re: Bring back Tulane. Play them at the end of the season.

Don’t fall for it.

We are currently in the “Tulane’s been pretty good the last few years, it might be good to play them” phase of the Tulane guilt-us-into-playing-them cycle.

It will be followed by the “Tulane is currently the best team in Louisiana” phase then the “LSU is scared to play us” phase.

Then we will schedule them, play them, and realize again (after granting them all sorts of special treatment) how much it just isn’t worth it.

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Tulane coach was even publicly lobbying for it last week. Look at Tulanes schedule. They travel to Ole Miss this year. You know they'd rather come right down the road.

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I think the issue is that Tulane wants a return game, and LSU doesn't want to give them one. Ole Miss played at Yulman

No.

That would put LSU as the only SEC team playing a non-P4 conference opponent in the final week of the season. If nothing else, it would make LSU totally irrelevant in that final week. Plus, Tulane is not really a "rival". The rivalry that once existed is a relic of a bygone era of college football. It's very clear CFB as a whole is moving towards the P4 conferences separating from the non-p4 conferences. An era where games between the power conf opponents and non-power conf opponents won't take place. Or, if they do, it will be no more than 1 a year. While today it may be a reasonable proposal given Tulane has been a solid program the last few years, that has been the anomaly. One that isn't likely to continue given the gap financial/resources gap between the P4 programs and non-P4 programs continues to widen.

From Tulane's perspective they would either want to play at their home stadium or in the Superdome. And I'm sure they would want the full gate from a game in the Superdome because it would be their "home" game...even if the crowd was 75% LSU fans.

There is a reason the "rivalry" ended as the SEC became more and more of a power conf. There's ZERO reason to bring it back now

I agree 100%. Make it 2 in DV, 1in Dome.

Why doesn't lsu try structure the contract with Tulane for Tulane’s home game(s) like Notre dame supposedly does with their rivalry series with navy

games played at tiger stadium:
LSU shall pay Tulane a guaranteed of less than $2 million per game played at tiger stadium

Game(s) played at the super dome:
50/50 ticket revenue split****
Tulane is the designated home team
AAC owns the broadcasting rights and shall keep all broadcasting revenue and sponsorship revenue generated from the game.

**** couldn’t find details on how Notre Dame and navy spilt the neutral site ticket revenue but pretty sure Notre dame only agree to give navy a home game during even years of Notre dame gets at least 40% of the ticket revenue since most of the fans at the neutral site games are Notre dame fans

Pretty sure Tulane wouldn't budge on giving up enough/any of their home gate...

That would leave two open non conference slots; These spots are already taken for the next several years. It would have to be way down the road.

LSU gets absolutely nothing out of playing Tulane.

If they do a TS/Superdome series instead of TS/Yulman, I would go the the dome game every time.

I would like to see the annual game reinstated.

Some people never learn.
A loco (local) radio guy, Eric Asher, wants the Governor to pressure LSU into playing Tulane once a year. He wants them to open the season.
Some folks NEVER learn.

How did Tulane handle baseball tickets the last the Tigers played there?

IIRC you had to buy a season ticket package to be able to secure a ticket to the LSU game.

By the way Asher was a Tulane water boy.

The only folk in New Oeleans who want to Tiger to do poorly are Tulane folks.