(01-06-2019 05:30 PM)Stugray2 Wrote: JRsec,
Put up or shut up. Travel for you teams or admit you are a wuss, scared of people outside your region.
Not taking your BS. Ohio State would see 10,000 local ex-pats from Ohio in the stands, plus 15,000 traveling from the Buckeye state. Same for Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Texas, Nebraska, Oklahoma or Penn State.
So where are those Southerners? Put up or shut up.
Alabama sold out its allotment for the Rose Bowl when they played there..
Auburn sold out its allotment for the Fiesta Bowl when they played there.
L.S.U. sold out its allotment for the Fiesta Bowl.
Georgia sold out its allotment to the Rose, and had thousands of fans outside the stadium in South Bend last year. They sold out the Sugar Bowl allotment as well.
Hell, Auburn even sold out its allotment to the Music City this year.
We don't place 11 bowl teams for no reason.
Those allotments were all 15,000 or greater, except for the regular season game at South Bend.
We travel. So show me where we don't.
If the attendance at the National Championship game is off it will be with those large shares of tickets that the local accommodation people siphon off for profit and a guaranteed 3 day stay. The Fiesta was low attendance, but that's different from the allotment sales which for that bowl are around 17,500. Even Atlanta was stifled by the UCF game. But that's a matter of appeal. I would submit that if the Fiesta's overall crowd was down this year it was once again due to the match up. But L.S.U. sold out its allotment.
Now what's your response? This was a troll thread which you are want to do. And I see Rutgers Guy is chiming in too. How lovely.
Now in all seriousness how many ex-pats from Clemson or Alabama live in San Francisco or San Jose? The issue you are trying to tack on our travel is not about travel at all. It's about whether or not the SEC has fans living in the greater diaspora of the West Coast. We probably have more in Seattle than about anywhere else out there, and that wouldn't be a throng. There is quite the contingent of SEC fans in New York City, but then that's true of most major conferences.
So I respond with those who actually travel who would equal or exceed the 15,000 Buckeyes you reference, depending upon allotment. Just ask the Irish. But do we have 10,000 former SEC grads living in the Bay area who would be interested in seeing Alabama play Clemson. No as to the 10,000 and no to the interest for the few who might be there unless they are Alabama grads. It's a piss poor location for a game between Alabama and Clemson, let alone the 4th game between the two in the post season.
Now that gets to another interesting question. Why don't more Southerners live outside of the South? I would say that is because we are currently the source of jobs. Like Northern Midwestern cities in the 30's and 40's were once the mecca for work, now the South and Southwest is. Most of our alums are staying near home. But now, many Northern Midwestern grads are moving to the Beltway, the Big Apple, or South along the Atlantic seeking work. So your Diaspora is greater than ours. The climate already made the Gulf Coast a mecca for Northern retirees. So yeah, when your teams come South you sell your allotment and have plenty of locals to scoop up more tickets. But none of that means we don't travel well. Selling out allotments proves otherwise. What it means is that we don't have people living in droves extant the South.
I see that as a blessing, not a curse. And probably why so many bowl games are in the South. We have the climate, we have the Northern Diaspora, and we have throngs of native Southerners to draw from. Climate alone is why the Pinstripe and the bowl in Detroit have issues.
So find yourself another issue to ply because this one is a dead one.