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    Location, location... What if USF were located in Gainesville?

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    I live in Gainesville and I attend the USF games in Tampa which is kind of a inconvience for me. Now it would not be much of a hassel if USF had an OCS then I would not need to make the trek into town just to see the game USF is just outside of the traffic woes that going to Ray Jay presents. This season I made it to 5 games this year most I need to get a room which is great because there are plenty of good rooms for a good price in Tampa.

     

    From the Gainesville prospective it is mostly people traveling into town and it is a whole weekend event not just a couple hours of football it starts Thursday and ends Sunday! People come from Ga. Orlando, Tampa, Ocala, Lake City, Jacksonville as far as Alabama. Shoot you should see the corprate airport on game weekends all the private jets that you never see during a normal week. Also every hotel has a three night minimum on game weekends so most people go North to Alachua or Lake City or South to Ocala for the night.

    Power 5 conferences: "let us provide more money to athletes or we will be looking to break away"

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    This has been part of the end game all along for the big guys to eliminate potential competition from upstarts.  It's gonna happen and, when it does, I'm out of the athletic donation game.   It's all just distasteful to me. 

     

    Personally, I think all this big money arms race between the colleges, the rising clamor for additional compensation to all athletes and the looming specter of head injury liability litigation is going to lead to some tough days ahead for college football.

    The thing is they are pricing themselves out of the market. Gone are the days of filling up big stadiums for outrageous ticket prices when people can stay home pay a small fee to watch the game in comfort on there HD screens. This the giant that has gotten too big and will fall. These places will slowly become less about higher education and more about farm teams for the NFL which is pretty much what has already happened. The big boys will crumble it's only a matter of time. Fall of Rome my friend. 

    Is it time for OCS?

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    I thought I would bump this thread again to add another thought related to the "game day experience."

     

    It's about time to write that donation check, and then in the spring, it will be time to write the football season ticket renewal check.  It's the season ticket check that is hardest to write.  Why?  Well, because the product on the field is SO BAD that the demand for tickets is EXTREMELY LOW.  With that in mind, I could easily attend each game while sitting in better seats than I have if I used the secondary market to buy my tickets.  I spend $45 a seat + donation and other people I know are sitting in better seats that they get for $10 off of stub-hub.  So, buying the tickets is definitely not a wise financial decision.  I only do it to support the program, and I look at it as an extra donation (with no tax deduction).  I would attend the games either way, but I continue to buy the season tickets to help prop up the team.  I have to think that there are others that are either on the fence or who have stopped buying the season tickets.

     

    That being said, if the product included a game day experience on campus, I think the decision to keep season tickets in a down period (when the product on the field sucks) would be a much easier one.  The game day experience is still worth every penny.  You get to return to your campus.  You get to park on campus.  You get a parade.  You get to follow the band into the stadium.  You get a stadium that's green and gold.  Now that's worth something even when the team is bad.  What do you get now?  You get directed into RayJay by parking nazis and then you get to sit in a red stadium that doesn't allow you to bring anything in.  You get a pirate ship.  Whatever.  Cup holders--big freaking deal.

     

    Just to speak for myself--I would feel much better about paying for (and paying more for) season tickets if the games were on campus.  Period.

    Great points!

     

    I know this will be the first time in 5 years I will not renew my season tix. I knew of people giving away tickets. That being said prices will go up if the Bulls preform on the field. I would as stated above keep my season tickets if we had an OCS to call our own and not our pirates of the Caribbean themed joke. 

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