The Georgia-Florida game location for 2026 and 2027 closer to being decided
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too bad the IUGA leadership evidently cares nothing about all the small Athens businesses that Athens the jewel college town that it is. They would rather fatten the corporations in Atlanta and Orlando. Very sad and shortsighted. One wealthy nooster would probably be willing to make up the tevenue difference each uear and we could better support CKS in his tireless recruiting program.
Why does it always come down to how much money is involved? UGA football would be better served by a home and home series. The concept of the worlds largest cocktail party has long since become a crock of crap. It's time to do what's best for the town of Athens and the Georgia Bulldogs.
Unfortunately money does all of the talking now due to what college sports is becoming.
Unfortunately, money is even more important now in this NIL environment. An extra recruiting weekend on campus every other year or more money for NIL? It is more likely now that money will win out.
Of course the AD's will keep the games on neutral fields during the gator bowl renovation. You can't have the games in Athens and Gainesville. That would show the fans how great it would be to have the games on each team's home field. Can't have that. Too many people would realize how much better that would be for UGA football, Athens and the state of GA. Got to continue the UGA money grab.
Past time for everyone to write Kemp and express their dissatisfaction.
Money shouldn’t be an issue for UGA anymore. All Kirby has to do is ask and I bet they would make more in donations than the game in Jacksonville. It would also allow for another recruiting weekend which is priceless. Not to mention the economic impact a home game has for Athens.
Jacksonville has never been a neutral site.
I agree, and a Home-and-Home arrangement would feel more like what college football is supposed to feel like. As for the alternative locations of Atlanta and Orlando, the only neutrality that plan offers is that both locations are equally non-neutral (what?!?)
GO DAWGS!
Jax investing $1.4 BILLION dollars into a stadium for 8 Jag's home games, 1 UGA/FU game and 1 bowl game a year tells you how much money those games bring into the city.
@GoodOlDawg CFB feels less and less like CFB every day.
The money that UGA gets isn't only from the City of Jacksonville; it's also from the big-money alums and fan base in SE GA who write the checks to the institution. There are a lot of fans in SE GA who don't want to give up that weekend, and I'm sure they're letting the president know. When KS says: “I don’t know that people understand the value of that, they don’t respect it.” I don't believe he's referring to school administrators; he's talking about alums.
