Official MBS Announcement: 5 Games over 5 Years

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TStan said the TBD years will be ACC games.

Here are the candidates for the games in the TBD years:
  • 2021: Boston College, North Carolina, Pittsburgh, Virginia Tech
  • 2023: Louisville, North Carolina, Pittsburgh, Virginia Tech
Make of that what you will.

My opinion: These games will not generate much interest outside of the two fanbases and maybe ACC fans, unless drastic strides are made at the involved programs. Perhaps good for recruiting, however.
 
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CuseJacket said:
TStan said the TBD years will be ACC games.

Here are the candidates for the games in the TBD years:
  • 2021: Boston College, North Carolina, Pittsburgh, Virginia Tech
  • 2023: Louisville, North Carolina, Pittsburgh, Virginia Tech
Make of that what you will.

My opinion: These games will not generate much interest outside of the two fanbases and maybe ACC fans, unless drastic strides are made at the involved programs. Perhaps good for recruiting, however.
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Agreed. Clemson and ND will sellout easily. These years will be a challenge unless at least one of the teams is ranked in Top 10 or coming off a big season.
 
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SteamWhistle said:
It’s all about money and recruiting. Maybe if we made BDS a better environment as fans the AD wouldn’t have felt he needed to make this move.
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That's true, Steam. And if we have a better on field product, we will have great turnouts for big games. See FSU 15. Not even close to 50/50, and we were like 2-5 at the time, but we were coming off of a season where we won a lot. Winning puts butts in seats over everything.
 
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How much money can this realistically make? Maybe we pull in an extra $500-750k on ticket sales and rent MBS and their 1k+ staff members for $300-500k? Running a professional stadium for a day is not a cheap day (prep, day of operations, clean up).
 

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AUFC said:
How much money can this realistically make? Maybe we pull in an extra $500-750k on ticket sales and rent MBS and their 1k+ staff members for $300-500k? Running a professional stadium for a day is not a cheap day (prep, day of operations, clean up).
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Just a guess, but with the premium seating I bet the theory is that we'll pull around $100 a seat for 15k extra seats. That's $1.5 million. Subtract rent, etc (but we'll also save on the our costs of prepping and cleaning and staffing BDS, the cops around campus, etc) and I'm guessing they're banking on $500k minimum profit. $500k is probably not worth moving the game for alone, but if that is worst case and they're also banking on creating some buzz for the program... it's not a bad plan.
 
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If the GTAA were smart, for the 2 years where it is TBD for games at MBS they would make it like a UNC or somebody like that just to reinforce not every big game is going to be played at MBS.
 
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Gold1 said:
If the GTAA were smart, for the 2 years where it is TBD for games at MBS they would make it like a UNC or somebody like that just to reinforce not every big game is going to be played at MBS.
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And pay $500k in rent for a stadium with an empty upper deck? Pass. There's no turning back here - GTAA is selling out (no pun intended) our most popular home games to sell an extra 15k tickets.
 
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I'm gonna straight up predict it right here so I can gloat/eat crow in a couple years.

In January 2021, GTAA will announce the Georgia Tech/UGA game will be held at MBS. We'll make a boatload of money off it but it will definitely piss off our fans.
 

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deeznats said:
Just a guess, but with the premium seating I bet the theory is that we'll pull around $100 a seat for 15k extra seats. That's $1.5 million. Subtract rent, etc (but we'll also save on the our costs of prepping and cleaning and staffing BDS, the cops around campus, etc) and I'm guessing they're banking on $500k minimum profit. $500k is probably not worth moving the game for alone, but if that is worst case and they're also banking on creating some buzz for the program... it's not a bad plan.
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I saw something regarding STH getting first choice....will they have to pay more for their equivalent seats? If so, I can imagine it will piss off a lot of people.
 
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