More on case against 9 Game ACC Schedule

https://floridastate.forums.rivals.com/threads/keith-jones-thinks-9-game-conference-schedule-is-going-to-happen.130968/page-2

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"First, Jimbo Fisher disagrees with your assessment.

A few facts about the economic impact of home games at Florida State:

• Game weekends bring in a significant amount of tourism to Leon County. During the 2014 football season, out-of-town attendees brought $48.1 million in in direct spending during the 7 home games.26
• Visitors also booked 74,427 nights and spent $10,125,000 on lodging. In total, 2014 FSU football home games resulted in $94.2 million of economic impact on Leon County.27
• Typical out-of-town attendees spent $459 per day and $1,193 per trip.28

Source: http://economic-impact.fsu.edu/

It's been consistently reported that FSU brings in a little over $2 million per home game. With this year's change in ticket policy and the Champions Club you can bet that number is going up. Also, was told by an administrator that the difference in revenue between a cupcake and a sellout isn't much - maybe $100K or 200 since most of tickets have already been sold.

Nobody has any idea what increase in TV revenue might come from an extra ACC game (if any). Considering FSU might have to drop a decent game every other year to play a UVA or Pitt it doesn't seem realistic that it would be significant. The ninth game is being pushed to help the second and third-tier teams that want a better schedules. FSU and Clemson aren't for it which tells the story despite what crazy scenarios for schedules are thrown out there. "


"Think this is all a moot discussion.

Checked with someone in the know and it doesn't sound like the nine-game ACC slate is on the immediate agenda. FSU voted against it a couple years ago and was told it hasn't been raised again since. "