hats in with the big boys (it was called the College Football Association back then) and go independent.  We went to the Independence Bowl in 1978, winning our first bowl as a "major" school.  That was back before half the schools in Div. 1A went to bowls.

[HaulingBull Sucks]

This whole pissing contest is bull$hit...the game is played  on the field...and it doesn't matter which conference the teams have played in or how many points they did or did not score in previous games...the only thing which counts is the score at the end of the game that will be played on 12-23-2006.

Go Bulls!

[Bullpride08]

Ok, it became obvious none of you ECU fans were going to answer my question, so I did a little research.  ECU was an independant NCAA 1-A team in 1932.  Until 1997 (C-USA), they were mostly Independant with some time spent in the North State Conference, Carolinas Conference, and Southern Conference. They have 5 conference championships, 1 in North State and 4 in Southern (someone tell me if you have heard of these extinct conferences, maybe they are 2-A?).

Anyway, started football in 1932 and won a Bowl game in 1978.  Come back in 46 years to see if we have won a bowl game yet.  Or a few weeks, whatever.

Let's be fair, how many conference have the Bulls won on any level?

If this was 1932 USF wouldn't be going to the Pizza.com Bowl.

Compare bowl elegibilty back then to what it is today.  Which bowl would a team that finished tied for 4th in a conference like the BE have been invited to?

OK then compare it since 2000....still doesn't stack up so wonderful.

[SANJAY]

In all fairness, bowls used to be a pretty limited thing.  Now, anyone and everyone can have one.  I will be proud and happy if we win, but we're not comparing apples to apples by saying it took them 46 years.

[windbane]

Ok, it became obvious none of you ECU fans were going to answer my question, so I did a little research.  ECU was an independant NCAA 1-A team in 1932.  Until 1997 (C-USA), they were mostly Independant with some time spent in the North State Conference, Carolinas Conference, and Southern Conference.  They have 5 conference championships, 1 in North State and 4 in Southern (someone tell me if you have heard of these extinct conferences, maybe they are 2-A?).

Anyway, started football in 1932 and won a Bowl game in 1978.  Come back in 46 years to see if we have won a bowl game yet.  Or a few weeks, whatever.

Wow.  Not surprising you don't know anything about college football history since your school has none.  Do a little more research and you'll find we won a few "small college" bowls back in the 1960s (one was the Tangerine Bowl, precursor to the Citrus Bowl, which I belive we won twice) when we were one of the top "small college" teams in the nation running the single wing offense under a coach named Clarence Stasavich.  There was no 1-A and 1-AA back then.  You might not remember since there probably was no USF, either.  In the 1970's, after winning three straight Southern Conference championships, we decided to toss our hats in with the big boys (it was called the College Football Association back then) and go independent.  We went to the Independence Bowl in 1978, winning our first bowl as a "major" school.  That was back before half the schools in Div. 1A went to bowls.

ahh, you finally decided to answer the question after I brought up the fact it took you 46 years to win a bowl game.  I know there were fewer bowls back then, but there were also fewer teams.  So you won some small-time conference for awhile then won a bowl game in '78.  Great, then it took you 13 years to even make it back to one.  And as S Bien points out, since 2001 we've made it to more bowl games than ECU.

But hey, props for researching the history of your school.

[Kyle76]

And as S Bien points out, since 2001 we've made it to more bowl games than ECU.

Pretty selective time period, wb, since we went to bowls in 2000 and 2001.  How about this:  since 2000, a period that includes some of the worst football in school history, we've been to twice as many bowls as you and won a percentage that is so much higher, mathematicians cannot calculate it.