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re: SECCG...If no one is going to mention all the empty seats?
Posted on 12/10/24 at 6:29 am to AwgustaDawg
Posted on 12/10/24 at 6:29 am to AwgustaDawg
I get the ties and I understand the contracts, but it's just... dumb. The Bowls, presumably, want to be packed. Sticking to old ties in this seems like something that could have been averted. The Peach Bowl would be a 100% sellout with hard to find tickets if UGA's there. The Fiesta Bowl would be a 100% sellout with ASU. Same. Rose Bowl will be Oregon plus Ohio State or Tennessee and that's probably a sellout with all the alums in SoCal. Get the impression Tennessee fans would fly to Iceland to watch the game anyway.
So you'd have one weak attendance possibility with Penn State/SMU and Boise. Penn State fans will go to New Orleans for New Years just as readily as they'll go to Phoenix, probably moreso, and Boise might take a slight hit? Maybe. SMU doesn't really have a ton of fans, but the ones they do have will hop on their oil G5 to Dubai if they have to.
It just seems like the games should have been arranged to fit the team you know's going to be there. Instead I think we're gonna see a ton of empty seats in some.
So you'd have one weak attendance possibility with Penn State/SMU and Boise. Penn State fans will go to New Orleans for New Years just as readily as they'll go to Phoenix, probably moreso, and Boise might take a slight hit? Maybe. SMU doesn't really have a ton of fans, but the ones they do have will hop on their oil G5 to Dubai if they have to.
It just seems like the games should have been arranged to fit the team you know's going to be there. Instead I think we're gonna see a ton of empty seats in some.
This post was edited on 12/10/24 at 6:33 am
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Posted on 12/10/24 at 6:30 am to AwgustaDawg
Same here. Have 4 since inception in Mezzadine.
It use to be the law of supply demand. Bama, LSU, Auburn, Tenn, UGA, South Carolina, Florida all seat well over 85,000 plus. Birmingham/Benz seat 70,000.
I could go to Fanfair on Friday and sell them for a brick of gold by the time I got off the escalator.
Now fans are raped for additional money (playoffs). You could blow $5-10 grand just in playoff.
It use to be the law of supply demand. Bama, LSU, Auburn, Tenn, UGA, South Carolina, Florida all seat well over 85,000 plus. Birmingham/Benz seat 70,000.
I could go to Fanfair on Friday and sell them for a brick of gold by the time I got off the escalator.
Now fans are raped for additional money (playoffs). You could blow $5-10 grand just in playoff.
Posted on 12/10/24 at 6:48 am to wablty
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I get the ties and I understand the contracts, but it's just... dumb. The Bowls, presumably, want to be packed. Sticking to old ties in this seems like something that could have been averted. The Peach Bowl would be a 100% sellout with hard to find tickets if UGA's there. The Fiesta Bowl would be a 100% sellout with ASU. Same. Rose Bowl will be Oregon plus Ohio State or Tennessee and that's probably a sellout with all the alums in SoCal. Get the impression Tennessee fans would fly to Iceland to watch the game anyway.
So you'd have one weak attendance possibility with Penn State/SMU and Boise. Penn State fans will go to New Orleans for New Years just as readily as they'll go to Phoenix, probably moreso, and Boise might take a slight hit? Maybe. SMU doesn't really have a ton of fans, but the ones they do have will hop on their oil G5 to Dubai if they have to.
It just seems like the games should have been arranged to fit the team you know's going to be there. Instead I think we're gonna see a ton of empty seats in some.
The games are already sold out and most of the teams haven't been announced. There will be empty seats for certain but that only makes the game more profitable....its more likely folks will buy an extra beer and a hot dog if the lines are shorter and its easier to get in and out your seat. It also means less security, less support all the way around. Its a bad look but the games are already sold out, asses in seats doesn't mean anything to the bottom line.
Posted on 12/10/24 at 6:53 am to BigOrangeKen
Because people want to save their money for the exponentially high playoff tickets.
But I wouldn’t expect a Tennessee fan to notice the obvious…
But I wouldn’t expect a Tennessee fan to notice the obvious…
Posted on 12/10/24 at 1:47 pm to BigOrangeKen
This was at beginning of overtime...empty seats everywhere:
I wonder if some of these first round playoff games are going to have some empty seats too…
I wonder if some of these first round playoff games are going to have some empty seats too…
Posted on 12/10/24 at 2:37 pm to BigOrangeKen
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Never seen an SECCG that wasn’t sold out?
Mercedes-Benz has a capacity of 71,000 and the reported attendance was 74,916. Not sure how that happens, but it seems it was sold out.
