Tuesday night game comes with pros and cons for Louisiana

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Maggard isn’t sure what the price of playing Appalachian State on a Tuesday, not a Saturday, will be.

UL has never played host to App State on a Saturday during his tenure as athletic director

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Tim Buckley

[Cajun Monkee]

We've sacrificed three (3) Saturday home games, not to mention a fourth road game to be played on a weekday.

Do we get a bigger cut of the TV contract than other teams in the conference?

[Million$Mullet]

We've sacrificed three (3) Saturday home games, not to mention a fourth road game to be played on a weekday.

Do we get a bigger cut of the TV contract than other teams in the conference?

Lol

[Turbine]

With goooood "Louisiana Saturday Night" marketing, Athletics could have made double what the ESPN Sunbelt contract is paying.

[Scott Malkinson]

We've sacrificed three (3) Saturday home games, not to mention a fourth road game to be played on a weekday.

Do we get a bigger cut of the TV contract than other teams in the conference?

Still not happy with the Ohio game move but conference game we cant do much about it.

We get 1.3 to 1.4 mill from espn compared to CUSA's 200k. We would have to average an additional 19k fans at those 3 games at $20 a ticket to make up that shortfall.

[Cajunmole]

We've sacrificed three (3) Saturday home games, not to mention a fourth road game to be played on a weekday.

Do we get a bigger cut of the TV contract than other teams in the conference?

I agree, it sucks.

Get used to it!

[Cajunsmike]

Still not happy with the Ohio game move but conference game we cant do much about it.

We get 1.3 to 1.4 mill from espn compared to CUSA's 200k. We would have to average an additional 19k fans at those 3 games at $20 a ticket to make up that shortfall.

Contract with ESPN also allows the non football sports to be available to be seen by fans throughout the year on the plus. Volleyball this past weekend is an example. That is an advantage of the contract we overlook at times. Something that I don't think is available to CUSA.

[Turbine]

Still not happy with the Ohio game move but conference game we cant do much about it.

We get 1.3 to 1.4 mill from espn compared to CUSA's 200k. We would have to average an additional 19k fans at those 3 games at $20 a ticket to make up that shortfall.

You are trying get the money back in a single season.

The only way to grow the fan base to an additional 19,000 is to continuously hold Louisiana Saturday Night events over multiple seasons and generations.

Weekday events have the opposite effect.

ps Taking back concessions and apparel sales would also help.

[HoustonCajun]

You are trying get the money back in a single season.

The only way to grow the fan base to an additional 19,000 is to continuously hold Louisiana Saturday Night events over multiple seasons and generations.

Weekday events have the opposite effect.

ps Taking back concessions and apparel sales would also help.

The problem is the SBC will likely always have the weekday game schedules and we will be screwed for Saturday games. We'll never achieve the attendance figures we want playing on Tuesday nights.

[covcaj]

The problem is the SBC will likely always have the weekday game schedules and we will be screwed for Saturday games. We'll never achieve the attendance figures we want playing on Tuesday nights.

There is a very simple solution to almost never having a weekday game. Have a program that mimics ULM with fanbase and W-L record. They almost never have a weekday game.

See how simple that is....

[Turbine]

There is a very simple solution to almost never having a weekday game. Have a program that mimics ULM with fanbase and W-L record. They almost never have a weekday game.

See how simple that is....

Brilliant and depressing at the same time

[covcaj]

Brilliant and depressing at the same time

Thank you. So much of life is much more simple than we make it out to be.