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re: Are We Satisfied with the Football and Baseball Scheduling?
Posted on 7/29/14 at 11:10 am to LSU Groupee
Posted on 7/29/14 at 11:10 am to LSU Groupee
We are getting top 8 seeds in spite of our terrible OOC RPI. It's been the biggest knock on our resume the last few years. We've been fortunate to get them especially last year.
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Posted on 7/29/14 at 11:11 am to Cold Cous Cous
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Nobody, which is exactly the problem. If I (along with several thousand of my closest buddies) decide next year that season tickets are no longer worth it - and with these schedules, I might - that is a very serious issue for the AD. They just added a ton of seats to that stadium, and I'm guessing they would like them to be full, or at least paid for.
LSU expanded bc of suite money which were sold before the expansion started. they'll be just fine if the season/single game "regular" seats aren't filled.
Posted on 7/29/14 at 11:11 am to Cold Cous Cous
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Nobody, which is exactly the problem. If I (along with several thousand of my closest buddies) decide next year that season tickets are no longer worth it - and with these schedules, I might - that is a very serious issue for the AD. They just added a ton of seats to that stadium, and I'm guessing they would like them to be full, or at least paid for.
your tickets will be scooped up quickly. Also LSU couldnt fill 93,000 seats and they wont fill 103,0000. Scheduling tougher opponents will also lead to more losses and therefore attendance would decline anyway, see the 1990's. Posted on 7/29/14 at 11:12 am to Cold Cous Cous
The problem is that there is always someone willing to buy season tickets whether you give them up or not. There is a wait list every year.
Posted on 7/29/14 at 11:14 am to harry coleman beast
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your tickets will be scooped up quickly. Also LSU couldnt fill 93,000 seats and they wont fill 103,0000. Scheduling tougher opponents will also lead to more losses and therefore attendance would decline anyway, see the 1990's.
I don't know man. He and SEVERAL THOUSAND friends are about to cancel their tickets. Who is this guy to have thousands of season ticket holders as friends? Drake?
Posted on 7/29/14 at 11:19 am to harry coleman beast
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your tickets will be scooped up quickly. Also LSU couldnt fill 93,000 seats and they wont fill 103,0000. Scheduling tougher opponents will also lead to more losses and therefore attendance would decline anyway, see the 1990's.
The problem with the 90s was definitely not that we were playing too many top tier OOC games. The problem was that we were the worst team in the SEC. We were playing patsies and still getting beaten.
Look, you're paying over $100 for the right to attend games. Do you really feel like you're getting your money's worth watching Sam Houston State? Didn't you think was a little more interesting to watch Washington or West Virginia? Is the possibility of losing really that terrifying?
Posted on 7/29/14 at 11:19 am to Cajun Revolution
Not sure about baseball, but overall I am satisfied with football.
In the last 10+ years we've played.
@Virginia Tech
@Washington
@Arizona St
@Arizona
@West Virginia
Oregon
Oregon St.
North Carolina
TCU
We're playing: in the next number of years.
@Syracuse
@UCLA
@Wisconsin (Lambeau)
@Arizona St
Compare that to rest of the Big 6.
Florida barely even leaves the state of Florida.
UGA has only went west of the Ms. River for Arizona State.
Up a tier, Auburn. They have played a few decent OOC games (USC)
Next tier, Alabama. They play kickoff classic games along with us. They haven't really traveled outside of the southeast minus Penn State and OU in the early 2000's.
Only Tennessee can really compare to where we have played on the road. They've played at a number of Pac-12 schools and other big name schools.
We've sufficiently covered every region of the country except the mid-west and northeast.
In the last 10+ years we've played.
@Virginia Tech
@Washington
@Arizona St
@Arizona
@West Virginia
Oregon
Oregon St.
North Carolina
TCU
We're playing: in the next number of years.
@Syracuse
@UCLA
@Wisconsin (Lambeau)
@Arizona St
Compare that to rest of the Big 6.
Florida barely even leaves the state of Florida.
UGA has only went west of the Ms. River for Arizona State.
Up a tier, Auburn. They have played a few decent OOC games (USC)
Next tier, Alabama. They play kickoff classic games along with us. They haven't really traveled outside of the southeast minus Penn State and OU in the early 2000's.
Only Tennessee can really compare to where we have played on the road. They've played at a number of Pac-12 schools and other big name schools.
We've sufficiently covered every region of the country except the mid-west and northeast.
This post was edited on 7/29/14 at 11:27 am
Posted on 7/29/14 at 11:21 am to J Murdah
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The problem is that there is always someone willing to buy season tickets whether you give them up or not. There is a wait list every year.
Is this still true? The front page of LSUsports.net is offering discounted tickets for every game but Bama - including 3 SEC games. I real[ize] these are probably mostly east upper but it seems like a canary in the coal mine.
