DRad email about GT/UGA game (new stuff)

JacketIM said:
This "exposure" stuff is over rated.
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Maybe to you, but not to the players. Tell that to the H.S. kids we are recruiting every season who want to play in these types of games on National T.V.
 
floridajacket said:
Well, I at least don't want to relegate GT-UGA to the status of poor man's rivalries by moving the game to the beginning of the year.
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The move to the beginning of the year isn't permanent. Just a one-year deal for a boatload of cash & some pretty sweet exposure for Georgia Tech football.
 
Why move it to the beginning of the year? Leave it for Thanksgiving weekend - more people will come then anyway.
 
00Burdell said:
Why move it to the beginning of the year? Leave it for Thanksgiving weekend - more people will come then anyway.
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Aaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!

It's proposed to be a one-year thing for the Chick-Fil-A Kickoff Game.
 
ncjacket said:
Nobody is leaving any conference over this stuff. If people think we have money problems now, just wait until we tried to pay the penalty for leaving the ACC. No way in hell.
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+1

The penalty for leaving the conference is very, very substantial. We are in bed with the ACC for a long time and we ain't looking back at the SEC folks.
 
gtfan088 said:
And not all that many people out of state will genuinely care about the game if it's played the first Saturday of the season. People may tune in just because there's a limited number of big games on that weekend, but it's not going to be built up as some sort of showdown for the ages. This game doesn't have the draw that Miami -F$U does regardless of when we play it, so there's no point in catering to the national audience that doesn't care about our rivalry.
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Disagree. I couldn't tell you much about football outside of the ACC, SEC and a few national powers. But I will watch every possible game the first weekend of the season. That anticipation of college football being back after 7 months does not last through Thanksgiving (for me, anyway).
 
And not all that many people out of state will genuinely care about the game if it's played the first Saturday of the season.
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I don't know if this is true or not, but most college football fans know that Colorado-Colorado State is held the first game of the season. There is no way we would know that if it wasn't always played early. Again, I'm not saying we should play it early, but people will take notice.
 
msm5 said:
I don't know if this is true or not, but most college football fans know that Colorado-Colorado State is held the first game of the season. There is no way we would know that if it wasn't always played early. Again, I'm not saying we should play it early, but people will take notice.
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Knowledgeable fans know that Colorado-Colorado State play at the start like they know we play UGA at the end. That doesn't mean they are going to watch.
 
I believe we have the CBS late slot this year after the Iron Bowl. People watch Tech-U[sic]GA when both teams are good. The Col-Col St game is a game some Georgie people like to bring up as a justification for moving the Tech game off Thanksgiving weekend. That's a Big 12 team vs a below average MWC program. Kentucky vs Louisville is another one. Louisville wasn't a BCS conference team until just a few seasons ago. We've been playing Georgie on Thankgiving weekend for 80 years.
 
BerryGT said:
I believe we have the CBS late slot this year after the Iron Bowl. People watch Tech-U[sic]GA when both teams are good. The Col-Col St game is a game some Georgie people like to bring up as a justification for moving the Tech game off Thanksgiving weekend. That's a Big 12 team vs a below average MWC program. Kentucky vs Louisville is another one. Louisville wasn't a BCS conference team until just a few seasons ago. We've been playing Georgie on Thankgiving weekend for 80 years.
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When we host the Tech/UGA game in Atlanta, our ACC partners broadcast the game. So it will be on ABC/ESPN/ESPN2.

When UGA hosts the game in Athens, their partner gets the game (i.e. CBS).
 
coldbeer said:
When we host the Tech/UGA game in Atlanta, our ACC partners broadcast the game. So it will be on ABC/ESPN/ESPN2.

When UGA hosts the game in Athens, their partner gets the game (i.e. CBS).
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Ahh, my mistake. I could have swore I read that we got the late slot or we were switching with the Iron Bowl.
 
The V said:
At the Dome, it will be a UGA Home Game. Every Redneck, Fat Pulpwood truck driver, Wal-mart employee, transplant Yankee who cannot read will be there Barking and wearing Red.

Thus a home game for UGA, we will be the guest in our back yard. Screw the Chicken Bowl and those, play the games at the respective school stadiums for the students and fans.
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Correct, they put 90,000 in at Sanford on a regular basis, dome only seats around 72,000. This is a loser for GT but, money rules:mad:
 
atlanta jacket said:
Correct, they put 90,000 in at Sanford on a regular basis, dome only seats around 72,000. This is a loser for GT but, money rules:mad:
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The only problem is those 90k (really about 82k, opponents get 7500) are only going to have access to 30K + some of the corporate tickets that get sold + a handful of the GT tickets that get resold. So, let's say 30k + 8k (~70% of the corp tickets) + 2k (estimated GT douche resold tickets).

40k mutts - 28k GT non-douches - 4k corp/other. (58/36/5 ratio). So 82k-40k = 42k regular UGA attendees will be somewhere outside the Dome watching the game.

Sounds to me like UGA ticket buying fans are the ones hurt the most by this.
 
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