Fair enough. I probably see way too much of the bad stuff in my newsfeed everyday from KTBS and KSLA. I agree with you on the upcoming basketball game.Originally Posted by johnnylightnin
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Fair enough. I probably see way too much of the bad stuff in my newsfeed everyday from KTBS and KSLA. I agree with you on the upcoming basketball game.
If it bleeds it ledes!
If I was reading about Shreveport, but didn't know it, I certainly wouldn't recognize it. My kids are in exceptional public schools. There's a vibrant art/music community here. Plenty of economic opportunity for creative businessmen too. Sure, it has a lot of faults, but it ain't all bad.
Time is your friend. Impulse is your enemy. -John Bogle
Id love to see us work out a Arkansas, A&M, or even Oklahoma State in Shreveport. I want home games at the Joe but this kind of game (particularly Arkansas) can draw a crowd.
Add Air Force to that and bring back all the USAF generals who graduated from Tech. Combine the old state fair weekend festivities with a real military appreciation game with flyovers, exhibits, etc.
Agree with both of these. I think Arkansas and A&M would draw the largest crowd.Add Air Force to that and bring back all the USAF generals who graduated from Tech. Combine the old state fair weekend festivities with a real military appreciation game with flyovers, exhibits, etc.
You don't invest over $70 million in on campus facilities to move any games to Shreveport
Period...
Shreveport needs to be enticed to come to Ruston
''Don't be a bad dagh..."
Agreed.
There is no need to schedule any game in Shreveport unless you have a crowd guaranteed to be in excess of 35K. Under that you keep the game in Ruston.
The "new" Joe will only seat about 25K when reconstructed.
That will be a legitimate concern....when we start filling it.
Seems like Shreveport had never been, well lets say appreciative, of TECH bringing people to town for them, or at least it seems that way.
A full Joe will look good on TV.
Which would be A&M and Arkansas.
I know we pulled it off in 2012, but neither school travels much. They already both give up a home game for the neutral site thing in Arlington. Obviously you do it if you can, but those SEC schools with huge stadiums just simply don't do away games OOC unless it's a really big name or a neutral site early game on prime time tv.
They’d pull if they are winning. And as of now they are winning. They came for Baseball, Itd be worth trying to get them in both Basketball and Football.
Bring back Ok State!
My point still holds. You don't put a game in Shreveport that isn't going to draw at least a legit 35K. Under that and the game might not generate SRO in Ruston even with reduced capacity.
Only maybe Arkansas now. And even that might take a 2-for-1 deal with the one in Shreveport.
Economics have changed for Texas A&M with the Kyle Field expansion.
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