Alabama v. Wisconsin Tickets Selling Poorly

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rjd970 said:
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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Bama played Florida St in Jacksonville and are working on Miami in Orlando.
 
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bamawriter said:
Bama played Florida St in Jacksonville and are working on Miami in Orlando.
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Still didn't answer my question. While neutral, I bet Wisconsin rightfully feels they are at a disadvantage, same with Michigan. They signed up for it though. I wish our AD would be smart enough to schedule a Miami-type team 3 years out on a neutral site. It's a high probability win that looks better than McNeese state to voters. Even better would be a neutral site game against a team with a smaller following that has to travel further than we do.
 
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Git redy texas...we comin

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#31
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rjd970 said:
Still didn't answer my question. While neutral, I bet Wisconsin rightfully feels they are at a disadvantage, same with Michigan. They signed up for it though. I wish our AD would be smart enough to schedule a Miami-type team 3 years out on a neutral site. It's a high probability win that looks better than McNeese state to voters. Even better would be a neutral site game against a team with a smaller following that has to travel further than we do.
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I understand where you're coming from, but the issue is that, but for a few exceptions*, Bama isn't scheduling these games. There are organizing committees (the Peach Bowl in Atlanta, the Cowboys in Dallas, the Capitol One Bowl in Orlando) that host these events and find the teams to play in them. Bama intentionally leaves their opening week slot open awaiting an invite, but Bama doesn't pick their opponents.

The Cowboys Classic folks made a poor decision in inviting Wisconsin to play a game more than 1000 miles from Madison two years in a row and still expecting them to sell half the tickets. I feel confident in saying that the Cowboys would love to book Texas or Oklahoma for one of these games, but outside of one OU matchup with BYU, neither team seems keen on the idea.

*Bama and FSU jointly organized the 2007 game in Jacksonville. The 2009 Atlanta game was supposed to be Auburn vs UCLA, but both teams backed out late in the process and Bama volunteered to play if Va Tech could be booked as an opponent, as Bama and VPI were already in discussion for a game.
 
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The problem TX and OU have with playing at Jerry World is:

1) They play each other at the Cotton Bowl (RRR).
2) Their crappy conference schedule makes for a crappy home schedule.
3) To sell season tickets they need home/home series to prop up their home schedule.

So they already play each other in Dallas every year and have little incentive to play there twice in one season.
 
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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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He would be going the Ole Miss / Miss St route of not playing bigger named schools outside of conference and bowl games if that were what he were doing.

Not to sound like I support the guy, but they do this because the schools get paid even more to play these games (which sometimes seem to more get scheduled by the sponsors than the two schools), it gives them a great deal of national exposure, and it serves as a fantastic recruiting tool. It makes them the focus/talk of the town in a very heavily populated city, in a huge state with a lot of football talent (one that's not a neighboring state in this case); it gets them a lot of attention in the city and the state. (Not to mention games like these also make sure - depending on their schedule - that they get at worst one and at best 2 to even 3 games played in Texas each year.)

It's almost same reason (the latter part especially) Calipari refused for Kentucky's continuing rivalry with Indiana unless the game was held yearly in Indianapolis. It's really the same reason we're playing an OOC game in Charlotte soon, too.
 
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ntxVOL said:
The problem TX and OU have with playing at Jerry World is:

1) They play each other in the Cotton Bowl (RRR).
2) Their crappy conference schedule makes for a crappy home schedule.
3) To sell season tickets they need home/home series to prop up their home schedule.

So they already play each other in Dallas every year and have little incentive to play there twice in one season.
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You're absolutely correct. I meant to add a sentence about either team playing the Advocare game in Houston, but I forgot. I'm having an ADD day.
 
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rjd970 said:
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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How is playing in Arlington more of an advantage to Alabama, though, either?
 
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TrueOrange said:
He would be going the Ole Miss / Miss St route of not playing bigger named schools outside of conference and bowl games if that were what he were doing.

Not to sound like I support the guy, but they do this because the schools get paid even more to play these games (which sometimes seem to more get scheduled by the sponsors than the two schools), it gives them a great deal of national exposure, and it serves as a fantastic recruiting tool. It makes them the focus/talk of the town in a very heavily populated city, in a huge state with a lot of football talent (one that's not a neighboring state in this case); it gets them a lot of attention in the city and the state. (Not to mention games like these also make sure - depending on their schedule - that they get at worst one and at best 2 to even 3 games played in Texas each year.)

It's almost same reason (the latter part especially) Calipari refused for Kentucky's continuing rivalry with Indiana unless the game was held yearly in Indianapolis. It's really the same reason we're playing an OOC game in Charlotte soon, too.
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Cal wanted to play on neutral courts, not just Indy. He wanted UK to "host" in Louisville and IU to "host" in Indy.
 
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TrueOrange said:
How is playing in Arlington more of an advantage to Alabama, though, either?
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Less further to travel, and more than likely more Bama fans within driving distance than Wisconsin fans. Wisconsin didn't even sell their allotment which will be scooped up by Bammers I'm sure.

If this were played in Green Bay's or even Minnesota's stadium, it would be reversed.
 
#42
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Quick, someone report bama for the unauthorized use of copyrighted Looney Tunes characters.
 
#43
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Announced attendance of 64,000 tonight; likely translating to a little less actual attendance. All in all, decently reputable numbers (20k unsold).
 
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