Ok, just a fun thought - you might think it stupid:
Here it is: (GAST fans will love this)
We schedule a weekend at the GA Dome: "3 Games Starting at High Noon". Get ESPN or whoever to cover all three games and promote the Event and the City of Atl behind it as they stand to make $.
Fill in whatever teams you like, but just as example maybe:
Game 1: UAB v/s Troy
Game 2:4PM Southern Miss v/s Georgia Southern (Eagles showdown)
Game 3: 8PM ArkState v/s Marshall or whoever??
You'd need to pick some teams close enough to travel well and maybe even a halfway point or something for some schools.
The idea is you would pay say $80/ticket - but you can come at any time and stay for all 3 games if you want to. It would be a SEA of tailgating and ATL would book lots of hotels and sell a lot of food, etc.
I figure that if Each team averaged 20 to 25k to support their team, you could almost sell out the Dome. We might get a lot of just college football fans who would love to make an entire day of it?
Crazy?
If it worked out well, we could do the same thing on the Western borders of the footprint and have a showdown with MWC teams.
If you do it for one school, you need to do it for the rest. Funny you say Georgia State fans will love it since it's in Atlanta but have Georgia Southern playing in your hypothetical game :)
The main problem with this is you would have to mix it around to be fair for all teams. That, and I love football, but I'm not sitting 9 hours in a stadium to watch two games I really don't care about before/after a South Alabama game I am really there to see.
Yeah, I don't think ESPN is going to dedicate a whole Saturday to SBC/C-USA football... I'm not sitting through 3 games and I'm sure as heck not going to pay $80 a ticket to watch the one regular season game i cared about that day.
However, if we ever get a championship game I think it makes sense to hold it in Atlanta. It could be a bit of unfair advantage if GState ever makes it to the conference championship game though. Jacksonville and New Orleans could work as well.
(04-12-2013 08:30 AM)sidslidkid Wrote: [ -> ]Yeah, I don't think ESPN is going to dedicate a whole Saturday to SBC/C-USA football...
However, if we ever get a championship game I think it makes sense to hold it in Atlanta. It could be a bit of unfair advantage if GState ever makes it to the conference championship game though. Jacksonville and New Orleans could work as well.
How does Jacksonville make sense? Oh because Georgia Southern is close? Got it.
New Orleans makes sense. Jacksonville, not so much.
(04-12-2013 08:26 AM)SkullyMaroo Wrote: [ -> ]If you do it for one school, you need to do it for the rest. Funny you say Georgia State fans will love it since it's in Atlanta but have Georgia Southern playing in your hypothetical game :)
The main problem with this is you would have to mix it around to be fair for all teams. That, and I love football, but I'm not sitting 9 hours in a stadium to watch two games I really don't care about before/after a South Alabama game I am really there to see.
If this was conference centric and a carnival like atmosphere where you could walk in and out of the venue as you please, then it could help break up the games for those who don't care. Maybe players could set up for autographs after the game. Who knows.
I'm a college football junkie... I would honestly stay.
(04-12-2013 08:35 AM)TheEagleWay Wrote: [ -> ] (04-12-2013 08:26 AM)SkullyMaroo Wrote: [ -> ]If you do it for one school, you need to do it for the rest. Funny you say Georgia State fans will love it since it's in Atlanta but have Georgia Southern playing in your hypothetical game :)
The main problem with this is you would have to mix it around to be fair for all teams. That, and I love football, but I'm not sitting 9 hours in a stadium to watch two games I really don't care about before/after a South Alabama game I am really there to see.
If this was conference centric and a carnival like atmosphere where you could walk in and out of the venue as you please, then it could help break up the games for those who don't care.
I'm a college football junkie... I would honestly stay.
I love football myself, and can watch it all day. But sitting in a stadium could get old. I don't know thought, I've never been in one for 9 hours!
(04-12-2013 08:34 AM)SkullyMaroo Wrote: [ -> ] (04-12-2013 08:30 AM)sidslidkid Wrote: [ -> ]Yeah, I don't think ESPN is going to dedicate a whole Saturday to SBC/C-USA football...
However, if we ever get a championship game I think it makes sense to hold it in Atlanta. It could be a bit of unfair advantage if GState ever makes it to the conference championship game though. Jacksonville and New Orleans could work as well.
How does Jacksonville make sense? Oh because Georgia Southern is close? Got it.
New Orleans makes sense. Jacksonville, not so much.
Just thinking of cities that have a venue big enough and people would want to travel to. My thinking is NFL stadiums are probably best. There aren't a lot of options in the South. Houston, Dallas and Nashville could be options as well. I agree though, New Orleans and Atlanta would be best.
I'll have to agree with the subject line, "Crazy Idea".
(04-12-2013 08:37 AM)SkullyMaroo Wrote: [ -> ] (04-12-2013 08:35 AM)TheEagleWay Wrote: [ -> ] (04-12-2013 08:26 AM)SkullyMaroo Wrote: [ -> ]If you do it for one school, you need to do it for the rest. Funny you say Georgia State fans will love it since it's in Atlanta but have Georgia Southern playing in your hypothetical game :)
The main problem with this is you would have to mix it around to be fair for all teams. That, and I love football, but I'm not sitting 9 hours in a stadium to watch two games I really don't care about before/after a South Alabama game I am really there to see.
