Georgie vs. Georgia Tech in CFA Kickoff 2011?
by Winfield Featherston on Oct 7, 2009 10:06 AM EDT
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Print...and I have major issues with this idea.
Believe it or not, that's the latest rumor coming swirling around the Flats right now. I've even heard that it's a done deal. If this rumor is remotely true, even to the fact that we entertained the idea, there are serious problems with Georgia Tech athletics. Goodbye tradition. Hello money. 2011 is scheduled to be a home game against the Bulldogs and we'd be willing to sacrifice that to split ticket sales in the Dome where more Mutt fans can come watch their team play? I'm not against playing in the kickoff against 11 of the 12 SEC teams. Give us LSU, Florida, Alabama, whoever the SEC powerhouse may be at that time, but NOT Georgia.
What other rivalry games do you see in the first week? Very few and none that matter. We'd be giving up any type of home-field advantage and letting them take over simply because they outnumber us.
Rivalry week is always the final weeks in the year. It's what I look forward to, you look forward to. It's the cherry on top of any season, good or bad if you win. And then to just completely sell out to the "national exposure, sponsorships, and hoopla" just leaves a bad bad nasty taste in my mouth.
I hope this is just a rumor. I hope I never hear about this again, but for some reason, I don't expect it to go away. There is one thing I do know though...Bobby Dodd would have never agreed to do this.
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I COULD be okay with this
I would be okay with this if and only if it interrupts the home-and-home, rather than replacing one of our home games… Of course, I’m sure that would not be the case. Because both Tech and Georgia’s schedules are planned out well in advance with Atlanta-odd-years/Athens-even-years in mind, they wouldn’t want to switch it.
I’d like that just so that we don’t have Clemson/VPI/UGA all grouped either home or away. (which wouldn’t be the case if the ACC hadn’t hosed us with Blacksbug twice in a row in ‘05-’06).
Don’t get me wrong, I like having the Georgia game at the end of the season. But one time to kick things off? Why not. The worst part would be Kyle King at DawgSports.com harping about moving the game even more.
Eff moving the game...
Next step is taking Georgie off the schedule. Come on. Fuel is going to be scarce in the near future. Busing a team to Athens costs nothing compared to busing a team to Clemson, Duke, Chapel Hill, etc..
Secondly, it’s a guaranteed sellout. We’ve had 14 sellouts since 1996 at home. 50% of those are Georgia. If we give up the game, it’s gotta be for guaranteed national exposure even though our game is the only real game come Thanksgiving.
I'm about to write you a reality check. Or would you prefer the cold, hard cash of truth?
I kinda agree with Jeff...
If we lose a home game, I’m absolutely against it. If this just delays things and we get the home game in 2012, then it’s not as horrible.
There’s talk of how we need to adjust the home schedules to make the season ticket package more attractive on even years. This could do it. But then again, who knows whether certain teams will still be strong in 2012 and beyond. Plus there are rumors swirling about ACC realignment. Maybe that will fix the problem.
Of course, it seems like every offseason, I sarcastically wish that we played them in the season opener since it always seems like they have half their team suspended for the first game or two of the season.
Also, this year, Colorado and Colorado State, Utah and Utah State, and Miami and Florida State all played each other in week 1, so it’s not something unprecedented.
Two things
1. You can’t predict conference/ team strength that far in the future
2. CSU/Colorado, Utah vs. Utah State are not high profile games whatsoever. It’s not even their true rivals! Same goes for FSU/Miami. The Buffs have Nebraska. It’s their tradition. Utah has the “Holy War” against BYU. FSU has Florida and Miami has Virginia Tech. All those games are played later in the season.
The college football season is so fragile. It's like a glass ball being pushed around from stadium to stadium by a rhinoceros.
by Winfield Featherston on Oct 7, 2009 10:42 AM EDT up reply actions
Dont forget
The Iron Bowl. Isn’t it always Thanksgiving weekend, too?
Maker's Mark--nectar of the gods...
by chrisinindy on Oct 7, 2009 3:02 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
games on Thanksgiving Weekend
Texas/TAMU
Backyard Brawl – Pitt/WVU
Iron Bowl – Auburn/AL
VT/UVA
UNC/NCSU
UF/FSU
CU/S.Carolina
Egg Bowl – MSU/Ole Miss
Bedlam Series – OKSU/OU
Border War – Mizzou/KU
Arizona/ASU
Wazzou/UW
Holy War – BYU/Utah
UCLA/USC
Are we saying our intrastate rivalry is less meaningful than these???
I'm about to write you a reality check. Or would you prefer the cold, hard cash of truth?
They actually moved the Iron Bowl to Friday night this year.
That’s a horrible idea. The Iron Bowl on Saturday is an economic BOON to the state of Alabama. The entire state shuts down and sales pick up. You are losing some of that having it on Friday night. The Iron Bowl should stick with tradition, and so should UGA-Georgia Tech.
