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<blockquote data-quote="RamblinRed" data-source="post: 881847" data-attributes="member: 1776"><p>I think as a fan you have to make a decision on what's most important to you. </p><p>Is it that you will only follow and support GT football if it is playing in the highest tier (which is likely to be the SEC and B10) or you will follow and support GT football regardless of what tier it is in.</p><p>That is a personal decision every fan may have to make down the road.</p><p></p><p>If GT isn't invited into the B10 or SEC, that doesn't mean GT is going to be playing FCS football for example. </p><p>I am expecting eventually the FBS is going to divide into 2 or 3 tiers for college football purposes. My expectation is that GT is likely to be in that 2nd tier, but maybe it ends up in Tier 1, but that is for the future to decide. I also expect each tier will have its own rules and regulations in terms of how many scholarships to give out, how much money to pay athletes, how large your athletic budget has to be, how many sports you have to fund, how large your stadium has to be. There are regulations around those now for all the P5 and G5 conferences.</p><p></p><p>I mentioned above about TV viewership, but the bigger long term issue for college football is probably butts in seats. Attendance has been decreasing for over a decade and actual attendance is considerably worse than announced attendance. The Wall Street Journal has a graphic with sold vs scanned tickets for 96 FBS schools. In general for P5 schools most of them the percentage of scanned tickets to announced attendance hovers between 70-75%. The percentages at most G5 schools are considerably worse. GT was at 72% in 2021. TN and WI were the 2 P5 schools with the highest % at 88 and 84% respectively. FSU was a pretty awful 57%.</p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://graphics.wsj.com/table/Ncaaattendance_082718[/URL]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RamblinRed, post: 881847, member: 1776"] I think as a fan you have to make a decision on what's most important to you. Is it that you will only follow and support GT football if it is playing in the highest tier (which is likely to be the SEC and B10) or you will follow and support GT football regardless of what tier it is in. That is a personal decision every fan may have to make down the road. If GT isn't invited into the B10 or SEC, that doesn't mean GT is going to be playing FCS football for example. I am expecting eventually the FBS is going to divide into 2 or 3 tiers for college football purposes. My expectation is that GT is likely to be in that 2nd tier, but maybe it ends up in Tier 1, but that is for the future to decide. I also expect each tier will have its own rules and regulations in terms of how many scholarships to give out, how much money to pay athletes, how large your athletic budget has to be, how many sports you have to fund, how large your stadium has to be. There are regulations around those now for all the P5 and G5 conferences. I mentioned above about TV viewership, but the bigger long term issue for college football is probably butts in seats. Attendance has been decreasing for over a decade and actual attendance is considerably worse than announced attendance. The Wall Street Journal has a graphic with sold vs scanned tickets for 96 FBS schools. In general for P5 schools most of them the percentage of scanned tickets to announced attendance hovers between 70-75%. The percentages at most G5 schools are considerably worse. GT was at 72% in 2021. TN and WI were the 2 P5 schools with the highest % at 88 and 84% respectively. FSU was a pretty awful 57%. [URL unfurl="true"]https://graphics.wsj.com/table/Ncaaattendance_082718[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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