(08-28-2021 02:52 PM)wildthing202 Wrote: (08-28-2021 07:58 AM)Bear Catlett Wrote: Is there anything in writing on this "alliance" yet?
If not, this thing is nothing.
I don't know how you make this thing work. If a SEC team and an ACC both have an opening in the schedule that the other can fill and the only other options are FCS teams... what do you think they're going to do?
1) honor the alliance?
2) schedule the game?
Schedule the FCS team and get that extra home game revenue.
A home game against the worst of scrubs nets NC State about $2 million. For Clemson they will net about 3.8 million. FSU will net about 3 million. VT about 2.5 M and UNC about 1.8 M.
The scrub makes sense unless it is skipped for a neutral site game and a guarantee that is at least a million or two more than what they get a home with the scrub.
You have the added benefit of reducing the overall package of tickets for home from 7 to 6 and no one ******* about paying $40-$50 plus donations to watch SC State, Jacksonville State, Elon, or Gardner Webb.
Clemson versus UCLA, USC, Oregon, Washington, or Stanford at Orlando, Atlanta, or Charlotte would likely fit the bill. NC State, VT, or UNC against PSU, OSU, Michigan, Wisconsin or Michigan State in DC, Charlotte, or Orlando would fit that bill.
FSU and Miami against a P12 or good B10 in Orlando is also going to fit that bill.
You just have to give B10 and P10 time to go to Disney World in Orlando.
Because of where they live and what they live for, only Clemson's fans will go anywhere that Clemson goes on the Labor Day weekend. If people further east like SC, UNC, NC State, and UVa are made to choose between their beach house and a suck opponent in Charlotte, or Atlanta, there is a tendency now to skip it so you have to take these quirks into account. Time of day also matters.