re: Baseball RPI Rank and Scheduling

Northwestern. Woof.

That has way more to do with the size of the student body than the health of the athletic program. In fact, it has nothing to do with the health of the athletic program. Which is what Russian was saying and why we don't travel much. We are healthy in part because we have home games and we pay to fill up stadiums. For the state overall, it's more beneficial for LSU to have games at home and have extra money that it can inject back into it's education system, something no other program in the state can do.

You are very correct. It is ALL about money, not competition, which is what my original reply was about.

PM would much rather play at home against teams from up north which he can win against vs. playing a competitive in-state team for a home/home series.

If he did so, LSU would not rake in the $$$ for a home game, plus taking a chance of getting beat early in the season.

Personally, if I were Robe, I wouldn't schedule LSU again unless it was a home/home series. UL doesn't need to play LSU during a mid-week game. But being the good man that he is, he is happy to support the Wally Pontiff Jr. foundation.

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i would hope after taking in the majority of taxpayers money for decades

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It's becoming increasingly obvious you're clueless about higher education appropriations.

The University of Louisiana system receives much more Louisiana taxpayer money than LSU, in fact, almost double what LSU receives.

And a study last year revealed that public universities in Louisiana not named LSU require taxpayers to subsidize their athletic departments by almost $40 million/year, with UL-Lafayette's athletic department receiving the largest subsidy of any Louisiana college at $7.6 million. LINK

LSU's athletic department receives no taxpayer subsidy and, in fact, returns multi-millions of dollars per year to the non-athletic side of the university.

And one of the reasons LSU doesn't need taxpayers to subsidize its athletic department is it doesn't lose money playing UL-Lafayette in a three games series in Lafayette.....

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It is ALL about money

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It's not, though.

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PM would much rather play at home against teams from up north which he can win against vs. playing a competitive in-state team for a home/home series.

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because those are his only two options.

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LSU would not rake in the $$$ for a home game

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We travel during the week to in-state school all the time. A weekend series doesn't happen often but it DOES happen. Last year we went to Houston. We are going back next year. PM found a middle ground where we travel and at least make some money.

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Personally, if I were Robe, I wouldn't schedule LSU again unless it was a home/home series.

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Well now that's just retarded. LaTech just went through the same thing and they lost a ton because of it. Not enough exposure down here. Helping them fall way behind other in state schools.

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Personally, if I were Robe, I wouldn't schedule LSU again unless it was a home/home series. UL doesn't need to play LSU during a mid-week game. But being the good man that he is, he is happy to support the Wally Pontiff Jr. foundation.

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Pretty sure we played a game in Lafayette just a few years ago. ULL is like any other state school not named Tulane. We rotate going to a couple of them every year.

UNO and Tulane last year
SELU, Northwestern and Tulane the year before
Ull in 2013

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The University of Louisiana system receives much more Louisiana taxpayer money than LSU, in fact, almost double what LSU receives





here is the link again for appropriations


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see my previous post in regards to the proud self financed athletic department. Its that really the only thing LSU is proud of???

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That settles it, YOU CAN'T READ. At least, you can't read English..... Are you an UL-Lafayette graduate??

Baseball fans unite!

CPM travels to in state schools on a rotation. If ULL wants to take their ball and leave then LSU could care less. LA Tech did the same thing. LSU doesn't need any other in state school for anything, but ULL would really like to get those rpi points just for playing LSU so they can get an at large bid if they don't win the conference.

There is nothing wrong with that at all. I don't understand why ULL fans can't just accept that the LSU-ULL "rivalry" is way more beneficial to ULL than LSU and why Robicheaux will continue to schedule LSU no matter where they want to play.