If this was conference centric and a carnival like atmosphere where you could walk in and out of the venue as you please, then it could help break up the games for those who don't care.
I'm a college football junkie... I would honestly stay.
I love football myself, and can watch it all day. But sitting in a stadium could get old. I don't know thought, I've never been in one for 9 hours!
How much beer money would it take? Wow ... better start saving.
(04-12-2013 08:26 AM)SkullyMaroo Wrote: [ -> ]If you do it for one school, you need to do it for the rest. Funny you say Georgia State fans will love it since it's in Atlanta but have Georgia Southern playing in your hypothetical game :)
The main problem with this is you would have to mix it around to be fair for all teams. That, and I love football, but I'm not sitting 9 hours in a stadium to watch two games I really don't care about before/after a South Alabama game I am really there to see.
Teams picked was nothing against USA, just random except GaSouthern :) - Hey it was my idea and example...
Anyway, I said GaSt fans would love this for three reasons:
1: Their Stadium would be full on a Saturday that was not the SEC Champ
2: They would get to see more than one good college football team on their field at a time.
3: Sarcasim
ADDED: 4: What tailgating in Atl should look like for a College game.
You can throw USA in there if you like. Obviously we cant do more than 3 games in one day, so for the first year - you have to pick 3!
And then somebody the fan bases etiher hate or really have been wanting to play and hopfully a matchup that would stir some interest for people flipping Channels. The biggest reason to include Georgia Southern (other than my obvious reasons) is that it would insure a big crowd for that game. The other in state conference choice simply would not fill the ticket orders the way we would.. that isn't smack.. Just the facts. And Georgia Southern against maybe Southern Miss imop meets all the reqs listed above.
And oh yea, I know many people arent going to go to all three games. Some will, but the atmosphere for tailgating would be epic - again jmop. I'd plan on tailgating a lot and would hope to be the second or third game. I'd expect many to stay for the next game, expecially since they sell Beer in the Dome! Especially if it is a game they would like to see. You could even print the tickets out to all three games so that people could exit one game and come back in for the next if they wanted to. You would still require an $80 purchase price, but they could issue a group of three for each "purchase". Or it would probably be better to allow each ticket to be scanned for entrance once for each game. Other wise, people would be selling off the game tickets that they didnt want to go to. I dont know, but I'd probably watch our game and the next one if there was one.
Beating other G5 schools OOC doesn't mean much to me. I'd rather fill those slots with manageable biggies, and one "money" game to try and fell them.
(04-12-2013 08:30 AM)sidslidkid Wrote: [ -> ]Yeah, I don't think ESPN is going to dedicate a whole Saturday to SBC/C-USA football... I'm not sitting through 3 games and I'm sure as heck not going to pay $80 a ticket to watch the one regular season game i cared about that day.
However, if we ever get a championship game I think it makes sense to hold it in Atlanta. It could be a bit of unfair advantage if GState ever makes it to the conference championship game though. Jacksonville and New Orleans could work as well.
From what we've been told the Championship game will be held at the home stadium of the school with the best record (or highest ranking)
So we look forward to seeing the west division champs in the boro very soon.
see what I did there?
(04-12-2013 08:30 AM)sidslidkid Wrote: [ -> ]Yeah, I don't think ESPN is going to dedicate a whole Saturday to SBC/C-USA football... I'm not sitting through 3 games and I'm sure as heck not going to pay $80 a ticket to watch the one regular season game i cared about that day.
However, if we ever get a championship game I think it makes sense to hold it in Atlanta. It could be a bit of unfair advantage if GState ever makes it to the conference championship game though. Jacksonville and New Orleans could work as well.
Championship games for most conferences should be at the home stadium of the highest ranked team.
(04-12-2013 09:11 AM)trueeagle98 Wrote: [ -> ] (04-12-2013 08:30 AM)sidslidkid Wrote: [ -> ]Yeah, I don't think ESPN is going to dedicate a whole Saturday to SBC/C-USA football... I'm not sitting through 3 games and I'm sure as heck not going to pay $80 a ticket to watch the one regular season game i cared about that day.
However, if we ever get a championship game I think it makes sense to hold it in Atlanta. It could be a bit of unfair advantage if GState ever makes it to the conference championship game though. Jacksonville and New Orleans could work as well.
From what we've been told the Championship game will be held at the home stadium of the school with the best record (or highest ranking)
So we look forward to seeing the west division champs in the boro very soon.
see what I did there?
Yes stAte hosting the conference championship in Jonesboro as the west's representative makes sense to me.
The Lone Star Conference (local D2 conference) has hosted a the Lone Star Football Festival at Jerry World in Arlington (Dallas Cowboys Stadium) the past couple of seasons.
They do six games- 1 Thursday night, 2 Friday, and 3 Saturday. Tons of tailgating a mixing of the fanbases.
(04-12-2013 09:38 AM)chrisattsu Wrote: [ -> ]The Lone Star Conference (local D2 conference) has hosted a the Lone Star Football Festival at Jerry World in Arlington (Dallas Cowboys Stadium) the past couple of seasons.
