(05-24-2018 02:23 PM)BullsFanInTX Wrote: Navy's "home" games with ND are not actually played at home, are they?
They are not played in Navy Marine Corps Memorial Stadium.
We choose to play them in a larger venue in order to sell more tickets. We have for years spread them around to NFL stadia outside the immediate Annapolis area -played them in the Meadowlands when I was a mid. ND likes that as they keep all those "subway alumni" happy with more tickets available. Navy likes that for the money.
Cities bid on the chance to host, which means money in Navy's coffers - reporting from Jax was $4.5 million guaranteed gate. Any visitor's guarantee we give ND out of that is offset by our visitor's guarantee in odd numbered years.
Dublin in '12 was actually the SECOND Navy home game vs ND in Ireland.
Our scheduling is now limited to AAC, ND, Army, AF and only one other game to schedule. So recently, Navy's intent in selecting sites has been to regain a little bit of our "nationalness" that was lost to the more limited AAC schedule. Jax and SD are no-brainers; reports were Jax was 60-40 Navy in terms of crowd and I expect the same from SD - remember Navy outdrew SDSU in Poinsettia Bowls. That won't be true in the Meadowlands in 2020.
Make no mistake though, the scheduling contract between thte two institutions is a home-and-home and the even-numbered years are Navy home games for TV rights, ticket sales, etc. As evidenced by AAC now having those rights for 2020 and beyond as part of the inventory ('18 was an option year for CBS that I believe was picked up.)
Same with Ohio State in 09/14 - Navy chose to play the return game, our home game, in Baltimore. We have a GREAT relationship with Baltimore and the Ravens organization - they would love for ALL the ND games and as many Army-Navy's as they can get to be in M&T.