Texagtrojan said:
monarch said:
I stopped feeding money into Jerry's rear end a few years back and I don't worry about it. This is the one game we purposely miss each year.
IMO, whenever the contract is up we should get out of it. If Arky wants to continue to play the game in Arlington, that's fine; they can be the home team and we can be the visitors on alternate years. When we are the home team, we can play at Kyle Field. We didn't put $475 million into Kyle to let it sit idle once a year because the agreement we have now.
Get out of that thing. As for buying tickets to the game, wait until the day before or the day of. You'll be able to get tickets for half price if not better.
So much wrong in what you said.
Jerry makes nothing off this game.
Atmosphere is great.
Get over it
So if A&M and Arkansas split the gate, would you rather have 1/2 of the money every year or all of the money every other year? I can see where this would be a better deal for Arkansas than for A&M. Reynolds Stadium holds 76,000 - and they would sell that out every other year when A&M came to town. Kyle Field holds over 100,000 - and we would sell that out (or close to it) every other year when Arkansas came to town. Plus, each school would get full concession money, as well as the economic development boost it would give each city.
Or...we can split these attendance numbers down the middle:
2018 - 55,383
2017 - 64,668
2016 - 67,751
2015 - 67,339
2014 - 68,113
2013 - on campus in Fayetteville (72,613 in attendance)
2012 - on campus in College Station (86,442 in attendance)
2011 - 69,838
2010 - 65,662
2009 - 71,872
We have played Arkansas 8 times at Cowboys Stadium with an average attendance of 66,328 (seating capacity is just under 100,000). A stadium...any stadium...that averages about 2/3 capacity DOES NOT have a great atmosphere. Heck, last year...in year one of the Jimbo era...we *barely* filled 1/2 of the stadium.
From Year 1 of the series to last year, the attendance dropped by 22.9%. And, as you can clearly see, the attendance numbers are trending in the absolute wrong direction. I think the fans have spoken. Yea, there may be a few folks who like playing in a cavern, but the collapsing ticket sales numbers paint a pretty clear picture of what A&M and Arkansas fans think of having the game in Arlington.
And to say Jerry makes nothing off of this game is simply foolish. Jerry Jones did not become a billionaire by giving away things for free. Dude is making money on the deal or he wouldn't be doing it. That's how a rich person maintains his rich person status.
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