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Title: "Alabama AD explains what changed, why Texas, Notre Dame series make sense" Post by: WALL-E on May 16, 2018, 03:22:02 PM Alabama AD explains what changed, why Texas, Notre Dame series make sense
Title: Bama Football v Texas Home and Home Series Post by: Catch Prothro on May 16, 2018, 03:44:17 PM How can they win without Cote?
Quote Alabama and Texas announced a home-and-home series between the Crimson Tide and Longhorns for 2022 and 2023 on Wednesday. https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/alabama-texas-announce-future-home-and-home-series/ Title: Re: Bama Football v Texas Home and Home Series Post by: Catch Prothro on May 16, 2018, 03:46:27 PM Other season openers:
Quote Alabama is scheduled to open the 2018 season on Sept. 1 in Orlando, Fla., against Louisville. The Crimson Tide will then face Duke in the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game in 2019 and Miami (Fla.) in the 2021 game in Atlanta. Title: Re: Bama Football v Texas Home and Home Series Post by: 2Stater on May 16, 2018, 05:36:14 PM How can they win without Cote? Quote Alabama and Texas announced a home-and-home series between the Crimson Tide and Longhorns for 2022 and 2023 on Wednesday. https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/alabama-texas-announce-future-home-and-home-series/ :lol3: :lol3: :lol3: Title: Re: Bama Football v Texas Home and Home Series Post by: ricky023 on May 16, 2018, 07:28:41 PM How can they win without Cote? Quote Alabama and Texas announced a home-and-home series between the Crimson Tide and Longhorns for 2022 and 2023 on Wednesday. https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/alabama-texas-announce-future-home-and-home-series/ :lol3: :lol3: :lol3: :deadhorse: this is what we will do to them. RTR! Title: Re: "Alabama AD explains what changed, why Texas, Notre Dame series make sense" Post by: Catch Prothro on May 17, 2018, 06:50:19 AM Alabama AD explains what changed, why Texas, Notre Dame series make sense. https://www.al.com/alabamafootball/index.ssf/2018/05/alabama_ad_explains_what_chang.html
Quote The moves broke almost a decade of precedent of Alabama playing these high-profile non-conference opponents exclusively in neutral sites. #+Saban always explained it as an exposure thing that had financial considerations. There was an annual payout that came with the neutral-site games that won't come with the Texas and Notre Dame games. In the Notre Dame contract, each school agreed to pay the visitor $1 million, but that obviously comes out revenue neutral. Byrne explained why that thinking evolved. "The paycheck is nice and we're going to have to budget accordingly," Byrne said. "We also think long term, from a season-ticket standpoint, that will help continue to keep people engaged and invested for the entire season. These two series made sense for us." There has been more and more grumbling from season-ticket holders paying high prices Attendance for the non-conference home games have sagged since the long sell-out streak ended in 2012. Though announced figures were at least close to the 101,821 capacity of Bryant-Denny Stadium in recent years, empty seats have become the norm for games with teams from outside the Power 5 conferences. **** For Texas, finding that two-year window to fit Alabama in meant postponing a Texas series with Ohio State... The cancelation of a 2023 game between Texas and UCF also went public Wednesday.... "Texas handled that," Byrne said. "A lot of schools talk to us and we talk to a lot of schools," Byrne said when asked if there had ever been discussions with the Orlando school. Any possibility UCF would end up on an Alabama schedule? "Don't see that on the radar screen," said in the final answer of the interview Wednesday." |