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re: Method to appease you idiot neutral site supporters
Posted on 8/16/13 at 8:10 am to Smoke Dinardo
Posted on 8/16/13 at 8:10 am to Smoke Dinardo
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how the neutral site thing is ruining college football
You're an idiot.
Home and home series are a thing of the past with big programs man. Yeah, you'll make your usual take with the home game, but you'll be losing money having to travel somewhere else. With the neutral sites you get just as much if not more than you would even a home game because of the huge TV money involved.
Yeah, I'd love to take a road trip up to Wisconsin, but what does LSU get from that? If you do a neutral game/series, both schools still make serious bank to alleviate losing the home game.
And if you don't think traveling to NFL stadiums to play other CFB powers isn't awesome, IDK what to tell you. Not to mention the fact that with the new playoff, you'll absolutely need things like this to beef up your resume for the selection committee. The days of playing 4 no-names is over (not that LSU does that all that much.) You need to schedule these year in and year out. That's just how it is.
This post was edited on 8/16/13 at 8:12 am
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Posted on 8/16/13 at 8:20 am to Brettesaurus Rex
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Yeah, I'd love to take a road trip up to Wisconsin, but what does LSU get from that? If you do a neutral game/series, both schools still make serious bank to alleviate losing the home game.
it is basically double the pay day. I don't get how it is so hard to understand
Posted on 8/16/13 at 8:24 am to Brettesaurus Rex
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Home and home series are a thing of the past with big programs man. Yeah, you'll make your usual take with the home game, but you'll be losing money having to travel somewhere else. With the neutral sites you get just as much if not more than you would even a home game because of the huge TV money involved.
Yeah, I'd love to take a road trip up to Wisconsin, but what does LSU get from that? If you do a neutral game/series, both schools still make serious bank to alleviate losing the home game.
I realize this is a slippery slope argument, and I'm using it as an absurd example, but at what point does the schedule only have SEC games at home and all OOC games played at neutral sites? Clearly it's more cost effective to play a game at a neutral site than to pay Kent St to come to us. When will we see a home schedule with only 5 or 6 games consisting of only SEC teams with the rest being either on the road in the SEC or neutrals?
I'll be honest...this is no doubt, at least in part, a selfish POV I guess. As an LSU fan, I want to see The Tigers play in Tiger Stadium as much as possible. It is, after all, "The cathedral of college football." Plus I tend to think these neutral site games take away some of the mystique of doing that at the end of the season during bowl season.
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