Expansion Rumors…

cymdiggity said:
Edit to add... very random to stumble across this while lurking this thread. With respect to expansion... if it comes to it, I hope for the B1G. We burned that SEC bridge forever ago, and while regionally it makes sense, I just don't see ever getting past it. That ship has sailed.
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We will never rejoin the SEC.
 
Supersize that order mutt said:
The only reason the SEC would take us would be to keep the Big 10 out of the south. GOR is definitely a sticking point, but if a conference wants or feels they need us bad enough, they will make it happen
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I don't understand this. What does it mean by "keep the B1G" out of the South?

1 game in Atlanta maximum 6 days in a year (more like 4 or 5 games)? In a 55k stadium? In a game that will at best rank 4th or 5th highest in the Atlanta market anyways?

I understand that there was some stuff about networks being able to charge more of cable owners if they have a school in the geographic area, but I would be very surprised if with the CFB world reducing to about 2 conferences the B1G could not demand whatever they wanted of Atlanta cable providers anyways, especially considering the large number of B1G alumni in the area.

Folks usually point to Rutgers, and Maryland, as examples of where the B1G expanded to get some traction in a region of the country, but both are state flagship universities that are the largest public universities in their region with massive alumni bases. If they ever get good, they will draw the entire region. The same isn't true of Tech unfortunately.
 
rghoae said:
I don't understand this. What does it mean by "keep the B1G" out of the South?

1 game in Atlanta maximum 6 days in a year (more like 4 or 5 games)? In a 55k stadium? In a game that will at best rank 4th or 5th highest in the Atlanta market anyways?

I understand that there was some stuff about networks being able to charge more of cable owners if they have a school in the geographic area, but I would be very surprised if with the CFB world reducing to about 2 conferences the B1G could not demand whatever they wanted of Atlanta cable providers anyways, especially considering the large number of B1G alumni in the area.

Folks usually point to Rutgers, and Maryland, as examples of where the B1G expanded to get some traction in a region of the country, but both are state flagship universities that are the largest public universities in their region with massive alumni bases. If they ever get good, they will draw the entire region. The same isn't true of Tech unfortunately.
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It isn't one game in Atlanta, almost half our home schedule would be BIG10 teams. We should drop UGAG and pick up a patsy to play and push for the BIG10 to add 1 game to the schedule
 
JJacket said:
It isn't one game in Atlanta, almost half our home schedule would be BIG10 teams. We should drop UGAG and pick up a patsy to play and push for the BIG10 to add 1 game to the schedule
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You know, I think I’d also be in favor of dropping UGA from the schedule assuming the conference apocalypse continues and the SEC snubs us as expected.
 
GTJay said:
You know, I think I’d also be in favor of dropping UGA from the schedule assuming the conference apocalypse continues and the SEC snubs us as expected.
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I agree, F UGA, find some other pansy to beat up on at the end of the season. Make them pay $$$ for their pansy!

No need to play other schools that snubbed you and have triple the budget.
 
GT65_UGA89 said:
JJ already making demands of the BIG to alter scheduling and tell UGA to öööö off. :thumbup:
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Yeah, that’s 1 game a day, 4/5 days in a year.
Meanwhile, an SEC game in Athens, another in the MBS, games in Jacksonville, games in Tuscaloosa and Auburn, will all overshadow the 1 game in Atlanta in Atlanta, from a TV perspective.
 
rghoae said:
I don't understand this. What does it mean by "keep the B1G" out of the South?

1 game in Atlanta maximum 6 days in a year (more like 4 or 5 games)? In a 55k stadium? In a game that will at best rank 4th or 5th highest in the Atlanta market anyways?

I understand that there was some stuff about networks being able to charge more of cable owners if they have a school in the geographic area, but I would be very surprised if with the CFB world reducing to about 2 conferences the B1G could not demand whatever they wanted of Atlanta cable providers anyways, especially considering the large number of B1G alumni in the area.

Folks usually point to Rutgers, and Maryland, as examples of where the B1G expanded to get some traction in a region of the country, but both are state flagship universities that are the largest public universities in their region with massive alumni bases. If they ever get good, they will draw the entire region. The same isn't true of Tech unfortunately.
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It wouldn't be about 1 team in the south. If the B1G takes GT I would assume they take Miami and maybe FSU & Clemson. It is about recruiting as much as it is the TV sets. I don't think the B1G wants to be about 2 conferences (why would they think small like that), I think the B1G wants to be The College Football Conference that is coast to coast and nationwide. If they take us, UVA, UNC and Miami they can box the SEC in and make them second tier. The B1G can make the national championship the Rose Bowl again, and exclude the SEC again. If the B1G goes big the SEC will still be the kings of Alabama & Mississippi; but the rest of the country will look at them with disdain just like old times...and the media will help them.
 
rghoae said:
Yeah, that’s 1 game a day, 4/5 days in a year.
Meanwhile, an SEC game in Athens, another in the MBS, games in Jacksonville, games in Tuscaloosa and Auburn, will all overshadow the 1 game in Atlanta in Atlanta, from a TV perspective.
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Maybe at first it will.
 
The end goal of the super conferences is 11 conference games and 1 OOC. Doubt GT not playing UGA on an annual basis will make a difference to them. They count GT as an automatic W anyway.
 
I came back to this thread to see if we joined Big10 or SEC or Klingon Empire yet. Did we?
 
00Burdell said:
Why drop it?

The combined score from our last 4 games is 180 to 35. Collins has scored 7 points against the dwags in 120 minutes.

Our fans don’t want to come to our own stadium for the game.

Time to call it a day.
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That’s an emotional reason. You wanna drop a 127 year old rivalry because Collins lost a bunch of games and the fans are mad?
 
The Tech fanbase are extreme traditionalists. When people look at a 90 year old car leading the team onto the field, they’re told “We are about tradition. We’re about keeping our values and we won’t change anything but fix it so it can keep going, because we know better than everyone else who’s telling us to just get a new car.” When they tried to change the fight song to make it sound more inclusive for women some of you suggested staging a riot on campus. Yet for some reason every once in awhile I hear this “oh let’s stop scheduling uga” thing as if that’s an option. Hatred for uga is one of our pillars that bounds us together. it’s basically the first item of our constitution. Most of us are unbearable asshole pieces of öööö. We hate a lot of things including one another but hating uga is one thing we can all agree on. Not playing uga, throwing in the towel because a conyers car salesman clown ööööed our football program and keeps losing to them isn’t a reason to stop playing them. We’re gonna keep playing them until one of us is no more.
 
Akinji07 said:
That’s an emotional reason. You wanna drop a 127 year old rivalry because Collins lost a bunch of games and the fans are mad?
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No. Don’t marginalize my post - its not emotional. I have been in the stands since the early 80’s and never considered dropping the series.

But the landscape has changed. The field is no longer level.

Go back and take a look at the stands last November. Tech fans have basically thrown in the towel in the series. That’s not emotional. That’s a fact.

Again I ask: what is the point?
 
00Burdell said:
No. Don’t marginalize my post - its not emotional. I have been in the stands since the early 80’s and never considered dropping the series.

But the landscape has changed. The field is no longer level.

Go back and take a look at the stands last November. Tech fans have basically thrown in the towel in the series. That’s not emotional. That’s a fact.

Again I ask: what is the point?
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That’s circumstantial. They’ll come back when we have real football on the field. It’s not a reason to destroy one of the oldest rivalries that exist in college football.
 
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