The scheduling game
The scheduling game keeps getting more complicated — and, to say the least, more expensive.
For non-conference games on future home football schedules, Georgia will pay $875,000 to Louisiana (Lafayette) in 2010, $925,000 to New Mexico State in 2011 and $975,000 to North Texas in 2013.
It’s the cost of getting games against teams that don’t require you to come to their place another year in return. Here’s my story on that topic.
Meanwhile, an issue we’ve discussed here before — the Atlanta Sports Council’s desire to have Georgia play a season-opening non-conference game in the Georgia Dome in 2010 or some other year — continues to percolate.
There’s still nothing concrete . . . just a continuing desire by the Sports Council and its TV partner ESPN to put something together involving the Dogs, when/if possible. Rumored opponents have run the gamut –- UCLA, Texas, Southern Cal, North Carolina, you name ‘em.
Damon Evans, Georgia’s AD, said a couple of weeks ago that he’d heard various rumors, but said he’d gotten word some of the schools rumored to be interested in playing UGA in Atlanta really weren’t. Georgia’s position is that it doesn’t rule out any possibility but isn’t actively pursuing a 2010 Dome game. UGA already has six games scheduled away from Athens that year and won’t, under any circumstances, play fewer than six games in Sanford Stadium. So unless that year’s contractually committed game at Colorado were shifted to another year, there’d be no room for an Atlanta game.
Sports Council president Gary Stokan said last month — and reiterated Monday –- that trying to mesh schedules to put together a neutral-site game, particularly one as close at hand as 2010, is “like a Rubik’s cube.”
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Georgia gotta buy wins
June 2nd, 2009
5:09 pm
Pretty pathetic paying those high schools almost 1 million for a easy win.But that cupcake UGA football for you.
Jim Doannan as in Doans Pills
June 2nd, 2009
5:29 pm
I did win 4 straight bowl games , something no other UGA has ever done. CMR better get it going and let Willie go before its too late! Oh yeah and Vanilla Boo Boo too!
Jimmy
June 2nd, 2009
6:23 pm
How is this for a ’secondary’ violation:
“One of the football violations involved four UGA players receiving complimentary tickets to an NFL game from a friend playing in the league. The resolution in that case, Baumgartner said, was for the players to repay the cost of the tickets.”
Are you freaking kidding me?? So a couple of student athletes, who have no money because the NCAA won’t allow them to get a job, can’t even accept complimentary tickets to an NFL game from a friend, all the while the NCAA is raking in the cash because of these guys. It’s not like these are prospective recruits and those tickets are a bribe or something. Unbelievable.
I can honestly say, I know this makes me a horrible person, but I think that the NCAA president Miles Brand getting cancer is karma! The NCAA suits suck!!!!!!!!!!
KNelson
June 2nd, 2009
9:03 pm
I see UGA losing 5 games this year. UT , LSU , UF, maybe OSU and Tech
KNelson
June 2nd, 2009
10:54 pm
Sorry about that last post, I should really avoid making horrible predictions, and stick to dressing up like the yacht club president’s mongoloid stepson.
AltamahaDawg
June 2nd, 2009
11:53 pm
Here is what I see: You spent a LOT of time in the UGA blogs.
AltamahaDawg
June 3rd, 2009
12:05 am
Jimmy, actually, its not the NCAA racking in the cash from these guys, it’s the respective schools that they play for that get the cash. The NCAA just regulates how they are cheat each other out of it.
Whoever the ‘friend” in the NFL was, he was no different than a booster writing a check to a football player. Of all the silly rules, that one is a no brainer.
BuLLdawg
June 3rd, 2009
12:31 am
Tech Strength of Schedule in BASEBALL was WORSE than UGA, yet Tech did NOT win more baseball games than UGA Baseball team.
Chipper Towers sir, UGA ended up with an all-time record in Home Runs with our not all Nike bats. Wonder why you didn’t report that, sir ?
It was good to not hear about how some Tech baseball player was not allowed to play baseball this year, after he spoke to the AJ-C about his college roommate and fellow Tech baseball player was known to have a herion drug use issue before he died of herion overdose on Tech’s campus down there in the slums.
Also, of note is that there is only 1 PAC-10 baseball team in all the NCAA Super Regionals.
Four (4) SEC schools are in the Super Regionals, and the ACC does not have more than the SEC’s 4 teams left either.
Only 2 ACC teams are hosting NCAA Super Regional Baseball Tournament Games this weekend, while there are 3 SEC Teams Hosting Super Regionals at our far more attended stadiums here in The SEC.
ACC has only 1 National Seed remaining, North Carolina the Number 4 National Seed.
SEC has both (2) National Seeds remaining, LSU the Number 3 National Seed and Florida the Number 8 National Seed. More and Higher National Seeds for The SEC again than the ACC.
Southern Miss will find out how much better The SEC is than the stinky cupcake playing ACC is when they go to Florida to take on the Number 8 National Seed Florida beginning this Saturday.
In Women’s NCAA Softball action, The SEC still has never won a National Championship (like Tech never has been ranked Number 1 in any Final AP Poll ever), as Florida lost to Washington twice already and ends up runner-up. SEC takes Number 2, Number 3 and Number 4, but no Number 1 Women’s College World Series National Championship.
UGA has more players in the NFL than all but 3 teams in the nation, so it is more likely some player in the NFL might have tickets to give to other future NFL players on the UGA roster. 8 Consecutive Seasons now, UGA has ended up the Higher Ranked Football Team in the Final AP Poll than Georgia Tech.
Saint Simons
June 3rd, 2009
1:06 am
GT owns this state this year!!!!!!! hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
reservoirDAWG
June 3rd, 2009
10:49 am
Anyone who writes a buch of haha’s is a douche.
who doesn't?
June 3rd, 2009
11:31 am
Hey Tim, why just single out Georgia? Why not a comparison? How much does Tech pay for similar games? Or what about Floriday hosting Hawaii last year? How much did that cost? Oh…maybe that would take too much work on your part to find out about those paydays….You are a lazy journalist…
AltamahaDawg
June 3rd, 2009
2:04 pm
Its great to talk about who owns what from an institutional standpoint, That’s just sports bravado. Grown men can do that and not appear dim-witted.
But from a personal standpoint, spending yourwhole day in the Georgia blog, reading about Georgia, consummed with Georgia…….it is you that is OWNED. 1:06 in the morning, huh?
Nachos
June 3rd, 2009
4:08 pm
FEAR THE BLACKOUT 2009!
Fools Gold
June 3rd, 2009
6:39 pm
UGA should dismiss playing a quality opponent in the Dome. UGA would just get embarrassed just like Klimpson did. Keep playing the cupcakes and struggle with the wins to make CMR’s overall record look good.
Allen
June 5th, 2009
6:25 pm
Georgia-Florida . . . alternate years between neutral sites — Jacksonville and Atlanta. Simple. Fair. Practical. Why haven’t we done this sooner? And, for crying out loud, I wish the Sports Council would quit talking about once in Atlanta every four years!! Are you kidding? Why should we settle for a quarter of the pie? We want our half. Every other year or not at all.
Upstate Dawg
June 6th, 2009
11:45 pm
Football in the South should not be played indoors except in the post season. The Georgia-Florida game belongs in Jacksonville. The state line is 20 minutes away. With air travel for the team, it’s more neutral now than it was in the 30’s-60’s. Keep the game in Jacksonville.
The only time I want the Dawgs to play in the Dome is the first Saturday in December.