Our game should rotate sites

[DawgFanFromAlabam]

Was in GV today, first time really (stayed in a hotel close to I75 30 years ago but got there at night). First time to drive around the campus, see The Swamp. Was really nice and I was thinking I'd love to see a Dawg/Gator game there one pretty Saturday afternoon. I like UGA's campus too and it'd be great to see the teams tee it up between the hedges. Then play every 3rd year in JAX 50-50 like usual.

I fully expect the "the last time we played in Athens" joke and other stuff, but I'm serious. I think it would be great fun.

BTW, I was in GV to go to Shands for a MRI. Good folks and a really nice hospital.

Who else would like a rotating series?

[GatorSean]

I like keeping it at a neutral site all the time, since they are so rare these days. I wouldn't be opposed to switching from Jax to Atlanta every other year though.

[Nexgator]

I like keeping it at a neutral site all the time, since they are so rare these days. I wouldn't be opposed to switching from Jax to Atlanta every other year though.

As soon as they start putting the SECCG in Jax, Tampa, or Orlando every other year.

[atlantagator86]

Tough to have a rotating location like that. I think the options are either to keep it in Jax or move it home-and-home. I like the game in Jax best even when UGA was beating Florida every year in the 80s when I was there.

It's a special game, like Texas/OU and I think it would completely change the complexion of the games to move it on campus.

[jcp]

I like the Jax tradition.

[RayGator]

I would also very much like to see the Florida Georgia game rotate sites every year between Gainesville and Athens. I think it was in 1993-1994 when that last took place in the series. Gators won both games.

The '94 game in Athens was really great! Can't remember that score right now, and I'm eating out at Publix right so I can't look it up, but the Gators scored a lot of points! After the game was over, after the game was over Coach Spurrier said, "We heard that no one had ever scored more than 50 points against them up here and we wanted to be the first to do that." :)

One thing that would be an advantage to have this series on a home and home basis is that it would free us up to have another series on an annual home and home basis if we wanted to do that. A good example would be to have an annual game between the Gators and the Miami Hurricanes or alternate it with other different schools. For example, the Gators could do a home and home with Southern Cal for 2 years and then maybe a home and home with Michigan for 2 years etc.

[TWGator]

94 game in Athens was 52-17, I believe.

[GataBaitx3]

94 game in Athens was 52-17, I believe.

"Half a hundred between The Hedges"

[theghost]

No it shouldn't.

It's one of the top 10 best traditions in all of college football. It should stay exactly the way it is.

[gatorpa]

No it shouldn't.

It's one of the top 10 best traditions in all of college football. It should stay exactly the way it is.

Agreed

[Go2gtr]

Every time this question comes up it is out voted in a landslide on this site. I don't see it changing unless it is rendered impossible in some unforeseen way.

[RayGator]

94 game in Athens was 52-17, I believe.

I think you are right.

I wish that game would be replayed on TV again as it sure would be fun to watch!

First, I'm sure everyone remembers that Spurrier always elected to receive if the Gators won the toss. He wanted the ball! And of course Danny Wuerffel was an extraordinary QB in managing his offense. Well, Gators won the toss and of course Danny marched us down the field. Not sure but I think we may have been on about the 8 yard line. Danny throws a pass to Doering in the left corner of the end zone. TD Gators! Well, not so fast. Gators had a penalty. So the next play, again, Danny to Doering in the left corner of the end zone! TD Gators! Well, again, not so fast. Flag on the Gators. I remember the TV cameras showing Doering with his hands on his hips just shaking his head. Now after 2 penalties we're back several yards, maybe 15 or so, I'm not sure. So.....for the 3rd time in a row Danny goes to Doering in the end zone! This time the SEC officials let us keep the TD ! :)

[gatorfansrule]

I'd like to see a 4 year rotation of something like this: at UF, JAX, at UGA, JAX.

[DawgFanFromAlabam]

Every time this question comes up it is out voted in a landslide on this site. I don't see it changing unless it is rendered impossible in some unforeseen way.

I only remember seeing as a home-home and drop JAX. I want it all - home-home and JAX. As for moving it to Dome-JAX I'd rather keep it in JAX, not a big dome fan. The idea was to have the best of both worlds. See a game in The Swamp. You guys traveling up every third year. Then get together half and half in JAX. Just seemed like it would be fun.

