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re: Kiffin's answer when asked about Auburn selling the Baylor home game to make money
Posted on 10/9/25 at 8:19 am to Landmass
Posted on 10/9/25 at 8:19 am to Landmass
The worst part of it is that you're screwing over all of the businesses and workers in your community who rely on those home game dates to pay their bills.
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Posted on 10/9/25 at 8:20 am to Pvt Hudson
quote:Congrats on being and uninformed dumbass
This from a guy whose program has scheduled exactly zero OOC opponents that are worth watching.
Posted on 10/9/25 at 8:23 am to Landmass
Is it an actual strategy that Ole Miss encourages Lane to run his mouth about everything possible so that way nobody wants to steal him?
Posted on 10/9/25 at 8:27 am to Pvt Hudson
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Great contribution to the “community
Playing a shitty time in Oxford does way more for Oxford hotels, bars, restaurants, stores than playing a great team in Atlanta.
Posted on 10/9/25 at 8:33 am to Landmass
This is one of those things where Lane takes the easy layup no other coach will take (because they don't troll like he does)
And then Lane and a bunch of other coaches will do the same in the next 5 years. I don't care about him trolling or even blame him, but people on here should know that this is coming and is likely going be repeated at most schools with decent OOC games on tap (especially ones like Ole Miss).
And then Lane and a bunch of other coaches will do the same in the next 5 years. I don't care about him trolling or even blame him, but people on here should know that this is coming and is likely going be repeated at most schools with decent OOC games on tap (especially ones like Ole Miss).
Posted on 10/9/25 at 8:34 am to AlextheBodacious
instead of it being the 7th game on a season ticket package, auburn will get probably 75% of each ticket sold to this event. i bet auburn makes an extra 3 or 4 million dollars out of this. cincinatti did the same thing moving a game vs nebraska to kansas city. it was 95% huskers there but cincy got all the money.
Posted on 10/9/25 at 8:38 am to texas tortilla
It's a trade off that sucks for college towns. Programs/NIL will get more direct infusions of several million.
But the towns will miss out on economic impact of home games. Personally I wish Cohen had just said we're not going to do that, we'll figure it out, but I nonetheless understand the allure of a program that needs all the money it can get (with a pending coaching change coming). If Cohen took a "high road" here and then Auburn's peers all started doing it, he'd be disliked on that account too.
The current environment sucks and will continue to suck until we find some point of stability for this new era.
But the towns will miss out on economic impact of home games. Personally I wish Cohen had just said we're not going to do that, we'll figure it out, but I nonetheless understand the allure of a program that needs all the money it can get (with a pending coaching change coming). If Cohen took a "high road" here and then Auburn's peers all started doing it, he'd be disliked on that account too.
The current environment sucks and will continue to suck until we find some point of stability for this new era.
Posted on 10/9/25 at 8:44 am to texas tortilla
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7th game on a season ticket package,
I get why this sounds like a waste of a game but shitty OOC games are great family games especially for young families. Tickets are cheap, crowds aren’t as large, and they are often day games. I get that the game has changed and people are trying to keep their jobs but every home game matters. Even the shitty ones draw in a ton of business. That’s what kiffin is referring to when talking about the community. The NFL having teams play in London and Mexico usually pisses off the fans of the home team because that’s one less opportunity to see your team.
Posted on 10/9/25 at 8:55 am to Pettifogger
quote:AU’s Athletics Dept got something north of $50 million from the SEC last year
. Personally I wish Cohen had just said we're not going to do that, we'll figure it out, but I nonetheless understand the allure of a program that needs all the money it can get (with a pending coaching change coming).
add in ticket sales/season ticket “donations”/concessions/merchandising/naming rights/on-field advertising you’d think there would be plenty of cash to spread around
Posted on 10/9/25 at 9:01 am to VFL67
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played their games in bigger cities because the infrastructure of southern cities was so bad. Little Rock, Birmingham, Atlanta, and Memphis were common football locations
I found this amusing. Claims they moved games because of the infrastructure of southern cities, then list the cities they moved the games to, all of which are southern cities.
Posted on 10/9/25 at 9:09 am to FearlessFreep
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AU's Athletics Dept got something north of $50 million from the SEC last year
Where is all that money going? Just a few years ago schools were receiving a fraction of that number. Now the numbers are absurd and it still isn't enough. Where TF is all that money going?? This isn't an attack on Auburn BTW, every fricking school in the SEC and the B1G is doing the same sort of shite.
Posted on 10/9/25 at 9:14 am to Toroballistic
quote:It wasn't about infrastructure of southern cities--it was about how big the gate would be at a game. Back in the day, teams used to split the gate 50/50, so even as the "home" team, you had every incentive to play wherever you could draw the biggest crowd. Even if your on campus stadium was as big as the neutral site venue in your nearest large city, you would often sell more tickets by taking the game to the fans, rather than the other way around. Ole Miss might draw more fans in Memphis than Oxford just because it was hard to get to Oxford (or find a place to stay). Same with Auburn playing big games at Legion Field. Arkansas played games in Little Rock back in the day because that's where all the power and money was.quote:I found this amusing. Claims they moved games because of the infrastructure of southern cities, then list the cities they moved the games to, all of which are southern cities.
played their games in bigger cities because the infrastructure of southern cities was so bad. Little Rock, Birmingham, Atlanta, and Memphis were common football locations
I personally hate these neutral site games. A&M fans were really dissappointed back in the 00's when Army moved their scheduled home game against A&M from West Point to San Antonio. It made financial sense, but we missed out on a unique venue.
Posted on 10/9/25 at 9:18 am to Landmass
I could see this move as a not so subtle shot across the bow of the Auburn chamber of commerce and their affiliates to start ponying up more NIL cash.
Posted on 10/9/25 at 9:23 am to Insurancerebel
Sucks for Baylor fans too. Instead of going to see the Plains for maybe the only time, they get to see downtown Atlanta.
Posted on 10/9/25 at 9:30 am to Pettifogger
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This is one of those things where Lane takes the easy layup no other coach will take (because they don't troll like he does)
He's actually said, in a few interviews, that other SEC coaches will ask him to put something out there so that they don't have to.
Posted on 10/9/25 at 9:31 am to Landmass
Neutral site games have gone on for decades....I saw neutral games in the 60s at old Crump Stadium in Memphis. Then they moved to the new at the time Memphis Memorial Stadium which later became Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium....
Posted on 10/9/25 at 9:32 am to texas tortilla
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but cincy got all the money.
and a 3 point loss that probably wouldn't have happened in front of a more friendly crowd.
Posted on 10/9/25 at 9:33 am to Landmass
I'm not seeing the problem.
West Georgia is in Georgia.
West Georgia is in Georgia.
Posted on 10/9/25 at 9:36 am to MtVernon
Too lazy to look it up, but did AU get 5 home SEC games next year to offset moving this home game to ATL?
Posted on 10/9/25 at 9:50 am to PeleofAnalytics
quote:If that's the case then the Auburn athletic department has essentially become a local mafia blackmailing businesses for protection money, and that's disgraceful.
I could see this move as a not so subtle shot across the bow of the Auburn chamber of commerce and their affiliates to start ponying up more NIL cash.
This post was edited on 10/9/25 at 9:51 am
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