The Friday after a LSU thursday night home game would be devastating to the Greater Baton Rouge economy. Absentism would be about 40% and productivitity of that 40% would be abysmal. It would drop the productivity rate 5%.
LSU officials have stated numerous times that they will not ever have a Thursday night home game. Away games here and there like the Miss St. game is possible. At home would have to large of a effect on classes, etc.. Fans would start arriving a few days early and students would have no where to park. Classes would just have to be cancelled all together.
If you can say that with a straight face while looking over SC's schedule the past five or six years, you're a bigger man than me. W/L record plays a bigger role. Sportswriters watch very few games. A team's position in the poll has more to do with reputation, then the W/L record. When you have three teams deemed worthy of the top couple spots, the writers start looking closer at flaws. That's what happened to AU when the finished undefeated along with SC and OU. Lat season with LSU, VaTech carried weight, but only because LSU had two losses and the one loss teams left simply did not compare to the games LSU won. They deserved to go to the BCS CG because other teams lost, not because they won. I'm happy they got in and even happier that they won, but two loss teams as a rule are not worthy of playing for the top prize. There are exceptions to every rule, but they don't come around very often. LSU isn't going to get slighted this season one bit by playing Troy and Appy State if they roll through AU, UF, USC on the road and UGA, 'Bama at home.
I agree with Bayou Bengal's post. No expert here but I surely don't find his post a stretch, by any means. Which is it? No, what happened was USC and OU started out ranked 1 & 2. Auburn wasn't in the top ten. None of them suffered a defeat, Auburn couldn't jump them. Then it does matter. Chances are you're right...I surely hope so. Making it to the SECCG and winning it would do wonders as it has the two last years, among others.
Sweet. Taking select phrases from someone's post can be fun! Ummm... It's both as very clearly stated. The phrase "W/L record plays a bigger role" is a comparison to his argument of SOS. I then go on to add that not only is a team's W/L record more important that SOS, but a team's reputation does as well. That is very clear. Agreed. That's why a team's W/L record and reputation matters more than who the team plays. When all things are equal, the writers start to nitpick and look closer at the ugly parts. AU's was The Citadel. Of course it matters. I even said that it matters, but it doesn't matter as much as a team's W/L record and a team's reputation. I even gave a specific scenario where it mattered in the very sentence you quoted. :milesmic: or did you mean this? It can be fun! :wave:
The offices have to be somewhere. Just because they happen to be in B'ham does not mean that affects scheduling.
There is a large majority of Bama fans that look at the schedules the last few years and ask why do so many teams have open dates before they meet Bama. Kramer? Don't know. Seems like a bit of a conspiracy theory the way I look at it but they do have sufficient reasons to ask.
Let me try to simpify this cause you've lost me. You say SOS doesn't matter; it does. It's mattered when there were several undefeated teams in contention for a NC birth and it's happened when there were several two-loss teams in contention for a NC birth. Something I never hear said is that, just as our win over VT helped us, their loss to us helped them. Had their other loss been to UNC or GT they may not have been in the Orange bowl. BC's loss to Maryland would've made it interesting to say the least. Was the win over VT the only thing? No, and I want to commend tirk who's biting his lip, wanting to say that, but without it we weren't sniffin the NC game. FYI, over the last 5 years, last year excluded, not many teams can match SC's OOC scheduling.
