The ACC now has a long-term "balanced" football schedule for each of the 12 teams. I doubt they would even consider any modification to it.
If we were to play a conference team away like Clemson or VT two years in a row, it would be FAR worse then this proposal (UGA game in 2011 at Dome for $2.3 million and 50/50 split on tickets plus plenty of prime-time exposure).
You "doubt" but you don't know. We are as important as any other school in this conference and the acc had better be in a position to accommodate us or risk losing us to a conference that will. Nobody has said anything about playing one or both of those teams away for two years in a row. We have already done that. Its time that one or both of them play us here two years in a row.
You know, it seems that we keep looking for some else to give us money rather than talking about how we can use our own resources to right our ship. Our endowment on the GT Foundation side is twice that of UGA. How did we get there? Did we sell our soul on the academic side to do it? Don't think so. Why don't we use a similar approach to get where we need to be on the AA side.
I also have not been able to prove, or disprove the contention that the money form that game is not shared. I plan on calling the acc to fnd out when I get back from the fsu game next week. Until then, I have to believe that this would be a shared revenue game.
This "exposure" stuff is over rated. Let's talk about the benefits that clemson, or vt received from the "exposure" that they got form playing in the game. If you win, you are the talk of the town for a few days. If you lose, the talk is that your season is shot, and that you were over rated. Whether you win or lose, by the next weekend, most people have forgotten who even played in the game.
The dome sucks as a venue for college football. It sucks as a location for parking and tailgating. It sucks as a home game because it is not a home game. And it sucks because we will be playing the biggest, and most important, game of the season on the first day of the season.
This is simply a 40 pieces of silver deal.
I'm done. I'm leaving for the fsu game in the morning and won't even look at a computer until next week. If you have a burning need to have the last word in this debate, have at it