philly1121 said:
ColoradoBear said:
philly1121 said:
Yeah, I mean, I don't think that's fair. You have this huge game and you lose it to Dublin. You could have made a fortune for a home game against FSU. Maybe you get righted by the game proceeds in Dublin but surely that is shared with FSU for the huge travel costs. I looked at an FSU website. All travel costs are covered. FSU was allocated 15,000 tickets but with no sales obligation. Not sure if either school was paid for their appearance. Seems like a bad deal for GT.
Tickets for both FSU and GT contigents were $245-$375 a piece. Aviva Stadium holds 51k and the game was sold out. That's potentially pushing $12-15 million in ticket sales (no idea what locals were paying for tickets though). There should be enough money to pay GT a hefty sum to compensate for the home game, pay travel expenses, give the promoter some revenue (and the city some extra tourism revenue), and maybe even give FSU a cut of the action for the trouble. FSU was highly ranked and fans were motivated to travel and spend $$$.
Tourism revenue? To Dublin? Who cares about that? If I'm GT I'm missing concessions, more ticket sales, parking, and the revenue around the stadium for community. No way I agree to a league game away from my home turf.
Given those tickets prices, I'd bet the game brought in 3x the revenue of a FSU vs GT home game. And the ancillary revenues of a home game like parking and concessions are really a small fraction of gameday ticket sales.
Now whether GT gets the right amount of money to make it a good trade, I don't know and I don't see any info on the contract that's readily available. But there should be enough to make everyone happy. Does GT let this game happen if they didn't also have Notre Dame at home to bolster season ticket sales? Probably not.
Prices were like 3-4x what tickets were for the Cal v Hawaii game in Australia. I'm not sure if Cal ended up making anything off that game as the payout was $1 million- ish, but I don't remember if travel was taken out fo that. The only way giving up a home game made sense for Cal was if there was a decent home schedule, and in 2016 Cal hosted Texas on top of all the even year teams like Furd, UCLA, UW and Oregon.
