Ncaa must step in.
I don’t get why people keep saying not getting in the B1G was a mistake. It clearly wasn’t. People b*tch about our schedule being too hard now. Imagine playing Ohio State, Michigan, Michigan State, and Penn State every year, with crossover games against Wisconsin, Iowa, and Nebraska. On top of playing Georgia every year. None of the teams who joined the B1G in their expansion have done anything of relevance. Sure they have more money now, but so do their opponents. And their opponents have even more money. The B1G argument makes no sense. If we can’t compete with Pitt, UNC, and UVA on the money scene, how in the world would we be able to do it in the B1G? That doesn’t even mention the severe disadvantage we’d have playing games in the north in October and November. There are weeks in the college football year where it’s snowing in Michigan and 60 degrees in Atlanta. Good luck playing in that when you’re not used to it.
You make good points......but we would have a lot more money to pay off our crushing debts. We would be on national tv more instead of freaking Bally Sports network, and we would almost certainly increase revenue from ticket sales at Bobby Dodd. Whether or not we could ever improve our situation record-wise is impossible to say, it would take time to catch up but for sure we would have more money for better coaches across the board, recruiting staff and analysts that we have no shot at currently being able to pay for.
Yeah, joining the B1G was a losing proposition except for making a lot more money, having better home attendance and being on national TV more often. Can’t imagine why anyone thought that was a good idea.
Can’t imagine a place like Nebraska, who fills their 80k seat stadium every weekend for the past 30 years and was the top program in the country just 25 years ago not succeeding in a new conference. Can’t imagine how making a little bit more money, but then competing against teams with a lot more money wouldn’t be a good idea. Are y’all morons? Sure Tech’s money pool would grow, but we’d still be light years behind our actual new competition. Sure we’d have more money than our old ACC rivals, but we wouldn’t be playing them anymore. We’d be playing teams who’ve been turning over an even higher profit for countless years prior. Instead of going 2-6 in the ACC we’d be 1-8 in the B1G
Talent acquisition might be easier for us than our would be opponents in the B1G. Nebraska sucks because it’s not much talent in the Midwest and Nebraska can no longer pull from Texas as easily given it faces no Texas teams.
Iron sharpens iron.
Oh goody, BDS filled with opposing teams’ fans and wins against non P5 opponents. How exciting!
You forget. If we played Ohio State, there would be 10,000 Atlanta Michigan transplants who would show up to root for Tech. I married a Michigander. That hatred for Ohio is in their DNA.
....and michigan colors are closer to Tech colors
I am not sure if it is an issue of 'cannot' or 'will not' but the result is the same. We are not going to be competitive in the new era. We don't have the alumni willing to put up the money to play the NIL game, we don't have the majors to attract a wide selection of elite HS athletes, we aren't setting up the shell 501c3 and 501c4 corporations needed to fund the program at elite levels, we have 7,802 international students on campus that don't give a crap about American football (see collegefactual.com) , we have a fan base that is scattered all over the country and isn't concentrated in one Geography (ie. UGA), we are in the heart of a region where 4* and 5* players have too many options to count, we are in a big city filled with sports and entertainment options, and we have a coach and an athletic director that aren't creative enough to do anything other than go head-to-head with the major football factories. It is a sad time to be a Tech fan.
Does anyone have links to where I can find this info. Donation/funding/expense rankings for FBS schools? I’d like to see a legit, complete list of all schools.
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