Is it time to end the home and home baseball series with Tulane

Why not schedule one with both?

Why don't we just quit scheduling 4 games a year with SWAC schools?

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Why don't we just quit scheduling 4 games a year with SWAC schools?

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this, just play ull and selu twice each year

From a SWAC perspective, those games need to come off - it kills your RPI. I'm okay with the Ivy League series but LSU and ULL should be playing at least 3 times this year and Tulane will be better but Jones might be on the hot seat

replace one of those weekend series were we play two crappy schools and bring in a decent ACC school, some good west coast team, some good team from the Big 12 or something similar. LSU would greatly benefit from having a weekend series with a team like UCI, UCLA, Virginia, etc.

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With RPI being so important wouldn't LSU be better off scheduling that home and home with ULL.

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LSU would be better off not playing the games. Tulane isn't the problem with our schedule, and I hate Tulane. There are many more gaping problems with our schedule.

Your point falls on deaf ears anyway as we will likely always play these shite SWAC, UNO, etc teams during the mid-week because we are a victim of our own geography.

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Not worth losing $300,000 in ticket revenue when we have to travel to their place the next year.

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so money > post season placement

note: what about CSF from a couple years ago we didn't go to their place to play them.

People always reference that CSF series as if that did something for us.

We swept them and still got left out of the postseason.

So, obviously

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so money > post season placement

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is a statement that is somewhat moot. That argument doesn't hold as much water as some think.

The short and the long of it is: take care of your shite in conference, and you will be rewarded.

I agree, get rid of the swac teams. We should be able to get teams like houston, southern miss, ucf to come here for weekend series and play teams like ull, tulane, southeastern, and uno non conference

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LSU would be better off not playing the games. Tulane isn't the problem with our schedule, and I hate Tulane. There are many more gaping problems with our schedule.

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Win 20 games in the SEC and it probably won't matter nearly as much who you play during the week - unless you lose a bunch of those games.

All LSU needs to do is schedule some of the northern or upper midwest teams who are looking to come down south early in the year. They most likely won't require a return trip since by the time the weather is better they're about ready for their conference play to start. And they're usually some decent teams who will help RPI - or at least not hurt it.

By the way some poster during yesterday's game thread said Rick Jones is resigning? Anyone else hear anything? Don't know if it's related but I do know that a few weeks ago their was a nasty accident on Claiborne Ave across from the Tulane Baseball stadium and I'm almost certain Rick Jones was at the scene on his cell phone. Not sure if him or someone in his family was involved but he definitely looked stressed. Definitely a shame if he leaves Tulane because he's a good baseball coach and Tulane would be hard pressed to replace him.