SU Seeks Control Of Bayou Classic

[JayRob]

A little info to help the coversation.......

Pigskin payday: for many HBCU athletic departments, the annual football classics keep their sports programs afloat
Diverse Issues in Higher Education, Dec 28, 2006 by Add Seymour, Jr.
Southern University Athletic Director Greg LaFleur was smiling long before his Jaguars defeated rival Grambling State University in the State Farm Bayou Classic on Thanksgiving weekend.

It wasn't the prospect of winning the game that had him giddy. It was the financial windfall his athletic department was about to get out of the game.
"It's a huge asset to our department," LaFleur says. "For Division I-AA schools like us, it is the biggest game you have. There's no other way you can generate that kind of revenue."

With their huge corporate sponsors, big profits and wide visibility, the classics are the financial lynchpin for many HBCU athletic departments.
Baton Rouge, La.-based Southern, which has a $7 million budget for its 18-sport athletic department, is a prime example. Student fees and ticket revenues account for about two-thirds of the university's athletic income. The rest comes from one game, the Bayou Classic."

That game is the reason we can support our other sports," LaFleur says.

Thanks PV Pride. This article comes closer to giving a numerical figure to the revenue gained by su and grambling more than all the other posts combined.

Now only if we could get those confidential (hopefully accurate) numbers from SOG, that would shed even more light on the revenue earned by su and grambling from the BC.

But it still doesn't address the issue of why su and grambling are having to pay money out to NBC while other White schools don't.

 

[Da_Sperm]

Business 101 send help fast!!! So you're telling me if I were to invest 1 mil into anything and get a return on that 2-3x's or more then that's not smart???? The money isn't in just being on T.V. it's the advertisements!!! Think about it.


P.S. we are not the SEC........BCS conference vs HBCU Conference.

No, I'm telling you that Southern and Grambling are the ONLY games in the year that pays NBC to televise the game. There is a game on NBC every weekend and I'm sure that no other school during football season is paying NBC SHAT!.

It would be smart to invest a mil and get 2 in return. If that is the way its done and those are the returns, I'm sure the SEC, Big12, Notre Dame and all the other big boys of Saturday College Football would be doing the same.

I'm not buying it.

 

[JR]

That's my whole point. These su and grambling folks know exactly what we're talkin about. If this was another school having to pay out money, they'd be all over those schools like white on rice, but because it's THEIR schools that's bein pimped, they wanta spin it and try to look at the glass as bein half full.

They still haven't answered the question: what other school is having to pay out money to get money, other than su and grambling?

How are we being pimped when are making money? So if we tell NBC we aint going to play on TV unless they unload all the money themselves then they take their ball and go home, then what. I guess yall(JSU) wouldn't care if Gram and SU made no money and would be on here telling us that we need to go to D-2.

BTW, we aint the mutha fugging SEC got damn. Geez. We have already established most of yall don't give your school no damn money so how the hell can you blame them if they have to hustle up. If it was left up to you mofos your damn schools would be closed. If you want to be like the SEC then start giving money to your school like SEC alums do. Then maybe the SWAC would be in position to ask for some TV contracts better than we got. BTW, have you forgotten the SEC is white and they have more people in this country than we do and impact economics more than we do football wise. We only show up when it is a classic. We are lucky we are even on TV at all.

 

[JayRob]

How are we being pimped when are making money? So if we tell NBC we aint going to play on TV unless they unload all the money themselves then they take their ball and go home, then what. I guess yall(JSU) wouldn't care if Gram and SU made no money and would be on here telling us that we need to go to D-2.

BTW, we aint the mutha fugging SEC got damn. Geez. We have already established most of yall don't give your school no damn money so how the hell can you blame them if they have to hustle up. If it was left up to you mofos your damn schools would be closed. If you want to be like the SEC then start giving money to your school like SEC alums do. Then maybe the SWAC would be in position to ask for some TV contracts better than we got. BTW, have you forgotten the SEC is white and they have more people in this country than we do and impact economics more than we do football wise. We only show up when it is a classic. We are lucky we are even on TV at all.

Okay, i'll put it this way.....compared to the SEC, su and grambling's bein pimped. Is that better?

