(06-30-2020 03:41 PM)TTT Wrote: And Ole Miss still refuses to play Southern Miss.
It's really a damn shame they don't want to keep the money in-state. Ole Miss has been running away from Southern Miss since 1984. That's when they stopped playing us.
I wish they'd play you and all (and that y'all would thoroughly thrash them) but this "keep the money in state" argument is flawed to me. We used to get it pretty often either as part of the "why won't you play ULM" or in celebration of LSU playing in-state schools after a long break.
Isn't the money a wash?
Because if Ole Miss plays Tech for a money game (I think this home-and-home with Charlotte is a little different but if you want to assume a home-and-home with USM the logic would be the same) - Ole Miss cuts a check to Tech, right? And that money "leaves the state" in the sense that it's being paid to a school from another state. But if the Ole Miss money game with Tech is taking the place of an imaginary money game against USM instead - doesn't that just mean that USM is playing a money game against some other P5 school? And bringing that money back to Mississippi? Wouldn't that more or less even out? Or even potentially be a net positive for Mississippi (if USM played Florida and they happen to pay a higher rate for an OOC game)?
And even if you consider that a USM fan would rather buy gas and dinner and popcorn at the game in the state of Mississippi isn't that offset by the theoretical people entering from Louisiana who are now doing so while our USM fan is off spending his money in Florida? The numbers on that kind of thing would never exactly even out based on the specifics of the schools, but just as an overall "keep the money in state" concept it's got to be roughly even.
Does that make sense?
We used to get this all the time (not so much any more to their credit) but we'd hear "why does Tech have to play school X when they could play ULM and keep the money in Louisiana?" And the answer was simply that if Tech plays a home-and-home with ULM that's 2 games (over two years) taking place in the state of Louisiana. And if Tech plays SMU and ULM plays USM, that's also 2 games (over two years) taking place in the state of Louisiana. So - a wash.
Sorry to derail the Charlotte positivity here with a rabbit trail, again, congrats on a good SEC home and home pick up.
