Here is an interesting article about the current 5-year series of games in Ireland:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/timcas...-college-football-to-ireland/?sh=ad3aa29142cd. The first two games in the series were Nebraska-Northwestern and last year was Notre Dame-Navy. These were the first two games played in Ireland since we beat BC in 2016.
Here is the key financial statement from the article:
The teams involved in the game are compensated for competing and have their travel expenses covered, with the home team typically getting enough money to offset a lost game in their home stadium in the U.S.
It mentions that Nebraska wasn't willing to give up a home game because they wouldn't have gotten enough from the Ireland game to offset filling their 90K stadium.
I suspect that we will benefit slightly financially by moving the game. But I think J Batt is thinking bigger than short term financial gain. It puts our game against FSU as the only game on during the timeslot (although it is so early that I'm not sure that matters much). I'm sure he heard lots of positive feedback from staff and boosters from our last trip to Ireland. I'm sure he discussed this with Key and how to use this as a recruiting tool. Key was also probably onboard with the experience this provides to current players. It helps to promote Georgia Tech as more of an international brand than most US colleges.
I'm ok with playing FSU in Ireland based on the current state of our program. Hopefully in 5 or 10 years we will be in the Nebraska camp where we lose money for moving games out of Bobby Dodd, but we're not there yet.