[stupac2]

What I am now annoyed by is that we're paying Davis $650k for this game. I don't care if it makes us more likely to lose, schedule a third real game that I'll enjoy going to, and then give away free tickets for a couple games. That would be such a better use of that money.

(In case you haven't read the over-arching article on the feature here: https://www.sfchronicle.com/collegesport...221029.php)

The problem with that is then you have to do a home and home, and with our schedule (de facto 10 conference games, stupidly timed to be 6 at home one year and 4 the next) that's very challenging. Many years it works out that we can get at least 6 home games with home-and-homes, but often it doesn't, and to get a one-off team to come in you generally have to pay them.

Incidentally, this is one of the reasons I want to drop ND, or figure out a way to switch it so we're at least timing it up with the conference schedule and have 5 home/away all years. It would just make things simpler.

[stupac2]

What I am now annoyed by is that we're paying Davis $650k for this game. I don't care if it makes us more likely to lose, schedule a third real game that I'll enjoy going to, and then give away free tickets for a couple games. That would be such a better use of that money.

(In case you haven't read the over-arching article on the feature here: https://www.sfchronicle.com/collegesport...221029.php)

The problem with that is then you have to do a home and home, and with our schedule (de facto 10 conference games, stupidly timed to be 6 at home one year and 4 the next) that's very challenging. Many years it works out that we can get at least 6 home games with home-and-homes, but often it doesn't, and to get a one-off team to come in you generally have to pay them.

Incidentally, this is one of the reasons I want to drop ND, or figure out a way to switch it so we're at least timing it up with the conference schedule and have 5 home/away all years. It would just make things simpler.