Tulane/LSU Baseball series dead (1 Viewer)

[where yat brah]

View: https://twitter.com/Guersmith/status/1021447205125853184


sad.

 

[Bayouboy]

View: https://twitter.com/Guersmith/status/1021447205125853184


sad.

I concur. sad

 

[texasjefe]

Would like to rip Manieri, but I researched what he said about ticket prices. Tulane was charging $35 a seat for its home LSU game, when the highest price on other games was $15.

Don't know as I have not been to a Tulane baseball game since 1975, but it sure looks like a case of the Greed Wave.

 

[where yat brah]

Oh. Yes. Of course. That would be unethical and terribly wrong. Good thing LSu charges the same for all their home football games. NOT.
Have you seen what prices are for the rice game compared to the ole Miss or Bama game. Hell. Parking shoots up from $20 to $40-60. So spare me about supply/demand economics.

Getting beat 5 of the last 6 and getting earfuls from high dollar donors about it, is all you need to research.

Troy Dannen's perspective:
SZN2 EP1: State of Tulane with Troy Dannen, Live from AAC Media Days

Jump to the 21:30 mark.

 

[texasjefe]

First of all, don't use a football example to justify a ticket price increase in baseball. Two totally different tiers of revenue.

Yes of course, Tulane can charge whatever it wants for that game, but $35 for a freaking college baseball game? That's not the core issue, but it does compound LSU's true issue of revenue pressure.

I did more research and I found that 2 years ago, Manieri's salary was raised to more than $2 million dollars a year. For Tulane, playing LSU is an emotional deal of David vs. Goliath. For LSU, playing Tulane is -- as the Tulane AD said in the segment you had me listen to -- a loss of $80,000 that LSU could make playing a home game against anyone. Manieri feels pressure to generate revenue, with his fat raise and salary, and especially with LSU's crushing high-profile post-season failures the past two years.

As we all know, money has killed so many traditional college rivalries across all sports for so many years, especially including the annual LSU-Tulane football game. It sucks, but that train left the station a long time ago.

While emotional to some, it's really not that big of a deal, especially in baseball. The teams will resume playing the neutral site game next year, and Tulane's got enough of its own rich baseball history to tell LSU to screw off if it wanted to.

 

[where yat brah]