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<blockquote data-quote="JacketOff" data-source="post: 886863" data-attributes="member: 4572"><p>Having more money <strong>relative to other teams </strong>is the only metric that does matter. If Georgia Tech had a $1 BILLION dollar athletics budget, and our competition had a $2 BILLION dollar budget, we’d still probably falter. Absolute money means nothing when others have more absolute money. </p><p></p><p>We are crippled by lack of money, so why would it ever make sense to willingly go play in a league where the difference in money between the top of the league and us is even greater? Unless that is the only option, it will never make sense. It would only put us further behind the competition. Clemson, FSU, and UNC can only get so far ahead of us on the backs of their donations and ticket sales because of the limiting factor of money and the ACC’s revenue pool. Most of the ACC’s stadiums and fanbases are relatively similar sized. In the B1G we’d be totally dwarfed the same way UGA dwarfs us. An awful crowd at a B1G game would sellout BDS. There are 5 B1G stadiums bigger than the only large ACC stadium that routinely sells out at Clemson. Add in USC and UCLA and there are now 7 B1G stadiums larger than Clemson. </p><p></p><p>No ticket sales aren’t everything, but they’re a good indication of overall fanbase size and interest. More ticket sales likely equals more donations. We’d still very much be in the bottom half to bottom third in almost every category involving money and/or fans in the B1G. The only difference would be the gap to the top would be even larger. How often have you seen Northwestern, Rutgers, Minnesota, Indiana, Maryland, Purdue, and Illinois compete for a title in football? Conference or national? The answer is almost none. Since the start of the B1G Championship game in 2011, there’s only been 2 instances of those teams participating. Both were Northwestern in 2020 and 2018. So the bottom half of the conference is playing for the title 9% of the time, and one of those was in the Covid year with a 6 game schedule. But yeah, Georgia Tech would defy those odds. Whereas in the ACC Coastal, literally every single team won the division across a 7 year stretch. </p><p></p><p>One of those scenarios sounds way more beneficial and competitive to me. And it’s not the Big 10</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JacketOff, post: 886863, member: 4572"] Having more money [B]relative to other teams [/B]is the only metric that does matter. If Georgia Tech had a $1 BILLION dollar athletics budget, and our competition had a $2 BILLION dollar budget, we’d still probably falter. Absolute money means nothing when others have more absolute money. We are crippled by lack of money, so why would it ever make sense to willingly go play in a league where the difference in money between the top of the league and us is even greater? Unless that is the only option, it will never make sense. It would only put us further behind the competition. Clemson, FSU, and UNC can only get so far ahead of us on the backs of their donations and ticket sales because of the limiting factor of money and the ACC’s revenue pool. Most of the ACC’s stadiums and fanbases are relatively similar sized. In the B1G we’d be totally dwarfed the same way UGA dwarfs us. An awful crowd at a B1G game would sellout BDS. There are 5 B1G stadiums bigger than the only large ACC stadium that routinely sells out at Clemson. Add in USC and UCLA and there are now 7 B1G stadiums larger than Clemson. No ticket sales aren’t everything, but they’re a good indication of overall fanbase size and interest. More ticket sales likely equals more donations. We’d still very much be in the bottom half to bottom third in almost every category involving money and/or fans in the B1G. The only difference would be the gap to the top would be even larger. How often have you seen Northwestern, Rutgers, Minnesota, Indiana, Maryland, Purdue, and Illinois compete for a title in football? Conference or national? The answer is almost none. Since the start of the B1G Championship game in 2011, there’s only been 2 instances of those teams participating. Both were Northwestern in 2020 and 2018. So the bottom half of the conference is playing for the title 9% of the time, and one of those was in the Covid year with a 6 game schedule. But yeah, Georgia Tech would defy those odds. Whereas in the ACC Coastal, literally every single team won the division across a 7 year stretch. One of those scenarios sounds way more beneficial and competitive to me. And it’s not the Big 10 [/QUOTE]
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