A national reporter is criticizing LSU for a billboard that congratulates the school’s gymnastics team for finishing as national runner ups. Sports Business Reporter for the Action Network Darren Rovell appeared on ESPN Radio in Baton Rouge, Alexandria and New Orleans said you shouldn’t celebrate a second place finish…
“You can’t really have a picture with the runners up trophy and say runners up. I just don’t think that is the way to go.”
Rovell tweeted on Sunday that a school should not put up a billboard for coming in second, which resulted in over one-thousand comments, many from LSU fans who disagreed. But Rovell would not back down from his tweet when he appeared on a morning show based out of Baton Rouge…
“If LSU baseball had a runner up billboard you guys would be slamming it from now until the end of time.”
LSU sports information director Michael Bonnette tweeted back to Rovell and said the billboard recognizing LSU’s second place finish this past weekend helps promote the brand. But Rovell says his message on the billboard would have said something different…
“I am not saying that coming in second is bad I am just saying that I think the billboard to put up is ‘Thank you, incredible season.’ It is a little bit awkward to go with the runners up.”
