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re: Nick Saban, Greg Byrne meet to discuss home-and-home series
Posted on 9/22/17 at 10:14 pm to IAmReality
Posted on 9/22/17 at 10:14 pm to IAmReality
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I'm completely over the neutral site opener thing.
I would say that, in 2008 and 2009, they served a very useful purpose. But after we became the dominant program in the country, playing it every year outlived its usefulness.
I'm not opposed to doing it once every four or five years. It should be the exception, not the rule.
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Posted on 9/22/17 at 10:42 pm to BamaGradinTn
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40,000 Georgia fans who made the trip to South Bend say that you're wrong.
Georgia also isn't in the playoffs every year. This is their fans big trip. Last year we had Atlanta and Tampa. I live in Alabama so Atlanta wasn't much, but Tampa wasn't cheap.
You can't compare other teams thought process on these games to Bama's approach.
Posted on 9/22/17 at 11:08 pm to bamasgot13
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Georgia also isn't in the playoffs every year. This is their fans big trip. Last year we had Atlanta and Tampa. I live in Alabama so Atlanta wasn't much, but Tampa wasn't cheap.
You can't compare other teams thought process on these games to Bama's approach.
The hell I can't. Someone else will buy that ticket to a game in South Bend. Or Ann Arbor. You seriously think that every Alabama fan with the means to do so won't try to go to those games?
You make it sound like it is really expensive for you to go to those neutral site games. So I can tell you one undeniable fact about Alabama's "approach" as it relates to you. If you're a season ticket holder, they will gladly charge you $150 to watch them play a shitty Duke team and will have absolutely zero fricks to give.
If you're not a season ticket holder, you'll buy mine for $300.
Posted on 9/22/17 at 11:12 pm to BamaGradinTn
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The hell I can't. Someone else will buy that ticket to a game in South Bend. Or Ann Arbor. You seriously think that every Alabama fan with the means to do so won't try to go to those games?
I have the means, but zero desire to go to South Bend.
Posted on 9/22/17 at 11:14 pm to BamaGradinTn
I listed about 3 reasons and you've honed in on this one. My point is that a trip to Ann Arbor is going to be $2k+ for tix, flight, hotel, food, etc. Then if we've got 2 playoff games you're looking at another $8K. I'd personally rather have a neutral site game in Atlanta - an area we recruit - than go to Michigan for a game. That's just me. I understand others don't necessarily feel the same.
Posted on 9/22/17 at 11:36 pm to BamaGradinTn
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We had a contract to play MSU home and away, which we got out of.
Contracts are made to be gotten out of.
You don't seem to understand how signed contracts work, so I'll help. You can get out of a contract by mutual agreement when you have a home and home and it might not cost you anything. For a single game, you have to pay a large guarantee. For a kickoff game, you have a very steep penalty on top of repaying the extra $1 million we received last year for guaranteeing to hold that date open in 2020.
Byrne would have to be a complete and utter dumbass to not only forego $6+ mil from the 2020 game (we got $6.5 mil for USC), and pay out the arse for breaking the contract, but also schedule a home and home where you make less than half the money on your home game, and have to pay expenses for the away trip.
Posted on 9/23/17 at 10:10 am to Evolved Simian
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You don't seem to understand how signed contracts work, so I'll help.
Don't patronize me, a-hole. I've signed contracts, and I've gotten out of them. You can get out of a contract if the means for doing so are spelled out in the contract...regardless of at that point in time the other party wants you out or not.
And anyone who knows anything about contracts knows that.
Posted on 9/23/17 at 12:50 pm to BamaGradinTn
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Not even a power 5 team
Louisville is in the ACC.
I second going to visit the teams in Colorado and Washington.
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