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Take the ESPN contract and burn the Damn thing.
There is no point to paying for Tailgating with this contract.
Breakfast beers
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The Sun Belt Conference, in conjunction with ESPN, announced that the September 21 matchup between in-state rivals Louisiana and Tulane will be aired nationally on ESPNU.
11amQuote:
Originally Posted by Esqueleto
Hate it.
11am games should be reserved for Thanksgiving day.
____ing awful, man.
I’ll take suck the life out of Cajun Field for $1,000, Alex.
The one aspect of having a week off that I do not like is the quarterback heads straight to the weight room and looses his touch when they come back from the bye.
If you don't believe me watch against Tulane, Wooldridge will not be as accurate as he was the first two games of the season.
Muscle memory will be lost during the bye.
Nothing has done more to hurt attendance at Cajun Field than the espn contract. It's just a fact.
Ughhh I didn't get a chance to setup tailgating last game, and now it's not really worth it for this game either.
What would have been the biggest home game (not counting SBC game) in quite a while just went down the drains. This will also limit Tulane fans driving in that day for the game
All to play on ESPNU, not even ESPN or ESPN2
Man, I know it may hurt attendance, though it shouldn't if the local area actually supported the program. However, we are begging for national relevancy (or should be) in the current landscape, and we've seen thanks to success in the Hud and Napier years that the national folks will talk us up when we are winning.Quote:
Originally Posted by CajunNation
What better way to get back on the radar of the national college football media than to upset what has been a recently very successful Tulane program at Cajun Field on one of the national TV stations?
Recognition, good.
Time of day for parents in youth sports, bad. I’m out. Unfortunately. Will try to give the tickets and parking passes away.
So, it's too early for any of you to go out to CAJUN FIELD for, say, 7 am, and cook you some breakfast and have some beers to wash it down before the game??
On a more serious note, I'm sure Coach Dez will have the CAJUNS up by 6 am and ready to go prepare for this game by 8. The good thing is that they're going to have this extra week to prepare for the green weenies. I pray that helps!!
#cULture
#WeAreLouisiana
#GeauxCajuns
#BeatTulane
It's out of the school's control, but this is the main reason why the season long tailgate model is not worth the costQuote:
Originally Posted by CajunNation
Looking forward to this game though as it's a huge opportunity for our team
I’ll be there
Boudin, Biscuits, & Bloody Mary’sQuote:
Originally Posted by Million$Mullet
Yeah, and chances for a victory just went wayyy down.Quote:
Originally Posted by facelessjonmoon
Wow. This is almost getting too much to take. Losing good players to NIL and other poaching and now moving the best home game in years to an 11 am kickoff. I feel like we, the fans of G5 schools, are the red-headed step children and inconsequential afterthought of college football. This is getting ridiculous. Are they trying to make us quit being fans of college football?
UL played great against Kennesaw State. I had flashbacks of the Napier years of dominating defense and powerful running game. We certainly have momentum and a lot of anticipation for the Tulane game. Lots of inquiries from casual fans about tickets to the Tulane game. Riding this momentum and enthusiasm, Brian Maggard yesterday at 5:30 pm set out a text asking everyone to give $10 a month to the NIL collective. Then today at noon he announces that we have an 11 am kickoff for the Tulane game.
I remember another highly anticipated home game a few years ago got moved to an 11 am kickoff. The Boise State game. We put on a valiant tailgate attempt but it was not really tailgating. The game was very hot and they were carting people out of the stands that had heat related issues. I watched the second half from the breezeway near the concessions. I wonder what ESPN would do if we said no? Do we want to be on ESPNU that badly? The football fans that want to watch UL/Tulane can find it on ESPN+. How many casual fans will watch the game on ESPNU? So we give up a great home game against an in-state rival for what?
I’m interested in the tickets and park passes for the game pm me when you get a chanceQuote:
Originally Posted by RaginScotsman
At 0800 Light up the big screen with some classic SLI, USL and UL games of the past.
3x5' flag with our bad ass helmet on it to the first 1000 (if too many), make it 500, if too many, make it the first 123 souls through the gates. 123 rep'n our Program's history of Football since 1901.
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Format the flag with simply the helmet on a white background.
Since espn+ became a thing, playing these games at 11:00 am or on a week night on “National” TV are not a positive.
Tons of people don’t have ESPNU, and playing there when ABC, FOX, ESPN, ESPN2, the SEC Netowork, the ACC Network, the Big 10 Network, CBSSports Channel, and FS1 all have games on at the same time means absolutely ZERO as far as exposure and growing the brand.
Nobody will watch this game that didn’t plan to do so already. And the ones that can’t go and will watch on ESPNU, would have watched it in the originally scheduled time slot on espn+
This is awful news. And another kick to the balls for the fan base.
Speaking of balls, someone in Athletics need to learn to say 'no' to this BS and the SBC too
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So we're starting to make excuses already for the outcome because of the kickoff time?Quote:
Originally Posted by CajunNation
Think of incentives to get the attendance back to where it was going to be. The thought for one sec that this is a good time slot for us "get exposure" is living in a dream world.
Tulane|Louisiana under the lights would be 20x more in our favor.
Since this option no longer exist and we now play before lunch, better make that commerative Cajuns Football flag available to the first 1000 souls and nothing less.
Not excuses. Facts.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cajunrunner
The SBC and UL have been burned repeatedly by the espnU trap. We've thrown away countless attendance worthy games as a conference and a university to be on "National" espnU.Quote:
Originally Posted by sportsfanatic21
It's time for the conference as a whole to demand a new contract or at the very least plan on standing firm in the next negotiation with espn about no more time changes for espnU.
We must start making decisions in a way that is best for the current fan base of EVERY SBC school.