re: SEC needs to start rotating SEC Championship game to ~4 locations instead of just Atlanta

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In order, for backups (To you geniuses saying below cities are terrible, how about you make a better suggestion?... Crickets):
Dallas (obviously great, left out bc further west than Houston)
Birmingham
Shreveport
Memphis
Little Rock
Mobile
Jackson
Some of the above cities are college stadiums so not sure that's allowed.

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Charlotte

BTW, just a reminder, one of those is my birthplace and had been a shithole since we left there when I was a young teenager in 1968. NEVER should a SEC Championship grace that city, not ever.

ETA: We drove away with it burning in our rear view mirror in 1968. I'll never forget it. It's been a shithole city every since.

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. New Orleans

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Please good, no. I like going to the SECCG and I'm not going anywhere near that shite hole city. I'm not trying to die.

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The bottom half of the list doesn't really get narrowed down from your description

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You kinda make a good point but ...

Hint ... garbage strike, assassination, Loraine Motel, Beale Street.

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Texas is going to whine constantly about having to go to Atlanta for the SECCG

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This is like a McDonald's fry cook bitching about the location of the nearest Mercedes dealership.

Not this shite again.

New Orleans is the best managed city in the Carribean...but in the US it is as poorly managed as a city could be...airport is horrendous and public transportation is a joke.

Nashville is not a city at all...it is a town. Shitty airport and hotel prices on par or more expensive than Manhattan or San Francisco. It is good for bachelorette parties if you're a 24 year old girl and mama and daddy are footing the bill but if youre a grown adult not so much.

Houston is interesting. Not really the south though. Most southern area of Texas but compared to Alabama and Mississippi it ain't close to the south. Great city though, just not southern enough to host the SOUTH Eastern conference title.

Atlanta is the economic engine of the SEC region. It is home to about as many alumni from all of the SEC schools as it is UGA. Airport is unmatched in the region or the nation, transportation is unmatched in the region, and an abundance of affordable hotels makes Atlanta unique in the south. Add to this the fact that, like it or not, Atlanta is the epicenter of College Football, and it is unlikely the SEC Championship game is going anywhere any time soon. If it ever does the ACC will move in and never leave and will bolster their CFB presents in a way that they will never be able to do if the SEC doesn't allow it.

On top of all of that Atlanta is, for all its warts and blemishes, a known commodity to the demographic who attends the game. Middle aged white folks and college students are comfortable in Atlanta...it is just edgy enough to feel like you are not in Hahira any longer but, at least when big events are going on, perfectly safe in areas that the demographic would venture into. The people who attend the game, for the most part, are accustomed to traveling through Hartsfield (it is oft said that when you die in the south you have a layover in Atlanta), most likely they have been to a Braves game and spent some time in and around Atlanta and probably know people who live in and around Atlanta. No other city in the SEC region makes sense from this point alone...folks from the region are, for all their bitching and whining and pretending to be skeered, pretty comfortable and confident in Atlanta.

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45 minutes from UGA campus

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You clearly have never driven in Atlanta traffic.

It will take all of 90 mins to get there.. just a few more minutes than Auburn.

But the one thing you just can’t seem to understand; the Atlanta Spirts council would take the ACC championship every year over the SEC once every 4. The SEC isn’t about to let that happen.

So just let it go..

The current contract ends in 2026 but has the option to renew 2 consecutive 5 year extensions..

In other words it will be there until at least 2036.

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Texas is going to whine constantly about having to go to Atlanta for the SECCG.

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No doubt they will whine and snivel about the game being in Atlanta but they will rarely have the opportunity to whine about having to go to Atlanta for the game unless they want to watch 2 of the original SEC teams play one another OR watch one of the original SEC teams stomp a mudhole in, and walk it dry, one of the johny come lately SEC teams....

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I just looked on Booking at a random weekend in August....4 star hotels in Atlanta averaged $244 per night and $570 per night in Nashville. 3 stars were worse at $170 and $485 respectively...even worse for 5 star luxury hotels...only 2 in all of the Nashville area and they were each nearly $1200 a night compared to 21 in Atlanta at an average of $310 a night.

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I mean. It doesn’t take long to put up hotels. I’m not so sure that “Nashville hotels are currently expensive” is really a reason. That’s not how markets work.