re: Roadmap for at large BCS Game, root for Nebraska and some lobbying

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Just calling it like I see it.

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Why would you believe that anyone here is interested in how you see things?

Don't you have your own fan board on which to play like people care about your opinions?

I thought all the same things until I heard the former Arky SID (he's on the radio daily up here, and handled this stuff for years...) say that Arkansas would sell half the tickets of LSU (official allocations+LSU biased locals). I think in the end, the economic part of the LSU/Arky decision is a push. Especially when you consider the main benefit of "hotel rooms" is the tax associated with the room, not the revenue of the nightly rate...it gets even more irrelevant.

We're on the same team here...no big deal. Just an interesting debate.

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Fellow Tiger Fans, let's root for Nebraska, this way we move up to #9 in BCS. With only a 2 slot difference with Arkansas, it becomes a "beauty contest" for the bowls? LSU is the "most" watched college football program this year. On a cumulative basis, the fact that practically are all are games are nationally televised, we attract more eyeballs and ratings than any other team in college football. The Les Miles' interviews, the unpredictability of our team. We are the most exciting team to watch in college football. (outside of the 2 playing for MNC). No reason our team can't win a "beauty" contest vs Arkansas for at large berth. They don't care about on field, head to head, with the same record it's about "ratings" and "money". Don't count us out

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the bowls are about more than just the city. local business leaders sit on the boards. its a full community effort.

to pass it off as just tax money is silly and just plain wrong.

i believe i covered all of those reasons in my original posts

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arkansas is the better team and deserves the bid.

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They were th3 better team yesterday. We are both 10-2, with both losses coming against SEC competition. We could play the "They lost to so and so game", but we still both have 2 losses.

hogfancb

This doesn't qualify as a rebuttal.

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there is not a single measurable in LSU's favor of being selected over Arky.

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Agree with everything you said until this point...ticket sales go LSU's way. 5,000 more tickets is $750,000 real dollars.

But again, I want them to play somewhere else.

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ive totally discredited this in previous posts.

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You haven't. The 2 schools' allotments only account for <40k of the 70-80k tickets that will be sold.

The school can ask for more tickets beyond its allotment. Sugar bowls involving LSU (even the LSU/ND one) sell more tickets than those not involving LSU, by as much as 12,000 tickets, which makes sense- as the locals have a reason to want to buy tickets late and go to the game.

Arky's main advantage isn't even that they beat LSU, it's that they are finishing on a much higher note (and ranked higher)

I'd be shocked if it wasn't Arkansas. They're ranked higher and there's no way LSU will jump over them due to them losing head to head. Arkansas has never been to a BCS game and would likely sell out their allotment of tickets just as quick as LSU would due to how excited the fans would be for that BCS appearance. I do think a team like LSU deserves to go over the Big East champ (a lot of teams are more deserving than them, but that's another issue entirely), but with the rules the way they are as far as not letting more than 2 teams from a conference into BCS games, it probably won't happen.