Auburn says BCS teams won't play them

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Of course, the Tigers are looking for a home game in '07, which is difficult to arrange, but can be done with some imagination. Aub is willing to give $600,000 to a BCS conference team to go to the Plains in '07. They would even give a return gm to the out-of-conference team in '10, & probably require the $600,000 guarantee for themselves. So u could just do the gm @ the War Eagle place for the $$$ or get a high guarantee return gm to boot. Sounds like the Plainsmen are trying to get a good game, but why did they wait so long?
I really wish Ga Tech would jump all over this H&H by moving, or buying out, the 1aa games. I'm quite sure that Radakovich & his 'just gotta have a 1aa game each year' will not move the lower echelon gms for any reason. The Auburn series would mean a lot of moola for GT, with the huge payout @ Aub plus the 'sold out at higher than ACC prices' return gm in Dodd Stadium. Add on that both games will be snapped up by a very good TV contract (just like '03,'05) & u have blockbuster payouts.
Here's the Auburn version of the 'tooting their own horn' side of the story. It is interesting.

http://www.al.com/auburnfootball/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/sports/115883012931120.xml&coll=2
 
Cry me a river Auburn. You should have planned better and earlier if you wanted a higher caliber team. Think Auburn wouold have been willing to drop Buffalo to schedule a BCS type team this year? No way. They want that easy W.
 
I'm with you fellas... I feel no sympathy for them and if I were another BCS school I might be nervous that Auburn would find a way to back out of the second half of the home-and-home considering how far down the road it is.
 
Yes, We were supposed to play Awbern 3 times, home and home, and once in the GA Dome, which they backed out of.
But look at their schedule this year- out of their 12 games, only 4 are on the road! That's the problem, they want all home games, except for the 4 mandated conference road games. No major program is going to deal with that crap.
AU is typical of the SEC- yes, its a good (maybe great) football conference, but college football does not begin and end with the SEC, as their fans would like to think. They think they can deal with the ACC, Big 12/10/East, or Pac 10 the same way they the MAC, OVC, or Sun Belt.
 
RespectTheWreck said:
Didn't Auburn cancel their final game with us after we beat them twice?
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No, according to both parties it was a mutual agreement to cancel the game. And it was the one in the middle - I think it was supposed to be played at the GA Dome.
 
We are already at Notre Dame and have UGA at home next year...already making it perhaps the toughest OOC schedule in the country.

Throw in the fact we have to trade Amato's declining NCState program for a game against Boston College.

Our schedule is hard this year, gets harder next year....and one could argue it gets even harder in 2008 when we trade Maryland out for FSU.
 
Let's take it and move someone else to other years.

I really miss the Auburn game. It was the most fun on Tech campus since the FSU games, although ND was fun too this year.

And this coming from a fan that thinks the tough schedule is generally just dumb.
 
No, according to both parties it was a mutual agreement to cancel the game.
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...according to GT spin management it was agreed to by both parties. What really happened was we released our schedule showing Auburn on it, (per the original agreement) and they released their schedule with Middle Tennessee State on it on the date they were supposed to play us. Someone at GTAA caught it, called them up, and found out they'd ditched the game. Then to save face, both AAs got together and made an announcement that the game was dropped per mutual agreement.

The dropping of Tech happened right after we beat them the first time.

The best footnote to the story is that year Auburn couldn't play for the national title even though they went undefeated, because they didn't have the strength of schedule, and they would have had it if they played Tech (and won). Hehe. Idiots.
 
beej67 said:
...according to GT spin management it was agreed to by both parties. What really happened was we released our schedule showing Auburn on it, (per the original agreement) and they released their schedule with Middle Tennessee State on it on the date they were supposed to play us. Someone at GTAA caught it, called them up, and found out they'd ditched the game. Then to save face, both AAs got together and made an announcement that the game was dropped per mutual agreement.

The dropping of Tech happened right after we beat them the first time.

The best footnote to the story is that year Auburn couldn't play for the national title even though they went undefeated, because they didn't have the strength of schedule, and they would have had it if they played Tech (and won). Hehe. Idiots.
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We OWN Auburn.

...that has a nice ring to it doesn't it? :laugher:
 
You know what else has a nice ring to it?

Undefeated vs Auburn this century.
 
I agree with nearly everyone on this one. I also kinduv respect the underhanded posturing by the Montgomery rednecks.
They don't want anyone to play. They just want to have this on record if they are able to skate thru another season, sometime in the next decade, only having to play their conference schedule. Any team that schedules Buffalo as their fourth game is pretty obvious as to what they are trying to accomplish.

They don't want to play us, that is for sure.
 
midatlantech said:
Let's take it and move someone else to other years.

I really miss the Auburn game. It was the most fun on Tech campus since the FSU games, although ND was fun too this year.

And this coming from a fan that thinks the tough schedule is generally just dumb.
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I used to sell Cokes and then when I got older I got to sell Programs before the games. This was in about '68-'70. I made more money during the Auburn games selling Cokes in the old South end zone seats to Auburn students. They drank more than any other school I can remember. They would buy whole trays of Cokes at a time. They's pour out about half the Coke and fill 'er back up with booze. Ah...the good old days!!!
 
Typical Auburn mentality. All you have to do is save your first cup and you can pour two drinks from every Coke after that. They can't even get drunk right.
 
Hey Long for Dodd, I sold peanuts and then cokes in the south stands in 1970/1971. And yes I loved the Auburn/Clemson games. At halfime I'd just stock up with Cokes and wouldn't even have to move from the portal they went so quickly.

By the way, do you remember the prices back then. I think peanuts were 15cents but I'm not sure.
 
midatlantech said:
By the way, do you remember the prices back then. I think peanuts were 15cents but I'm not sure.
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Uh oh, this is turning into a "back in my day..." thread :laugher:
 
I learned a lot back then. For example, one game I think Tech let every and anyone in at the South stands. I remember how these two kids would try to work me: one would raise his hand for peanuts and then struggle to get the money out of his pocket while the other would come from behind and steal a few bags. HEY, 15 cents was a lot of money and my profit back then. (I made 15% on 15 cents!). I learned that when the kid supposedly paying glanced to see where his partner was that it wasn't normal and time to move on.
 
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