re: Whiniest fan base in the nation

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We don’t always get what we want. Big deal. It’s a random cupcake opponent. No one is trying to screw us. Get over it you bunch of pansies.

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GREAT POST... Ohio St. plays at 11:00 all the time...............

Not really. LSU is just like every other fan base, you just happen to focus on LSU. Go to other team boards and you will find the same thing week to week.

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bama does play most of their non conference games at 11 am...they can't bitch about it?

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Feel free to bitch about it. LSU fans don't care if Alabama (or any other school for that matter) play their OOC games at night.

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we aren't the only team that tells the sec our preferences. I doubt they make everyone hapy. It's just we cry way too much as a fanbase.

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LSU night games aren't simply a "preference". It's a well settled and well known tradition for the school and fans. If the league doesn't want to honor it, that's fine. But it should be across the board. Yet, the ONLY reason the cross division scheduling is set up that way it is is because of the Alabama v. Tenn. "tradition" that apparently is so sacrosanct that there hasn't been even the slightest thought to change it in the nearly 30 years since the league split into divisions. Because the league now has 14 teams that means LSU will only play at (ex) UGA once every ~20 years and vice versa. That is significantly more altering than allowing LSU the courtesy to keep one of, if not maybe its MOST important tradition in tact for at least the non-conf. games.

The difference between LSU and other schools is that LSU doesn't just look at playing nights games as a "preference".

I agree about the new 6-1-1 format with 14 teams. LSU will not go to Knoxville again to sometime around 2030. That is crazy. Need to go to 9 conference games, do a 6-1-2 format and rotate the 2 every year so LSU would play Florida and say Vandy/UGA year 1, UK-SC year 2 and MIZZOU-TENN year 3 then in year 4 Vandy/UGA again (play on the road who you played home in year 1 and home who you played on the road in year 1) and rotate.

But killing long standing rivalries because of expansion is a problem, I know TENN is a dumpster fire, but when the Big 12 expanded and the OU-Nebraska game was done away with, that put the Big 12 on a bad footing from jump as Nebraska was never happy with that with Texas basically dictating the scheduling structure when that league was formed back in the 90's (among other things).

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it's happened once in how many years?

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EXACTLY! You don't find it odd that "it's happens once in how many years" IMMEDIATELY after Alabama complains? If that letter wasn't penned, do you think LSU would be playing USU at 11:00 am? Because as you just pointed out, it hasn't happened in many years. It's not simply a coincidence LSU hasn't played any day games vs. non-conf. opponents. It was done (though perhaps not explicitly stated) to accommodate LSU's night game tradition. The network analyst/broadcasters, etc. talk ad nausem about "LSU night games". So why, if given the choice between showing a LSU home game at night (which they hype as some otherworldly experience) and a day game which eliminates that much ballyhooed experience, would they opt for the latter? It's not like the SEC hasn't broadcast multiple non-conf night games before

So as you pointed you out, it IS an anomaly LSU is playing one of these games in the morning. But the timing for that anomaly to occur certainly seems suspicious that it happens immediately after one team gripes about it. Again, NO ONE around here gives a shite if Alabama plays the likes of USM at the same time LSU is playing an OOC opponent at night.

Slap yourself

Exactly
I’ve been preaching this for a while now. We aren’t any worse than others, just venture out and see.