Have UGA play F$U in the 2011 Chicken Bowl/Mark Richt Bowl Kickoff Classic. Save Georgia Tech in this game until they play a big non-conference team that isn’t UGA.
So it's a high school game now? hahah
The college football season is so fragile. It's like a glass ball being pushed around from stadium to stadium by a rhinoceros.
by Winfield Featherston on Oct 7, 2009 8:04 PM EDT up reply actions
It's the Friday right after Thanksgiving...
I doubt playing this game on Friday will be any less an economic boon than on Saturday… Probably half the folks out there already have that Friday off, and the rest will take it off anyhow.
I'm pulling back from my earlier response...
The more I think about it, the grosser it is to me. (The whole UGA/VPI/Clemson on odd years thing just really pisses me off.)
If/when GT is put in the kickoff game, here are the SEC teams I would prefer to see us play, in order: UT, UF, Ole Miss, LSU, USC, Auburn, UK, Bama, UArk, Vandy, Miss St, UGA.
Auburn would be at the top, except that we’ve played them recently and they’re scheduled for 2017/2018. The upcoming games are likewise why Bama’s so low on the list.
I hate
The very thought of this. I agree with WF, the fact that this may have even permeated the office of the AD is a bad sign to me.
I know I sound like those old dudes that sit in the stands and bitch about our uniforms and the new-fangled rap music before player introductions, but to me this game is a Thanksgiving weekend tradition, must like Dallas/Detroit.
Jeff, I dont know why anyone would want to see us play UF, especially the first game of the year. With the state of affairs at UF right now, I would never vote for us starting the year with that kind of potential loss. It could be devastating for the psyche of the whole season.
Dude, I could totally see Bobby Dodd standing in the middle of His Field shaking his head while we played UGAy at the dome.
Maker's Mark--nectar of the gods...
Agreed
There is no better way to end the regular season than squaring off against our most heated rival. I hate to even think how much excitement would be sucked from the game by moving it off campus and scheduling it for the first game of the season. The Tech-ugag game always has bowl implications and generally determines what type of season the program has had; that would all disappear if the game were relegated to the ramp-up period at the beginning of the year. Here’s to hoping that the Technique never has to decide between running the Freshman Survival Guide issue or the THWUGA issue.
On a happier note, this article marks the first time that FTRS has ever shown up in my Georgia Tech section of Google News. Congratulations to Winfield for achieving journalistic status equal to that of Heather Dinich at ESPN and Doug Roberson at the AJC!
by White and Goldrick on Oct 7, 2009 1:11 PM EDT up reply actions
Turkey Day
When I tuck in for dinner on the fourth Thursday of November I am thankful for Clean, Old-Fashioned Hate. Don’t take that away from me.
by White and Goldrick on Oct 7, 2009 1:14 PM EDT up reply actions
I don't like it
These reasons may not be valid, but they are mine.
1. It sets a precedent for not playing Georgia at the end of the year. I’m not convinced Georgia wouldn’t like to move us into an earlier spot in the season and move, say, the cocktail party to the end. It hasn’t always been the last game, but it has been as long as I can remember, and I’d like to keep it there.
2. I don’t think we are going to be hitting on all cylinders the first game of the season with this spread option thing. I love Johnson, and I love the offense, but we didn’t get rolling until the end of last year, and I think that’s also been the case at Navy and Georgia Southern.
exactly why Georgie wants to move it
gives them summer to prepare for us rather than a week
I'm about to write you a reality check. Or would you prefer the cold, hard cash of truth?
It’s funny when you see Georgie fans complain about the neutral site in Jacksonville but [more or less] like the idea of the Dome
The college football season is so fragile. It's like a glass ball being pushed around from stadium to stadium by a rhinoceros.
by Winfield Featherston on Oct 7, 2009 3:45 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
The Dome is not neutral for football
just like the Omni was not neutral for basketball
I'm about to write you a reality check. Or would you prefer the cold, hard cash of truth?
sorry "neutral"
The college football season is so fragile. It's like a glass ball being pushed around from stadium to stadium by a rhinoceros.
by Winfield Featherston on Oct 7, 2009 5:10 PM EDT up reply actions
Junkyard Blawg
Blogged on this today on AJC.COM and its getting quite a bit of airplay. Most comments point to both sides being opposed; they have a poll posted at its currently at 65/35 no.
Maker's Mark--nectar of the gods...
Bradley says Radakovich says
Tech won’t lose a home game in the deal.
Even though I’m still not thrilled about the game, I will travel to Atlanta for it. I’m generally in Atlanta around thanksgiving, but tickets aren’t readily available. The dome would give us more seats.
Hmmm...
….I’m somewhat troubled that he didn’t deny the fact that it might happen. As is said in the Interrogation business, by not answering the question, he did answer the question.
In other words, there’s a chance.
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