Won and Done: My Take.

First their first CHL President's Cup championship. Then Scott Muscutt resigns, and the radio play by play guy is moving on too. On Thursday night, while I was watching the NBA Finals, I turned on NBC6's 10pm news only to find out that it was even worse for Mudbug nation, as Tommy Scott said it: the Bugs are no more. Sad. Here is what Mr. Scott's memorandum on this situation.

It is sad that my neck of the woods, the place I call home, has suffered the same fate before. Let's see...

*Steamer, WFL 1974-75
*Pirates, CFL (part of Larry Smith's US expansion push, including the Stallions (new Alouettes, defending Grey Cup champs), Gold Miners/Texans, Posse, Barracudas and Mad Dogs). Despite pulling 32k in a '95 game at Independence Stadium against the defunct Ottawa Rough Riders (like the Pirates and Renegades, typical Glieberman ownership), and a combined 8-28 in regular season, the team, had the CFL continued the US expansion era, would relocate to Norfolk. However, the US experiment ended in 1996 once Art Modell announced that the Browns moved to Baltimore.
*Old Captains. Great times at FGF, but once the team name changed and so did ownership and the demands of today's minor league resulted the Giants' former AA affiliate to relocate to Frisco.
*Battle Wings. Indoor football wasn't new at the time, another team played in this area before they came into af2 play. Entered af2 in 2001 and played in the league until last year, when the af2 combined with the AFL. After the 2010 season, their tenth season, Dan Newman decided to "expand" the Wings' fanbase statewide by relocating the team to the New Orleans Arena. And after three seasons, the 'VooDoo' name returned. Still they're at the bottom of the ladder in AFL.
*Crawdads/Storm. Remember the CBA? I do! Fun league that was! The team relocated in 1996 after two season at Hirsch. The CBA lasted a few years and after financial issues, went kaput.

All this area has now left is the New-Captains. The American Association's defending champions, who pull a good reasonable crowd at FGF. If they go, that is probably the last time semi-pro sports will ever come to town, unless NBA or NHL teams want to use CenturyTel for preseason or NFL teams want to use Independence Stadium for preseason play (Saints-Cowboys in 2006).

Now this will impact CTC the most. What will SMG do now? My guess is they will most likely lose more revenue and unless a move to bring the NBA Developmental League or another minor sport entity to CTC, it seems that in a few years, the place will be history and SMG will have to be forced to give up management of CTC. After all, SMG oversees this and other arenas, and I do believe that CTC is parish (Bossier) and state owned, in which the building and completion of the building in 2000 was with your tax dollars.

I know that the Scotts really appreciate what they did taking the ownership duties from John Madden (BOOM! We're talkign a former businessman, not the Stanley Cup championship player and DEFINITELY not the former Super Bowl champion coach), but why couldn't they contact Gov. Jindal about this? Maybe he should've got some state funding like the Saints and Hornets did. The Bugs' was one of the biggest sport entities in the state and why the team didn't get proper state funding to keep afloat. That would've been the best situation.

Still it won't do anything in this economy. As long as the demographics shows, this area will have to settle with the new-Captains for a while as the only minor sport entity around. It's reality, and you wonder why I'm looking forward to move town when I finally get that bachelor's degree I wanted!

And I hope Muscutt gets a gig as coach for a Division I program!

End of story.