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Post by collegiate on Jan 6, 2020 16:37:12 GMT -8
Waiting another week makes no sense imho
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Post by sagebrush on Jan 6, 2020 17:06:51 GMT -8
Agree, but I think they want to let the minor dings get well and let the teams prepare for a specific opponent.
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Post by spudbeaver on Jan 6, 2020 17:17:50 GMT -8
They last played on Saturday, Dec 28, so they would have 2 more days than usual to prepare. I don't think the NCAA gives a crap about the player's injuries, they just want another week to pump the game and suck all the potential money out of it that they can.
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Post by kersting13 on Jan 6, 2020 17:19:15 GMT -8
Agree, but I think they want to let the minor dings get well and let the teams prepare for a specific opponent. Probably helps fans who travel to the games. I'm not sure what % of the National Championship is set aside for team allotments, but I assume it's the majority, unlike say, the Super Bowl. |
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Post by baseba1111 on Jan 6, 2020 19:02:28 GMT -8
Agree, but I think they want to let the minor dings get well and let the teams prepare for a specific opponent. Probably helps fans who travel to the games. I'm not sure what % of the National Championship is set aside for team allotments, but I assume it's the majority, unlike say, the Super Bowl. I'm not sure. Thought I read that 50% is corporate/sponsors. With a portion of those ending up on the secondary to make even more $$ |
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Post by sagebrush on Jan 6, 2020 19:25:29 GMT -8
You mercenary guys are probably right and I bet the 50% corporate is a little lite.
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Post by Henry Skrimshander on Jan 6, 2020 20:16:56 GMT -8
They last played on Saturday, Dec 28, so they would have 2 more days than usual to prepare. I don't think the NCAA gives a crap about the player's injuries, they just want another week to pump the game and suck all the potential money out of it that they can. The NCAA has nothing to do with this game, other than Clemson and LSU are members of the organization. The selections, timeline, etc., are done by the College Football Playoff committee. |
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Post by baseba1111 on Jan 6, 2020 20:18:19 GMT -8
You mercenary guys are probably right and I bet the 50% corporate is a little lite. 76,468 is what I saw for a seating total. 20k to each team. Clemson sold 19k at face... 500 to the band... 500 to students thru a lottery. So, 40k of the 76k+ to the schools. About 3500 left in the secondary... $1900 average. I think face to schools was $425-575. Saw that 34% of secondary tix being bought from Louisiana. No surprise there. |
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Post by Judge Smails on Jan 6, 2020 20:19:54 GMT -8
You mercenary guys are probably right and I bet the 50% corporate is a little lite. 76,468 is what I saw for a seating total. 20k to each team. Clemson sold 19k at face... 500 to the band... 500 to students thru a lottery. So, 40k of the 76k+ to the schools. About 3500 left in the secondary... $1900 average. I think face to schools was $425-575. Saw that 34% of secondary tix being bought from Louisiana. No surprise there. LSU fans mortgaging their single-wides, no doubt |
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Post by spudbeaver on Jan 6, 2020 21:08:36 GMT -8
They last played on Saturday, Dec 28, so they would have 2 more days than usual to prepare. I don't think the NCAA gives a crap about the player's injuries, they just want another week to pump the game and suck all the potential money out of it that they can. The NCAA has nothing to do with this game, other than Clemson and LSU are members of the organization. The selections, timeline, etc., are done by the College Football Playoff committee. I should have said “et al”. Aka the money grubbers. |
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Post by beaverboilermaker on Jan 6, 2020 23:34:49 GMT -8
I read an article similar to the link below saying this is a one-of-a-kind year with this much time between the semis and the championship. Basically, the semis were originally supposed to be on New Year's Eve, so the requirement for at least a full week between games forced the championship to be Jan. 13. Then the plan to "start a new tradition" with the semis on New Year's Eve was scrapped after the television ratings for 2015 and ’16 seasons, both played Dec. 31, were horrible. Both those years had much smaller TV audiences than the Jan. 1, 2015 New Year's Day semifinals. More telling was that the major bowl games (Rose and Sugar) played on Jan. 1, 2016 and '17 had ratings that crushed the "new tradition" semifinals played the night before, even though the semis were supposed to be the better games. So they scrapped the poorly conceived plan and moved the semifinals to the closest Saturday, except if that fell on Dec. 31. But this season's championship game could not be moved to Jan. 6, so it stayed on Jan. 13, and we have a one-time 16-day break between the CFP games that nobody likes. NY Times link |
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Post by collegiate on Jan 8, 2020 12:17:41 GMT -8
I haven’t opened the link but thanks for the great summary!
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