LSU plays Appalachian State on Nov 5

Well, hell, why didn't we just make it easy on everyone and schedule Elon College instead?
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SEC schools scheduling Div1-AA teams is pretty common. One reason why is it's an easy touch that helps balance a very rugged conference schedule.


This is fine if you believe that any undefeated SEC champion is a lock for the national title game. The 2004 season should have proven, once and for all, that this is not the case.

In the face of what happened to Auburn last year, voluntarily scheduling a Div 1-AA opponent is, well, strange.

Scheduling a bad to average Div 1-AA opponent (they were 6-5 last year) moves us beyond strange and right to downright bizarre. :dis: Hell, at least they coulda made it someone like Ga. Southern or UMASS, two teams that are always competitive on that level...LOL.

 

Hell, schedule Southern. We wouldn't have to pay as much b/c no travel is involved.

I said that jokingly, but I'd be more interested in watching Southern than App St.

 

Yep, wonder what the AD at Southern is thinking after Skip told them last year there was no way we could afford to schedule them in the future.

 

Facts? Facts? You can't handle the truth!

Umm, I meant, we can't handle the truth.

Fact is, we are playing App. State on Nov. 5th, nuff said. . . Michigan has a bye that weekend. The bottom of the Big Ten schedule is like a bunch of Division 1-aa schools. They should be tripping over themselves to schedule a home and home.

/just kidding about Michigan, please dear god don't flame me
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Who wants to bet if/when they vote to make 12 games schedules permenant, LSU will (instead of getting high quality home and home series) start having "must have" 8 game home slates...

 

The fact is we are their consumer, and despite all our bitching, tiger stadium will be filled with people eager to take whatever scraps we are given. If you want it to stop, quit bitching and protest. Soak up the 100 bucks and don't attend the game. It's probably not worth watching anyway. The loss of refreshment revenue, and revenues to surrounding businesses, embarassment to the ad due to an empty stadium, and no ticket sales to non season ticket holders may be enough to ensure this doesn't continue to happen. But if everyone is going to bitch on message boards and on the radio but go the game anyway and by tiger water and tiger nachos for the whole family, there is no reason for the ad to do anything different. Because let's face it, it's fiscally smart.

 

full schedual on lsusports.net now
other non-con foes include season and home opener v. North Texas (annual Sun Belt champ & New Orleans Bowl loser) followed by Arizona State, also at home. ASU pretty highly ranked in the preseason polls...

also new B.R. mayor has been pushing for an LSU SU matchup to "bring unity to the city." wonder why skip still wont schedual them....
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"The bottom of the Big Ten schedule is like a bunch of Division 1-aa schools. They should be tripping over themselves to schedule a home and home."

That would be who exactly.... Illinois and Indiana have been weak sisters of late.... sort of like Vandy and Miss St, don't you think?

If a pretty lousy Minnesota team, who basically collapsed after mid-season, can take out Alabama in Nashville, one might conclude there may be more parity than suspected.

And that's why there should be a few more intra-conference rivalries, instead of all these Div I-2A opponents. Kids come to div I schools to play other Div I teams.... imagine one of your stars going down to injury in the AppSt game... a game that means absolutely nothing and is actually a hinderance in the BCS.

Yep, that's worth scheduling some patsy.