Let all the Bulldog faithful rally behind the men who now wear the red and black with two words, two simple words which express the sentiments of the entire Bulldog Nation: Auburn Sucks.
This just sucks. They continue to search for our tipping point. All in the pursuit of money. Rather than tackling the root cause by collective bargaining they continue to see how much more they can squeeze.
I don’t think collective bargaining is the panacea everyone thinks it will be. They will have to bargain with all athletes not just the football players. Just my opinion.
The real problem is the costs tied up in facilities and people from the days when your commitment to win was all around those things.
I wholeheartedly concur. Unionizing helps with NIL guardrails but does absolutely zero for scheduling. In fact, it will probably make it even worse. Since the collective bargaining (in football at least) would be with the SEC directly, the SEC could be the ones who would start scheduling OOC games and locations vice the schools themselves. (I am not convinced that is not happening already)
Just chasing that dollar. Saw where they are discussing more on field ads, sideline ads, and jersey patches. Where will it end? Us real Dawgs won’t even recognize Dooley-Sanford!, nevermind we won’t know what the jerseys look like. They just don’t need us anymore!! Glad l am old!! 🤕🤕
The way this stops is that Hartman Fund contributors and season ticket holders let Morehead and Brooks know that we expect these games in our season ticket packages regularly.
By the way, I would prefer these games to be played on campus, but I don’t mind them being played at a neutral site. What I don’t like is these games being played only in neutral sites.
The Georgia-Clemson game in Charlotte was a spectacle, but I don’t think they should only play in Charlotte or Atlanta. Yes, that means I’m ok with the game being played in Death Valley.
My point is that the games in Atlanta and Charlotte were supposed to be the appetizer for renewing the on campus series. I got tickets for free through work to the game in Charlotte (and yes, it was a great environment). I bought tickets through UGA to the game in Atlanta. Now, the idea is these games are going to be held hostage to both fan bases to squeeze a bit more blood from the turnip. For people who talk crap about Charlotte, it’s a great city.
Don’t be surprised if the games with Ohio State turn into a game, and it’s played in Nashville in their new stadium or in Cincinnati.
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It may be. It such a new large city and its quite a distance from me so I haven’t had the opportunity to explore any of its charms or character and I don’t even know what they’d be…
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There isn’t a ton of character due to its newness as a big city, but there are great restaurants and many of the things you would expect from a city awash in banking money. The people are generally extremely nice. If you’re a racin’ fan, there’s nowhere better.
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The streaming services…including ESPN…feed off of subscribers not fans in seats. 100 million customers at $499/ year “CFP Package” plus a % of the betting revenue swamps season ticket holder sales for all schools. You can’t tailgate using Waymo anyway so as the young tech know-it-alls continue to “improve” the world our old traditions will drop by the wayside one by one. Might as well order your 96” flatscreen with special FanDuel betting app remote now and get the streaming package with multiview. To save on production costs 6 games in a row will be held at MBS, Charlotte, NOLA, Indy, etc. starting at 8:00 am featuring regional games instead of at the home stadiums of schools. This is the future we’re getting like it or not.
P.S. At least we’ll be able to live chat GTPR onscreen to complain about Bobo.
ESPN and the media don’t care if these games are in neutral sites either. This is nothing but a revenue play by the schools themselves to get a bidding war among cities with an empty NFL stadium, empty weekend hotel rooms and empty restaurants to outweigh the ticket revenue generated.
Before anyone asks, yes, I support the Cocktail Party in Jacksonville because of tradition.
There are 93k seats in Sanford stadium vs 7 billion people in the country with television sets. Look at NASCAR and you will see the future of college football.
The schools don’t move the games to neutral sites for TV. They move them for the money the city is willing to pay to host for the people who are going to come visit and spend money. If the city of Athens ponied up $4m per weekend in addition to the ticket revenue, every game possible would be played in Athens.
Either way it all goes back to money. So when you talk about the Hartman Fund drying up, they don’t really care because they’re already planning for that.
As a Hartman contributor, the ads don’t affect my enjoyment of the in-stadium experience. Would I rather the big board be used for live look-ins or in-game replays during TV timeouts? Yes, but I understand the reason that big screen is there. The fact that subsidizes the financial burden of my season tickets is ok with me.
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Who is going to replace the Hartman money? It’s the equivalent of the personal seat license in professional stadiums. That money funds every athletic scholarship regardless of sport.
The only way that happens is if the schools agree to move the game fully out of the conferences’ media rights footprint. If Georgia and Ohio State agreed to play somewhere like Charlotte, they could do it in theory. It’s the devil is in the details of the media rights agreements.
Regardless, the high profile OOC game being played on campus is on life support at this point.
If 2 schools that are 80 miles apart with a rich tradition of playing one another are willing to cancel home/home games, nothing is sacred at this point.
This just sucks. They continue to search for our tipping point. All in the pursuit of money. Rather than tackling the root cause by collective bargaining they continue to see how much more they can squeeze.
I don’t think collective bargaining is the panacea everyone thinks it will be. They will have to bargain with all athletes not just the football players. Just my opinion.
The real problem is the costs tied up in facilities and people from the days when your commitment to win was all around those things.
