We can laugh at FSU, but many other college schools will also feel financial pain. ESPN rights fees are going down, regular tickets are harder to sell (premium tickets are in demand), who wants to sit in an upper deck compared to home? Fewer folks are traveling to away and neutral site games (Auburn did not sell out of tickets against UW in Atlanta), parking is harder, tailgating is harder, etc.

The average age of fans attending games is going up. Even Bama has a hard time getting students to the games.

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Posted by jb4

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Posted on 7/3/19 at 8:24 am to allin2010

If FSU joined the sec they would have bigger crowds. Can ESPN pay for FSU and Clemson the the SEC east, West Virginia and Cincinnati to the ACC and BYU to the big 12. Everybody wins

maybe add Colorado state and Houston to the big 12 to get to 12

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Posted by jlnoles79

Member since Jan 2014

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Posted on 7/3/19 at 8:25 am to allin2010

I live an hour from Tally and have zero desire to watch any of those games in person.

An FSU podcast a couple months ago talked the issues for ticket sales even with a good home slate. There aren't a lot of people within a 100 mile radius of Tallahassee compared to other power 5 programs. There are around 500k more people within 100 miles of Lincoln NE, than Tally

This post was edited on 7/3/19 at 8:26 am

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Posted by AlaCowboy

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Posted on 7/3/19 at 3:09 pm to allin2010

quote:
The average age of fans attending games is going up. Even Bama has a hard time getting students to the games.

The first half of your statement is true. Older fans have the time and money to go to more games.
The Bama student attendance problem is that Alabama recruits students nationally rather than locally so there is no home-grown allegiance to the school like most schools.

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