Mercedes-Benz capacity
Reported Attendance
Posted on 12/10/24 at 2:39 pm to DawgsLife
It was sold out. All tickets sold. Scalpers and scalping services fricked themselves by not get prices down soon enough to pull the locals in to fill it.
frick scalpers and scalping services. In the arse
frick scalpers and scalping services. In the arse
Posted on 12/10/24 at 2:42 pm to lewis and herschel
If Texas makes the Natty, starting with the SEC Champ Game, their route is like this
Atlanta, Austin, Atlanta, Dallas, Atlanta
Thats a lot of Atlanta
Atlanta, Austin, Atlanta, Dallas, Atlanta
Thats a lot of Atlanta
Posted on 12/10/24 at 2:44 pm to BigOrangeKen
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Never seen an SECCG that wasn’t sold out?
Mercedes-Benz has a capacity of 71,000 and the reported attendance was 74,916. Not sure how that happens, but it seems it was sold out.
Mercedes-Benz capacity
Reported Attendance
Posted on 12/10/24 at 2:44 pm to charliethehun
Sucks for everyone. There was an early short in the year we played at Notre Dame about UGA fans spending all their money on tickets.
It's a good problem to have
It's a good problem to have
Posted on 12/10/24 at 2:46 pm to charliethehun
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If Texas makes the Natty, starting with the SEC Champ Game, their route is like this
Atlanta, Austin, Atlanta, Dallas, Atlanta
Thats a lot of Atlanta
It is, but in fairness most years it would not be like that. The games for the championship will rotate. I mean, would it be better in the scenario you just made if the SECCG were moved to the Cotton Bowl?
Posted on 12/10/24 at 2:48 pm to Chicken
quote:I'm going to guess that as long as you have a strong season ticket base and don't rely upon individual game sales to fill your venue, the on campus games in the first round will not have attendance issues, unless it is the visitor's failing to sell their (small) allotment. I could see SMU struggling to sell 4,000 tickets to Penn State, but PSU fans would probably pick up the slack. I think it will probably hurt sales in the quarter finals and semi-finals more. How many fans are going to travel to bowl games on 10 days' notice?
I wonder if some of these first round playoff games are going to have some empty seats too…
Hopefully, at some point, we follow the NFL and play everything on campus except for the final game.
Posted on 12/10/24 at 2:50 pm to DawgsLife
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It is, but in fairness most years it would not be like that. The games for the championship will rotate. I mean, would it be better in the scenario you just made if the SECCG were moved to the Cotton Bowl?
My point was i'd bet there will be many more Texas fans in Atlanta if they beat Clemson
Posted on 12/10/24 at 2:50 pm to BigOrangeKen
At least they didn't have to tarp off the upper deck like the ACC. Big screen tv's and high as hell ticket prices have changed the game. UT and NC State drew 25,000 more than ACC cg.
Posted on 12/10/24 at 2:51 pm to twk
quote:student sections may struggle to fill up...
I'm going to guess that as long as you have a strong season ticket base and don't rely upon individual game sales to fill your venue, the on campus games in the first round will not have attendance issues
Posted on 12/10/24 at 2:54 pm to BigOrangeKen
a) It's a crappy, all bark-no bite, tiny-arse stadium 70k seats. That place is like a giant fake diamond, like most SEC sidewalk fan women wear.
b) It's indoor, which evidently you SEC people think is fun. Texas people hate indoor games. It's for pussies.
c) Bevo couldn't even come. What kind of glistening shanty is this place.
d) Atlanta sucks and scary as shite.
e) We got another home game coming and hopefully bigger games after that.
No thanks. If the shithouse Benz is the best you got for this game, then that's a shame.
b) It's indoor, which evidently you SEC people think is fun. Texas people hate indoor games. It's for pussies.
c) Bevo couldn't even come. What kind of glistening shanty is this place.
d) Atlanta sucks and scary as shite.
e) We got another home game coming and hopefully bigger games after that.
No thanks. If the shithouse Benz is the best you got for this game, then that's a shame.
Posted on 12/10/24 at 2:55 pm to Chicken
quote:Good point. Timing is not optimal from that standpoint.
student sections may struggle to fill up...
Posted on 12/10/24 at 2:58 pm to charliethehun
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Atlanta, Austin, Atlanta, Dallas, Atlanta
Thats a lot of Atlanta
Lord help us. What a wretched place.
Posted on 12/10/24 at 3:06 pm to BigOrangeKen
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had Tennessee of been in it
Tell us 9th grade was your senior year without telling us that 9th grade was your senior year.
Posted on 12/10/24 at 3:07 pm to Hellmet
it was about 30-40% Texas Fans at the michigan game. Same with the bama game last year. Arkansas game had good amout of Texas fans. Vandy Game, and A&M. The reason why there wasn't as many texas fans at the sec champ game than expected is 1. travel fees 2. most tickets were 1k+ for a&m 3. saving money for playoffs since texas was an auto lock. 4. atl and athens are only 2 hours apart.
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