I wholeheartedly concur. Unionizing helps with NIL guardrails but does absolutely zero for scheduling. In fact, it will probably make it even worse. Since the collective bargaining (in football at least) would be with the SEC directly, the SEC could be the ones who would start scheduling OOC games and locations vice the schools themselves. (I am not convinced that is not happening already)
Just chasing that dollar. Saw where they are discussing more on field ads, sideline ads, and jersey patches. Where will it end? Us real Dawgs won’t even recognize Dooley-Sanford!, nevermind we won’t know what the jerseys look like. They just don’t need us anymore!! Glad l am old!! 🤕🤕
Sounds like we’re not playing in anyone else’s stadium unless its in conference or in the playoffs.
That’ll change when the super conference comes.
Don’t we theoretically have a trip to Columbus on the schedule?
The way this stops is that Hartman Fund contributors and season ticket holders let Morehead and Brooks know that we expect these games in our season ticket packages regularly.
By the way, I would prefer these games to be played on campus, but I don’t mind them being played at a neutral site. What I don’t like is these games being played only in neutral sites.
The Georgia-Clemson game in Charlotte was a spectacle, but I don’t think they should only play in Charlotte or Atlanta. Yes, that means I’m ok with the game being played in Death Valley.
Clemson is one of the few places I never went.
I don’t worry about neutral site games, if its an interesting or convenient destination. For me, Charlotte ain’t that on either count.
Would like to have a chance to play at OSU, Ann Arbor or the LA Coliseum sometime. I can’t think of any others that hold any substantial intrigue.
When the next phase happens those chances will open up.
My point is that the games in Atlanta and Charlotte were supposed to be the appetizer for renewing the on campus series. I got tickets for free through work to the game in Charlotte (and yes, it was a great environment). I bought tickets through UGA to the game in Atlanta. Now, the idea is these games are going to be held hostage to both fan bases to squeeze a bit more blood from the turnip. For people who talk crap about Charlotte, it’s a great city.
Don’t be surprised if the games with Ohio State turn into a game, and it’s played in Nashville in their new stadium or in Cincinnati.
It may be. It such a new large city and its quite a distance from me so I haven’t had the opportunity to explore any of its charms or character and I don’t even know what they’d be…
There isn’t a ton of character due to its newness as a big city, but there are great restaurants and many of the things you would expect from a city awash in banking money. The people are generally extremely nice. If you’re a racin’ fan, there’s nowhere better.
The streaming services…including ESPN…feed off of subscribers not fans in seats. 100 million customers at $499/ year “CFP Package” plus a % of the betting revenue swamps season ticket holder sales for all schools. You can’t tailgate using Waymo anyway so as the young tech know-it-alls continue to “improve” the world our old traditions will drop by the wayside one by one. Might as well order your 96” flatscreen with special FanDuel betting app remote now and get the streaming package with multiview. To save on production costs 6 games in a row will be held at MBS, Charlotte, NOLA, Indy, etc. starting at 8:00 am featuring regional games instead of at the home stadiums of schools. This is the future we’re getting like it or not.
P.S. At least we’ll be able to live chat GTPR onscreen to complain about Bobo.
ESPN and the media don’t care if these games are in neutral sites either. This is nothing but a revenue play by the schools themselves to get a bidding war among cities with an empty NFL stadium, empty weekend hotel rooms and empty restaurants to outweigh the ticket revenue generated.
Before anyone asks, yes, I support the Cocktail Party in Jacksonville because of tradition.
There are 93k seats in Sanford stadium vs 7 billion people in the country with television sets. Look at NASCAR and you will see the future of college football.
*7 billion people in the world
The schools don’t move the games to neutral sites for TV. They move them for the money the city is willing to pay to host for the people who are going to come visit and spend money. If the city of Athens ponied up $4m per weekend in addition to the ticket revenue, every game possible would be played in Athens.
Either way it all goes back to money. So when you talk about the Hartman Fund drying up, they don’t really care because they’re already planning for that.
I suspect most people in the Hartman fund are more than happy to have advertisers take on some of the burden.
As a Hartman contributor, the ads don’t affect my enjoyment of the in-stadium experience. Would I rather the big board be used for live look-ins or in-game replays during TV timeouts? Yes, but I understand the reason that big screen is there. The fact that subsidizes the financial burden of my season tickets is ok with me.
Who is going to replace the Hartman money? It’s the equivalent of the personal seat license in professional stadiums. That money funds every athletic scholarship regardless of sport.
They don’t care about the regular season ticket holder or the students. Traveling to those neutral site games is hard for students.
I am wondering if the future of marquee non-conference games will head this way.
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7294992/2026/05/20/michigan-duke-basketball-amazon-prime/?unlocked_article_code=1.klA.mfqz.uZ1o1FE5lam9&source=athletic_user_shared_gift_article_copylink&smid=url-share-ta
The only way that happens is if the schools agree to move the game fully out of the conferences’ media rights footprint. If Georgia and Ohio State agreed to play somewhere like Charlotte, they could do it in theory. It’s the devil is in the details of the media rights agreements.
Regardless, the high profile OOC game being played on campus is on life support at this point.
If 2 schools that are 80 miles apart with a rich tradition of playing one another are willing to cancel home/home games, nothing is sacred at this point.