Ua To Pay $2.35 Million To 2011 Opponents

[bdan2002]

Season-opening opponent Kent State will take home $1.2 million for playing the Crimson Tide, while North Texas will receive $750,000 and Georgia Southern will get $400,000.

North Texas received an allotment of up to 7,000 tickets, and would have to pay $200,000 to breach the contract, and Kent State received up to 1,000 tickets with a $1 million fee to breach the deal. It is unclear what Georgia Southern received for a ticket allotment, but the Eagles’ breach payment would be $500,000.

Alabama released its 2011 schedule nearly three weeks ago, with the Kent State game being played Sept. 3, North Texas visiting Tuscaloosa on Sept. 17, and Georgia Southern visiting UA on Nov. 19. Alabama’s road game at Penn State next year will be Sept. 11.

[PlummMeanGreen]

Season-opening opponent Kent State will take home $1.2 million for playing the Crimson Tide, while North Texas will receive $750,000 and Georgia Southern will get $400,000.

North Texas received an allotment of up to 7,000 tickets, and would have to pay $200,000 to breach the contract, and Kent State received up to 1,000 tickets with a $1 million fee to breach the deal. It is unclear what Georgia Southern received for a ticket allotment, but the Eagles’ breach payment would be $500,000.

Alabama released its 2011 schedule nearly three weeks ago, with the Kent State game being played Sept. 3, North Texas visiting Tuscaloosa on Sept. 17, and Georgia Southern visiting UA on Nov. 19. Alabama’s road game at Penn State next year will be Sept. 11.

It is not the time for us to keep playing Alabama.

Why this love affair to keep scheduling the 'Tide? We should play others who would pay as much but be ranked anywhere from #15 thru #25--not #1 thru #10. Give us a few years, then lets tee it up with Alabama when we've had 3 or 4 years to recruit toward that new football palace of ours.

[greenminer]

Linkage please?

Also, initial read as underarmor. :/

[MDH]

Something tells me we won't need 7,000 tickets.