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Holy Mackeral!!!!! Auburn decided against taking on UCLA in an ABC brokered matchup to start the 2010 season in the Georgia Dome. UCLA was then offered the same slot versus Ga Tech, but balked at that pairing.
Why would Auburn turn down such a huge payday, tremendous exposure, national TV & the Atlanta market, which gigantic rival Alabama is certainly milking? Twould be a big National Game for the Plainsmen.
Why would the Bruins from LA want to get after the Tigers of Lower Alabama, but back away from the exact same deal to play the Yellow Jackets of Little ole Atlanta???????

Evidently, The Rambling Wrecks were ready for some Bear road kill:>)

This mention of ABC trying to get a national marquee game for the Chick-fil-a Kickoff Game was in the Atlanta paper, but I can't find it, so here's the same piece in the LA Times after a UCLA practice report.

http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-ucla-football15-2009apr15,0,5484375.story
 
I did do it!!! Ohhhh wait yall are talking about something else my bad :)
 
Hmm, this mean we're still going to be trying to be in that Chick-fil-a kickoff thing in 2010 (we are still trying to replace Ole Miss I believe)?
 
It is difficult to arrange games against CPJ's teams because other teams do not want to expose their defense to our unique offense. The offense is hard to prepare for at a time when other defenses are learning their schemes for more traditional offensive systems. When CPJ was at GSU he had a hard time arranging games with FBS teams to begin the season.
 
Mia culpa on not looking back far enough,

BUT why would Auburn, who had the 1st choice, turn down such an attrative way to begin the 2010 season? UCLA was all for this tussle on opening weekend.
I wonder if Alabama was offered the UCLA date? That would've made 3 successive Red Elephant debuts in the Ga Dome. Was Clemson offered? Is the UCLA game plan now a dead issue for the Chick-fil-a Kickoff?
Just a few thoughts that haven't been addressed, yet.
 
Re: Mia culpa on not looking back far enough,

GT Ace said:
BUT why would Auburn, who had the 1st choice, turn down such an attrative way to begin the 2010 season? UCLA was all for this tussle on opening weekend.
I wonder if Alabama was offered the UCLA date? That would've made 3 successive Red Elephant debuts in the Ga Dome. Was Clemson offered? Is the UCLA game plan now a dead issue for the Chick-fil-a Kickoff?
Just a few thoughts that haven't been addressed, yet.
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because as a team Auburn is heading downward. they were awful last year and are probably going to be very bad for a few more years. They still have a good football name, no need to expose themselves on national tv.
 
PJ_RULZ said:
It is difficult to arrange games against CPJ's teams because other teams do not want to expose their defense to our unique offense. The offense is hard to prepare for at a time when other defenses are learning their schemes for more traditional offensive systems. When CPJ was at GSU he had a hard time arranging games with FBS teams to begin the season.
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What I think is so funny is that if anyone ever wanted to have time to prepare for us it would be first game of the season.
 
Re: Mia culpa on not looking back far enough,

JacketInNOLA said:
because as a team Auburn is heading downward. they were awful last year and are probably going to be very bad for a few more years. They still have a good football name, no need to expose themselves on national tv.
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This makes as good a sense as any.
 
California going up aganst Georgia boys? Of course they declined...All the talent is in Dixie.
 
JacketInNOLA said:
how much of their talent is actually local? for the most part don't they recruit from everywhere?
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California is a really big state with lots of football talent. They also have a good Junior College network that can feed good football players into the big schools. IIRC, OJ Simpson came out of the JC program. Plus, USC can recruit nationally with success.
 
JacketInNOLA said:
how much of their talent is actually local? for the most part don't they recruit from everywhere?
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both -- California is an excellent breeding ground for football, simply due to the number game and they recruit nationwide. But all of the majors do that.
 
JacketInNOLA said:
how much of their talent is actually local? for the most part don't they recruit from everywhere?
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MOST of their talent is local. They have a few key players from all the country, but it's mostly local.

Socal, South Florida, and Texas are hotbeds for athletes.
 
Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama, Louisiana, and Texas are the actual hotbeds.

The mindset of those raised in California is not one that combines to establish sound chemistry, followed by national prominence. USC will always lose to an Oregon State year in, year out, with obscene talent. Why?

California
 
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