Alabama v. Wisconsin Tickets Selling Poorly

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I can tell u why these games are doing so bad no one wants to go to natural games . I'm sure Wisconsin fans would love to go to Bryant - Denny and same for bama fans and wisconsins stadium
 
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Wisconsin only put their allotment up for general sale last week. Bama's allotment is already sold out, so the game will get closer to selling out now that Bama fans can buy Wisconsin tickets. I'm pretty sure that 40,000 number was already wrong by the time the guy said it.
 
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Neutral site games are good if the site is relatively close. Atlanta and Charlotte make sense for most ACC & SEC teams. Dallas is a bit of a stretch for teams not in Texas, Ark, Oklahoma, etc. I know Bama played Michigan in Dallas but I can see where this would get old to fanbases....and it looks like Wisconsin ain't buyin'.
 
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1) that's a long drive for both fan bases, especially Wisconsin
2) both teams suck :)
 
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Boca Vol said:
Neutral site games are good if the site is relatively close. Atlanta and Charlotte make sense for most ACC & SEC teams. Dallas is a bit of a stretch for teams not in Texas, Ark, Oklahoma, etc. I know Bama played Michigan in Dallas but I can see where this would get old to fanbases....and it looks like Wisconsin ain't buyin'.
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Wisconsin opened up in Houston last year. Seems like this was pushing it.
 
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Forever151 said:
I can tell u why these games are doing so bad no one wants to go to natural games .
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Forever151 said:
I want home and homes screw natural stadiums
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Neutral needs to be neutral. In the middle-ish. Poor Wiscy has had to hoof it pretty far on its last couple openers.
 
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bamawriter said:
Wisconsin opened up in Houston last year. Seems like this was pushing it.
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Forgot all about that. That pretty much ties a bow on the ticket issue. That's too much.

I thought it was bad that UT had 2 marquis OOC opponents on the road in '13 (@ Oregon) and last season (@ OU).
 
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I don't mind a neutral site game once in a while, but Saban is a giant ***** for never scheduling a true OOC road game. That's part of "The Process". Make your schedule as easy as possible, avoid as many road games as possible, avoid offenses you don't like... you just know he hates the idea of going between the hedges this year.
 
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spankadelphia said:
I don't mind a neutral site game once in a while, but Saban is a giant ***** for never scheduling a true OOC road game. That's part of "The Process". Make your schedule as easy as possible, avoid as many road games as possible, avoid offenses you don't like... you just know he hates the idea of going between the hedges this year.
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If that is what Saban is doing, wouldn't he, oh I don't know....NOT play teams like Wisconsin, Michigan, etc.?
 
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VolsSportsFan said:
If that is what Saban is doing, wouldn't he, oh I don't know....NOT play teams like Wisconsin, Michigan, etc.?
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Home and home series would make it more of a true OOC game. It seems like the only semi tough game Bama plays OOC each year is a neutral site or Atlanta which depending on the team turns into Tuscaloosa east. Actually traveling to Madison to play Wisconsin would be a legit challenge. Aside from the travel which is long, Madison is a tough place to win. I had a buddy that went to school there and said SEC stadiums are tame compared to the vile rowdiness of those fans.

Kudos to the AD though, they make a tough game on paper look better by playing on a neutral field and typically making the other team travel further.
 
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rjd970 said:
Kudos to the AD though, they make a tough game on paper look better by playing on a neutral field and typically making the other team travel further.
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The major difference between a neutral site game and a home-and-home is how far out they're scheduled. Neutral site games are scheduled, at most, 3 years out. So if a team is good right now, you have a decent chance of them still being pretty good.

Home-and-homes get scheduled more than a decade out, and you can't predict anything about either team. Tennessee and Oklahoma scheduled this current home-and-home back in 2004. Could anyone have predicted that it would feature a UT team coming off of four straight losing seasons?

Give me the neutral site games. They make for better contests.
 
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bamawriter said:
The major difference between a neutral site game and a home-and-home is how far out they're scheduled. Neutral site games are scheduled, at most, 3 years out. So if a team is good right now, you have a decent chance of them still being pretty good.

Home-and-homes get scheduled more than a decade out, and you can't predict anything about either team. Tennessee and Oklahoma scheduled this current home-and-home back in 2004. Could anyone have predicted that it would feature a UT team coming off of four straight losing seasons?

Give me the neutral site games. They make for better contests.
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I'm sure they do when VaTech plays Bama in Atlanta. In your opinion would it be just as "neutral" if Bama played Ohio State in Cleveland or Texas in Dallas?
 
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