Serious question about rivalry

Nov 16, 2013, 3:19 PM

I heard the guy in charge of the SEC Network being interviewed on radio the other day. It sounds like it will be highly likely the SEC will go to 9 games and the ACC had already planned to go to 9 games before deciding to wait. If you recall, TDP did was planning to drop the series with UGA due to a loss of a home game revenue if the conference went to 9 games. The future looks like 9 games for both the ACC and the SEC as these conference networks want more "product" to put on tv. A 9 game conference schedule will mean the athletic department will take a couple-million dollar hit every time an OOC home/away series is played.

Clemson is one of the few schools in the ACC trying to compete at a national level and pushing the envelope every year in facilities and coaches' salaries, etc. and there every million is important....it was important enough for TDP to intend to cancel the UGA series.

If the ACC goes to 9 games then OOC matchups with likes of UGA will be a thing of the past......this is because any BCS school will want a return game at their place and those years would mean one less game that year in DV.

What are y'alls thoughts if there were serious discussion in not playing SCAR every year?

I read some comments on this board, and I know there are these types in every fan base and rivalry, but some express what seems to be tangible hate for SCAR and it's fans.

Most all of us have friends and relatives who are SCAR fans......would it be a terrible thing if we didn't have the stress of that game every year?

I'm just curious if there began discussion that the game may not be played every year if most on here would be against it and maybe consider the possibility.

I have heard the SEC is already telling some schools to prepare not to play some rivalry games in future schedules....UGA/Auburn and UT/Bama.

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Those OOC games are against teams that don't require a home/away agreement.

It's the teams like UGA that will require the payback game at their place. This means, as TDP said, that there is one less home game and a loss of the 2-3 million in revenue that home game brings.

When you are at a football program that spends every dollar on getting better, even a 1 million dollar loss hurts.

If the ACC goes to a 9 game schedule then some years Clemson will have 5 conference home games and some years only 4. There are only 3 games remaining on the schedule to get those home games back and one of those is a predetermined matchup against SCAR.

You can't schedule BCS teams that require home/away because you lose one of those 3 games for a home game in the "away" year of the series.....therefore you have to schedule the FCS schools that don't require a payback game at their place.

Depending on how the schedules work out there will be some years that there are potentially only 6 homes games is SCAR and another OOC BCS school are on the schedule.....this is the issue.

Serious question about rivalry

I think in state rivalries will still be played.***

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Jo - I think you are correct

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Lou - I think you missed part of my point

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state law requires that we play South Carolina U yearly

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