re: If we're going to grandfather old rivalries in the name of tradition

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We have a tradition of playing night games in Tiger Stadium that goes back to the early 30s. This tradition is seen as dispensible by the SEC. You would also wonder why your traditions don't seem to matter as much as other schools' if you were in our position. the problem is that you lack perspective. You can't seem to see the situation objectively and are stuck viewing it through your own bias. But like I said, soon it won't matter, all of our traditons will be given up one by one for the almighty dollar. And the whole time each fan base will think theirs are more special than others, so no one will stand together to save what makes college football so special, the individual traditions.

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Your post in the other thread made me think you were against traditions in college football. If I had a voice in the matter, LSU would certainly get to keep all their night games, and Bama-UT would play every year. I could give a crap about TV scheduling. But you are right about traditions slowly going away. With the media latched onto the scheduling one, I will be surprised if the UT-Bama game is kept. However, Bama wields a lot of power, and UT used to (not sure anymore since the brand/revenue is trailing over the cliff).

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ok, if thats the priority then lets let the netowrks write the schedules every year. Throw out all divisions, rotations and rivalries.

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They couldn't afford pay off the lawyers for the lawsuits from the pending mass suicides that would result in Louisiana from the bad TV people being unfair to LSU.

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ok, if thats the priority then lets let the netowrks write the schedules every year. Throw out all divisions, rotations and rivalries.

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That would weaken the product over time and not maximize revenues in the long run.

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This is an inarguable fact.

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And so is this:

2012: 7 out of 8 games at night. 1 CBS primetime game.
2011: 2 out of 6 games at night. 3 CBS primetime games. The other one you were playing Kentucky.
2010: 4 out of 7 games at night. 3 CBS primetime games.
2009: 7 out of 7 games at night.
2008: 4 out of 8 games at night. 3 CBS primetime games. The other one you were playing App. State.
2007: 5 out of 7 games at night. 2 CBS primetime games.
2006: 7 out of 8 games at night. The other game was MSU.
2005: 4 out of 6 games at night. 2 CBS primetime games.
2004: 6 out of 7 games at night. The other game was MSU.
2003: 4 out of 7 games at night. 3 CBS primetime games.



So in 10 years, LSU has played 71 home games. 50 of those games have been at night. 17 games were picked up as the CBS primetime game. In 10 years, you have played 4 games that were not a night or #1 game of the weekend.

70% of the games have been at night.
24% have been CBS games.
6% have been neither of the above.


Get the frick over yourselves.

Tennessee will be back dammit.

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Why are you including non-conference games?

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So it is only a tradition to play conference games at night for LSU?

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I think you could pretty easily argue that the opposite would be the case.

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Knowing how easy it is for you to make illogical arguments, I don't doubt this one bit.

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So it is only a tradition to play conference games at night for LSU?

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This thread is about protecting SEC traditions through scheduling and our collective dealings with the networks. OOC games do not enter into that.

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That is every game you have played in Death Valley, including non-conference games.

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This thread was made re:conference schedules and dealings. Why again would you include OOC in that?