HOE'S gotta make a lil money too.imp:
Thank you pimp daddy NBC fo givin us some 'o yall's crums fallin from da table. signed su/grambling...

 

[JROCK]

Why should I do research on numbers that SOG supposedly has?

"Give a man a fish, he will eat for a day. Teach man how to fish, he will eat for a life time."

This welfare mentality kills me. :lol: :emlaugh: As I stated in my previous post.........just trifling! Stop begging for information and get it yourself. You have more excuses than a brother in jail on drug charges caught with the evidence in his system, pockets, hands, mouth, and up his azz hole. And finally you have the unmitigated gall to cry conspiracy (entrapment) :lol: :emlaugh:

 

[JROCK]

No, I'm telling you that Southern and Grambling are the ONLY games in the year that pays NBC to televise the game. There is a game on NBC every weekend and I'm sure that no other school during football season is paying NBC SHAT!.

It would be smart to invest a mil and get 2 in return. If that is the way its done and those are the returns, I'm sure the SEC, Big12, Notre Dame and all the other big boys of Saturday College Football would be doing the same.

I'm not buying it.

And we are the ONLY game that control 100% of the advertisment revenue.........NEXT! :happydance::happydance::happydance:

 

[SAME OLD G]

Why should I do research on numbers that SOG supposedly has? I asked the question long before SOG put up his ultimatum, so this is just a stalling tactic at best.
If you have the numbers, post 'em. Tryin to entrap me with my own words like yall got entrapped when Thames shed the light on what su's been doing for all these years.

The Bayou Classic has been exposed for what it is.
The MCC may now be the biggest HBCU classic in the nation, now that all this has come out. And that my friends is the bottom line.

Whoa...I will present the numbers regardless. I am simply asking you what you consider to be a legitimate profit before I present the numbers because I don't want you to come up with an excuse on what is legit after I present it.

It is a simple question. Man up!

 

[JROCK]

Okay, i'll put it this way.....compared to the SEC, su and grambling's bein pimped. Is that better?

HOE'S gotta make a lil money too.imp:
Thank you pimp daddy NBC fo givin us some 'o yall's crums fallin from da table. signed su/grambling...

Typical Willie Lynch trained backwoods Mississippi crab in the barrel response. Do tell wise one what game does jackson state have on national television non cable. And if you can't answer the question, please leave the excuses on Lynch Street with the remaining Mississippi Big Negro Business. :lol: :emlaugh:

 

[Bison14]

Business 101 send help fast!!! So you're telling me if I were to invest 1 mil into anything and get a return on that 2-3x's or more then that's not smart???? The money isn't in just being on T.V. it's the advertisements!!! Think about it.


P.S. we are not the SEC........BCS conference vs HBCU Conference.

Yeah it's brilliant if you're pulling in 3 million. Are you pulling in 3 million? If you are then everybody can shut the heck up and ya can do yoru thing.

BUT, it's still kinda funny you're dropping cash to be on TV.

 

[usa today]

I don't see why yall are saying that GSU or SU ays 1 million to NBC when it's the sponsors paying for each school lol. So how is that getting pimped? Yall don't know if sponsors are paying for the SEC, Big !0 schools etc, yall are just speculating and talking what ou don't know about. Ask yourself this question. Will spnosors foot that loot fr yall to be on national tv like they do fro GSU and SU? I have't seen it happen yet.

 

[JayRob]

Typical Willie Lynch trained backwoods Mississippi crab in the barrel response. Do tell wise one what game does jackson state have on national television non cable. And if you can't answer the question, please leave the excuses on Lynch Street with the remaining Mississippi Big Negro Business. :lol: :emlaugh:

JRock, I'm surprised you'd even dare to mention the Willie Lynch ordeal.
Now that this has come out, su's closer to willie lynch than any school being televised on NBC.
Yall betta not make a peep, since most of yall's earnins are wrapped up in this ONE deal.
If that deal EVER falls through, I feel sorry for yall's athletic programs. So in the end, yall just bend over and you BETTA smile while NBC's doin it to yall.
Talk about monkey shinin' for cryin out loud, this takes the cake.

Don't try and twist this around. JSU's doing just fine even without havin to pay out not to stay out.