[ArtDeco]

Jacksonville sucks, no college town vibe. Also very rowdy and dangerous. I have Gator friends who will not go to Jax with their kids.
I would love to see Athens one day. I've seen just about every other campus. Sucks, really, that we don't get to enjoy it on a football Saturday. And Dawgs would appreciate Gainesville, helluva football town.

[chance50]

As is, no change. NFL standards stadium + tradition = outstanding unique experience!

[your_perfect_enemy]

I'm not fond of jax myself(bad memories of a bs ticket scalping arrest), but I appreciate the history of the rivalry and would hate to see that ruined.

I would love to see Athens for a Florida uga game.

Personally I like the 4 year rotation of jax Gainesville jax @uga idea. It would let the players experience the rivalry twice plus the home/away.

I think a good compromise might be 8 years in jax then a home/home. It would keep the history of the rivalry in jax in tact, while allowing opposing fans to visit the other campus for a game they care about as a special once a decade experience.

[60gator]

I love the 50/50 deal split down the middle with rotating east/west sides. Not duplicated any where else in the country. Please don't change anything. Its fine like it is.
GO GATORS

[theologator]

Was in GV today, first time really (stayed in a hotel close to I75 30 years ago but got there at night). First time to drive around the campus, see The Swamp. Was really nice and I was thinking I'd love to see a Dawg/Gator game there one pretty Saturday afternoon. I like UGA's campus too and it'd be great to see the teams tee it up between the hedges. Then play every 3rd year in JAX 50-50 like usual.

I fully expect the "the last time we played in Athens" joke and other stuff, but I'm serious. I think it would be great fun.

BTW, I was in GV to go to Shands for a MRI. Good folks and a really nice hospital.

Who else would like a rotating series?

It was fun. I was able to visit Sanford Stadium offseason one year and thought the same thing (actually well before the home&home in the 90's). Athens is a great college town.

But I'd hate to lose the Jax tradition AND its extra $$$. It pays like an 8th home game and is an integral part of the budget.

[petro]

YEah! S***can the WLOCP tradition and make it just like any other series. That lame tradition could easily be replaced with a neutral site WLOFM game with FSU every year in Lake City. World's Largest Outdoor Flea Market. /s

Most of the UGA fans I know or have met love coming down to the South GA/N. FL coast to combine an annual vacation with a game in Jax. I would bet their fan base would poll the same as ours as far as keeping the tradition. Can't imagine this game being played without the classic visual of the 'split stadium' fan seating. And, get off my lawn.

[KronoGator]

The 94 game was in Gainesville, the 95 was in Athens, Gators scored 52 in both :D

Conference expansion will kill neutral site games off in short order though, may as well plan for it.

[ovillegator]

My Daddy took me to one of those as a kid -- NEVER move that game out of Jax. It's awesome, and legendary around the country.

[rounds]

Jawja LOVED Jacksonville until they kicked Vince Dooley upstairs...

[GATOR_4Life]

I like keeping it at a neutral site all the time, since they are so rare these days. I wouldn't be opposed to switching from Jax to Atlanta every other year though.

I would be in favor of this too (and no I don't think it has anything to do with the SECCG). I hope to see Gators in Athens some day but not as a standard thing. The neutral site makes this rivalry extra special.

[rounds]

The 50/50 makes the stadium parking lot before the game a flat out PARTAY!

[Marshall]

A couple of thoughts of value here from someone who has been to them since 1958.
1 - make it home and home like everyone else...(like FSU, Miami, UCF, USF??????)..who the hell wants to be everyone else? Only OU/Texas has something as great as this and a whole conference changed plans to make sure that rivalry was assured
2 - yes, I loved the Athens trip, but we get something like a mid year bowl atmosphere or even a championship game atmosphere that you can never get home/home ---- as a student, I fought to get tickets and a living room floor to crash on with friends in Jax BECAUSE it was different
3 - We get to play in a game at the Georgia Dome at the end of the year, great suggestion earlier....we move this game around when they move that game around and that's not moving out of Atlanta because ACC and others would fill in the gap in a heartbeat
4 - what kind of recruiting edge is it to be able to say to recruits, "and once a year we go to Jacksonville where our largest contingent of boosters call home and beat the Dawgs in a mid year bowl game"......since they can't get unofficials or official visits that weekend, how many recruits "find" tickets to that game so they can go.....others don't have that

Give up FL/GA about the same time you get my gun!

