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How exactly did we get sucked into this?

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Playing at a high school is more prestigious:

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In looking at all these pictures of their stadium, I'm shocked that thing has a capacity of 24k. It looks like it seats half that.
 
Someone one day told Ol' Blake that he needs to have the schedule in for this year by 5pm.....at 4:50 pm.

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Is this really that embarrassing considering it's on national TV?
 
Long answer?


Starting about a decade ago, the going rate for having non-power 5 FBS teams come and play at your place was driven upwards (+$1 million) by power-5 schools flush with cash. Large schools with big, on campus stadiums can pay teams like UMass (Florida), Western Kentucky (Alabama), and Arkansas State (Auburn) to come to their places on single game deals and still make a large profit.


By not owning their own stadium, and keeping all of the profits from a game, UM has effectively lost the ability to pay the going rate for these games. Hence them having to sign home and home deals with teams like FAU, FIU, Toledo, and Arkansas State.


Short answer, because someone canceled on us late enough in the process that, lacking the ability to pay a FBS school to come play us at Hard Rock, playing a home and home with a team like App State was the only viable option.
 
Who gives a fug, yall so lame sometimes, sign up whoever, whenever, wherever...App State is better then the two previous teams we played.
 
SevenNSeven said:
Long answer?


Starting about a decade ago, the going rate for having non-power 5 FBS teams come and play at your place was driven upwards (+$1 million) by power-5 schools flush with cash. Large schools with big, on campus stadiums can pay teams like UMass (Florida), Western Kentucky (Alabama), and Arkansas State (Auburn) to come to their places on single game deals and still make a large profit.


By not owning their own stadium, and keeping all of the profits from a game, UM has effectively lost the ability to pay the going rate for these games. Hence them having to sign home and home deals with teams like FAU, FIU, Toledo, and Arkansas State.


Short answer, because someone canceled on us late enough in the process that, lacking the ability to pay a FBS school to come play us at Hard Rock, playing a home and home with a team like App State was the only viable option.
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Good info but "lacking the desire to" autocorrected to "lacking the ability to" in your explanation. I wonder if $1 million will look like a small price to pay if one of these road games ever comes back to bite us in the *** and not only screws up a season and a bowl payout but also is a big source of national embarrassment? Here's to hoping that never happens.
 
Agree...who gives s ****.......App St. is great warm up game for Ga Tech and let's shut the $EC **** slobbers up by pounding those fools
 
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