re: LSU impression on McNeese turn out?

Great turnout with very nice students and fans.

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LSU and MSU probably are the only two fan bases that root for each other and have the least animosity towards each other than any other two colleges in the country!

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Very insightful observation from a lesisbesian!

I have always wanted to see 2 lesisbesians together!

Impressive turnout. While I'm still not someone who feels LSU should be obligated to play in-state schools for our rent-a-wins, if we're going to play them, they need to at least sell out their ticket allotment. The showing by McNeese fans is quite refreshing after having Tulane and U-LaLa send unsold tickets back to LSU athletic department year after year.

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While I'm still not someone who feels LSU should be obligated to play in-state schools for our rent-a-wins, if we're going to play them, they need to at least sell out their ticket allotment.

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I've never felt that you guys should be required to play anybody. The nearly 7 million dollars in direct institutional support that USL gets from the state legislature every year is quite enough. If they can't make it with that, they don't need to field a football team. Our direct instutional support is roughly 3 million dollars, an despite having 22 fewer scholarshipss and 4 million less in direct institutional support, we manage to kick the shite out of USL and score a touchdown against you guys, taking a lead, something they've managed NEVER to do in 108 years of football and 22 attempts ;)

But, having said that, IF you're gonna play an FCS school, I really hope it's us. It was kinda disconcerting for LSU to pay App State narly $1 million dollars over the last few years to come play at Tiger Stadium.

Ordinarily, we compete with them on the national FCS stage. We understand that you're not like USL and that Tiger Football is totally self supporting. It's your money and you've got a right to play whomever you want. We just have a minor request and that's that when you schedule FCS schools, we'd appreciate it if you don't subsidize the folks we're trying to win a national title against ;)

With our total budget of $6 million dollars, a million dollar payday for two trips to Baton Rouge is huge! ;)

From an economic standpoing, this was a profitable game for you guys. You paid us $405 K, but we sold 6k worth of tickets ($240K in LC) and - depending on your estimate - we picked up another 3 to 4,000 tickets through BR sources. That's about $400,000.00 in total ticket sales, or - in other words - we paid our way.

If the official attendance is right (and using $40.00 per ticket for ease of calculation) you guys had roughly $3.6 million in ticket sales revenue. If there had been returned tickets and large blocks of tickets that didn't get sold, the revenue would have been less....and, instead of having to pay $400k out of $3.1 or $3.2 in ticket sales, you paid it out of $3.6, AND, we sold tickets in an amount equal to what you paid us.

From a bean counting perspective, you pretty much got this game for free ;)