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re: LSU A&M Future Games/Dates/TV Coverage
Posted on 11/25/13 at 4:14 pm to Obi-Wan Tiger
Posted on 11/25/13 at 4:14 pm to Obi-Wan Tiger
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True. What I actually wish would happen is that A&M would go the Texas route and get to play at home every Thanksgiving. We would just play them on a different weekend when they played in BR. Example Texas played TCU on Thanksgiving last year and are playing Tech this year, both at home.
I think the SEC isn't as kind to A&M as the Big XII is to Texas. Texas runs that conference and gets what they want. I seriously can't fathom the SEC allowing A&M to have their final game at home every year, especially given the advantage it would give them if they are ever in a division race that late.
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Posted on 11/25/13 at 5:00 pm to Geauxgurt
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LSU still gets two bye weeks next season which is basically better than most of the previous seasons LSU has played in the past 15 years or so. If there was only 1 bye week next year, then you may have a point.
This season we played 9 Saturdays in a row before we got a bye. Many people think that the team was tired and beat up by the time they played the Ole Miss game, which they lost. Next season we play 8 Saturdays in a row before we get a week off. Couldn't they have structured the schedule to give us a bye week earlier in the season and then one prior to the Bama game?
Posted on 11/25/13 at 5:04 pm to LouisianaLonghorn
And some years only have one bye week. It's dependent on how the calendar sets up.
Posted on 11/25/13 at 5:10 pm to LouisianaLonghorn
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This season we played 9 Saturdays in a row before we got a bye.
This was because of when the Bama game was placed. The Ole Miss game had very little if anything to do with playing 9 games in a row. That's just an excuse people tried to use. This isn't like in 2005, so people need to stop with that nonsense. Plenty of teams played 9 weeks+ in a row during the season.
Again, LSU chose when it's OOC games were. They could've scheduled OOC games later in the season, but chose to put all 4 in the beginning of the year and thus their bye weeks before the A&M and Bama games. LSU didn't get forced to do that.
Posted on 11/25/13 at 5:21 pm to Geauxgurt
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This isn't like in 2005, so people need to stop with that nonsense. Plenty of teams played 9 weeks+ in a row during the season
We were the last AQ team to take a bye.
Posted on 11/25/13 at 5:23 pm to Obi-Wan Tiger
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how is it that CBS was willing to give up a marquee game so A&M could continue its Turkey Day tradition
ESPN bought the rights
Posted on 11/25/13 at 5:25 pm to ballscaster
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The SEC has a series of contracts that prevents LSU from playing all its games at night. Just deal with it. It's ok.
What hes saying is this argument is no longer valid if ESPN broadcasts this game.
TAMU requesting the thanksgiving night game essentially takes away CBS' traditional friday 1:30 matchup and it forces a prime SEC game into ESPN television.
This is the same thing as if LSU requested 1 marquee home SEC night game a year. It would essentially force either CBS to use their once a year primetime slot on that game or save it and let ESPN have that coverage.
Posted on 11/25/13 at 7:59 pm to RummelTiger
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ABC and NBC have no affiliation with the SEC.
ABC owns ESPN, who has a big affiliation with the SEC.
Posted on 11/25/13 at 8:04 pm to Obi-Wan Tiger
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But if CBS gives up the game for ESPN, it totally flies in the face of those statements.
It'll be on ESPN on Thanksgiving night, the slot where the Egg Bowl currently is, when it's played in College Station. It'll be on CBS the Friday afternoon after Thanksgiving when in Baton Rouge.
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