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Report: LSU Season Opener In The Superdome Could Be Coming In Next “4-6 Years"

by Staff Reporter

August 22, 201731 Comments

Derick E. Hingle-USA TODAY Sports

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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Sao•80 months

There is no way Bourbon Street construction will be done for this. Horrible idea.

El Campo Tiger•81 months

Let Houston have one game a year. Houston is the LSU Alumni's Flagship City.

PeopleChamp•81 months

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.

saint tiger225•81 months

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.

BigPerm30•81 months

If only Mitch could keep the Superdome from becoming a giant pool.

TigerSpray•81 months

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.

TigerMonkey•81 months

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.

Lexman1•81 months

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.

The King•81 months

Chicago could mean a match up with Michigan, which would be awesome.

luciouslou•81 months

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

BayouBengals03•81 months

LSU/Notre Dame in New Orleans/Chicago

tigerMike•81 months

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.

whiteside•81 months

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.”

SirWinston•81 months

Why on earth would LSU want to keep all this revenue in Louisiana when we could easily have the game in Texas?

hsfolk•81 months

why? the Superdome seats considerably less than Tiger Stadium

Catman88•81 months

It should be obvious by now Texas will not play in TS

JackieTreehorn•81 months

The statues coming down had a part in this.

Walking the Earth•81 months

Just make sure Tiger Stadium gets to keep that sweet future Northeast South Dakota State game in 2023.

tigerbutt•81 months

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.

BlackPot•81 months

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.

bapple•81 months

Surprised it took this long for Nola to get its hand in this money pot.

TheFlyingTiger•81 months

use your own damn stadium ffs

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