Maybe it’s just me, but when you hear Greg McGarity wax rhapsodic (“I think would not only excite our team but our fans in traveling”) over the possibility of future home-and-homes against big name opponents, don’t you get the feeling that what excites him the most is the opportunity to leverage more contributions from Magill Society donors?
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Get The Picture · Bloviation for the Dawgnation
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I can see him rubbing his hands together, getting off on all the money it will bring in, while cackling.
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I don’t believe he’s just singing a tune when he speaks of the difficulty of making games like this fit future schedules. Also I’m not sure how many P5 schools are dying to play in Athens in September.
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I am not sure many P5 schools are dying to play UGA in Athens at all.
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Glad to see this but why doesn’t the Board of Regents make the University of Georgia and Georgia Tech play the other state FBS teams or FCS teams rather than out of state cup cakes. If you are going to continue scheduling cupcakes make it ours. At least there would be some interest in the games. Who in their right mind wants to fry in the North Stands for Austin Peay.
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If we never play Georgia Southern again, it’ll be too soon.
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Exactly, eff that weird little backwater program.
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Hard to see the up side of playing Austin Peay. I guess there is one or we wouldn’t do it. ?
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Yes. I still bought my season tickets and will dutifully attend the game.
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In-state teams bring their annoying fans. Out-of-state teams return tickets that can be re-sold. There’s no money in bringing the in-state teams when you can bring garbage teams form nowhere’s ville with no fans in on the cheap.
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Resold to who?
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anyone that answers the emails the athletic department sends out
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I’m not sure that argument holds water. The returned tickets are sold for the some price regardless. The athletic dept gets the same money if the visiting school sells them or not.
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Well it trickles down to get more Dawg fans at the game instead.
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You got that right. He’s just a slug. He’ll Hell, I’d rather go home and home in Eugene than that sorry excuse for a stadium. Looks like another stub hub opportunity.
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Well that seems to make it clear Smart wants a big Out of Conference game early. It seems rather clear that McGarity wanted to maximize revenue but playing as many game as possible in Athens following the old Florida model with the ACC in state rival at the end.
Good to see Smart seems to be making strides in winning this battle.
I’d be up for a trip to Austin and eat some of their BBQ’d beef.
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Speaking of schedules, there’s a pretty awesome home slate in ’19, but the SEC schedule dates aren’t set yet and if I’m not mistaken, our OOC is set, but we don’t have a game scheduled for week 1 (Aug 31). I’ll be interested to see if we open with the Aggies at home or go on the road to Vanderbilt or something, but it looks like we’ll open with a league game in 2019.
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So, I should look into it before posting. Aggies open at home with SWT. I bet we open next year in Nashville.
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USCe, Mizzou, UT, UK, and A&M have OOC home openers scheduled.
By process of elimination ’19 opens in Nashville.
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Sounds right to me. Maybe we can get them to move the game to the Titans stadium instead of the Vandy campus.
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I enjoy going to the Vandy campus but the Titans stadium would allow even more Dawgs at the UGA home game in Nashville.
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Unless there’s some finagling with dates of the Murray State or Arkansas State games, yep.
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My inner Munson says: “With the Dawgs being defending champions it ends up being a Thursday Night “showcase””game” and starts that idiotic trend in colleges, too”!
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That was my 1st thought as well and UGA would still sell it out. I think it will be noon on Saturday with the kickoff classics getting the 3:30 and 7:30 spots.
The trend seems to be dying. The 2 best games on Thursday this year are Kennesaw St vs Ga. State and UConn vs UCF.
http://www.espn.com/college-football/schedule
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On a side note, I kind of liked kicking off the season Thursday night in Charlotte with USCe getting a W over a North Carolina school.
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I guess he forgets that one of the first things he did when he got his current job was to promptly cancel the scheduled home & homes with Oregon and Louisville and replace them with cupcakes.
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Cancelling Oregon sucked, but we made some good money on that Louisville deal. ESPN paid our back-out penalty, set up Louisville with games against Ole Miss, and we got a massive pay day to play in Atlanta.
Now, what we did in the game with uniforms and performance leaves a lot to be desired. I certainly regret it more than being disappointed at what promised to be an awesome road trip to Bourbon Country.
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With the Magill Society giving big bucks us normal fans will be buying on the secondary market or watching from home if things continue the way they do.
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I don’t know…it seems like this is what you’ve been asking for isn’t it? A non-conference, non-cupcake game at home? Nothing says you have to go to Austin.
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It’s as if the people in charge just want to cut as much of the “college” out of college football as possible.
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Unless someone has some inside information that I don’t have, why should I be angry at McGarity for this?
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You shouldn’t be angry. It’s good news.
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I think what the good Senator is referring to here is the low-level extortion that happens when UGAA has a handful of tickets to an appealing road game or bowl game or championship game.
“It’s expected the minimum contribution level for access to the highly-anticipated (Texas, Clemson, Texas A&M) match-up in (Austin, Clemson, College Station) will be N points. We’ve extended the deadline if you want to reach that priority level.”
No tickets arrive.
“Oops. We underestimated demand and the Hartman Fund points total for tickets to this game was N+600.”
Or something along those lines.
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