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

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i’m not giving them 2022 as a sure thing

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"good enough to beat us" is not equal to "would beat us"

Tbh, I would rather play Tulane in the afternoon or evening, in the dome the opening weekend of the season. I would enjoy getting to not sweat my arse off for one weekend of the season.

Then what was the point of trying to do a home and neutral site series with rice then? both Tulane and rice are private schools with majority of student population is out of state and not Tulane and rice athletic fans. Like I understand trying to recruit but makes no sense to potentially playing rice at NRG stadium and Tulane at super dome and basically southern Methodist (either at their stadium or AT&T) knowing that it would make likely be mostly lsu fans at the away games and losing money when you can play a G5 opponent at tiger stadium. Like I get it if it was Boise state like ya ok they are a public state University with 30k to 50k fans even though their stadium is less than 35k seating capacity and a lot of their student body is Boise state fans and also students who don’t mind going to football games would make sense to do a home and home ; they proven to make it to a new years 6 bowl / college football playoffs. But like what does teams like Tulane and rice bring to the table.

frick tulane.

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Solves the problem of not having an SEC rivalry game that weekend.

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frick Tulame. They are a G5 program, even if the PAC whatever or Big 12 give them an invite one day. They do not and will never again deserve a home and home, or even a 2 for 1. That is a huge money loss for LSU and it will never make sense to do it. They are just a small school in a lower-rated TV market already covered by LSU. There is absolutely nothing to be gained from this.

It’s their own fricking fault for leaving the SEC. The loss of this series and their perpetual irrelevance in the grand scheme of college football are both consequences of that stupid, shortsighted decision. If they want to come to Tiger Stadium every few years so we can beat their brains out like every other LA school, fine. But we should never again play a football game in NOLA that isn’t the Sugar Bowl or a playoff game. Period.

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If they move it to the dome, sure. I’m not sure if LSU will want to play at Yulman.

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frick playing in the Dome. Even if they split revenue, this is a massive money loss over hosting ANY home game, even one vs an FCS opponent that no one cares about.

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maybe ever 4th or 5th year play in the dome but that's it.

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Never. We would literally be lighting 6 figures on fire to do that for a game ESPN wouldn’t give less of a shite about. Why in the frick would we EVER do this?

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Not every neutral site game is created equal, playing a team like FSU in the dome creates way more $ for us.

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Teams in those first weekend neutral site games get extra money from ESPN and great exposure to make it worth their while. You won’t ever get anything for playing Tulane the last week of the season. It would never come close to the bigger rivalries. It would be just another game.

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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

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Tulane has a new nice little stadium. LSU fans would take it over.

I get that Tulane wants a home and home, but surely it is more economically feasible for them to just play at LSU. I'm sure they would receive more revenue at LSU, than trying to get LSU to Tulane.

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You don't play a G5 on the road. Ever.

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frick Tulane. I’ve always hated them. But I do hate this for Memphis. They’ve had 2 for 1s with Ole Miss, State, Arkansas and Missouri in recent years and UT and Vandy in the past. That will be over now unless they can finally get an invite to the Big 12 or ACC.