Big Ten and other Conference Expansion

[MililaniBuckeye]

I would love to schedule Georgia for a Home-Home series.

Screw the neutral sites. Home and home baby!!!

Home/away...

 

[generaladm]

I don't see the logic behind neutral site games. All but 1 or 2 of the schools in the discussion have stadiums with equal or larger capacity than the possible neutral sites. Only NW and Vandy are under 50,000, and they wouldn't be the marquee games anyway. To put the big matchups off campus would only diminish the atmosphere surrounding the stadiums.

 

[DaddyBigBucks]

I don't see the logic behind neutral site games. All but 1 or 2 of the schools in the discussion have stadiums with equal or larger capacity than the possible neutral sites. Only NW and Vandy are under 50,000, and they wouldn't be the marquee games anyway. To put the big matchups off campus would only diminish the atmosphere surrounding the stadiums.

Great point.

For 2007, the top 3 schools in per-game attendance were:

1. scUM
2. State Penn
3. The Ohio State University

Numbers 4 through 9 were the big six of the SEC.

 

[TheIronColonel]

I think the logic there was that neutral sites free the schools to take on different advertisers (I guess there are contractual and/or legal issues?) that might pay more, and the loss in ticket sales would be surpassed by the gain in advertising revenue.

 

[Mac]

The neutral site games idea is terrible. I can't think of anything else that takes away from the "college football" feel. Especially OSU home games away from the shoe just wouldn't feel right.

 

[Dryden]

I think the logic there was that neutral sites free the schools to take on different advertisers (I guess there are contractual and/or legal issues?) that might pay more, and the loss in ticket sales would be surpassed by the gain in advertising revenue.

... and the sale of beer.

 

[ScriptOhio]

Great point.

For 2007, the top 3 schools in per-game attendance were:

1. scUM
2. State Penn
3. The Ohio State University

Numbers 4 through 9 were the big six of the SEC.

I know that Ohio State's official attendance includes everyone at the game. It would be interesting to see the % of people that actually "paid" to see the game.

http://web1.ncaa.org/d1mfb/Internet/attendance/IA_AVGATTENDANCE.pdf

 

[BuckeyeNation27]

ntre ame is one of the cornerstones of college football. good god does it make me want to vomit saying that. its bad for college football for them to be a bottom feeder.

Sorry.....but I'm sick of hearing this. CFB is thriving right now and ND sucks. They've been relevant probably 2 or 3 out of the last 15 years (completely off the top of my head). Why the hell do people think CFB needs a good ND?

 

[ORD_Buckeye]

ntre ame is one of the cornerstones of college football. good god does it make me want to vomit saying that. its bad for college football for them to be a bottom feeder.

Nonsense. The only people for whom it's bad for nd to be a bottom feeder are domers and NBC execs. Screw them. Fordham, Princeton and the Carslyle School for Indians were once cornerstones of college football. College football survived their passing from the scene just fine, as it will the inevitable irrelevance of the domers. If nd wants to remain relevant, let them earn it on the field and in a conference and with no special financial or bcs treatment.

 

[NOTREDAMECHIEF]

Nonsense. The only people for whom it's bad for nd to be a bottom feeder are domers and NBC execs. Screw them. Fordham, Princeton and the Carslyle School for Indians were once cornerstones of college football. College football survived their passing from the scene just fine, as it will the inevitable irrelevance of the domers. If nd wants to remain relevant, let them earn it on the field and in a conference and with no special financial or bcs treatment.

Winning will make ND relaveant, being in a conference has nothing to do with being relavant.

2 game winning steak baby!!

 

[BUCKYLE]

Winning will make ND relaveant, being in a conference has nothing to do with being relavant.

Good luck with that.

 

[bluechillj]

Winning will make ND relaveant, being in a conference has nothing to do with being relavant.

2 game winning steak baby!!

Charlie Weiss thinks relevance is something you eat on a hot dog.

 

[generaladm]

2 game winning steak baby!!

One of the benefits of not making a bowl game.

 

[Dryden]

being in a conference has nothing to do with being relavant.

You obviously know nothing of this magical conference called 'the SEC,' where the athletes all run like greyhounds and are strong like bulls; where they piss lightning and crap thunder. In the SEC, their DEs are unblockable, their WRs are uncoverable, their QBs are unsackable, and their RBs are unstoppable.*

*except when playing other SEC teams, because they're all strong (even Vanderbilt and Mississippi) or USC.

 

[Gatorubet]

You obviously know nothing of this magical conference called 'the SEC,' where the three date wait rule is waived by hot co-eds, the athletes all run like greyhounds and are strong like bulls; where they piss lightning and crap thunder. In the SEC, their DEs are unblockable, their WRs are uncoverable, their QBs are unsackable, and their RBs are unstoppable. *

*except when playing other SEC teams, because they're all strong (even Vanderbilt and Mississippi) or USC.

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