Gosh, I didn't realize that I had to ask your permission and approval before I expressed my opinion. And I don't appreciate you telling me what I should do.
But I will address your questions:
1. The reason the schedule is like it is is because we played at vt two years in a row, and before that, a clemson two years in a row. This was done at the behest of the acc based on the request of those schools. If we now need to "adjust our schedule" we can do so within the acc by having clemson, or vt, or both here two years in a row. While I believe that the acc is the proper place for us to be, I am, quite frankly, tired of the other members of the acc living it up in Atlanta, and them crapping on us when it suits them.
2. While college sports are money hungry, if every thing is for sale, then nothing is sacred. A few years ago, uva refused accommodate tv by its moving game time on its family weekend. Could it be that uva thought that its commitments to its fans and their families was more important than the $$ to be made by screwing over them (fans and their families) by accommodating tv? Wow! Our home stadium is BDS. We have parking there, tailgate there, visit with old friends and classmates while we walk around campus, go to the bookstore, drop by the V. The dome has none of that. Why would I want to go 3 miles down the road to stay in a fleabag motel when I can stay at in my familiar, and comfortable house. Why would I want to watch a game at the worst venue I have ever experienced for a college football game when I can watch it in the friendly, and comfortable confines of BDS, where I have had seats for years and where I sit among friends. The dome sucks as a venue. Taking a regular season game from BDS to there, especially the uga game for, would be a travesty.
Furthermore, the dome would not be, ever, a neutral site in such a game. uga fans who have had season tickets for years, and a giving history of more than $10,000 do not qualify for seats from uga when the game is at BDS. So we go to the dome, on our home year, and open the flood gates to them. In our last two bowl games at the dome lsu brought as many, or more fans than us. uga would own the place, on our home year.
Finally, the time and place of the playing of the GT-uga, whether at BDS or at stanford, is a tradition which is important to me. It is a time of gathering of families with Thanksgiving and the game being events that are anticipated almost as soon as the previous game is over. Moving the game time to the start of the season flies in the face of that tradition, and I am unalterably opposed to it happening.
As I am sure you did, this year I bought extra tickets to the GT-uga game which I don't need, with money I could have spent elsewhere, just to try and keep the red out of our stadium on our home year. If the AA needs money, send out a request for it, with details about what it is for, why its needed, and exactly how it will be spent, and I, and I am sure you, will respond with as much as we can afford. But don't sell your most important game of the year out be moved to a crap location, at a crap time, and expect to get love for it.
Tradition is sacred. Games at BDS are the 6 or 7 best days of the year. If everything is for sale, then nothing is sacred. If everything is for sale, then nothing is worth protecting. The money which we might make by moving the place and time of the game, and which we would probably have to share with the rest of the conference, is not, in my opinion, worth what it would "cost" to do it.
So, if it is alright with you, I will continue to support GT, and continue to try and protect that which I think is scared. And I will continue to experience angst when I believe that it is being attacked.
