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LSU Deputy Director of Athletics Verge Ausberry told The Advocate earlier this month that the Tigers plan to hold a season-opening game in the New Orleans Superdome in the next “4-6 years.”
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In fact, LSU plans to hold a season-opening game in the New Orleans Superdome in the next “4-6 years,” Ausberry told The Advocate earlier this month. Nothing is finalized, he said, but discussions are on-going.

“We’d like to play a Power 5 in New Orleans, the right opponent,” said Ausberry, who works with athletic director Joe Alleva in creating LSU’s football schedules. “We target four cities: New Orleans, Atlanta, Dallas and Houston.”
A potential game in New Orleans would be matched with another future game in a large city or NFL Stadium, like LSU's season opener at Lambeau Field in Green Bay last year.
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“It could be New Orleans and play somewhere else, like Chicago at Soldier Field or Jacksonville,” Ausberry said. “We love that model.”

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There is no way Bourbon Street construction will be done for this. Horrible idea.
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Let Houston have one game a year. Houston is the LSU Alumni's Flagship City.
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Don't play in NEW Orleans Lsu will lose 30-35,000 in ticket sells and on top of that don't give tha superdome any free publicity cuz they refuse to draft quality Lsu players sitting there that can produce for them.
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Please make it stop! Gosh damn you idiots with the N.O. doesn't draft LSU players. I'd love to see a LSU player right up the road just as much as anyone, but you don't make business decisions off dumb shite like that.
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If only Mitch could keep the Superdome from becoming a giant pool.
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Send Bama Pajama Sean Payton and his team to another state and let the taxpayers build him a stadium there. Not my money B!tc4.
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I get why they do it but if this moves the Texas games I would rather stay home. My friends in Austin hope to host us and we hope to host them in BR. I hope they keep this as a home and home but it doesn't look good.
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Not Chicago, please. Why go up North and play in crappy weather conditions? Jacksonville, Houston or Dallas are much more favorable in terms of recruiting, fan base traveling, as well as newer stadiums that offer much more to the fans than old, outdated Soldier Field.
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Chicago could mean a match up with Michigan, which would be awesome.
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If they are talking bout chicago its probably illinois. That is not too interesting. I would rather play la tech and be at home. Chicago is a dump anyway
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LSU/Notre Dame in New Orleans/Chicago
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It's about recruiting. When you can tell a guy in Texas "we will play in your state 5 times while you are here" (counting A&M too) that helps a ton on getting players away from closer schools.
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It is always about money and recruiting. Playing the neutral site games are a win-win for the university. That average is about $3.4 million a game, more than LSU makes in revenue from a home game, school officials have said. Neutral site games pay both ways, too. Home-and-home series between major conference teams have a drawback. “When I play home-and-home with an opponent I get a good pay day here at Tiger Stadium,” Alleva said in an interview in 2014, “but when I go on the road, I get nothing.”
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Why on earth would LSU want to keep all this revenue in Louisiana when we could easily have the game in Texas?
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why? the Superdome seats considerably less than Tiger Stadium
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It should be obvious by now Texas will not play in TS
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The statues coming down had a part in this.
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Just make sure Tiger Stadium gets to keep that sweet future Northeast South Dakota State game in 2023.
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Fans keep getting screwed. You pay the enormous TAF fee for the season yet you have to pay for another costly seat in another stadium 300 plus miles away (Houston) or more which should be a home game.
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You don't "have" to do anything. I like these games. Not everyone can go to all regular season games. Some people use this as a little get away. There's pros and cons to everything, but I like the neutral site games.
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Surprised it took this long for Nola to get its hand in this money pot.
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use your own damn stadium ffs
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