🏈 Single OOC home games.

[252BAMA]

The Georgia Southern announcement has me back on my Pac-10 soapbox. It is clear now that Bama is going to schedule a 1-AA team annually, just as they are going to schedule top notch BCS teams(PSU-GT-Michigan State) on a home and away basis. Even though they could schedule 2 of those per year by staggering the games so that they had one home and one away each year, I realize it is in their best interest to not do that. So what we have for 2 of the 4 OOC games is a high and a low, and I'm OK with that. What concerns me are the 2 games in the middlle. They tend to be toward the low side and I don't think they have to be. This is where the Pac-10 comes in.

I said when the Pac-10 went to a round robin schedule that all of them, with the possible exception of USC, would be receptive to single OOC games away. I have been proven correct in that assessment by, among others, the Washington State off-site home game with ND this year, and the UCLA negotiations with the Atlanta Sports Council about their game in 2010. In 2011, Arizona State, Oregon, Stanford, USC, and Washington play 5 conference home games and only 4 on the road. It is not unreasonable to expect one of those teams to be added to the Bama home schedule to go along with Georgia Southern.

 

[TerryP]

The Georgia Southern announcement has me back on my Pac-10 soapbox. It is clear now that Bama is going to schedule a 1-AA team annually, just as they are going to schedule top notch BCS teams(PSU-GT-Michigan State) on a home and away basis. Even though they could schedule 2 of those per year by staggering the games so that they had one home and one away each year, I realize it is in their best interest to not do that. So what we have for 2 of the 4 OOC games is a high and a low, and I'm OK with that. What concerns me are the 2 games in the middlle. They tend to be toward the low side and I don't think they have to be. This is where the Pac-10 comes in.

I said when the Pac-10 went to a round robin schedule that all of them, with the possible exception of USC, would be receptive to single OOC games away. I have been proven correct in that assessment by, among others, the Washington State off-site home game with ND this year, and the UCLA negotiations with the Atlanta Sports Council about their game in 2010. In 2011, Arizona State, Oregon, Stanford, USC, and Washington play 5 conference home games and only 4 on the road. It is not unreasonable to expect one of those teams to be added to the Bama home schedule to go along with Georgia Southern.

I seriously doubt that'll happen with Bama traveling to University Park to play.

 

[252BAMA]

I seriously doubt that'll happen with Bama traveling to College Park to play.

Then Bama fans have no right to bad mouth the barn because they don't want to play Clemson and UCLA in the same year. This is the whole problem with the 2 middle games, and why they tend to be on the low side.

 

[TerryP]

Then Bama fans have no right to bad mouth the barn because they don't want to play Clemson and UCLA in the same year. This is the whole problem with the 2 middle games, and why they tend to be on the low side.

And you do mean State College, not College Park.

No, actually I meant University Park but that's neither here or there.

The only problem I had with Jay Jacobs turning down that game was the reason he used.

 

[252BAMA]

No, actually I meant University Park but that's neither here or there.

The only problem I had with Jay Jacobs turning down that game was the reason he used.

Yeah, I saw where you had changed that on your post, so I deleted that last line.

Refresh my memory on Jacobs. Did he say it was because Ark State was already scheduled?

 

[TerryP]

Yeah, I saw where you had changed that on your post, so I deleted that last line.

Refresh my memory on Jacobs. Did he say it was because Ark State was already scheduled?

No, he claimed it was all due to having a home game and that revenue for the Ath. Dept.

The payout from the ATL Sports Council to us last year for the Clemson game wasn't very different from our normal game revenue. I recall it may have been a little less, but we were paid and paid well to play in ATL.

 

[252BAMA]

No, he claimed it was all due to having a home game and that revenue for the Ath. Dept.

The payout from the ATL Sports Council to us last year for the Clemson game wasn't very different from our normal game revenue. I recall it may have been a little less, but we were paid and paid well to play in ATL.

OK. Common sense tells you the payout would have to be at least the same or there would be no takers. Of course, the local economy would certainly have to be taken into consideration. I read where Bama's A-Day game meant 16 million for the Tuscaloosa economy. But that is not what he said. Poor guy just does not know how to get the monkey off his back.

 

[TerryP]

OK. Common sense tells you the payout would have to be at least the same or there would be no takers. Of course, the local economy would certainly have to be taken into consideration. I read where Bama's A-Day game meant 16 million for the Tuscaloosa economy. But that is not what he said. Poor guy just does not know how to get the monkey off his back.

Believe you me, there's been the times when Coach Moore has said things that I cringed at as well but Jacobs comment was over the top a bit.

It's along the same lines as Trooper Taylor's statement the other day. When asked about the expense of renting Hummer's and Limo's for their little gimmick of the week he said "it's cheaper than having seven coaches traveling to different locations on commercial flights."

In the purest sense what Taylor said is true. But, one quickly looks at it and sees they are accomplishing only 1/7th of the contacts they could have been making.

There's always more to the story and I'm sure having the game in West Opelika would mean a lot to their local economy. All he had to do was mention that as well and he wouldn't have come off as disingenuous.

There was something to do with Arkansas State now that you mention it...but, I can't recall if it meant canceling that game or what...

 

[252BAMA]

I'm still preaching. The Pac-10 has 5 teams each year that play 5 conference home games and only 4 on the road and are receptive to one game deals away from home. And not only lucrative deals like UCLA is seeking next year in Atlanta. Washington State is playing ND in an off site home game in San Antonio this year. You think ND would ever be caught dead in Pullman? Maybe in another off site home game in Seattle. Off site home game for ND, not WSU. Bama could schedule these teams on a one game basis if they would just do so.

 

[UAgrad93]

Jacobs also threw in the line about how they were going to "honor" contracts that were already signed with Ark State. As I recall, didn't we help find an opponent for the team we dropped to pick up Clemson. That comment by Jacobs is the one that really made me laugh considering that the Barn broke the one with Florida State when they hired Wingnut.