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Posted on 7/23/12 at 9:04 am to GumBro Jackson
Posted on 7/23/12 at 9:04 am to GumBro Jackson
I do agree it needs to stay in ATL but it sucks for other attractive cities. Atlanta gets a huge economic bump by having the game year after year. I'm sure if you came to terms with 2 other cities the guaranteed money would be enough to renovate or build a new stadium. I'm sure Bud Adams would be onboard with some financial assistance in repairing/replacing LP Field.
To have it in Texas is sinful
To have it in Texas is sinful
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Posted on 7/23/12 at 9:09 am to IrvingAg13
I know I'm in the minority, but I wouldn't mind it being held on the higher seed's campus.
Posted on 7/23/12 at 9:28 am to KSGamecock
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Last I checked, Missouri...still felt awfully Big Twelvey.
Ask around Manhattan, KS, and I think you'll get a different opinion.
As to games at Arrowhead, I love the environment but it is absolutely colder than a witch's tit for games there in December. I'm still shivering from the 2008 Big 12 championship game there that Mizzou played in. Couple that with it being the extreme northwestern outlier of the league and a noobie state on top of that, and I'd say its a non-starter. And the STL Rams stadium, though domed and warmer, sucks as a college football venue which was why the Big 12 pulled the plug on hosting championship games there very early on.
Now on the other hand, for the SEC men's basketball tournament that already rotates, both KC and STL would be fine options, as they are close enough to three of the SEC basketball fanbases who actually give a shite enough about basketball to travel (Mizzou, Kentucky and Arkansas) and the ones you are too far away from don't really travel to hoops games anyway other than possibly Florida (i.e., you will not hear a huge hissy fit from Georgia, South Carolina, Auburn fans about the basketball tourney being too far away, cuz they won't care).
This post was edited on 7/23/12 at 9:29 am
Posted on 7/23/12 at 9:28 am to IrvingAg13
Back to Birmingham it is.
Posted on 7/23/12 at 9:39 am to CapstoneGrad06
If I had a say so, I would pick New Orleans. Such a great host city. There is no better place to park your car and never use it again. It's just a great place celebrate a football weekend.
Posted on 7/23/12 at 9:44 am to RollDatRoll
as great as jerryworld is having it in dallas would kind of suck. if you are going to move it just move it to new orleans where it belongs anyway.
Posted on 7/23/12 at 9:46 am to IrvingAg13
Dallas plz.
Posted on 7/23/12 at 9:48 am to IrvingAg13
I like the tradition of playing it in Atlanta.
Posted on 7/23/12 at 9:49 am to OilfieldTrashAg
No way that game is ever in KC. You know how cold it is at that point in the year? I could just see some south Louisiana people sitting through that shite.
Posted on 7/23/12 at 9:59 am to Duckie
I like it being in the same place every year. There's been enough motherfather change in this motherfather conference in the last motherfather year. Keep something the same.
And I like it being indoors. I was at the first one in Birmingham in 1992 and about froze my nuggets off.
And I like it being indoors. I was at the first one in Birmingham in 1992 and about froze my nuggets off.
Posted on 7/23/12 at 10:01 am to CrimsonCoast
Yeah, watching football in the freezing cold is not my idea of fun regardless of the amount of alcohol in my system.
Posted on 7/23/12 at 10:01 am to CapstoneGrad06
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Back to Birmingham it is.
Move it to the Met imo
Then we can laugh at twice as many "Get out of Hoover" threads.
Posted on 7/23/12 at 10:35 am to wmr
Arlington is not Dallas.
Posted on 7/23/12 at 10:40 am to IrvingAg13
It won't happen. The most important city in the SEC is Atlanta. They won't even experiment with other venues, because, if they do, the ACC will pounce on the Georgia Dome.
Get used to it. No one wants to travel to the very edge of the conference to see an east/west matchup.
Get used to it. No one wants to travel to the very edge of the conference to see an east/west matchup.
Posted on 7/23/12 at 10:43 am to IrvingAg13
Texas is out. No one wants to travel there and spend the entire time being told how great the state of texas is by people who have never left texas.
Posted on 7/23/12 at 10:45 am to RollDatRoll
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If I had a say so, I would pick New Orleans. Such a great host city. There is no better place to park your car and never use it again. It's just a great place celebrate a football weekend.
Gangs still stripping cars in NOLA?
Posted on 7/23/12 at 10:45 am to Dr RC
So both the SEC Championship Game and the "Champions Bowl" are being bid out. That is two large events, and there are about eight cities that would like a shot, four or five or which probably have a realistic chance of landing one of the events:
Favorites:
New Orleans: Superdome
Atlanta: Georgia Dome
Dallas: Jerry World (dome)
Houston: Reliant (dome)
Maybe:
Nashville: LP Field (open-air): IMO, if this was a dome it would be awesome, but I'm not sure about one of these events outside in December/January
Tampa: Raymond James (open air)
Long-shots:
Jacksonville (open air)
St. Louis (dome)
Kansas City (open air)
Favorites:
New Orleans: Superdome
Atlanta: Georgia Dome
Dallas: Jerry World (dome)
Houston: Reliant (dome)
Maybe:
Nashville: LP Field (open-air): IMO, if this was a dome it would be awesome, but I'm not sure about one of these events outside in December/January
Tampa: Raymond James (open air)
Long-shots:
Jacksonville (open air)
St. Louis (dome)
Kansas City (open air)
Posted on 7/23/12 at 10:47 am to RollDatRoll
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If I had a say so, I would pick New Orleans. Such a great host city. There is no better place to park your car and never use it again. It's just a great place celebrate a football weekend.
The Sugar Bowl Committee is adamantly against the SEC Championship game being played in New Orleans. It will never happen.
Atlanta is the perfect place for the SEC Championship and it needs to stay there.
Posted on 7/23/12 at 10:47 am to IrvingAg13
I know that it would never happen, but would be cool, IMO, if the team with best SEC record got it as a home game.
Posted on 7/23/12 at 10:49 am to LSU Patrick
I'd be interested in seeing it rotate between Dallas (Jerry World) and Atlanta, but thats about it.
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