(05-07-2013 03:38 PM)TodgeRodge Wrote:  

(05-07-2013 03:17 PM)FloridaJag Wrote:  I disagree. If ULM and Alabama are both Conference Champs, both schools will be able to sell out a 100,000 seat stadium.

ULM does not have 100,000 fans....ULM would possibly be able to be at a game where Alabama brought 80,000 fans and ULM possibly brought 20,000

and ULM does not have a 100,000 stadium if they managed to be able to host a game some way some how

that is the problem with the whole concept of tams playing playoff games at home stadiums....ignore the fact that the logistics makes it near impossible for any type of meaningful crowd to show up on a weeks notice and have any type of decent experience you are either going to have the big boys always hosting or when the small school finally gets a chance to host they will not come close to having the facilities for hosting a major game

which is why the big boys will laugh at this idea until it gets pushed too far and the big boys just break away....because Alabama fans are not interested in having Alabama play a playoff game against the Sunbelt champ to move on to anything and they are not interested in dealing with the logistics of making that happen at their stadium.....and if there ever was a chance that a smaller school hosted a game they are not interested in their team playing a playoff game at a stadium that holds 40K or less and that their fans will get 10,000 or less tickets for

you can't expect the big boys to do all the heavy lifting of getting the playoff game in place (and stop pretending it is something that is easy) so they can play a Sunbelt school and at the same time if they are always ask to put all of that together if the chance ever comes for a Sunbelt school to host they are not going to put up with getting a few thousand tickets

if you expect and demand that the big boys provide and fill the big venues to face smaller programs and then expect and demand that if the smaller schools ever get a chance to host that the big boys just deal with not getting many tickets.....you can expect that the big boys will just go away and deal with each other and leave the smaller schools behind....because they are not going to tolerate doing all the work and getting little if any of the benefits and even getting short changed if a smaller school ever manages to host a game.....especially when it is games the big boys are not interested in playing....they have no interest in proving they deserve to move through the playoffs by beating the Sunbelt and CUSA and the MAC to end the season

Why would say that ULM does not have 100,000 fans? You are silly.

The simple scenario. Alabama gets 50,000 tickets and ULM gets 50,000 tickets. Bama sells it 50,000 tickets in 5 hours. ULM in its biggest game ever and against BAMA sells 35,000 tickets (at a minimum to its alumni, SBC and corporate friends) then sells the remaining 15,000 tickets to Alabama fans. Cash money for ULM.

So...ULM should turn down cashing in on 15,000 tickets at $100 (at a minimum) a piece? That is $1,500,000.00 just because you believe they do not have any fans.

You are silly.