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no, it doesn't. Our contract with CBS is for 14 games and is like $65m. That's the very top game and we aren't getting $5m per. People wildly exaggerate how much money comes from tv. Right now everyone gets about $20m annually for tv. In the future it's estimated at $28m for the whole season. Anyway more conference games mean fewer broadcasts overall so even if there is more money per game, it may not even be more overall.

I think the SEC Network makes this argument more complicated, but we don't know so I can't throw a number at you to refute what you're saying.

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It's not though. One big reason that schools want home games is there is a direct correlation between setting foot on campus and making donations to the school (both academic and athletic). Schools work very hard to find ways to get alumni on campus for any reason. LR is not campus

That is Arkansas' fault. Alabama played home games in Birmingham forever but stopped because it was stupid (there were several reasons, but stupid sums it up). Arkansas can do the same. I know you'll probably talk about Arky's location in the state and the big base in LR etc etc but if getting people on campus is so important, they should move all the games there. Plus, they're talking about expanding.

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we won't have a 5 year. We play Arky in Dallas annually after this year. We would have 4 home games, 4 road games, and 1 neutral every year

That's only for 10 years, correct? After that it would presumably go home and home.

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wake me when this happens. ISU can and will continue to schedule Northern Iowa and South Dakota State rather than take a massive pay cut to come get stomped by Florida. Your new world vision is comically unrealistic. You are making paupers out of schools that aren't today and you are killing schools that are paupers. Who is going to vote for that? The SEC, none of whom are paupers, wouldn't even vote for it.

I agree this is the hardest part to visualize. But if you've followed the deregulation/full cost of attendance/etc debates, there is a very real possibility that the major conferences could create their own modified ecosystem within the next decade. If that occurs, someone has to be the pauper. The only value for those schools will come from the massive tv deals and from payouts for OOC games. Obviously there's no value to them from a competitive standpoint, but those teams aren't the ones pushing for full cost of attendance or deregulation anyway.

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So in order to facilitate your ideas, you want to stomp all over the tradition of the cocktail party? Get out of here with that shite. And somehow that's the only issue

How is it any more of a loss than any of the other things that have changed?
No more OU/Nebraska
No more Texas/Texas A&M (I know you say it will come back, and maybe it will, but we just don't know yet)
No more Texas A&M / Texas Tech
No more ND / Michigan
There are others but I'm pretty dead from a long day and can't think of them.

You'd still be keeping the game, just moving the location. Small price to pay.

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Posted by tmc94

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Posted on 5/29/13 at 7:32 pm to FortWorthTide

Most of those are really bad examples that are in no way comparable but I won't bother with it. If you want to go there, let's use UT-Bama. How do you feel about ending that? Even suggesting moving out of Jax is showing a lock of respect to that tradition.

All you've done is show a laundry list of shite other people need to do in order to further your agenda. Arkansas needs to quit playing in LR. A&M and Arky need to quit playing in Dallas (it's certainly not a given this will end but yes, the contract is for 10 more years right now). UGA-UF needs to move from Jax. ISU and others (Vandy? MSU?) need to accept their place in the world and bow down to bigger schools.

And you've yet to show a single reason why they would want to do any of this other than it's what is best for Bama. The idea is totally and completely myopic

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Posted by Crowknowsbest

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Posted on 5/29/13 at 9:40 pm to FortWorthTide

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You'd still be keeping the game, just moving the location. Small price to pay.

Who are you to decide that it's a small price to pay? You have clearly never experienced the WLOCP, or you would feel differently. The game itself is only part of the experience. That wouldn't be "just moving the location"; you're throwing away the tradition of the Cocktail Party.

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Posted by USMC Gators

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Posted on 5/29/13 at 9:50 pm to FortWorthTide