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re: What happened to playing Tulane every year?
Posted on 9/12/17 at 12:57 pm to LSU Patrick
Posted on 9/12/17 at 12:57 pm to LSU Patrick
Under the right conditions, it makes sense to play Tulane every year. Four or five in Tiger Stadium to one in the Dome. Make it mid year, the week after Alabama.
They are an instate school & we would get more credit for playing a "traditional" game by the selection committee than playing the Troy States or some directional school. The sticking point may be the $ men at Tulane who still think they are our equal in football & thus think we should do home & home in their band box of a stadium, which they couldn't fill under any conditions.
They are an instate school & we would get more credit for playing a "traditional" game by the selection committee than playing the Troy States or some directional school. The sticking point may be the $ men at Tulane who still think they are our equal in football & thus think we should do home & home in their band box of a stadium, which they couldn't fill under any conditions.
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Posted on 9/12/17 at 1:01 pm to BayouRat15
Skip set it up, and they realized quickly that the demand to play Tulane in the dome just wasn't huge. It didn't benefit LSU in anyway - gave up some home game revenue for an easy victory, without being able to charge premium seats.
So, to sum up - no benefit to LSU, but did cost LSU.
So, to sum up - no benefit to LSU, but did cost LSU.
Posted on 9/12/17 at 1:03 pm to BayouRat15
Pretty sure our first time game of the new series in the dome
getting moved to 11 am pretty much ended it.
Lsu only wants to play a night game in the dome
getting moved to 11 am pretty much ended it.
Lsu only wants to play a night game in the dome
Posted on 9/12/17 at 1:33 pm to TigerDM
Tuck Foolane
We gain absolutely NOTHING playing toolame in any sport. All we would do is support their pathetic, arrogant fans and athletic dept.
We gain absolutely NOTHING playing toolame in any sport. All we would do is support their pathetic, arrogant fans and athletic dept.
Posted on 9/12/17 at 1:36 pm to BayouRat15
I'd rather play them than Chattanooga or Syracuse
Posted on 9/12/17 at 1:36 pm to BayouRat15
I'd rather play them than Chattanooga or Syracuse
Posted on 9/12/17 at 1:41 pm to The Belk
WHY???????
Please don't say it is a "rivalry"! What a joke that is.
toolame is worse than Syracuse or Chattanooga. I would much rather have teams like that come into Tiger Stadium than the slime.
Please don't say it is a "rivalry"! What a joke that is.
toolame is worse than Syracuse or Chattanooga. I would much rather have teams like that come into Tiger Stadium than the slime.
Posted on 9/12/17 at 1:42 pm to BayouRat15
That was some rivalry in the 70s and 80s. It's unfortunate that today's generation will never know what that rivalry was like.
Both programs bottomed out in the early 90s, which is when the rivalry died.
Both programs bottomed out in the early 90s, which is when the rivalry died.
Posted on 9/12/17 at 1:45 pm to BayouRat15
I agree that we need to play them. I think we have played them wither 98 or 99 times. We at least need to make it 100. The flagship public and the flagship private in the two biggest cities in the state. Come on Joe.
Posted on 9/12/17 at 1:45 pm to TheCaterpillar
Yeah because we have so much to gain by playing USL, makes sense
Posted on 9/12/17 at 1:50 pm to Dr Rosenrosen
The rivalry died when Tulane killed it!
Just like you killed your own athletic program.
Stop blaming everyone else.
Your own President wanted the athletic program to die.
He did a pretty good job of it!
Just like you killed your own athletic program.
Stop blaming everyone else.
Your own President wanted the athletic program to die.
He did a pretty good job of it!
Posted on 9/12/17 at 1:50 pm to Dr Rosenrosen
I actually went to a Tulane game last year and I was shocked at how far down that program has deteriorated. It was homecoming and the stadium was barely half full. Now, the people there seemed to be having a good time.To think that 60 years ago they were in the SEC.
Playing Tulane now is just another rent a win.
Playing Tulane now is just another rent a win.
Posted on 9/12/17 at 1:52 pm to ElderTiger
It is. Tulane had a chance to reinvent its football program after 1998 and blew it.
The two programs are just too far apart at this time to renew the series.
The two programs are just too far apart at this time to renew the series.
Posted on 9/12/17 at 2:00 pm to ElderTiger
I guess what some of us are saying is while we continue the 'rent a win' concept why not sprinkle in Tulane every now and then?
Posted on 9/12/17 at 2:09 pm to BayouRat15
I'd play them in the Dome every year
Posted on 9/12/17 at 2:29 pm to TheCaterpillar
It's still better than Chattanooga, or Jax State, or Towson, or Furman. Playing those teams may benefit them, but not LSU. At least Tulane was once a major rival.
Posted on 9/12/17 at 2:31 pm to BayouRat15
I would love to play them annually. What a great rivalry series.
This post was edited on 9/12/17 at 2:33 pm
Posted on 9/12/17 at 2:33 pm to PhillyTiger90
You youngsters have no idea just how bad the greenie athletic dept over the yrs has screwed LSU, primarily in baseball but it was the same administrators behind it. The greenies have never sold their ticket allotment for games in T.S. and games in the Dome were played before more LSU fans than weenies. Interesting that it is always ...this thread comes up every year...LSU fans clamoring to play the weenies. There has been literally no push from the greenies to renew the series. Their fan base does not care, why should LSU? As for the other state schools, USL has never sold its ticket allotment & there are no drums pounding from across the Basin to play LSU more. La. Tech & McNeese have sold their allotments for the most part but of the two, only Tech means anything from a "national" perspective. We play these schools in baseball & their programs make money off LSU that way. Southern? Get real.
Posted on 9/12/17 at 2:38 pm to BayouRat15
You ever heard about shutting down the state when it comes to recruiting. Amost every other SEC team has another football school that they compete with that is in state. As long as Tulane keeps their lowly status we don't have to worry about them. If we let them play us and they somehow managed to keep it close or beat us then they would start to siphon off some recruits. Especially New Orleans players who might want to play before the home folks and would be guarranteed a lot of playing time.
Perhaps not the blue chippers but remember Honey Badger was only a #3 going out of high school.
Perhaps not the blue chippers but remember Honey Badger was only a #3 going out of high school.
Posted on 9/12/17 at 2:58 pm to lesgeaux
Tulane was in the SEC until the mid-60s. Hard to believe.
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