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re: SEC Scheduling Strategy and Night Games in TS
Posted on 11/19/13 at 1:28 pm to AlwysATgr
Posted on 11/19/13 at 1:28 pm to AlwysATgr
I traveled around the US quite a bit and found a huge amount of LSU fans who had never even been to Louisiana. These were mostly older men (and not a few of their sons) who had routinely listened to Saturday night LSU football on the radio (Thank you WWL, JC Politz, and John Ferguson!). During the 50s, 60s, and early 70s, LSU was the only college game they could get on a Saturday night. LSU's signature around the country was Saturday night games! I have always thought LSU should leverage it's national attention to DEMAND night games in Tiger Stadium. Alas, our AD's are loathe to buck the SEC and possible loss of revenue. IHMO, with the plethora of sports broadcasting now, LSU could tell the SEC to stick it on TV requirements and still end up with all televised night games.
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Posted on 11/19/13 at 1:47 pm to captcouv
I've listened to many an LSU game on WWL, all over the country. Their signal isn't like it used to be, but you can get it clearly this time of year on a lot of the east coast at night. Used to watch games at Turtle Bay or Legends and listen to Deke with the post-game show from around Newark Airport all the way to mid-Maryland.
Posted on 11/19/13 at 1:50 pm to captcouv
I don't think we can tell that to the SEC. What I'm proposing is win-win-win - the SEC gets what they want, the networks get what they want, and we get what we want (most of the time).
Posted on 11/19/13 at 2:34 pm to captcouv
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I have always thought LSU should leverage it's national attention to DEMAND night games in Tiger Stadium. Alas, our AD's are loathe to buck the SEC and possible loss of revenue. IHMO, with the plethora of sports broadcasting now, LSU could tell the SEC to stick it on TV requirements and still end up with all televised night games.
If you think LSU has that much leverage, you are living in fantasy land. LSU may have some national attention, but nowhere close to enough to bully the SEC or the broadcasters in to mandating all of their games being at night. I'm sure all of the other SEC schools would be thrilled at the thought of losing millons of dollars in revenue because one of their member institutions did not want to agree and/or breeched the terms of the TV contract. If that were the case, I think the SEC would just kindly ask LSU to leave and have fun missing out on the millions upon millions that they would be giving up just to play all home games at night.
The CBS/SEC agreement has been in place for damn near 20 years. I think it's time to get past the whole "we only play night games" bullshite.
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