re: Why doesn't LSU play good teams before SEC play?

quote:

---

I put them in the mid-week category. I don't think we should ever play an in-state school on the weekend unless it is in a round-robin that we would host.

---

ahhh cool, i prob just read it too fast. i agree.

But watch it, most people think that playing 4 nobodies each weekend of OOC is a good thing.

quote:

---

1) Schedule at least one premier weekend series like CSF this year (3 or 6 games)
2) One gimme series, like Duquesne or Holy Cross (3 games)
3) One or two middle of the road series like Kansas a couple years ago. (3 or 6 games)

---

That is almost what we do. We played the middle of the road teams like Illinois, Indiana, Central Florida and Wake Forest.

quote:

---

Tulane always gets home and home.

---

Almost always does.

quote:

---

NO SWAC TEAMS (unless it's Southern)

---

Roger Cador says he won't play LSU again unless it's home and home.

quote:

---

ULL, SELU, and Tulane are the only state schools we should play every year.

---

Why? McNeese, Nicholls St. and Northwestern are usually respectable (don't forget Nicholls St. beat LSU, 3-1, at the Box in our CWS championship season in 2009) and playing them is good politics with the legislature. We may not like that fact, but it IS a fact.

quote:

---

or Dallas Baptist

---

Is that like playing Sacred Heart?

By my count, your method would cost LSU 4 or 5 home games/year. That equates to between $400,000-$500,000 lost ticket sales/year. Not going to happen......

quote:

---

By my count, your method would cost LSU 4 or 5 home games/year. That equates to between $400,000-$500,000 lost ticket sales/year. Not going to happen......

---

So basically money takes precedent over a better prepared baseball team.

Let me guess. You mad about the Oregon game next year because it prevents LSU from playing ULL at home and making a kajillion dollars, right?

quote:

---

that thinks he knows more than he does.

---

Kettle...meet pot. I know I know more about LSU baseball than you. If you don't think so, just ask me.

quote:

---

senile old man

---

There you go again. So it does matter to you, doesn't it?

quote:

---

It's a goddamn example of a type of team that LSU could surely lure year to year.

---

And you know that....how? Flying a team in for one, mid-week game from the east coast costs how much? $15,000? $20,000? More than that? You're really not very realistic.

quote:

---

it doesn't mean that you know anything about the game itself.

---

I sort of do. And we're not debating "the game itself," are we? We're debating scheduling and costs. I DO know a lot about that.

quote:

---

We get it, you are part of the baseball coaches club.

---

You sound jealous. I tell you what: you're invited to be my guest (I'm allowed one guest per meeting) at the next meeting and you can ask your questions and make your suggestions to coach Mainieri.

He'll be glad to tell you all the same things I've already told you in this thread. Then maybe you won't let facts get in the way of your stupid, unfeasible opinions.

I'll let you know when the next meeting is. Deal?

quote:

---

So basically money takes precedent over a better prepared baseball team.

---

Usually people who say money doesn't matter has never been responsible for managing much money.

How do you know the team is not prepared by playing the teams we play now?

quote:

---

You mad about the Oregon game next year because it prevents LSU from playing ULL at home and making a kajillion dollars, right?

---

LSU will make up almost all of that that money for the lost home game from the TV money for playing that game. Plus the recruiting exposure in the Dallas market is good for future years.

You're really not knowledgeable or prepared enough to discuss these issues, are you?

quote:

---

And you know that....how? Flying a team in for one, mid-week game from the east coast costs how much? $15,000? $20,000? More than that? You're really not very realistic.

---

yes, i want ECU to fly in for a mid week game.

geez, you are a retard

.

quote:

---

You sound jealous. I tell you what: you're invited to be my guest (I'm allowed one guest per meeting) at the next meeting and you can ask your questions and make your suggestions to coach Mainieri.

He'll be glad to tell you all the same things I've already told you in this thread. Then maybe you won't let facts get in the way of your stupid, unfeasible opinions.

I'll let you know when the next meeting is. Deal?

---

no offense, but I would never hang out with you in real life. As it is you seem to be hurting for friends by begging people on here to go to meetings with you. That speaks volumes.

this is just a message board, we are all just talking. if i cared that much i could have PMs cell # in about 3 minutes and id let him know how i feel. But in reality i dont care enough about it. Just discussion point on a message board.

quote:

---

I'm saying it would be part of my ideal schedule.

---

Then you already get your wish.

quote:

---

or Dallas Baptist


Is that like playing Sacred Heart?


So you only follow LSU baseball, not college baseball as a whole.

---

I know Dallas Baptist lost to that college baseball powerhouse Missouri State last weekend. They are 4-2, having also lost to Univ. Texas-Arlington and having won against Indiana St (3 games), Ok. State and South Dakota State. I also know they played in the Tex A&M regionals two or three seasons ago and lost to two nobody teams. I don't recall them making any other regionals in the last decade. What else do you think I should know about them?

quote:

---

but in-stadium revenues will go up if you bring in better teams.

---

Every OOC weekend series at the Box this season is sold out or will be selling only standing room only tickets. How many more tickets can a better opponent sell?

quote:

---

LSU doesn't NEED to play 39 of 56 at home.

---

It's better than NOT playing that many games at home.

quote:

---

LSU doesn't NEED to play 39 of 56 at home.

It's better than NOT playing that many games at home.

---

"better" is very subjective, but in your mind better=mo' money....

quote:

---

Wait a minute, are we now complaining that the LSU baseball program makes money?

---

Not complaining at all, just debating the merit of playing a decent OOC schedule and perhaps losing 3 home games.