[RepubliGator84]

Keep in Jax

[g8rfan22]

Jacksonville sucks, no college town vibe. Also very rowdy and dangerous. I have Gator friends who will not go to Jax with their kids.
I would love to see Athens one day. I've seen just about every other campus. Sucks, really, that we don't get to enjoy it on a football Saturday. And Dawgs would appreciate Gainesville, helluva football town.

I take my son every year & will prob start taking my youngest daughter now. I'm not sure where they were hanging out because we have never had an issue.

It's a great tradition that shouldn't change. If it's changed, you might as well put the slanted F on the helmets too!

[rounds]

A couple of thoughts of value here from someone who has been to them since 1958.
1 - make it home and home like everyone else...(like FSU, Miami, UCF, USF??????)..who the hell wants to be everyone else? Only OU/Texas has something as great as this and a whole conference changed plans to make sure that rivalry was assured
2 - yes, I loved the Athens trip, but we get something like a mid year bowl atmosphere or even a championship game atmosphere that you can never get home/home ---- as a student, I fought to get tickets and a living room floor to crash on with friends in Jax BECAUSE it was different
3 - We get to play in a game at the Georgia Dome at the end of the year, great suggestion earlier....we move this game around when they move that game around and that's not moving out of Atlanta because ACC and others would fill in the gap in a heartbeat
4 - what kind of recruiting edge is it to be able to say to recruits, "and once a year we go to Jacksonville where our largest contingent of boosters call home and beat the Dawgs in a mid year bowl game"......since they can't get unofficials or official visits that weekend, how many recruits "find" tickets to that game so they can go.....others don't have that

Give up FL/GA about the same time you get my gun!
meh....that all you got??

j/k

[85gator]

Keep in jax....the atmosphere is like no other college game (including ut-ou). Went to Athens in 95 (and gville in 94).. Nice campus. But those games seemed like any other sec road trip. No comparison to mid-season bowl game atmosphere and 90 yr tradition of jax.

[VanNoord]

Jax Jax Home Jax Home Jax Jax ... something like that.

[No1GatorFreak]

leave it in jax every year

go gatah

[Go2gtr]

It's a border war. Keep it on the border. All fans from both states have to travel to the border for the game. What's so hard to understand about that?

[orangeblueorangeblue]

Georgia fan today: "we really should rotate sites!"

Hypothetical Georgia fan 10 years from now, 2-8 against the Gators: "hey, we really should be playing in a neutral location"

[JohnC1908]

The game is unique and the best tailgate experience every season. Why you'd want to scrap that just to try something different I don't know. Also, you put that game in the Georgia Dome and you're losing about 10,000 seats.

[geauxgator1]

I like the jax, jax, UGA, UF, jax, jax model. Get the best of both worlds.

[GatorBen]

I like the jax, jax, jax, jax, jax, jax model personally.

[malscott]

Dawgfan:
I kind of like the idea. Although, that Jax atmosphere is pretty special. The bummer with the Athens / Gainesville deal is the visiting team, in both cases, get like three seats for the fans jammed in the corner. Hate to ever lose Jax but wouldn't mind a win/win scenario at the home venues somehow. Maybe like three years on in Jax, then each campus. Three years in Jax, then each campus. Five year deal for the rotation. Couple of those rotations and I'll be watching from the nursing home with a drool cup duct taped to me bloomin face!

[tilly]

Jacksonville sucks, no college town vibe. Also very rowdy and dangerous. I have Gator friends who will not go to Jax with their kids.

I think this opinion is a carryover from the 80s. "Very roudy and dangerous"? Thats a bit of an exaggeration.

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[gatorbogey]

my thought is to go home&home once every decade.
i.e. each decade go 8 years in jax and then in athens, then in g'ville.
i think that spices up the series enough. makes the trip to athens and/or g'ville a special treat. plus, jax can then do something special on the 'homecoming' game back in jax again.

