(10-22-2014 12:06 PM)adcorbett Wrote:  

(10-22-2014 10:47 AM)orangefan Wrote:  

(10-22-2014 06:06 AM)johnbragg Wrote:  ALso interesting, no home-road-neutrals, which Notre Dame usually likes. (I'm pretty sure the Meadowlands ND-Syracuse games were already agreed.) I expected Notre Dame visits to FedEx Field and to the Panthers' stadium. Although I guess ND is getting as much North Carolina exposure as they want anyway, and Notre Dame will be getting its Florida exposure and snowbird alumni taken care of at the bowls and @Miami and @FSU.

I don't think that the lack of any further announced neutral site games doesn't mean that there won't be any. It wouldn't surprise me to have both a few ND home games and ACC home games shifted to neutral sites.

Only if it is a Notre Dame home game. They are not allowed to move the ACC home game unless that school chooses to do so - which essentially means the only one likely would be if Syracuse wanted another Meadowlands game to fulfill their agreement. The only two schools I could see maybe agreeing to do that, would be Louisville (Indianapolis) or Georgia Tech (new Georgia Dome), and likely only if they had a fifth game in the cycle (2 home, 2 road, one neutral).

Wake and Duke have stadiums small enough that a move to Charlotte is not out of the question. I don't the seating capacity in the New Georgia Dome is enough to justify a GT move.

The New Georgia Dome will only seat about 8,500 to 10,000 more than Bobby Dodd. Lucas Oil says it can seat 70K for football, which would be an increase over Papa John of 13K to 15K.

WF and Duke only seat about 35K when maxed out. Charlotte can seat 30K more.

Even if you charge $150 for the tickets the net added revenue for GT would be about $1.3 million, less the cost of the venue change, which might erase the added profit. For Louisville, they might net $2 million more for the game, but then have to subtract venue change costs, travel, etc.

There is a stretch where VT plays ND 4 out of 6 years.