Baylor was never going to play in Ruston. Our new AD recognized the HORRIBLE deal our former AD set up with Baylor. He asked for a guarantee from Baylor. Baylor said no.
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Baylor was never going to play in Ruston. Our new AD recognized the HORRIBLE deal our former AD set up with Baylor. He asked for a guarantee from Baylor. Baylor said no.
No way we got money. The first game was never played.Originally Posted by jycww
There was probably disagreement with how to continue the series between the two parties, so it was cancelled. Inconvenience for Baylor, but I doubt they are victims of Tech making this decision out of nowhere.
Baylor probably wanted us to change our schedule to accomodate, move our return game back, etc.
Last year's game would have paid Tech $500K. No money exchange on the other two games. So Tech adds a $1M game this year plus doesn't have to worry about a last-minute look to fill a home game next year.
We are getting only $500K from Mizzou? If so, who the hell is responsible for that?
Good question. But that was all the Baylor contract was paying to go there twice plus a home game.
Must have made a concession to Missouri for having to buy out their Middle Tennessee road game.
Certainly no guaranteed win, but definitely a more winnable game than Baylor was going to be.
Mack Rhodes (Baylor AD) described it as a "mutual decision" based on it being a bit of a problem for both schools. There was no buyout.
I don't disagree with that. But Baylor was also going to play LA Tech in Ruston next year (2023), and that is a much bigger program loss than possibly getting a win at Missouri. I'd like to know WHO cancelled this series, and WHY? No reason given in the stupid article.
The entire three-game series with Baylor has been cancelled. The Bulldogs were supposed to open the 2020 season in Waco, but the game was canceled due to Covid19 issues within the Tech program.
The remaining two games on the contract included the 2022 opener and a 2023 home date against the Bears. Tech is looking for a replacement home game for the 2023 home date.
I don't care if Tech never plays USM again....in anything. They're a frickin Sunbelt school.
Do you really believe Baylor was going to come to Ruston?
If that's the case, then LA Tech screwed Baylor TWICE on this same contract. LA Tech cancelled the first game in the series against Baylor in 2020, giving "Covid issues" as a reason for the cancellation. Now this.
Of course. I did believe it. But then, I'm not small minded, and I believe we all put on our pants one leg at a time. Now I'm hearing from Baylor sources that TECH cancelled the series. Which means LA Tech burned Baylor TWICE on this one contract.
Yes. They play at other smaller school locations. Why not come to TECH? They played at TX St. this past year. I hate we changed the game for purely self serving reasons, but they are hunting for a game right now to replace it just like we are for next year.
Also, I remember ULM signed a Home-and-Home (not 2 for 1) deal with Baylor. They played at ULM in 2012.
I just called and spoke with some of our athletic department leadership. LA Tech definitely cancelled the series. And I'm not happy about it. Apparently Dr Woods was not happy with the 2 for 1 contract Tech signed, and he apparently determined that it was a financial loser. Furthermore, Woods told my contacts that it would be almost impossible for Tech to make up the 2020 game that Tech cancelled with Baylor due (supposedly) to LA Tech's COVID concerns.
You may recall this was the same day that ULL damn near became a household name in college football because the Cajuns showed up and PLAYED and beat Iowa St on national TV. Meanwhile LA Tech presented excuses.
So now, instead of having a Top 10 team come to Ruston in 2023, it becomes just an other road trip to another big school nobody cares about. Instead of having our first ever possible sellout in JAS, now we'll have nothing. So instead of the City of Ruston merchants receiving a flood of LA Tech and Baylor football fans into town spending money in Lincoln Parish bars, coffee shops, hotels and restaurants, now there will be nothing.
In my opinion, the LA Tech leadership needs to quit throwing the LA Tech football program under the bus. Almost every year, the Tech leadership does something extremely stupid that ends up HARMING our football program. From the Indy Bowl fiasco in 2012 that resulted in a 9-3 Tech team not receiving a bowl bid, to suspending 6 starters on the eve of the CUSA championship game in 2014, to further suspending our QB1 in 2019 for 2 games on the eve of two "make or break" CUSA games that could have easily ended with Tech finishing the season 13-1, as CUSA champs, and a shot at a NY Day bowl, to NOW THIS very stupid contract cancellation in 2021.
The disappointment with LA Tech football just never seems to stop. How can the players, Tech students, Tech fans and downtown Ruston merchants and the City of Ruston be happy about this?
I don't know the financials, but Dr. Wood apparently thought it was a lose/lose for Tech.
1) we are replacing the Road Baylor Game in 2022 that we would not have received any $ for with a payday at Missouri. Also a more winnable game.
2) If Dr. Wood stays true to his word, the 2023 Home Baylor game would be replaced with a G5 home game. Definitely won't bring in the same gate receipts as Baylor, but I don't think he's "throwing the football program under the bus."
2023
- 09/02 - at SMU
- 09/09 - Northwestern State
- 09/23 - at Nebraska
2024
- 08/31 - TBD FCS
- 09/07 - at NC State
- 09/21 - Tulsa
- 11/23 - at Arkansas
2025
- 08/30 -
- 09/06 - NC State
- 09/25 - at Tulsa
2026
- 09/26 vs. UL-Lafayette
2027
- 09/17 at Kansas
- 09/25 vs. South Alabama
2028
- 09/16 vs. Kansas
- 09/23 - at San Diego State
2029
- 09/08 at UL-Lafayette
- 09/15 vs. San Diego State
- 09/22 vs. Bowling Green
2030 2031 2032 2033
- 09/24 - San Diego State
2034
- 09/23 - at San Diego State
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