[Husker] Big 10 to increase number of league games.

[Mike Jaixen]

I believe that it's typically been in the $2 million range.  Better than a road game, but not as good as a home game.  And two neutral field games probably end up being worse than a home and home, because in both cases, the neutral host organization is profiting on either game instead of the schools.

The actual numbers will depend on stadium sizes, of course.  Larger stadium = more tickets sold.  And that's where playing at B1G stadiums is going to be tough to beat, with 3 stadiums that can hold well over 100k.  Nebraska next season will hold over 90k.  Most NFL stadiums are under 70,000 capacity, though JerryWorld can have standing room crowds approaching 100k.

Mike Jaixen
http://huskermike.blogspot.com
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--- On Tue, 2/12/13, Matt <matthew.a.phillips at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Matt <matthew.a.phillips at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Husker] Big 10 to increase number of league games.
To: "Dave Ratchford" <ratchfromneb at gmail.com>
Cc: "Husker Discussion List" <husker at tssi.com>
Date: Tuesday, February 12, 2013, 4:19 PM

List,

Enjoying this discussion.

Question: does anyone know how much teams get to play in those 'special'
neutral site games like the ones they have down here in JerryWorld?

I could imagine it's not $5M, but maybe enough that these schools might
offset the loss of a home game every once and a while.  And I think the
market would support a LOT more of these.  And there are plenty of empty
NFL stadiums on Saturdays, right?  Basically it could become a preseason
bowl season...

GBR,
-m
On Feb 12, 2013 4:00 PM, "Dave Ratchford" <ratchfromneb at gmail.com> wrote:

> Do you think this talk of 10 conference games per season may be some kind
> of indicator that the conference isn't done growing at 14 teams?
>
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 4:46 PM, Mike Nolan <nolan at tssi.com> wrote:
>
> > > > Yep.  And from the statements by Smith you can see that the school
> ADs
> > and
> > > > conference honchos have thought of all of this too.  Nothing you have
> > > > mentioned hasn't already been thought of by them, and I daresay a lot
> > > > more.  We'll see how it works out.
> >
> > Like a 13 game season, which I think we'll see by 2020.
> > --
> > Mike Nolan
> >
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