Tulane Game Week (pregame)

[zephyr]

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Take the ESPN contract and burn the Damn thing.

There is no point to paying for Tailgating with this contract.

ESPN is not worried about our tailgating. They are worried about getting us on national TV. If they were worried about us, they wouldn't have put Texas-Michigan at 11 am.

[zephyr]

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?

Huge Big 10 games are played weekly at this time.

[zephyr]

Man y'all act like we’re the only school playing at 11 am. Yeah the time sucks and I’d rather a night game but this is how it’s been for a while now. We’ve played many games at 11 starting the Covid year. Get there early. Have breakfast beers. Get in the game and raise hell. Party after the game back at the tailgate spot.

No ____. They'd swear nobody on the national stage plays games at this time. Good Lord

[zephyr]

Still gonna be at the game. Never quite understood why some people insist on having to say a shiz sandwich tastes good though. Anyone with common sense knows any “national exposure” from this game being on ESPNU is nothing compared to what we will lose in attendance and tailgating. It’s okay to admit something sucks.

It's not ideal. What are you gonna do about it? You can't cancel the ESPN contract. If we are truly fans we get out and deal with it.

[zephyr]

You're completely missing the point of my listing of the games at 11am. Its to show that the window isnt saturated with a huge game like UCLA/LSU, USC/Michigan, Oklahoma/Tenn. None of the 11am games are must-watch.

Also, how does one stand up for themselves when the conference signed away the rights?

Texas-Michigan was a must watch

[Turbine]

Huge Big 10 games are played weekly at this time.

100 year tradition for them, and they are guaranteed to capture all eyeballs.

Suicide marketing for anyone else.

[zeppelincajun]

It's not ideal. What are you gonna do about it? You can't cancel the ESPN contract. If we are truly fans we get out and deal with it.

Did you not read the first sentence of my post?

[R1Letterman]

Only problem is it's owned by Google, the hard left leaning POS company.

Checks notes: never heard of disney?

[R1Letterman]

Comcast went thru this awhile back.

Isn’t it “ironic” in both cases, and historically, these “contracts” always expire just before football season. It’s a game, both parties know what the result will be.

False: there was a similar dispute in past with fox and with nbc, the timing of those were around world.cup and tennis. They just figured it out sooner

[LouisianaB]

Texas-Michigan was a must watch

To a lot of the country, it was.

[SlickRick]

Checks notes: never heard of disney?

We're talking about youtube.tv, couyon.

[Duckster]

College football/conferences have exchanged long time fan traditions for the TV network $$. Money talks so we're playing at 11 a.m. on Saturday. No surprise, that's college football today and in the future. If our program rises back to 2021 levels, we'll be lucky to have three Saturday night games per season. Wasn't that many years ago we were excited to be on ESPN. Seems quaint now.