With attendance declining and coaches salaries rising

Ticket prices will increase because they will reduce quantity for quality imo

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You realize attendance =/= revenue, right?

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There’s a strong correlation. Sponsors aren’t going to be as willing to continue to shell out money if they don’t see butts in the seats. TV revenue will be effected. I think the transfer portal will turn some purists away. There will be a high level mark for salaries. There has to be.

Yes, when ESPN pays literally 35 times what CBS was paying for one SEC game per week coaches salaries are doomed.

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With attendance declining

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Attendance declining?


Not sure what you are talking about.

You're such a shitty poster.

This is an interesting topic as high Education in general is changing.


the years of people going off to college are coming to a close.

why would you pay extra to go and stay on campus at a 4 year college when you can stay at home and do the shite on a laptop?

More and more students are getting jobs out of high school and snagging degrees online in their spare time.

I wonder how this will ultimately affect college football?

*source I work in higher education in Georgia.

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Ever think that attendance is declining because more people rather stay at home and watch on their HD TVs than deal with the parking and $10 beers at the stadium?

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This ^^^^^^

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Post game traffic is awful in BTR. Having been to Tuscaloosa and Auburn and Athens many times their post game traffic is bad as well.

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None of these cities were ever designed with the idea that, on certain days of the year, there would be a sudden 100k jump in population.

It would take a MAJOR infrastructure overhaul to prepare for something like that; especially towns like Auburn where the stadium is greater than its own population.

My fear is that the football programs are making so much money, you start to hear a louder drumbeat to separate more from the universities. Title 9 is part of the reason, but moreso these programs are bringing in 100s of millions and feel that they are less competitive the more they give back to the schools. Plus they want to attract a wider fanbase of rednecks who never set foot on campus except to go to games. It's going to be a nasty transition. They should go the other way and flip the finger harder to non-alumni by jacking up those ticket prices even more while allowing people who actually attended and have a vested interest in the school bigger discounts. But it's too late unfortunately. LSU will be first to go as the new AD has already basically told the poors school to gtfo.