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    Celebration Bowl is about more than football for A&T

    GREENSBORO — It’s almost time for A&T’s annual football game in Atlanta. The MEAC champs are headed back to the Celebration Bowl, a game the Aggies appear destined to play year-in and year-out.

    No one talks about A&T going to the NCAA playoffs any more. That’s a waste of time and money. The Celebration Bowl pays, and the dividends are about much more than football.

    This is a national game, broadcast on ABC. The audience of more than 2.3 million in 2018 exceeded viewership of 13 FBS bowl games, the two FCS semifinals and the FCS national championship, according to Sports Media Watch. The Celebration Bowl is about exposure, not just for the football program but for the band, for the city and the university, from the athletics department to the science and engineering departments.

    https://www.greensboro.com/sports/co...c5a6dc2b5.html


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    Celebration Bowl is about more than football for A&T

    GREENSBORO — It’s almost time for A&T’s annual football game in Atlanta. The MEAC champs are headed back to the Celebration Bowl, a game the Aggies appear destined to play year-in and year-out.

    No one talks about A&T going to the NCAA playoffs any more. That’s a waste of time and money. The Celebration Bowl pays, and the dividends are about much more than football.

    This is a national game, broadcast on ABC. The audience of more than 2.3 million in 2018 exceeded viewership of 13 FBS bowl games, the two FCS semifinals and the FCS national championship, according to Sports Media Watch. The Celebration Bowl is about exposure, not just for the football program but for the band, for the city and the university, from the athletics department to the science and engineering departments.

    https://www.greensboro.com/sports/co...c5a6dc2b5.html

    Man Fuggg the FCS Playoffs !!


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    "When you go to the playoffs, you lose money,” the A&T coach said. “That’s the reality. We’d have to get to the quarterfinals just to break even."
    Georgetown: "We play where we do not compete, and compete where we do not play."

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    Re: Celebration Bowl is about more than football for A&T

    But if you did participate in the playoffs and you won your first round game you just doubled your post season attendance and thus doubled your revenue.
    I have seen many HBCU fans brag about their attendance. Why not bring that attendance to the playoffs and get that revenue multiple times?????

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    Dec 21st should be a 3 hour A&T commercial

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    Re: Celebration Bowl is about more than football for A&T

    More FCS Conferences should weigh their options instead of the current system...None of us should be forced into a "Pay for play" post season.

    Bowl games have a branding element that regular-season games and even playoff games do not. They’re opportunities for schools to remind people that it’s not just a college that plays football but a football team from, in A&T’s case, a research university with nationally recognized programs in mathematics, engineering, agriculture, environmental sciences, education, technology, business and economics.
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    Re: Celebration Bowl is about more than football for A&T

    Quote Originally Posted by A&T AGGIE96 View Post
    GREENSBORO — It’s almost time for A&T’s annual football game in Atlanta. The MEAC champs are headed back to the Celebration Bowl, a game the Aggies appear destined to play year-in and year-out.

    No one talks about A&T going to the NCAA playoffs any more. That’s a waste of time and money. The Celebration Bowl pays, and the dividends are about much more than football.

    This is a national game, broadcast on ABC. The audience of more than 2.3 million in 2018 exceeded viewership of 13 FBS bowl games, the two FCS semifinals and the FCS national championship, according to Sports Media Watch. The Celebration Bowl is about exposure, not just for the football program but for the band, for the city and the university, from the athletics department to the science and engineering departments.

    https://www.greensboro.com/sports/co...c5a6dc2b5.html

    Man Fuggg the FCS Playoffs !!

    The moral of the story...

    The FBS has way too many bowl games...

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    Re: Celebration Bowl is about more than football for A&T

    Quote Originally Posted by wapiti View Post
    But if you did participate in the playoffs and you won your first round game you just doubled your post season attendance and thus doubled your revenue.
    I have seen many HBCU fans brag about their attendance. Why not bring that attendance to the playoffs and get that revenue multiple times?????
    This........plus you'd think they would want to find out how they measure with the top 10 of FCS overall, on the field.
    1-AA is tops!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by DFW HOYA View Post
    "When you go to the playoffs, you lose money,” the A&T coach said. “That’s the reality. We’d have to get to the quarterfinals just to break even."
    That's why I'm glad we are doing something that works for us...football is regional and cultural. A playoff system doesn't work for football the way it does for basketball. Teams, staff, band, fans, etc...expected to travel to a different location every week...outside of their regions and areas of interest...and FCS folks make excuses about lack of fan interest. Blame it on the holidays, students being gone, you name it...They just won't except the reality. Nobody want to lose money to play games against schools nobody has heard of, or teams nobody wants to see. If that isn't bad enough you have to pay for that and lose money along the way.

    This weekend, the Aggies will play in their third straight Celebration Bowl, the fourth in five years. And they’ll bring home a million bucks.
    For a school ranked 180th in the country in total revenue in 2018, that’s a lot of money.

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    Re: Celebration Bowl is about more than football for A&T

    Quote Originally Posted by wapiti View Post
    But if you did participate in the playoffs and you won your first round game you just doubled your post season attendance and thus doubled your revenue.
    I have seen many HBCU fans brag about their attendance. Why not bring that attendance to the playoffs and get that revenue multiple times?????
    in theory , it makes sense. But no HBCU has made it past the 1st round in 20 years. We are talking a 600k check and 200K in tickets. You can't guarantee that with a home playoff. Look at the playoff games with inclement weather , this year. That cost them. This is a sure thing.

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