re: So if you make $4 million dollars per home game against an OOC foe...

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Except When LSU has to travel to Wisky to return the trip, LSU gets 500,000 instead of 4,000,000 leaving a gaping hole in the Athletic budget that year. SO yes there really is an argument.

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That isn't true according to the recent Advocate article

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The Tigers are set to receive $2.1 million for their second neutral site game against Wisconsin in 2016 at Lambeau Field.

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There are pros besides direct money, also LSU make more on that deal than they would a home/away IMO:

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Why? It helps grow LSU’s brand to a national audience, makes the school a ton of money and boosts the recruitment of students and student-athletes, Ausberry said.

“The world has changed,” Ausberry said. “Everybody says LSU’s brand is already big. I say, ‘Yeah, but you can’t ever stop growing.’ You either get better or worse every day. You’ve got to keep working on that brand.”

The money is a big part as well.

LSU will make a combined $5.4 million from the two-game deal with Wisconsin.

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And we make it up for it with our next 2 neutral site games:

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LSU will make nearly $9 million from its two most recently scheduled neutral site games, according to game contracts obtained by The Advocate.

ESPN will pay LSU $4 million for a game against BYU in Houston in 2017, and the Tigers will get a whopping $4.75 million from the network for the game against Miami in Arlington, Texas, in 2018.

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