re: Independence Bowl attendence

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And kudos to ULM for flipping the bird to Tech and cancelling all the other series with them. Tech won't play ULM in football, so ULM won't play them in anything else. I think the entire Sun Belt should follow suit and stick it in Tech's butt.

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How exactly is that going to hurt Tech?

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How exactly is that going to hurt Tech?

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so, do you actually think that playing the WAC is a good thing for tech ? you actually think having a traveling budget that includes trips to fresno, boise, and honululu to name a few is a good thing when you don't have money coming in from home game revenue ?? throw on top of that all of the non-revenue sports that you have to support thanks to title IX ... you ain't bringing shite in money-wise in basketball .. i think southern university in BR draws more for home hoops games ... no one around ruston can identify with any rivalries you have in the WAC ..

ETA: and with the woeful condition the indy bowl is in financially, you are in line behind alabama, colorado, and northern illinois for bowl money .. i'm guessing that the WAC schools are really thrilled with this ..

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Racism would rear it's ugly head.

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at least it would bring some passion to a home game ..

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northern illinois for bowl money

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Tech will be getting 900K and NIU will get about 150K, so how exactly will Tech be behind NIU for bowl $$?

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Tech will be getting 900K and NIU will get about 150K, so how exactly will Tech be behind NIU for bowl $$?

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show me a link on that .. there's no way NIU comes down here for $150K .. it prolly cost them twice that to travel here ... why on earth would a bowl give a school less than 100 miles away six times the money that they do to the traveling school ?? the payouts per school are equal and each school splits the payout after expenses with each school in the conference and the conference office ... why would northern illinois LOSE money to play in a bowl game ? and no, don't give me recruiting or TV exposure .. pretty sure the chargers-broncos trumped that classic ...

Tech sold all 12K of their alloted tickets and NIU only sold 2-3K

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Tech sold all 12K of their alloted tickets and NIU only sold 2-3K

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a. it is absolutely pathetic that a I-A program not accustomed to going to bowl games can only bring 12,000 fans to a bowl game less than an hour away ...

b. ticket sales have NOTHING to do with the payouts given to each school ... the payouts are generated up front by the bowls themselves as private businesses ... this is generated through their corporate sponsorships, television revenues, etc. .. for a bowl game to be sanctioned by the NCAA, the bowl has to pay out equally to both schools ... this isn't boxing ...

eta: once again, show me a link to this 900K/150K payout disparity ..

I wasn't really talking about racism between the players...more of the fans in general.

Grambling/Tech relationship does not equal the Southern/LSU relationship.

Also, I asked the question of past games because I was wondering if there were any instances of racism in Baton Rouge due to the football games. If LSU consistently played Southern beat them 9 times out of 10...I could imagine some animosity.

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Grambling would be good for attendance.



Racism would rear it's ugly head. Guaranteed. People in Ruston would be getting into fights

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ULM/GSU went off without a hitch. Are you saying that Ruston is that much more racist than Monroe?

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nobody sponsers the Indy Bowl

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yes, i am fully aware of this .. petro sun defaulted on their agreement, hence alabama and colorado still not having their money from last year's game ... and the indy bowl has one calendar year to find a sponsor or bye bye NCAA sanctioning ... the state of louisiana is actually picking up a lot of the tab for this year's game and helped out with last year's game as well ... please bring more than one sentence responses to the conversation ...