fourth... bowling green, marshal, maybe VT (if that turns out true), and also BYU. BYU backing out was the reason we scheduled VT in the first place. freakin sucks that all these bastards are afraid of us.
The penalty for breaking a game contract with LSU is now $100,000. Marshall paid it, no problem. LSU should raise the penalty for contract breach to $500,000 and this stuff will stop. VT comes off like a coward who just doesn't want to play LSU in Tiger Stadium. It is SO chickenshit to take your home game of a home&home arrangement and then crap out of the return road game. If their AD is a dumbass who made a scheduling mistake, then he should be replaced and their existing contracts honored. If they have any moral fiber at all. Their credibility is shot. No school will trust them now in scheduling. Any body that wants a home&home contract with VT will demand that they get their home game first because Tech can't be trusted to show up for the return game. I say forget rescheduling the game to 2007. Drop VT and forget them. We can find good opponents who can be trusted.
I know the penalty for breaking the contract was $100,000 for Marshall but are you sure its only $100,000 for a big time team like V Tech? After all there is the lost TV revenue to consider since that game would surely be televised and anybody we are likely to be able to schedule at this late date wouldn't rate a second look for the TV networks. A few years ago Auburn paid Florida State $1 million to back out of a game with the Criminoles.
we should find a new partner to play. Lets get a big ten team or a pac 10 again. I would love to see Saban beat Ohio State, Mich, etc. Arizona State would be good.. That way us Tigahs on the left side can see our boys play....
I'm gonna wait for an official press release, but I had heard this might happen. Can't blame VT for wanting to have seven home games, but they need to honor this contract. Gosh, why does this continue to happen to us? With under a year to go, there is virtually no chance of us getting a home game against a 1-A opponent, and that small chance is only if we get a home-n-home with a BCS school which will deprive us of a seventh home game some year in the future, or get a 2-for-1 deal with an upper level non-BCS school (such as Hawaii, Cincinatti or Colorado State) which could still potentially deprive us of a seventh home game in the future. I'm almost tempted to screw trying to play seven home games every year and just hammer out a long term agreement with Tulane. At least that way, we'll get a seventh home game every other year at least, and we won't have to worry about last minute cancellations. What is the answer, because I am really frustrated by this.
No, I'm not sure, but Skip was quoted after the Marshall backout as saying that the penalty for contract breach was going to be raised in future game contracts.
A team can schedule a road game against Hawaii and not have it count against an 11 game or 12 game limit. Alabama is playing at Hawaii this year for the second year in a row and for the second year in a row the Tide will play 13 regular season games. You are right about it being frustrating for all those teams weaseling out of their contracts to play at LSU but especially so for V Tech to do it after LSU has already fulfilled its obligation to play a road game at Blacksburg. Maybe the answer is for the SEC to but teams that back out of contracts against SEC members to put those teams on a blacklist and no SEC team would ever give one of them a game without a blacklisted team putting a a million dollar cash bond that would be forfeited if they backed out.
