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Originally Posted by
OLJWales
Not understanding.
Lonnie Tinkle signed a deal that was spread out over a long time period and had fixed payments and cancellation fees. Not only that, but he let Tulane have the last away game. I think we may have even rescheduled to push our home game back at one point.
When it was finally time for Tulane to play MSU, the game and buyout fee was wayyyyyy below market. Tulane wanted more money and also wanted to try to keep an easy enough schedule to make bowl eligibility possible. Lonnie Tinkle put their AD in a position where he could net close to $1M by trading out MSU for another P5 buy game and not make their schedule much harder for the purposes of reaching bowl eligibility. And keep in mind that their TV contract at the time was probably paying something under $2M a year total, so netting high six figures was a huge deal for them. And while people can claim that contracts have a moral component, when you put in an explicit buyout option, it sort of undercuts that argument. If we hadn't put any buyout in there, we could have potentially sued them for all of our costs. That's not the way these deals are done, presumably because neither university wants the deal to be that inflexible.
The only think I can fault them for is if they didn't at least give us a chance to renegotiate. I'm not sure if they did or not. It would not shock me if they did not just because emotion does come into these negotiations sometimes and they may have felt like it would be cleaner to just 17 us than it would be to give us a chance to negotiate, us only come within $200k of what Oklahoma would pay (which I could very well see having happened), and them still 17ing us.
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Geezus we have some asshole fans..
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Originally Posted by
Dawg-gone-dawgs
Geezus we have some asshole fans..
Maybe so but they have good memories .... I'm more frustrated with our administration for scheduling them down the road again in a few years - maybe our admin needs better memories
OXFORD, Miss. (WTVA) - Ole Miss campus police ask students to behave at future baseball games following a recent incident.
The university said students were reportedly throwing rocks at Georgia baseball players during last weekend's series.
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Originally Posted by
mparkerfd20
Ditto. GTHT
So much for southern hospitality.
There's someone in my head but its not me.
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