They do six games- 1 Thursday night, 2 Friday, and 3 Saturday. Tons of tailgating a mixing of the fanbases.
Have you been to the Saturday event(s)? Is it fun to see all those fan bases together?
Imagine that at the FBS level between two conferences with something to prove and a possible ranking effect towards being the Best G05.
Now.. Imagine that in back to back weekends, The Sun Belt has this showdown with CUSA and the MWC. Imagine if the Sun Belt sweeped those two conferences and won all 6 games. What would that do for the Conference. And FoxSports 1 and 2 Might be very interested in such a thing especially with the impact some of those games could have on a conference getting that 7/8Million and a team getting a BCS conference invite.
(04-12-2013 08:21 AM)The4thOption Wrote: [ -> ]Ok, just a fun thought - you might think it stupid:
Here it is: (GAST fans will love this)
We schedule a weekend at the GA Dome: "3 Games Starting at High Noon". Get ESPN or whoever to cover all three games and promote the Event and the City of Atl behind it as they stand to make $.
Fill in whatever teams you like, but just as example maybe:
Game 1: UAB v/s Troy
Game 2:4PM Southern Miss v/s Georgia Southern (Eagles showdown)
Game 3: 8PM ArkState v/s Marshall or whoever??
You'd need to pick some teams close enough to travel well and maybe even a halfway point or something for some schools.
The idea is you would pay say $80/ticket - but you can come at any time and stay for all 3 games if you want to. It would be a SEA of tailgating and ATL would book lots of hotels and sell a lot of food, etc.
I figure that if Each team averaged 20 to 25k to support their team, you could almost sell out the Dome. We might get a lot of just college football fans who would love to make an entire day of it?
Crazy?
If it worked out well, we could do the same thing on the Western borders of the footprint and have a showdown with MWC teams.
Game 4 - Cajuns v. La Tech. It's happening in 2014.
I like the concept. But i feel like CUSA should do it against the BE or MAC. too many cusa teams just left the conference. It does nothing for CUSA's perception to have an annual festival with the SBC. You are going back to old neighbors and fcs move ups. The MAC Has nothing like that and games could be played in Cincinnati, Indianapolis, or Louisville and be very centric for everyone. Nashville if you wanted it a little further south.
Like i said, it is a cool concept, but $80 bucks is steep. I didn't pay $80 for front row seats at commonwealth last season or Neylan this season...Not a bad start.
(04-12-2013 09:56 AM)TOPPERSonTOP Wrote: [ -> ]I like the concept. But i feel like CUSA should do it against the BE or MAC. too many cusa teams just left the conference. It does nothing for CUSA's perception to have an annual festival with the SBC. You are going back to old neighbors and fcs move ups. The MAC Has nothing like that and games could be played in Cincinnati, Indianapolis, or Louisville and be very centric for everyone. Nashville if you wanted it a little further south.
Like i said, it is a cool concept, but $80 bucks is steep. I didn't pay $80 for front row seats at commonwealth last season or Neylan this season...Not a bad start.
I think it would be cool to see between any two conferences. The thing that might help betweent the SBC and CUSA is renewing some old or continuation of rivalries. There could be a feeling among some left in the SBC that CUSA picked the wrong team. Or some may want to prove the old confernce is better or worse. The overlaping Footprints of these two conferences I think ads to the conference rivalry. It also may help in being a short trip for teams from either conference. $80 bucks isnt that steep comparred to what some people pay for cheap tickets to see a race. They make a whole day of it though, and this does that. I'd like to see ULL,ULM,ASU,GSU,ASU fans from this board all together tailgaing among each other. Especially on sort of neutral turf.
The AAC and CUSA could as you suggested do the same thing.
(04-12-2013 09:50 AM)AstroCajun Wrote: [ -> ] (04-12-2013 08:21 AM)The4thOption Wrote: [ -> ]Ok, just a fun thought - you might think it stupid:
Here it is: (GAST fans will love this)
We schedule a weekend at the GA Dome: "3 Games Starting at High Noon". Get ESPN or whoever to cover all three games and promote the Event and the City of Atl behind it as they stand to make $.
Fill in whatever teams you like, but just as example maybe:
Game 1: UAB v/s Troy
Game 2:4PM Southern Miss v/s Georgia Southern (Eagles showdown)
Game 3: 8PM ArkState v/s Marshall or whoever??
You'd need to pick some teams close enough to travel well and maybe even a halfway point or something for some schools.
The idea is you would pay say $80/ticket - but you can come at any time and stay for all 3 games if you want to. It would be a SEA of tailgating and ATL would book lots of hotels and sell a lot of food, etc.
I figure that if Each team averaged 20 to 25k to support their team, you could almost sell out the Dome. We might get a lot of just college football fans who would love to make an entire day of it?
Crazy?
If it worked out well, we could do the same thing on the Western borders of the footprint and have a showdown with MWC teams.
Game 4 - Cajuns v. La Tech. It's happening in 2014.
That could be cool, one game would have to played Friday night. But hopfully the fans would stay over and tailgate the next day.