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re: Just Sunk In--LSU & Arkansas--We Lost a Bit of History this Season
Posted on 11/25/14 at 12:57 am to DaleDenton
Posted on 11/25/14 at 12:57 am to DaleDenton
I also enjoyed our past games with LSU, but I'm glad we have a new "rival". The only differences are that we play LSU a little earlier and replaced SC with Mizzou. My biggest regret is that SC was usually a good win for us, but now we have another border game with excellent exposure.
LSU fans are who should be upset and most here know that many aren't happy about playing on Thanksgiving Day. Besides that they'll now compete against the NFL, they also traded CBS exposure for ESPN.
If I were a LSU fan, I wouldn't be happy, either, but it's great for Arkansas.
LSU fans are who should be upset and most here know that many aren't happy about playing on Thanksgiving Day. Besides that they'll now compete against the NFL, they also traded CBS exposure for ESPN.
If I were a LSU fan, I wouldn't be happy, either, but it's great for Arkansas.
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Posted on 11/25/14 at 4:24 am to redeye
LSU will play home games against the Aggies on Saturday nite. As you know, LSU loves Nite games on Saturdays in Tiger Stadium. 
Posted on 11/25/14 at 6:44 am to Litigator
I hate playing on non-Saturdays in general. Having to play Arkansas at the end of the season was nothing more than a drudgery. The weather was generally shitty, the crowd sparse, on road years we had to play in a POS stadium in Little Rock, it was a disaster. I would have much preferred to play the piggies in September or October, when we would at least have a chance of good weather in Fayetteville and a good crowd of coeds for the sucking of Tiger d&%k, bitches. The game really felt like a forced rivalry, played at a time slot that no one liked, with the feeling that no one really wanted to be there.
I was hoping that bringing A&M into the conference would end this farce, but instead, it made it worse. Now we play the game ON Thanksgiving Day! I hate it. It basically ensures that I will never get to go to Kyle Field for a big Gulf War game. It gives me the sads. LSU's offense is putrid enough, I don't need it ruining my Turkey high.
I was hoping that bringing A&M into the conference would end this farce, but instead, it made it worse. Now we play the game ON Thanksgiving Day! I hate it. It basically ensures that I will never get to go to Kyle Field for a big Gulf War game. It gives me the sads. LSU's offense is putrid enough, I don't need it ruining my Turkey high.
Posted on 11/25/14 at 6:52 am to Litigator
I liked that game on CBS, Friday after Thanksgiving.
There were some great games.
There were some great games.
Posted on 11/25/14 at 6:57 am to Litigator
We are still playing and playing on Black Friday afternoon sucked (extremely inconvient travel and it missed up hunting). Go have fun playing with your meth buddies.
Posted on 11/25/14 at 8:19 am to WeeWee
We still play LSU, just not on Thanksgiving Friday. I think losing the rivalry game we had with Texas, when joining the SEC was a bigger deal, much the same as the A&M vs Texas game going away.
Damn, I hate Texas.
Damn, I hate Texas.
Posted on 11/25/14 at 8:21 am to RazorHawk
You may get the pleasure of kicking the crap out of them in a bowl this year. So that might make you feel better 
Posted on 11/25/14 at 8:26 am to Draconian Sanctions
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Pretty much. LSU fans are almost universally happy with the new arrangement
I literally know of no one that is happy about us playing on Thanksgiving now. Would have much preferred to continue to play the hogs the Friday after..... I feel like we are getting crammed in to a stupid Aggie tradition.
Posted on 11/25/14 at 8:51 am to KABoss02
"LSU will play home games against the Aggies on Saturday nite."
You do realize LSU doesn't decide the time of the game?
It was a huge mistake moving the Arkansas game. The ATM game will rarely mean anything at all.
You do realize LSU doesn't decide the time of the game?
It was a huge mistake moving the Arkansas game. The ATM game will rarely mean anything at all.
Posted on 11/25/14 at 8:58 am to Mer Rouge
I'll miss it. For a time it was the game on black Friday until other conferences started to see the exposure both teams got. There were a lot of great games played on that day.
Posted on 11/25/14 at 9:14 am to wmr
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It was a tradition, rivalry or not. I am set in my ways.
Well said sir, well said
It was part of Thanksgiving. At least we didn't lose the Friday game.
Posted on 11/25/14 at 9:18 am to The_Joker
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Hey, at least we both have easier opponents thanksgiving weekend than we used to
Posted on 11/25/14 at 9:26 am to PygmalionEffect
quote:Not the way I remember it. Sure, despite the border there's not a lot of rivalry/animosity between the 2 programs, but I thought there was respect. Arkansas was the better of the two additions between they and South Carolina. The Friday game was a little inconvenient in terms of tailgating, but it made the game nationally prominent. My sister lives in Ohio, and she's told me most people she knows up there would have the game on, in the middle of Big 10 country; it was "the only big game" that day. It elevated both programs in the national eye, and if either was good it was a great little boost.
When the change was made, it was spun that it was lsu's decision to dump Arkansas for a&m...
I've done a little asking of friends around the country, and honestly, nobody knew A&M was an annual Thanksgiving Day game. The Aggies might like it, but it's a marketing disaster.
Posted on 11/25/14 at 9:32 am to truetigerfan1975
Hey, so far we are undefeated against LSU in non-Thanksgiving weekend SEC games. I'd say its working according to plan.
Posted on 11/25/14 at 10:00 am to Draconian Sanctions
Yes Arkansas is your rival, second to Ole Miss, you play for a trophy!
Now LSU wants to claim Bama and A&M as rivals because their programs are winning as of late... stop trying to change tradition and accept what history has given you.
Now LSU wants to claim Bama and A&M as rivals because their programs are winning as of late... stop trying to change tradition and accept what history has given you.
Posted on 11/25/14 at 10:08 am to Litigator
I'm with you, it was (almost) always a great game. Became a tradition to go to the games in Baton Rouge with my family. frick atm.
Posted on 11/25/14 at 10:15 am to Litigator
I probably will be one f the few to agree with you.
I have family that has season tickets, and we would always buy them from them for this gay because they didn't want to deal with going to LSU after thanksgiving. So Arkansas is the team i saw playing the most as a kid.
I will kinda miss it i suppose.
I have family that has season tickets, and we would always buy them from them for this gay because they didn't want to deal with going to LSU after thanksgiving. So Arkansas is the team i saw playing the most as a kid.
I will kinda miss it i suppose.
Posted on 11/25/14 at 10:25 am to Litigator
I agree Litigator, our split fan base family always enjoyed the thanksgiving match up as well. The game finally moved to Fayetteville is nice though.
Posted on 11/25/14 at 10:31 am to Litigator
:')
Posted on 11/25/14 at 10:33 am to Scoob
ITT, Cajuns continue to whine about somehing in which they had choice
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