It's 8 games. And I would have thought 10,000 (and they can seat another 1,000 on the lawn) at Mercer would be fine. In fact, packed and exciting. The best attendance ever was 48000 for 8 games. I've been before and it's just weird to be playing in front of seemingly nobody in a cavernous stadium.
That's like $200k if I understand correctly.
Only the top 3 divisions play at USC's stadium with the lowest two divisions playing at a smaller stadium. Georgia has 8 divisions so 2-3 locations would need to split the games if they are held on grass fields.
I think we could handle the top 4 games. That would cover virtually every Atlanta area school. Smaller schools can play at Mercer which would be dirt cheap for the GHSA. GSU can eat a bag.
The tickets are sold per day though, not per game. So many go and watch a whole day's worth of football. Very likely that there are much more than 10,000 at the stadium at a time.
I'm convinced Mercer wouldn't work for the larger schools. What about for the smaller schools? Another factor: if you're only playing two games a day - you don't have to play them right on top of each other.
