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Actually it's a very nice little stadium & a beautiful campus not far off the Blue Ridge Parkway. We go up in that area quite a bit and have been in the stadium for a concert.
 
Tad Footeball said:
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.
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Just depends where you want to push resources if you're the athletic department. Right now, they're doing the smart play by spending heavily on coaches, they probably won't want to put a million-plus dollar loss on the books by paying for an opponent that the fans won't really come out and see anyway. Just the reality of our stadium situation, but yeah, one that could bite the program in the *** if we drop a game @ App State or @ Toledo. Already happened last year against Cincinnati.


If anyone wonders why UM so dearly wants the ACC to switch to a 9-game conference schedule: it would give the school one extra, free, home game against a power-5 school every other year.


Excluding whatever FCS teams we sign as fodder (assuming the conference doesn't go to 9 games), our schedule is pretty much set through the next three years, but after that, it will be interesting, with the increase in revenue from the conference's TV deal, and assuming the program is successful in the coming years, if UM will regain the ability to pay to host non-power 5 schools, or if they will continue to have to sign home and home deals.

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Regardless, expect we'll hear the same WTF remarks over and over again the next three years, as our program plays in great locals like Jonesboro, Arkansas and Toledo, Ohio.
 
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**** this game. Do like in that Troy movie, 1 vs 1, Shaq vs whatever ****** they have running the ball and we leave after a 7 second planting into the ground.
 
I can't believe we're playing here....unreal. We better win and win big. This could be BADDDDD for our program if we come out with a loss.
 
the storm said:
Actually it's a very nice little stadium & a beautiful campus not far off the Blue Ridge Parkway. We go up in that area quite a bit and have been in the stadium for a concert.
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I've always loved Boone. Spent a lot of time up there when several friends went to Appy State. Watched Armani Edwards play live a few times. Wonderful place. Great people.



I hope we beat them so badly their program never recovers.
 
Some better looks of the stadium:

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Tad Footeball said:
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.
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My understanding is that the ACC splits up bowl revenue equally to each program (after subtracting bowl related expenses for participating programs). Bottom line is that mediocre programs like Miami (FL), that hasn't been in a high payout bowl game for over a decade, freeloads bowl money from the successful ACC programs that play in big money bowl games. In other words, inviting Miami (FL) into the ACC didn't exactly work out as expected.
 
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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Very nice reasonable explanation. Good job. For the rest of us: Donna is a frigging idiot cooked Clintonite who screwed us big time. (anyone check to see it Marlins' owner paid cash to Clinton Foundation?)
 
IndayArtHauz said:
the storm said:
Actually it's a very nice little stadium & a beautiful campus not far off the Blue Ridge Parkway. We go up in that area quite a bit and have been in the stadium for a concert.
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I've always loved Boone. Spent a lot of time up there when several friends went to Appy State. Watched Armani Edwards play live a few times. Wonderful place. Great people.



I hope we beat them so badly their program never recovers.
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I was going to disagree but your last sentenced made it all good. They are nice and so is the area. Why pillage a crapping area? Lets Cane them to death and say nice things about them later.
 
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The Franchise said:
KevinCaneFace said:
Used to say "anybody, anywhere" but I guess the powerhouse at Boone has Miami fans shook.
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The "anybody anywhere" thing referred to taking on big-time programs anywhere, not playing a bullshyt FCS team in a HS stadium. But carry on.
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You seen their fans talking? They think they're the next big thing. Talking trash like they're on our level. Beating them is one thing plenty of power 5 teams have done so. But beating them in their Super Bowl is the best way to bring them down to size. It's gonna be the nice to see the look on their face when they remember who they are.
 
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