Warthog wrote:Can't believe no one has mentioned that the Ohio State - Michigan game is the following day in Columbus. Might get a few people making it a two games in one trip deal.
I saw a Twitter post last night -
Tradition continues. Varsity football on Friday. JV's play Saturday.
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Warthog wrote:Can't believe no one has mentioned that the Ohio State - Michigan game is the following day in Columbus. Might get a few people making it a two games in one trip deal.
I saw a Twitter post last night -
Tradition continues. Varsity football on Friday. JV's play Saturday.
"I don't believe I can name a coach, anywhere, anytime, anyhow, who did it better than Doyt Perry."
-1955 BG Assistant Bo Schembechler
For season ticket holders, if you do not want to go to that game, you can exchange your tickets for that game for tickets for another game. If I have two season tickets and I don't feel like going to Columbus, I can exchange them for two additional tickets to any other home game. I'd probably pick Eastern or Kent, but I could see people picking Idaho or Rhode Island just to get extra tickets to a nicer weather game. For season ticket holders, they can either go to the game in Columbus and drive a little further (or a little less depending on where you live), or they can bring friends to the Doyt for a game.
Falconfreak90 wrote:The more I think about it, the more I like the idea of playing in Cbus....
I still think it would be more advantageous for us to play in Cleveland...or even Cincinnati or Detroit as opposed to Columbus. I never really got the feeling that BG had a large alumni base in Columbus compared to the other three cities. Just within the people I would meet in the dorms and around campus over four years, there were tons of folks from northeast and northwest Ohio, and your fair share from Dayton/Cincy, but not so much in the central part of the state. Maybe I just didn't get a proper sample of the population, but with the OSU behemoth located there, logically speaking it wouldn't surprise me to not have the same strength in recruiting there as other cities.
That all being said...I really like the idea of playing the final home game outside of BG. Playing at home the day after Thanksgiving is a losing proposition unless its Toledo. If its a meaningless game against a team we don't care about...we get maybe 2k in the seats. In Columbus you'll do at least 4x that because of the novelty factor alone.
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Falconfreak90 wrote:The more I think about it, the more I like the idea of playing in Cbus....
I still think it would be more advantageous for us to play in Cleveland...or even Cincinnati or Detroit as opposed to Columbus. I never really got the feeling that BG had a large alumni base in Columbus compared to the other three cities. Just within the people I would meet in the dorms and around campus over four years, there were tons of folks from northeast and northwest Ohio, and your fair share from Dayton/Cincy, but not so much in the central part of the state. Maybe I just didn't get a proper sample of the population, but with the OSU behemoth located there, logically speaking it wouldn't surprise me to not have the same strength in recruiting there as other cities.
That all being said...I really like the idea of playing the final home game outside of BG. Playing at home the day after Thanksgiving is a losing proposition unless its Toledo. If its a meaningless game against a team we don't care about...we get maybe 2k in the seats. In Columbus you'll do at least 4x that because of the novelty factor alone.
I didn't meet many people while a student at BG that hailed from Columbus either. At the same time I must believe that many BG grads ended up working at the many companies, colleges and government agencies located in Columbus. Hopefully the university looked at the addresses of alums at some point to use just for this reason.
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Everyone of my roommates from college not from my hometown was from around Columbus and I live here now. There is a big group of us who moved here but I have never seen much effort to organize us. With that said the ones I know are pretty young and are likely to be returning home to around north west ohio for the weekend. I imagine that I will be trying to schedule my trip around this game but any other weekend I am sure they would have gotten even more fans to a game in columbus.
The problem with just about any other Ohio city is that they don't have a stadium for it.
Dayton doesn't have any football stadium bigger than 15,000.
Cleveland has Cleveland Browns stadium which is way to big.
Cincy has Paul Brown which is to big.
Crew Stadium is the perfect size and a good central location in the state.
As to whether there are a lot of alums in Columbus, I am friends with a lot of alums who grew up and or live in Columbus. Historically it might not be a hot bed for BG....which is another good reason to get Bowling Green State University in the Dispatch and have people in the city talking about the school.
It seems to me if you wanted to do something like this, you would make a deal with OU and do each of our home games there over a two year period, but I'm sure OU's AD is not that stupid.
factman wrote:It seems to me if you wanted to do something like this, you would make a deal with OU and do each of our home games there over a two year period, but I'm sure OU's AD is not that stupid.
It works for BG because it's not OU. Why give up a home game to basically play a road game? At worst, the BG-UB game is played in front of a smallish, neutral crowd. At best, they get a good crowd and the financial benefits that go with that, which they may not have realized with 2,000 indifferent fans (14,372 on the box score) leaving at halftime at Perry Stadium.
But then again, I guess the OU AD never kicked your cat.
"I don't believe I can name a coach, anywhere, anytime, anyhow, who did it better than Doyt Perry."
-1955 BG Assistant Bo Schembechler
factman wrote:It seems to me if you wanted to do something like this, you would make a deal with OU and do each of our home games there over a two year period, but I'm sure OU's AD is not that stupid.
It works for BG because it's not OU. Why give up a home game to basically play a road game? At worst, the BG-UB game is played in front of a smallish, neutral crowd. At best, they get a good crowd and the financial benefits that go with that, which they may not have realized with 2,000 indifferent fans (14,372 on the box score) leaving at halftime at Perry Stadium.
But then again, I guess the OU AD never kicked your cat.
TG, I think what factman was trying to say is that Ohio would give up 1 of their home games too, it would be a 2-year neutral series instead of playing once in Athens and once in BG. That wouldn't be to either team's detriment, aside from the obvious fact that neither team would be playing on campus.
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Yeah, I understood that, but it's far less of a "risk" (maybe not the right word) for OU to give up a home game for a game in Columbus, a little more than an hour from their campus than it is for BG, IMO. It's a good move for BG, because they are guaranteed to have their "home" game played - at worst - in front of a neutral crowd. If you get into a two-game deal with OU and it turns out to be a pro-OU crowd, you've basically given up a home game to play a division rival on the road twice.
That said, I have a feeling there will be a good BG turnout in Columbus for this one. I hope to be one of them.
"I don't believe I can name a coach, anywhere, anytime, anyhow, who did it better than Doyt Perry."
-1955 BG Assistant Bo Schembechler
factman wrote:It seems to me if you wanted to do something like this, you would make a deal with OU and do each of our home games there over a two year period, but I'm sure OU's AD is not that stupid.
It works for BG because it's not OU. Why give up a home game to basically play a road game? At worst, the BG-UB game is played in front of a smallish, neutral crowd. At best, they get a good crowd and the financial benefits that go with that, which they may not have realized with 2,000 indifferent fans (14,372 on the box score) leaving at halftime at Perry Stadium.
But then again, I guess the OU AD never kicked your cat.
TG, I think what factman was trying to say is that Ohio would give up 1 of their home games too, it would be a 2-year neutral series instead of playing once in Athens and once in BG. That wouldn't be to either team's detriment, aside from the obvious fact that neither team would be playing on campus.
I think what factman was REALLY trying to say is that he dislikes GAC and everything GAC has ever done. This shocks me, as until now, I thought factman LOVED GAC.
