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A big part of our attendance problems are the uninteresting opponents we get in an ACC schedule. Outside of FSU, Clemson, VT, and Miami, I have little interest in our opponents. None of the rest have any sort of big interest in football. When no one cares about the matchups, attendance suffers. I’d expect that an SEC schedule would have a lot more interest from Tech fans.
 
it's bad timing now for realignment with our program at such a low point.
I hope we're lucky and get an invite from SEC.
having the only P5 coach who needs a slogan to remind himself that "winning is important now" is truly embarrassing.
 
Are the exit penalties for the ACC enough to deter a jump? Perhaps someone with an understanding of the dollars could elaborate.
 
CornerBlitz said:
Are the exit penalties for the ACC enough to deter a jump? Perhaps someone with an understanding of the dollars could elaborate.
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I have been told that the exit fee isn’t the issue. It’s the Grant of Rights. If an ACC team leaves, the ACC still owns the tv rights for that team through 2036. That means an SEC game between FSU and UF would be an ACC game in terms of television revenue. I would think that if a conference wanted a particular school bad enough, that conference would somehow chip in to pay off that responsibility. In the case of USC and UCLA, their GOR "contract" with the Pac-12 ends in 2024, so no biggie for them, How is it Tech always manages to get stuck with incredibly long contracts?
 
Interesting article in today's Augusta paper
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Supersize that order mutt said:
If an ACC team leaves, the ACC still owns the tv rights for that team through 2036. That means an SEC game between FSU and UF would be an ACC game in terms of television revenue.
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I'm pretty sure the home team determines the tv rights, so in your example it would fall under the SEC's tv deal
 
rghoae said:
They will come over.

Taking USC and UCLA knocks out the core of the PAC. Everyone else in the PAC is easy pickings now.

Also, USC and UCLA being the southernmost major schools in the PAC, and being relatively closer to Texas, were at risk of being poached by the SEC.

It will be close to impossible for the SEC to poach schools that are further north of the Southern California schools, so this puts the B1G in a great position to poach other PAC schools whenever they need to.
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Have you ever seen a ööööing map of the USA? If you ever see one, look for this little place called "Arizona."
 
GoldenIsle said:
Have attendance go down. If we could have kept up O’Leary type numbers I believe the SEC would come calling.
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Not the SEC. UGA and the BOR (all UGA alumni) wouldn’t stand for it.
But the B1G for sure. We had an opportunity to get there around 2010. We were playing good football then. But we dropped the ball and decided to stay in the weakest CFB conference.
GT will be left in the ACC.
 
savbandjacket said:
A big part of our attendance problems are the uninteresting opponents we get in an ACC schedule. Outside of FSU, Clemson, VT, and Miami, I have little interest in our opponents. None of the rest have any sort of big interest in football. When no one cares about the matchups, attendance suffers. I’d expect that an SEC schedule would have a lot more interest from Tech fans.
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And a lot more losses. The SEC just isn’t where Georgia Tech belongs. Their slogan “It just means more.” is code for “Football first, academics and college second.” I have zero respect for the SEC. Their priorities are warped. They have nothing to do with college other than the fact they play games on a a college campus. Probably half or more of their fans never even went to college. Or if they did, it was a small community college. Not the college on their bumper stickers that alternate between the hottest SEC teams every year.
 
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BrentwoodJacket said:
I agree there are high schools with better seating than we have. It is a disgrace that we still have a large proportion of bench seats.
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Eh, the benches are fine but the way they’re drilling holes in them for the new Stinger seats makes me wonder if there’s some long-term capacity reduction / seat installation on the way.

We’d probably screw it up and like install red seats with insufficient leg room and then screw everybody over on the reseating, though. And I wonder if replacing the seats would trigger the ADA stuff that’s preventing “touching” the west stands.

JRjr
 
Yes, if I was Tech, I would push all my resources into turning around our program immediately. Recruiting top kids at a cost of $15M per year will be worth it in the long run if we stay in the big leagues.

The comment above that the Big Ten and SEC are simply going to play themselves is a very interesting one. I think it's valid. If that is the way we are headed, then adding four to eight more teams doesn't hurt so bad. We should try to pick up Stanford, Oregon, Wash, Utah or the next four available including Baylor, Ok State, Arizona/Color/ArSt....and of course ND.
 
Supersize that order mutt said:
I have been told that the exit fee isn’t the issue. It’s the Grant of Rights. If an ACC team leaves, the ACC still owns the tv rights for that team through 2036. That means an SEC game between FSU and UF would be an ACC game in terms of television revenue. I would think that if a conference wanted a particular school bad enough, that conference would somehow chip in to pay off that responsibility. In the case of USC and UCLA, their GOR "contract" with the Pac-12 ends in 2024, so no biggie for them, How is it Tech always manages to get stuck with incredibly long contracts?
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Regarding GOR....Tech agrees to play 7 games on the road it's first ten years but gets paid handsomely by the new conference to do it.
 
The SEC already has the TV market with Georgia. Not sure at this point in time why they would pursue Ga. Tech. They just snagged OU and Texas, and if we cannot compete in the ACC we surely wouldn't be able to in the SEC.
 
The Wasp said:
The SEC already has the TV market with Georgia. Not sure at this point in time why they would pursue Ga. Tech. They just snagged OU and Texas, and if we cannot compete in the ACC we surely wouldn't be able to in the SEC.
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Because they don't want the Big10 getting a share of the Georgia TV market
 
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