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I would much prefer a warm destination but if the game is in NYC I will be there with my 11y/o. I wasn't planning to but he was genuinely very excited that GT is going to a bowl game after 3.5 years of misery. He does not remember us ever being remotely good. Given I have the funds the least I can do is show up and support the team.
 
Question for those who know more than me ( which is most of Y'all)

Let's say you go to Bowl xxx and the payout for each team is $4.000.000 How much does the school get and how much goes to the ACC?
 
stech81 said:
Question for those who know more than me ( which is most of Y'all)

Let's say you go to Bowl xxx and the payout for each team is $4.000.000 How much does the school get and how much goes to the ACC?
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In general, all the bowl revenue goes into one pool shared evenly by the conference. The conference then cover expenses for each bowl team, also evenly.

So the team doesn’t get $4M but does directly get say $1M to pay for travel to the bowl. If the bowl payout is only $300k, they still get the $1M

All left over bowl money is evenly distributed to all conference teams. I think there are some slight modifications in some conferences.

For the semi-finals, each team is given like 2.5M for travel above the payouts and that comes from the NCAA and not the conference.

I’m sure I left off a few details but that is the gist.
 
I would rather play Auburn, but I'm pretty happy with any bowl against another P5 opponent this season. Two years ago, it was hard to see how our Offense would get a first down, much less sustain drives and score, and score enough to win a game. The D still needs improvement, but it has come a long way since the clown was replaced. His "elite level defensive coaching," honestly had us fielding a Defense, that at times looked as bad as any I have ever seen in major college football. Also, let's go win the bowl game! It's hard to believe, but we've won our last game only 4 times in the past two decades.
 
gtphd said:
It comes down to:
1) people want to play Auburn, a historic rival, rather than Rutgers
2) people want to go to Florida and not New York in the winter
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Yeah, I get why, but the issue is exactly that: "people want". That's why it seems like incessant whining to me. How about be happy for the team, the players, the coaches, the program for the actual progress this season instead of the previous "progress that we just didn't see". But instead we get the "I want, I want" attitude of a 4 year old. I want a rematch with uga in some bowl game, but what I want doesn't matter, let's support the team and celebrate the successes that they have had, hopefully this is the first step in the process of getting to where we want to be, but this season without question is a great first step (if you think this season is a failure because we didn't win 10 or whatever then you are a fucking idiot, these things take time).

The game, wherever it is and whoever it will be against will be on TV. The team gets more practices which will help for next year. They get to go somewhere and play a bowl game which is something that not many on the team have been able to do. The team, hell the entire program, was very recently a national laughing stock, worse than I can ever remember. Now it is not and we were very close to taking out the #1 team and ending their 28 game win streak, at home even, where we haven't won this century. We have the best outlook going into the next season than we have had for quite some time. Before this year, the previous 5 uga games were losses by a combined score of 217-49 with the closest of those being a 23 point loss last year. The previous margins of loss before that were 45, 45, 24, 35. This year was 8. How are any of these bad things?

If it's the Pinstripe bowl and one doesn't go because they don't like NY, then don't go but that's a "you problem", the team is going to go without out you. If you can't afford to travel to a farther destination, then either enjoy it on TV or make some more money, but again that's a you problem, don't whine about it.

This attitude of "ermegerd, I can't get the thing that I personally want so I'm going to be sour about the team's accomplishments" - for fuck's sake, what a sense of entitlement. Maybe think for a second about a player who is and should be proud of the turnaround this year and excited about getting to experience a bowl game but then reads this sort of nonsense. Way to support the team there and shit all over their good time. This is not any better than mouth breather fan behavior. Congratulations, now go fuck your sister.
 
gtg970g said:
I would much prefer a warm destination but if the game is in NYC I will be there with my 11y/o. I wasn't planning to but he was genuinely very excited that GT is going to a bowl game after 3.5 years of misery. He does not remember us ever being remotely good. Given I have the funds the least I can do is show up and support the team.
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This is how it's done. You should be proud, your 11 year old is showing far more maturity and intestinal fortitude than some of our fans.
 
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Jan. 1
Sugar
No. 1 Georgia vs. No. 4 Florida State

ReliaQuest
Notre Dame (ACC No. 2) vs LSU (SEC 3-8)

Dec. 30
Orange
Louisville (ACC) vs. Ohio State (SEC/Big Ten/ND)

Dec. 29
Sun
Miami (ACC 6-8) vs Oregon State (Pac-12 5)

Gator
North Carolina (ACC 3-5) vs Tennessee (SEC 3-8)

Dec. 28
Pop-Tarts
NC State (ACC 3-5) vs Kansas State (Big 12 3)

Pinstripe
Georgia Tech (ACC 6-8) vs Rutgers (Big Ten 5)

Fenway
Boston College (ACC 10) vs SMU (AAC)

Dec. 27
Holiday
Clemson (ACC 3-5) vs USC (Pac-12 4)

Duke's Mayo
Virginia Tech (ACC 6-8) vs Kentucky (SEC 3-8)

Military
Syracuse (ACC 9) vs UTSA (AAC)

Dec. 22
First Responder
Duke (ACC/SEC) vs Fresno St (ESPN)

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BainbridgeJacket said:
NYC sucks. I'd rather spend a month in El Paso than a week in NYC.
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Not singling anyone out but don't get the hate for NYC - its a great city and its open all night. A zillion great restaurants and a zillion things to see and do. Give it a chance - might turn out better than you think. I don't live there but use to commute to Manhatten from VA every Monday-Wed. Never had even a hint of a problem.
 
00Burdell said:
Not singling anyone out but don't get the hate for NYC - its a great city and its open all night. A zillion great restaurants and a zillion things to see and do
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Open all night --> sounds exhausting. A zillion things to see and do --> except none of the them are things I actually enjoy. Good restaurants is the only attractive feature, but I don't care for fine dining (expensive and the pomp tends to detract from the taste), so... mehe, not for me.
 
JJacket said:
You sound pretty ööööing boring.
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I was actually in NYC three months ago for my daughter's proposal (groom set it up so both families would be there). We stayed at the Plaza Hotel across from Central Park. Like most big cities these days you cannot walk a block without someone begging for money or someone urinating in the streets. It is a shame how the big cites have become over the past 10 or so years.
 
BainbridgeJacket said:
Open all night --> sounds exhausting. A zillion things to see and do --> except none of the them are things I actually enjoy. Good restaurants is the only attractive feature, but I don't care for fine dining (expensive and the pomp tends to detract from the taste), so... mehe, not for me.
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I'll go ahead and get off your lawn now.

I don't have a vested interest in your opinion about NYC but I think you are just making shit up at this point. NYC had a bad rap 40 years ago but them days are long gone. As to the comment about panhandlers, I live in Fairfax County, VA and we have panhandlers at every intersection. One difference between the Virginia panhandlers and the ones in Manhattan are the ones in Manhattan are actually cool to talk to.

If a trip to NYC isn't for you, no problem - but no need to poison the well for others.
 
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