Several years ago, Skip pushed the idea (and made it happen) to play in-state schools in football for the purpose of keeping the money in-state and generating more ticket sales for a crappy OOC games. Now we have an opening on our schedule for a cream puff game and he offers it to App St and not to an in-state game. So why didn't Skip live up to his own words of trying to keep the money in-state? I love Skip, but it's hard to understand this one. And no, there should not be any legislating of football schedules...
No, but they won't have to here about it for the next 20 years if something were to happen. I talk to a few former USL players and they still talk about how they were "IN THE GAME" with Alabama. Only because they did not get beat by 50 points. Like every one thought.
Amen brother.... I thought I was the only one who remembered Skip saying this when they scheduled ULL, ULM, Tech and Tulane. He's being totally hypocritical now! And, they've got no one to blame but themselves for these scheduling guffaws. If they would have not let other schools out of the contracts so easily none of this crap would be needed. They need to either have a no-out clause or at least make those schools pay a severe penalty for backing out because it screws up future scheduling big time.
I'll tell you a little story... I'm from Lafayette and remember vividly the exact game you're talking about. I aslo remember the Cajuns beating A&M, and now living here in North La. there is still talk about Tech's wins over Bama and Michigan State. But I also was in Tiger Stadium for the schallackings LSU put on both ULL and Tech in the last couple of years. But not playing someone because of them talking about it is ludicrous IMO. But here's a little story from when I worked at LSU: LSU had just beaten Tulane in a late comeback. LSU had the Tommy Hodson to Wendell Davis connection while Tulane had Terrence Jones and Marc Zeno. It was a great comeback win for LSU but there was no joy in the Tigers. While walking off the floor of the Superdome alongside Ron Sancho we passed the Tulane lockerroom and the Wave players were hooting, hollering and cheering. Sancho says to me, "There's the difference between playing at LSU and playing at Tulane. At Tulane, coming close is good enough!"
Re: Amen brother.... He did contact all of the LA D-1 schools but they couldn't do it. He didn't contact the D-1! 0r AA schools because he didn't want to play one of them because all the others would bitch and he's right.
ULL, ULM, LA Tech, and Tulane should all be D-1 AA schools. If the NCAA would enforce their attendance requirements, they would all be forced to drop down. Half the teams in Conf USA and the WAC don't belong in 1-A. We could probably get rid of a couple of straglers here and there like Duke, who averages about 5000 per game in Football, maybe even Vanderbilt and make room for some real football schools.
Re: Amen brother.... That's BS....so what if the non-chosen schools bitched, let em! It's LSU and Skip's the AD, sound off like he's got a pair. If LSU chose to play Southern and Burke the Northwestern AD or Bernardi the Nicholls AD whined and bitched, who cares - let them. When Skip and Radakovich said they were forced to look to I-AA for an opponent, then they should have looked to one of the six I-AA schools in this state. As a taxpayer in this state, I want that money to remain in state. Appalachian State had to get permission from Elon to move their game in order to play this one. That tells me there was some favoritism involved in this.
Re: Amen brother.... Isn't this our 3rd 1-AA team in 4 years? The Citadel in 2002, Western Illinois in 2003 and now App St? That's an awful lot of 1-AA teams for a school that proclaims it doesn't want to play 1-AA schools. That's 3 in-state schools that wouldn't be complaining right now! :thumb:
NONE OF YOUR TAX MONEY IS GOING OUT OF STATE. My season ticket money is going out of state. It chaps my backside no end when I read inferences that LSU athletics is spending YOUR tax dollars. LSU is self-sustaining. If you are po'd about YOUR TAX DOLLARS GOING OUT OF STATE stop ULL, ULM, McNeese, La Tech, Southern, Grambling, SLU, and Nicholls from playing home games against out-of-state opponents with guaranteed pay outs. Those schools are spending your tax dollars to fund their athletic departments.
Brilliant. Well-said. This really should be the end of the "my tax dollars are leaving" belly-aching. :thumb:
