re: Alleva interview right now on 104.5.......

I asked this question yesterday in the very long thread about this topic, but has anyone answered the question as to why it is A&M is somehow immune from the wishes of CBS in terms of getting this game moved to Thanksgiving (a day CBS can/will not broadcast it) while LSU is subject to the wishes of CBS who still wants to have that marquee game on Friday afternoon?

Whatever the argument for why LSU has no pull in terms of getting that last game on Saturday (either day or night) none of that answers the question as to how A&M can seemingly tell CBS to go frick itself and move a game to Thanksgiving night and make it impossible for CBS to televise it. We're always told that our game time are determined by our success level, and that since we're good and CBS has first choice we often times end up in day slots against our wishes.

Is A&M not covered by the same SEC/CBS contract the rest of the league is? Are we to assume that CBS, the big dog here in terms of determining the which games are played which days since they get first pick) had no interest is showing LSU-A&M in College station on Friday allowing it to drop to ESPN because they hate the idea of ad revenue generated by the game?

Either the SEC can be told what to do by CBS, or they can't. If CBS is the deciding factor, then someone needs to explain why they would willingly give up this choice game every other year so that A&M can play it on a day they can't broadcast it. CBS is paying huge sums of money to the SEC to broadcast as many potentially huge match-ups as possible...why pass on this one 50% of the time?

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GeauxTigerTM

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Bing-freaking-o!

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It's probably because they have the iron bowl.

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But the Iron Bowl doesn't play on Friday. Nick Saban told CBS he wasn't playing on Friday anymore. So now CBS has a hole for their Friday 1:30 slot every other year.

Maybe they'll show the Egg Bowl to a nation-wide audience.

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It's probably because they have the iron bowl.

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No, the Iron Bowl is already on CBS on Saturday. For many years, there has been two CBS games that week. One featuring LSU-ARKY on Friday, and The Iron Bowl on Saturday. No issue at all.

The problem here is that it looks for all the world like CBS has either been told to go piss up a rope or has simply allowed a high profile game to be played on another network for no good reason. I'm curious as to why or how that's possible.

If it's because the SEC was able to flex some muscle with CBS, then as an LSU fan I'd certainly appreciate a little of it being flexed for us occasionally. If it's simply CBS being nice (and idiotic given they are giving up a huge high profile and marketable game) then I certainly appreciate them being nice to LSU occasionally.

But simply stating that the game in College Station just matter-of-factly got moved to a day CBS can't/won't broadcast it and in th same breath tell LSU fans that their issues with the schedule are solely due to contract issues with CBS is some first rate bullshite.

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If espn has second pick they could take our game after the iron bowl, no?

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Sure, but that assumes CBS passes on all LSU-A&M games both home and away. There's literally no reason for them to do that. That game was on Friday so that CBS could have a marketable game two days in a row. There's no reason at this point to assume CBS will not continue to televise the LSU game the Friday after Thanksgiving in Baton Rouge. The only OTHER alternative would be to have a CBS prime-time game the Saturday after Thanksgiving thereby getting CBS to still have two games that weekend.

I get why they can't televise it on Thursday...because they are already doing n NFL game that game...but why lose the game entirely and what looks like simply allowing A&M to walk away and play on a date they want? Why aren't we hearing A&M fans crying about mean old CBS telling them they can't have their Thanksgiving Day game because they don;t want to lose the ability to televise that game and they want the game to be played on Friday like it always has? You know...the LSU Scenario.

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in th same breath tell LSU fans that their issues with the schedule are solely due to contract issues with CBS

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When did they do this?

The A&M game moving to Thursday is the SEC's decision, nothing to do with CBS. Whether the following A&M game will be a Friday/Saturday game is a CBS decision and always has been. You might have a problem with the Friday game, but LSU has never had an issure with it.

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When did they do this?

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Joe Alleva said in the interview that is the top of this thread, "CBS dictates to us if we play on Friday or Saturday, and at what time." Straight from the horse's mouth.

Why isn't CBS dictating to A&M that this game be played on their network?

Something is very wrong here.

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No other school besides A&M had a dig in this hunt, and since we're a founding member should have a little more clout.

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Nonsense. The television rights for a game on Thanksgiving get paid to the conference. So all 14 teams have an interest in the decision. The schools not involved in the game will vote for whatever results in the most money for the conference rather than who has been a member the longest.

I've said from day one that Alleva is a salesman type. But he has no balls, and no leadership skills. I know many people like him. He's great for getting shite done to the athletic facilities, terrible as a director when it comes to confrontation and/or being an ambassador for LSU going to war for the university at the SEC office.