Hey DRad, marketing genius here.....

The turnout for Samford looked pretty good to me, all things told. A crapton better than when I was in undergrad.
 
71YellowJacket said:
Hey boneheads, you know who you are.

This isn't about making Tech fans happy or even about playing hard teams, it's all about selling tickets, 55,000+ per game. If we could fill the stadium with your favorite cupcake that would be great but it ain't happening and if it was we wouldn't be swimming in red ink. So either get off your ass and buy all the seats or get ready for some really exciting football against teams with large fanbases right here in Atlanta.

PS-if the next head coach blanches at the thought of playing football against the SEC you got the wrong man, again.
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You are forgetting about having only six home games per season bonehead. You actually just cost GT over $1 million in ticket sales.

2007 GT attendance:
4 conference games- 203,439 --50,860 per game
3 non-conference games- 148,020 --49,340 per game
Total- 351,459 --50,208 per game

Playing Bama, AU, UT, UF, etc. (would require a home/home with each of them)
4 conference games- 203,439 --50,860 per game
2 non-conference games- 110,000 --55,000 per game
Total- 313,439 --52,239 per game

Your average attendance per game would increase by a couple of thousand but you're left with a difference of 38,020 fewer tickets sold @ $30 per ticket = <$1,140,600> .
 
The key to winning consistently is scheduling bad out of conference games. The only team in the nation with a killer OOC schedule is Notre Dame, and that's because they don't have a conference. I agree with everyone here, keep our one big to semi-big game per year(ie, ND, Auburn), keep U[sic]GA, then schedule some practice teams and try to win the ACC.

I would like to see us play Georgia Southern instead of, say, Army. Oh, and on scheduling D-1AA teams: we do it, and we will continue to do it, because the NCAA allows it and every other school does it. It's essentially another bye week with a full pads scrimmage. Why in the world would we put ourselves at a competitive disadvantage with the rest of the nation by refusing that?
 
  • Illinois, Ole Miss, Illinois State, Western Michigan
  • Western Michigan, Marshall, East Carolina, Maryland, Miss. State
  • Youngstown St, Akron, Washington, Kent State
  • Oklahoma State, Troy, Western Carolina, Georgia Tech
  • Central Michigan, SE Louisiana, Toledo, Fla. Int.
Those are the non-conference slates of the BCS Top 5.

Take LSU off VPI's schedule and replace them with a patsy, and they'd probably be in the championship game with a win over BC.

Under the current system, tough non-conference schedules are not the path to success.

DRad wants 7 home games, because he wants to make money and play the odds in the current system.
 
GT65_UGA89 said:
You are forgetting about having only six home games per season bonehead. You actually just cost GT over $1 million in ticket sales.

2007 GT attendance:
4 conference games- 203,439 --50,860 per game
3 non-conference games- 148,020 --49,340 per game
Total- 351,459 --50,208 per game

Playing Bama, AU, UT, UF, etc. (would require a home/home with each of them)
4 conference games- 203,439 --50,860 per game
2 non-conference games- 110,000 --55,000 per game
Total- 313,439 --52,239 per game

Your average attendance per game would increase by a couple of thousand but you're left with a difference of 38,020 fewer tickets sold @ $30 per ticket = <$1,140,600> .
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This is not a zero sum game; think of raising goverment revenues by cutting taxes.

If we are scheduling Alabama, Tennessee, Auburn, Florida, South Carolina; ok Miss/Miss State instead of cupcakes, we will increase the excitement level and the demand for tickets will go up for all home games, a net increase in total ticket sales. Expecially so if we also hire an exciting head coach who can do backflips from one endzone to the other with his hair on fire.

Just think of the different game packs that could be put together...
 
71,

Take a look at the top 5. Have Missouri and Kansas ever been more excited about their programs? Kansas, before Missouri, didn't have an opponent better than unranked Texas A&M and it had a patsy OOC schedule to say the least. And outside of Texas Tech and their loss to Oklahoma, Missouri has also played nobody.

These two programs are quite comparable to GT. If anything, they should need excitement from bigger opponents more than we do. We were two awful QB performances away from 11-2 and a BCS bowl game in 2006, even though we played Samford and Troy State OOC. Those are the type of seasons we need to get an excited fan base.
 
floridajacket said:
71,
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floridajacket said:
Take a look at the top 5. Have Missouri and Kansas ever been more excited about their programs? Kansas, before Missouri, didn't have an opponent better than unranked Texas A&M and it had a patsy OOC schedule to say the least. And outside of Texas Tech and their loss to Oklahoma, Missouri has also played nobody.

These two programs are quite comparable to GT. If anything, they should need excitement from bigger opponents more than we do. We were two awful QB performances away from 11-2 and a BCS bowl game in 2006, even though we played Samford and Troy State OOC. Those are the type of seasons we need to get an excited fan base.
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Kansas I know about; wife is third generation KU, along with her sisters and brother. You can't believe the length of time they spent in the desert of shame. Long time KU grads would root for KansasState during football season cause KU was just a basketball school.....

They still have a losers mentality; never believed for a moment they could beat Mizzu.

All credit to fats, he has made a huge difference and set an example for us on what the right coach can achieve.
 
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