John Buccigross
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You need atmosphere.
Atmosphere is mainly for the athletes.
Athletes would rather play a road game than a 3,000 attended neutral site game in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
They'd rather go to Fargo with
nine thousand drunk north dakota fans and they'd rather have that that's fun right because if you win that's the best road silence is the best it's great for us on television atmosphere is better for a television show and in the end life is a television show much less sports now but sports is definitely a television show everything must be geared towards that it's just no longer a pure competition back in 1890 between you know 10 drunk scots
got dudes up in Canada playing hockey right for their life or death it's not it's just not anymore it's a television show and so yes we should play on campus sites they do it in the first round of the college football playoff how good was that right and before they head to the bowls and then it becomes kind of a neutral site again but no I agree that and that that
David is slowly getting more power.
There's a lot of coaches who agree with him but are afraid to come out and talk like he talks.
I know that's frustrating for some people, but I think we'll end up there.
There isn't one.
It's a great question.
I can't, I don't think they have one.
To answer your question, I don't see how these are money-making ventures.
I'm sure they did well in Loveland because there's a couple of sold-out places.
I don't know what the reason is, the NCAA and the coaches.
But I think, ultimately, they do that because they think that's the most fair way to...
the side of champion, you know, is a neutral site playoff game.
It's like, obviously, it's becoming... Those guys need to do it publicly, though.
Yeah, you're right.
But maybe their AD is against it and they're afraid to go against their AD.