2010: Due to Midday Heat Louisiana Moves Game Time Back Where it Belongs

[Parrott]

No one even has the Sun Belt Network, so we aren't losing that many viewers. And locally if they were to put it on Fox Sports then now those people have more reason to come to the game.

The Sun Belt Network broadcast is available on CSS and CST. So it's available on plenty of TVs.

Personally, having dealt with heat-related issues in covering football in the past, I think this was a good move.


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[CajunRebel]

Great news!

We already have a bunch of games on TV including one on ESPN2.

What we need more than a TV game is a win against MT. And with the game at 2:30 we would have low attendance with NO ONE sitting in the student section pestering MT. We need that home field advantage!

[Turbine]

The way I look at it everything is a trade off.

Another year another season more time to prepare for known issues and this game might be had.

This year one is enough.

[pman]

I agree with the plan to move the game to 6:00pm. Did anyone notice in the last few drives when Arkansas State was passing down the field and scoring how our D-backs had nothing left in them? Lance Kelly had to be carried off the field on the last defensive stand with cramps in both legs. In the last series that Arkansas State scored on, Cooper Germaine got beat on coverage down by the goal line and when he came off the field he immediately went to his back to work out cramps. The heat almost cost us the game in my opinion. I don’t think that the score would have been as close had the game started at 6:00pm. I will gladly trade a win for a TV Game any day. Winning brings in more recruits than playing on TV.

JMO

[Zeebart21]

I blame global warming....

[CajunDreDog]

I blame global warming....

Should we blame you or J-Bird?

[raginsaints]

This is the best news of my life.

[rhineaux]

Wouldn't it be hilarious if a front came through on Friday evening, bringing cooler temps and a Saturday high of about 83, only to be followed by another front that arrives at about 5:30 on Saturday, dropping about 3" of rain on Cajun Field???

[Zeebart21]

_ Wouldn't it be hilarious if a front came through on Friday evening, bringing cooler temps and a Saturday high of about 83, only to be followed by another front that arrives at about 5:30 on Saturday, dropping about 3" of rain on Cajun Field??? _

stop it.

Z

[CajunRage]

_ Totally agree. Being put in harms way is unnecessary. So if you tell a school they are going to be on the TV schedule, take into consideration there geographic disadvantages. Keep the Cajuns on TV, move the game of the week later into the day, or back load all of South Louisiana games into the second half of the season..

At the same time, Baton Rouge has never had a problem with this. They're on mid day TV plenty, and there are 92,000 people in a bowl stadium. _

Since 1960, LSU is 201–59–3 (.773) at night in Tiger Stadium compared to a 20–22–3 (.476) record during the day over that span.

Less than 1 game per year played during the day. Not trying to starting a ____ing contest but your argument about LSU is FALSE.