09-20-2011, 08:59 PM
It would get to the point where I'm sure some games featuring schools from vastly different geographic regions of the US would end up playing in stadiums filled with only home team fans--and probably not even at capacity. If the athletic departments were willing to take the hit on ticket sales, they had better have had a bigger guaranteed lump of cash from the TV contract for that game...and I think that's almost what this is about. Lumps of cash.