Tulane Price Gouging

I would hardly call that

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Price Gouging

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b/c

a) That term should really only be used for goods and services that are necessary. You don't have to go the game if you don't like the $$

b) They have to support a program that doesn't bring in a ton of $$. One game vs LSU would be the equivalent to a weekend series as far as attendance goes.

c)$30 is not an unreasonable price to go see the Tigers play.

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c)$30 is not an unreasonable price to go see the Tigers play.

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Football... NO

Baseball midweek meaningless game versus a Tulane team that isnt really any good.. YES

Thats the cost for ANY weekend series at LSU, to see just one game against Tulane. PASS

Sucks.
LSU has been forced to support Tulane athletics like this for years.
Yet another reason why LSU needs to ditch the football home and home w/ Tulane. Pay them to come here and take their beating like we pay ULaLA, LaTech and Troy (oucH). They are no different athletically.

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for a meaningless non confernce game....it is to me, but they know it isn't for alot of LSU fans

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Agreed. I will not be attending at that price, but I bet a lot of N.O. based LSU fans would have gladly pay $30 to see there beloved tigers if they had not already seen them (thanks UNO for selling cheap tix). I have a feeling that this game will not be all that well attended...

They are just trying to make more money at the expense of another team. The FB does it all the time with different methods.

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Sucks.
LSU has been forced to support Tulane athletics like this for years.
Yet another reason why LSU needs to ditch the football home and home w/ Tulane. Pay them to come here and take their beating like we pay ULaLA, LaTech and Troy (oucH). They are no different athletically.

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Just don't go to the game if you think it is too expensive. You are wrong about Tulane athletically. They have a good baseball team (perhaps not this year though) and are a former football SEC team and, whether you think so or not, they are our rivals. They are a PRIVATE UNIVERSITY with very high academic standards. They are more akin to Vandy or Rice than to ULL or LA TECH athletically. ULL is a joke and La. Tech is on the rise, but will never be able to compete at Division I level. In the past 20 years Tulane has had excellent coaches like Mack Brown, Greg Davis, Tommy Bowden, Rich Rodriguez and now Bob Toledo. What coaches have you seen at ULL that compare? Ricky Bussle?

We play there because they, unlike La. Tech and ULL, have an excellent football venue, THE SUPERDOME. Where do ULL and La. Tech play? They couldn't even handle our crowd. Tulane has had a couple good football seasons in the recent past (including one perfect one, something LSU hasn't done since 1958). ULL went 6-5 once.

Obviously, they are not the tigers, but Tulane's academnic admissions standards and class work is much higher than most of our athletes could handle. In the history of LSU Football, the tigers have 68 wins against Tulane, 22 losses to Tulane and there have been 7 ties. What is our record against ULL and La. Tech? At least Tulane is competitive.

My point is not that Tulane is great Athletically, but they are in a different class of team and university than ULL and La. Tech and Troy and it is just insulting to say otherwise. Academically, they are in a different universe than ULL and La. Tech (I don't know much about Troy).

I must admit that I am a graduate of both LSU (undergraduate) and Tulane (post graduate) and I think it is insulting to both to compare them to the likes of ULL in any manner.

[quote]Tulane's academnic admissions standards and class work is much higher than most of our athletes could handle...

really? that's a pretty broad statement that I think is insulting

30 bucks is high but when you consider the gas I burn driving 150-160 miles round trip and the fact that I can be home minutes after the game, well, I will probably go.

We have this fight every year. TooLame does everything it can to freeze out LSU and or get more money out of them.

If it were any sort of partnership I'd embrace it. I don't care if they play in good venues, just be reasonable about tickets as well as prices and LSU will gladly pick up the check for lunch every year.

Tulane does have more history. Minnesota has 3-4 MNC, Princeton used to be a football power.
Now, I'd put USL athletic against Tulane. I think Tulane would take most sports in a 60/40 w/l ratio. Tulane has beaten us what, 2 times (and once had some gambling implications)in the past 40-50 meetings in football? If we played USL that frequently, they may occ slip up on us-once --- they beat Texas A&M.
The only reason Tulane is now relevent in sports is because it is in NO. We should give them LESS support than Louisiana's public schools.