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Cincydawg

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Re: WLOCP
« Reply #1 on: October 26, 2022, 12:11:38 PM »
I'm ambivalent.  I understand the point on recruiting, and Smart certainly struggles to get a good recruiting class.


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Re: WLOCP
« Reply #2 on: October 26, 2022, 12:23:06 PM »
I loved going to WLOCP.  About as much as RRS.  

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Re: WLOCP
« Reply #3 on: October 26, 2022, 01:39:29 PM »
Usually, whichever team is losing the most lately talks about moving it to home-and-home.  In lieu of doing that, for Smart's recruiting point, I'd work on simply changing the rule.
The rule seems like they didn't know what to do and didn't want teams with an annual neutral site game to go crazy with it and have an advantage, so they just shut it down.
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A simple, nuanced rule would take care of everything.  Each school should just pick a Jacksonville-area location as a 'home site host' place, which serves as a replacement for their home stadium.  There can't be any shortage of decked-out UF and UGA alumni with posh spots that could do it.  Or if that's no good, have the universities purchase a site to be the hosting home-away-from-home.
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Making it home-and-home is just the most easy, direct route because the current contract ends in '23. 
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Re: WLOCP
« Reply #4 on: October 26, 2022, 01:51:33 PM »
I loved going to WLOCP.  About as much as RRS. 
I've never been to either but I've contemplated that someday, post retirement, I'd love to hit some of the more well known CFB games. Bother RRS and WLOCP would be on my list along with:
  • An Iron Bowl
  • ND at USC
  • Harvard/Yale
  • Army/Navy


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Re: WLOCP
« Reply #5 on: October 26, 2022, 01:55:56 PM »
I've never been to either but I've contemplated that someday, post retirement, I'd love to hit some of the more well known CFB games. Bother RRS and WLOCP would be on my list along with:
  • An Iron Bowl
  • ND at USC
  • Harvard/Yale
  • Army/Navy


I've also done 2 and 3.  Though 2 was at ND.

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Re: WLOCP
« Reply #6 on: October 26, 2022, 01:58:16 PM »
UGA only gets four true "real" home games per year (I don't count Kent State in that).  

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« Reply #7 on: October 26, 2022, 02:14:11 PM »
I've also done 2 and 3.  Though 2 was at ND.
For the Iron Bowl either location would be ok, but I'd prefer Tuscaloosa. 

For ND/USC it would have to be late November in SoCal. I've seen lots of fall football in the Midwest on lots of campuses.

Harvard/Yale could be either place. 

For Army/Navy I'd love to see a game at Michie but they haven't played Army/Navy on campus since WWII.

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Re: WLOCP
« Reply #8 on: October 26, 2022, 02:20:08 PM »
Army/Navy should be played at Gettysburg every year to commemorate our victory over the British after the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor!
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Re: WLOCP
« Reply #9 on: October 26, 2022, 02:23:58 PM »
would be cool if there were annual OOC home-and-home games with B1G/SEC every year. Let's all start new rivalries. To hell with ever playing Notre Dame ever again. I'd be cool with playing Florida every single year, home and home. Penn State can take on Bama. Ohio State can take on Georgia. Let's do it. 

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Re: WLOCP
« Reply #10 on: October 26, 2022, 02:27:38 PM »
Army/Navy should be played at Gettysburg every year to commemorate our victory over the British after the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor!

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Re: WLOCP
« Reply #11 on: October 26, 2022, 02:34:53 PM »
Like most here, I like P5 OOC games of note, but I'd rather rotate opponents and play different programs over time.  UGA had a pretty solid OOC slate until Texas and Oklahoma ran off.

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Re: WLOCP
« Reply #12 on: October 26, 2022, 02:46:15 PM »
would be cool if there were annual OOC home-and-home games with B1G/SEC every year. Let's all start new rivalries. To hell with ever playing Notre Dame ever again. I'd be cool with playing Florida every single year, home and home. Penn State can take on Bama. Ohio State can take on Georgia. Let's do it.
Bulljive.

Florida is getting Wisconsin.

Michigan gets Vandy.

Actually... never mind.

UW will take Vandy.

Nashville is a much better Ville than Gainsville.
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Re: WLOCP
« Reply #13 on: October 26, 2022, 02:50:45 PM »
Bulljive.

Florida is getting Wisconsin.

Michigan gets Vandy.

Actually... never mind.

UW will take Vandy.

Nashville is a much better Ville than Gainsville.
Wisconsin can have Florida.

I actually want Michigan to take Texas.

USC can take LSU.

UCLA can take Oklahoma.

Let's do it.

 

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