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re: Why is the Bayou Classic televised on NBC?
Posted on 11/25/12 at 1:14 pm to trackfan
Posted on 11/25/12 at 1:14 pm to trackfan
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To give more perspective to the youngsters around here, the Bayou Classic was a yearly sellout until the 80's and in the early 70's, before there was cable TV, the only two schools with nationally televised weekly football shows were Notre Dame and Grambling. Also, note that there was a step decrease in attendence after Katrina.
Excuse me sir, but this is no place for facts.
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Posted on 11/25/12 at 1:17 pm to trackfan
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If McNair had been born 20 years later, he would be playing quarterback at an SEC school
He was drafted by the Oilers in 95. Herb Tyler started for LSU by the end of the 95 season and LSU signed Rohan Davey in 96 or 97. I wonder if people just missed on McNair. Recruiting has gotten much more sophisticated now than even 10 years ago. Big schools including LSU and Miami wanted Marshall Faulk at DB so he went to SDSU, clearly not a race/position thing there. Kordell Stewart was around the same time as McNair and he wound up a Colorado, but I'm not sure if he was viewed as strictly an option guy. No doubt guys like McNair, Stewart, Randall Cunningham having success paved the way for guys like Vick, JaMarcus Russell to play QB at southern schools. Just like Gilliam, Harris, Williams and Moon paved the way for guys like Cunningham and McNair.
Posted on 11/25/12 at 1:17 pm to DBeaux225
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There is a huge chance this is the last year it will be though because its losing State Farm as a sponsor.
I think I heard on the Jaguar Journal that they picked up on a few sponsors after it was known that State Farm was dropping them.
Posted on 11/25/12 at 1:22 pm to H-Town Tiger
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He was drafted by the Oilers in 95.
That means he was college recruit in 92, I don't think any SEC team took him serious as QB when he came out of high school.
Posted on 11/25/12 at 1:22 pm to trackfan
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To give more perspective to the youngsters around here, the Bayou Classic was a yearly sellout until the 80's and in the early 70's, before there was cable TV, the only two schools with nationally televised weekly football shows were Notre Dame and Grambling. Also, note that there was a step decrease in attendence after Katrina.
That's the absolute 100% truth.
Watching the bayou classic was an after thanksgiving tradition in Louisiana. In the 80's and 90's, the crowd was filled with stars. Now it's a shell of its former self with the new generation. They would rather hang out outside the dome and
see what each other is wearing or leave from inside the dome after the bands finish halftime. It's embarrassing. The game was actually on of the better games I watched yesterday. It came down to the wire.
Posted on 11/25/12 at 1:31 pm to DBeaux225
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That's supposed to be funny?
Not really sure. I don't speak spanish.
Posted on 11/25/12 at 1:34 pm to BIGDAB
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That means he was college recruit in 92, I don't think any SEC team took him serious as QB when he came out of high school.
Obviously, my question is, is it just because they wouldn't consider a black QB, which is possible of course. Or was it just that they missed, like they missed on M Faulk? It's probably a combo of both. Today a guy like McNair would be a QB at an SEC or some BCS level team assuming he was good in HS. In part because guys like him had success in the NFL and in part because there is much more and better info about HS recruits today.
Posted on 11/25/12 at 1:36 pm to DBeaux225
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That's supposed to be funny?
In the head of an ignorant, simple minded prick, yes it is.
Posted on 11/25/12 at 1:38 pm to BigBrod81
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In the head of an ignorant, simple minded prick, yes it is.
Posted on 11/25/12 at 1:38 pm to DBeaux225
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Most of us black folks don't watch BET.
I frickin hate BET with a passion. I stopped watching it right before graduating HS.
They take every stereotype of black ppl and exploit it x100...
Michael Basiden can go to hell too
Posted on 11/25/12 at 1:39 pm to DBeaux225
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Watching the bayou classic was an after thanksgiving tradition in Louisiana. In the 80's and 90's, the crowd was filled with stars.
The good ol days.
Posted on 11/25/12 at 1:39 pm to Modern
Wait. Hold up. You're telling me that's not a reflection of the best and brightest?
Posted on 11/25/12 at 1:40 pm to Cajun Revolution
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Not really sure. I don't speak spanish.
Yeah, that's a nice way to try to crawfish out of that one.
I'm sure it sounded so much funnier in head as you typed it.Posted on 11/25/12 at 1:41 pm to BigBrod81
What do I need to crawfish out of? It's a festival between two historically black colleges. Stop acting like I insulted your grandmother.
Posted on 11/25/12 at 1:41 pm to Cajun Revolution
Lol
Posted on 11/25/12 at 1:43 pm to Modern
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I frickin hate BET with a passion. I stopped watching it right before graduating HS. They take every stereotype of black ppl and exploit it x100... Michael Basiden can go to hell too
Exactly why I hate BET. It's embarrassing to me as a black man to see that shite on my tv.
Posted on 11/25/12 at 1:44 pm to DBeaux225
You ever seen the boondocks bet boycott episode?
Posted on 11/25/12 at 1:45 pm to Cajun Revolution
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Wait. Hold up. You're telling me that's not a reflection of the best and brightest?
So you mean to tell me all whites in Louisiana aren't a reflection of the folks on Swamp People or Cajun Justice?
Posted on 11/25/12 at 1:45 pm to H-Town Tiger
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. Or was it just that they missed, like they missed on M Faulk?
I don't think they missed on Faulk, maybe he didn't fit their schemes. I also think his mother or grandmother encouraged him to leave the state, because they wanted him to get as far away from NOLA as he could, (I've heard this from people who played high school ball with him, not sure if it's true or not)
Posted on 11/25/12 at 1:46 pm to Modern
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Most of us black folks don't watch BET.
I frickin hate BET with a passion. I stopped watching it right before graduating HS.
They take every stereotype of black ppl and exploit it x100...
Michael Basiden can go to hell too
Me three, and you can add Tyler Perry movies to that list too.
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