There is always so much hype over the FL/GA game with it being a 50/50 game with the tickets split even like the IU/UK basketball game use to be. What do you all think about maybe having our game with UL at like Paul Brown Stadium in Cincinnati with split tickets every year?
How About A UL/UK Neutral Site Game?
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Nah...
I'm not a huge fan of the neutral site games save the exception of a big time basketball match up...UK v Texas, MSU, Duke, Syracuse, etc...when the crowds can exceed what most college and pro arenas can hold.
Florida and UGA playing neutral sites is goofy as hell.
I mean big time SEC rivalry should be played on an sec campus in an sec town, especially when the neutral site doesn't have the seating capacity of either home stadium. I mean Jag's stadium is about 67,000. Bulldogs house a little over 90, the Swamp just under 90.
I'm not a huge fan of the neutral site games save the exception of a big time basketball match up...UK v Texas, MSU, Duke, Syracuse, etc...when the crowds can exceed what most college and pro arenas can hold.
Florida and UGA playing neutral sites is goofy as hell.
I mean big time SEC rivalry should be played on an sec campus in an sec town, especially when the neutral site doesn't have the seating capacity of either home stadium. I mean Jag's stadium is about 67,000. Bulldogs house a little over 90, the Swamp just under 90.
It's the only somewhat equal distance location that is suitable for a big football game. We don't have a couple of pro stadiums in state like Florida does. I only brought it up because of how hyped this game is between FL and GA. Plus that basketball game with IU was as well. Anything to add some extra hype to the rivalry. Winning some might help as well.
Cincinnati has enough problems without adding 20,000 specimens of UofLoL filth up here once a year.
Several inaccuracies here.
1. Florida and Georgia playing at a neutral site may be "goofy as hell" to you, but they've been doing it for years and years and years and it's one of the greatest traditions in the SEC (along with Oklahoma and Texas playing in front of a 50/50 crowd at the cotton bowl every year).
2) Extra seating is installed for the Florida-Georgia game, so capacity is greater for this game than for Jags' games. Yesterday's crowd was 84,861.
3) The schools make a ton of money off of this game. I'm sure the local establishments would prefer on-campus games, but the Jacksonville game is lucrative for both schools.
My main reason against it is that in reality both schools and cities look forward the game every other. Why send both fan bases to another state to spend their money in Cincy or Nashville.
Totally agree. Also, the teams seem to have trouble selling out this game with its new November timeslot so moving it to Cincy or Nashville or Indy would make that problem even worse.
In short, it isn't happening.
Nice! Wouldn't be a single call, text message or tweet out of the stadium that day!
This. As someone who is from Cincinnati, we don't need Louisville folks to cross the river. They're fine where they're at now.
