Future of UF-UGA game in Jacksonville?

[NOLAGATOR]

Mullen talks future of UF-UGA game in Jacksonville

Mullen talks future of UF-UGA game in Jacksonville

"I think there's three more years," Mullen said. "We'll see, you never know which direction college football is going in at that point. Because I think every other year -- I can see his point of every other year you do lose an opportunity, one less home recruiting game every other year.

"But it is such a great event to have the game and it's such a unique event in college football.


It's a special game but Gainesville loses a lot by giving up a great home game.

Your thoughts?

 

[neteng]

Your thoughts?

F_ck uga

 

[NOLAGATOR]

Fvvck uga

In Jax or at Home?

 

[soflagator]

F_ck uga

In Jax or at Home?

In general. At all times.

 

[gatormandan]

In before the donk says fvk Jville but always wants us to recruit out of there.

 

[NOLAGATOR]

In general. At all times.

Understood...but do we move home and home or play in JAX?

 

[neteng]

In Jax or at Home?

everywhere

 

[rogdochar]

Makes UGa travel further = +
Would the money loss to the Jax-concerns cause them to disperse more $ pay-out to the schools?
Surely, the NFL Jags can leave that venue often vacant?
At Jax, to many Gators, it passes as a home game every year. Otherwise, we'll be watching Athens being promoted every other year. Jax will not become a more natural recruiting ground for UGa as it will become for UF in the future.
The WLOCP is not a regular CFB season game, which it will become as a home & home play. The WLOCP has inflated buildup, better TV visuals and an atypical fans-in-the-stands to whet the interests of national attention.
Think of reversing the process, the difficulties of being so lucky to get into an NFL stadium.??

 

[Swamp Donkey]

In before the donk says fvk Jville but always wants us to recruit out of there.

Fvkk jax.

Going to Jax doesn't make us recruit better there.

I want us to recruit Orlando, Tampa, and Ocala too, but I don't want to give up a home game every year to play in those shytholes.

 

[Captain Sasquatch]

Money always wins over tradition. It won't be there much longer.

 

[NOLAGATOR]

Money always wins over tradition. It won't be there much longer.

You could be correct. The Iron Bowl went home and home but Birmingham is a dump.

 

[jaywalker72]

I would love for Georgia to make a huge stink about this, again, and for things to finally break and force the series out of Jacksonville only to see the Gators go on a monster run and beat them in Athens 10 straight times, making the future UGH coach beg for Jacksonville again in 2042.

 

[neteng]

I would love for Georgia to make a huge stink about this, again, and for things to finally break and force the series out of Jacksonville only to see the Gators go on a monster run and beat them in Athens 10 straight times, making the future UGH coach beg for Jacksonville again in 2042.

Well ... then now probably isn't the right time for things to finally break and force the series to Jax.

 

[sminings]

Poodle fans here in ATL have been calling sports radio stations asking for a home and home series alternated by a game in Jax and another in ATL.

 

[GatorInGeorgia]

In Jax or at Home?

In the AZZ!

 

[neteng]

In the goat AZZ!

fify

 

[Mr. SEC]

Move to a 9 game SEC schedule, 4 road, 4 home, 1 neutral site game. Dan Mullen's idea...decent idea.

 

[GatorInGeorgia]

Poodle fans here in ATL have been calling sports radio stations asking for a home and home series alternated by a game in Jax and another in ATL.

Yeah, I heard 92.9 The Game hosts yesterday talking about having it in Mercedes Benz stadium every so often. They proceeded to break down & compare travel time required from Athens to Jax, Gainesville to Atlanta, etc. The Atlanta stadium is really nice but I don’t want to play the game here. I’d rather do home/home before going that route.

Regarding Kirby’s comments about its’ effect on recruiting I think that is a pretty weak excuse. If your program is winning a bunch of ball games and playing for titles, losing one home game every other year isn’t going to have any material negative impact on recruiting. Financially it may hurt a little but that’s a different issue. UGA never had a problem recruiting under Dooley, Goof or Richt playing in Jax and we never had a problem recruiting under SOS or Meyer playing there. Just a bunch of BS from Kirby.

 

[Gator By Marriage]

Yeah, I heard 92.9 The Game hosts yesterday talking about having it in Mercedes Benz stadium every so often. They proceeded to break down & compare travel time required from Athens to Jax, Gainesville to Atlanta, etc. The Atlanta stadium is really nice but I don’t want to play the game here. I’d rather do home/home before going that route.

Regarding Kirby’s comments about its’ effect on recruiting I think that is a pretty weak excuse. If your program is winning a bunch of ball games and playing for titles, losing one home game every other year isn’t going to have any material negative impact on recruiting. Financially it may hurt a little but that’s a different issue. UGA never had a problem recruiting under Dooley, Goof or Richt playing in Jax and we never had a problem recruiting under SOS or Meyer playing there. Just a bunch of BS from Kirby.

They seem to be recruiting pretty well under Kirby too....

 

[GatorInGeorgia]

They seem to be recruiting pretty well under Kirby too....

That is true.