Greed is choking out fans everywhere.

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There are so many reasons to watch games at home. one of my biggest pet peeves is parking. At most colleges it's freaking ridiculous, sometimes you have to walk a mile or more just to get to the game. For what it costs for a family of 4 to attend a college or pro game, you can have a party at your house catered, kegs of beer plus have all the activities you would at a normal tailgate without doing in a single parking space. I love to catch a couple of games a year but if I was local, no way it would be a Saturday tradition
 
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Backwards K said:
If you win, they will come.
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While winning will take care of a lot of our attendance problems, it's not the only thing. When you play Austin Peay, Western Kentucky and South Alabama at home last year, that's gonna be a tough sell to both fans and students. The economy is always an easy target too and I remember when we played at Alabama 3 years ago and there were empty sections in the upper deck. Bama was ranked number 1 or 2 in every poll and couldn't sell out a prime time SEC game?
This article is dead on about the student sections at games. It's bad at every stadium and getting worse by the year. Why not have students swipe their ID cards and get discounted food and drinks? Student tickets should be cheaper also. A full student section does as much for recruiting as anything on gameday.
This will only get worse in the next few years and then the 5 major conferences will act as has been rumored. Break away and form a 5 conference league where they only play each other. That way even the OOC games will be against another major conference team. Then you expand the playoffs(which will happen) and take away a regular season game. The schools will more than make up the difference with additional TV money for the playoffs and better regular season games. I'd rather have 6 home games a year where all are against SEC or major conference opponents than 7 with 3 being cupcake games. There, problem solved!
 
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Sin City Vol said:
There are so many reasons to watch games at home. one of my biggest pet peeves is parking. At most colleges it's freaking ridiculous, sometimes you have to walk a mile or more just to get to the game. For what it costs for a family of 4 to attend a college or pro game, you can have a party at your house catered, kegs of beer plus have all the activities you would at a normal tailgate without doing in a single parking space. I love to catch a couple of games a year but if I was local, no way it would be a Saturday tradition
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Add travel, plus hotel for out-of-towners it gets steep quick.
 
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Backwards K said:
If you win, they will come.
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Not necessarily...Alabama had issues with students not attending games.

It's a new day in college football. Some students would rather tweet about the game rather than watching it in the stadium. Thanks to the bloated inventory of games on TV, students can do just that...from their dorm rooms.

For older farts like me, it's a matter of convenience. Unless LSU, Alabama, FSU or some other team worth a damn is in Gainesville, I'd rather watch games from the creature comforts of my patio TV, on a float in the pool.
 
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It dates me, but when I was at UT student tickets were free. College football today is a professional business in just about every way.
 
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armchair said:
It dates me, but when I was at UT student tickets were free. College football today is a professional business in just about every way.
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They only started charging students for tickets in 2008

Terrible idea IMO
 
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I can sympathize with the folks who can't afford the tickets, gas, accomodations, etc. But for the folks who are complaining about the crowds, the parking, walking over a mile to the stadium, etc.........It's DIVISION ONE FOOTBALL!! Go watch intramurals, brother!!:D
 
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Backwards K said:
I can sympathize with the folks who can't afford the tickets, gas, accomodations, etc. But for the folks who are complaining about the crowds, the parking, walking over a mile to the stadium, etc.........It's DIVISION ONE FOOTBALL!! Go watch intramurals, brother!!:D
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Did you ever consider that maybe just maybe some people have conditions that make walking that far difficult? Hell it seems 60% of the people at games are over 80. Forgive those who complain about walking over a mile in early September whenit's 90 degrees and 75% humidity also. Who are you?? Hulk Hogan?
 
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SCV, obviously you take yourself way too seriously and you have never seen the rant by Dan Hawkins in response to some whining parent who thought Hawkins was being too hard on the players.

Give me a moment to be consider your concerns...... .......OK, I'm through. :no:
 
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I really don't take myself serious at all and I grew up when coaches could actually smash a player out...not the way kids today all get a trophy so that no one has hurt feelings. I just don't want to walk a mile to a game
 
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At what point do you not have to walk a good distance to any major SEC stadium, unless you're a big money booster.

In my travels, parking isn't all that convenient on any SEC campus...with the exception of Vandy of course.
 
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Sin City Vol said:
I really don't take myself serious at all and I grew up when coaches could actually smash a player out...not the way kids today all get a trophy so that no one has hurt feelings. I just don't want to walk a mile to a game
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What you're requesting, would require no campus be in the vicinity then. This isn't pro sports where a stadium sits in a field with a parking lot all they way around. You're talking about a college campus that doesn't have enough parking to accommodate 25k students (they sell 1.8 passes:1 spot) yet you expect it to accommodate 100k fans 6x a year?
 
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