[Husker] Big Ten/Pac-12 Scheduling Agreement

[Mike Jaixen]

TV money will drive a playoff, that's for sure.  But ticket revenue is not chump change either.  And when you are faced with the possibility of selling 30,000 tickets in some warm weather location between, say Nebraska and Virginia Tech...or selling 90,000 tickets in Lincoln...guess who wins?   (At $75 a ticket, that's $4.5 million.  Multiply that by 4 quarterfinal games and two semi final games, that's $20-$30 million a year that can't be ignored...)

And let's face it, ESPN will want these games on campuses because the backdrop for the game will be better.

 
Mike Jaixen
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________________________________
 From: Mike Nolan <nolan at tssi.com>
To: mikejaixen at yahoo.com 
Cc: Husker List <husker at tssi.com> 
Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2011 1:07 PM
Subject: Re: [Husker] Big Ten/Pac-12 Scheduling Agreement
 
> But with a 9 game conference schedule and a non-conference matchup with the
>  Pac-12, that pretty much means we'll never see an SEC team or Oklahoma in 
> Lincoln until we get a college football playoff.

A further tie-up between the Big Ten and the Pac 12 is stupid, IMHO, for
the reason given above.  

There is no guarantee that a playoff would involve any home games, in fact
a strong argument could be made against it just on the basis of weather
conditions.  The problem is that 'neutral sites' might not be all that
neutral and/or ticket sales might suffer.  But are ticket sales going to
be relevant in a playoff if ESPN or other networks are in the driver's
seat?  I rather doubt it.  
--
Mike Nolan