Originally Posted by
HogDawg
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?