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This post was edited on 7/29/14 at 11:38 am
Posted on 7/29/14 at 11:26 am to Cold Cous Cous
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Look, you're paying over $100 for the right to attend games. Do you really feel like you're getting your money's worth watching Sam Houston State? Didn't you think was a little more interesting to watch Washington or West Virginia? Is the possibility of losing really that terrifying?
If i felt it wasnt worth it, then i wouldnt have 2 season tickets.
Posted on 7/29/14 at 11:35 am to harry coleman beast
You should only have to pay for 1/2 a ticket
Posted on 7/29/14 at 11:37 am to Cold Cous Cous
I'm not sure what the actual demand is since the new expansion but when I worked at the ticket office we would get calls year round about the season ticket waitlist. I think they reserve blocks of seats to sell individually, groups or promotions.
Games like the one in Houston only help market the football program and sell more season tickets. And as cities grow and new fans are born the demand rises regardless of who plays in TS. Put yourself in the shoes of someone who has never had season tickets and may go to 1 game a year.
Games like the one in Houston only help market the football program and sell more season tickets. And as cities grow and new fans are born the demand rises regardless of who plays in TS. Put yourself in the shoes of someone who has never had season tickets and may go to 1 game a year.
Posted on 7/29/14 at 11:38 am to aaronb023
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You should only have to pay for 1/2 a ticket
Agree
Posted on 7/29/14 at 11:42 am to Cold Cous Cous
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I'm not a Florida fan
I'm not either, but those teams I mentioned are the ones we have to compete against when BCS bowls and title games are concerned. When they are playing one or no OOC opponents of note, it would be self defeating for us to play 2.
You know as well as I do, that losing an OOC game when you face a conference featuring the likes of Aub., Bama, Fla and probably 6-7 other bowl teams would be almost impossible to recover from to contend nationally. So, why should LSU play 2 teams of note OOC when other teams play 1 or none?
Sorry, but I don't see that as a reasonable position to take in todays college football world.
Posted on 7/29/14 at 11:43 am to Cold Cous Cous
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What people are going to "get over" is their habit of buying tickets to the games.
What? So people that want to go to the games shouldn't buy the tickets in an attempt to boycott the scheduling? Seems pretty smart...
Posted on 7/29/14 at 11:44 am to Cajun Revolution
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they play Florida Atlantic, Southern Miss and Western Carolina at home. That's not near as bad as our lineup.
It's the same damn thing
Posted on 7/29/14 at 11:46 am to PurpleAndGold86
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What? So people that want to go to the games shouldn't buy the tickets in an attempt to boycott the scheduling? Seems pretty smart...
I don't want to "boycott" anything. I just want to play at least one interesting team in Tiger Stadium on a yearly basis, and no I-AA teams like S. Houston State. I didn't think this was going to be quite such a controversial position.
Posted on 7/29/14 at 11:52 am to Cold Cous Cous
Most big name teams (ESPECIALLY SEC teams) have abysmal non-neutral site OOC schedules. This phenomenon doesn't lend itself primarily to LSU.
Why should LSU schedule home and homes with top 5 teams every year? We already have to go through the SEC every year with UF as a permanent opponent and now we want to make the schedule more difficult just so fans feel like they get their "moneys" worth?
I agree with this shite, but just because I don't think LSU should be playing a school like that. That school has absolutely no chance of beating LSU if LSU played second stringers the entire game.
Why should LSU schedule home and homes with top 5 teams every year? We already have to go through the SEC every year with UF as a permanent opponent and now we want to make the schedule more difficult just so fans feel like they get their "moneys" worth?
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and no I-AA teams like S. Houston State.
I agree with this shite, but just because I don't think LSU should be playing a school like that. That school has absolutely no chance of beating LSU if LSU played second stringers the entire game.
Posted on 7/29/14 at 12:15 pm to PurpleAndGold86
I'd be happy with more home and away series with the other four power conferences. It could be the worst teams in those conferences, but it would be more enjoyable than the recent home slate.
Posted on 7/29/14 at 12:21 pm to Cold Cous Cous
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I don't want to "boycott" anything. I just want to play at least one interesting team in Tiger Stadium on a yearly basis, and no I-AA teams like S. Houston State. I didn't think this was going to be quite such a controversial position.
Maybe LSU should up the pay out for big name teams. Pay them like 5 million. Then they would come.
I have no doubt that the fans bitching about the quality of visiting teams would be willing to pay lots more to see those games.
Posted on 7/29/14 at 12:42 pm to Cajun Revolution
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they play Florida Atlantic, Southern Miss and Western Carolina at home. That's not near as bad as our lineup.
Florida Atlantic was a sub .500 CUSA team that fired their coach, Southern Miss is 1-23 in the last 2 years, and Western Carolina was 2-10 as a FCS team last year. No matter how you slice it, it's 3 glorified scrimmages for Bama, just like our 3 are.
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