[gator85jd]

Was in GV today, first time really (stayed in a hotel close to I75 30 years ago but got there at night). First time to drive around the campus, see The Swamp. Was really nice and I was thinking I'd love to see a Dawg/Gator game there one pretty Saturday afternoon. I like UGA's campus too and it'd be great to see the teams tee it up between the hedges. Then play every 3rd year in JAX 50-50 like usual.

I fully expect the "the last time we played in Athens" joke and other stuff, but I'm serious. I think it would be great fun.

BTW, I was in GV to go to Shands for a MRI. Good folks and a really nice hospital.

Who else would like a rotating series?

You apparently have never been to a Florida-Georgia game in Jacksonville. Then again, I don't think you've been to any other Florida games or Georgia games . . . . so you really have no basis on which to judge this.

The WLOCP is tradition. Large numbers of fans from both schools show up in Jacksonville almost a week before the game to tailgate in RV City near the "Gator Bowl" in what is one of the greatest regular season events in college football. You want to piss that away for what?

[JohnC1908]

I think this opinion is a carryover from the 80s. "Very roudy and dangerous"? Thats a bit of an exaggeration.

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Also with people tailgating for a week and the Landing being nothing but a huge frat party I fail to see how it's not a college atmosphere.

[TheGator]

Jacksonville sucks, no college town vibe. Also very rowdy and dangerous. I have Gator friends who will not go to Jax with their kids.
I would love to see Athens one day. I've seen just about every other campus. Sucks, really, that we don't get to enjoy it on a football Saturday. And Dawgs would appreciate Gainesville, helluva football town.

I agree with this. I have been to almost every stadium in the SEC, but will never be able to see the Gators play in Athens. Would love to see a game in Athens.

I have been to the games in Jax. It is unique and different, but the series would do better going to a home and home series. Maybe rotate Jax every three years wouldn't be so bad.

[klgator]

I love the 50/50 deal split down the middle with rotating east/west sides. Not duplicated any where else in the country. Please don't change anything. Its fine like it is.
GO GATORSI was wondering about the 50/50 split. Doesn't UT/OU and Army/Navy have a 50/50 split? Any others? At one time they split the stands in fourths (I seem to recall), but I guess there were too many friction points. The rotating of the east/west sides may be unique, though.

[AmbroseGator]

I too would vote for a once a decade home and home.

[ofmgator]

NO way! There is nothing like the atmosphere in JAX before,after and during trhe game when the stadium is split 50/50. Beside wehn either fan base goes to the others stadium there are no good seats and not enough of any seats.

[gator2109]

Georgia fan today: "we really should rotate sites!"

Hypothetical Georgia fan 10 years from now, 2-8 against the Gators: "hey, we really should be playing in a neutral location"

Some UGA fans were bringing up the need for home and home or JAX - ATL a few years ago when they didn't have the current two game streak. A lot believe that Jax is a decent advantage for us with the shorter drive and more UF fans present so they don't really believe it to be "neutral". The theory was that at least every other year they would have home field advantage.

I don't think it should be changed. It would be goofy to rotate between three different sites. Either stay in JAX or make it home-home. I vote to keep tradition alive.

[gator7_5]

Horrible idea.

[tilly]

Also with people tailgating for a week and the Landing being nothing but a huge frat party I fail to see how it's not a college atmosphere.

Yep.

[OaktownGator]

WLOCP is a unique tradition. Red River Rivalry is the only other that compares.

We should keep it as is.

[nwflgator_58]

There's nothing like gameday in Jacksonville. I went to the game in Athens, and the one in Gainesville. There is no comparison. Leave it alone.

[Swampmaster]

rotate the game to other cities: atlanta, orlando, tampa, jacksonville

[tilly]

rotate the game to other cities: atlanta, orlando, tampa, jacksonville

The point of Jax is its basically on the border. That's the beauty of it. If Georgia wants to host the game...build a stadium in Brunswick. :/

[nwflgator_58]

I agree with this. I have been to almost every stadium in the SEC, but will never be able to see the Gators play in Athens. Would love to see a game in Athens.

I have been to the games in Jax. It is unique and different, but the series would do better going to a home and home series. Maybe rotate Jax every three years wouldn't be so bad.

Games in Athens are nothing special. Auburn, LSU, Bama, UT, are all better experiences.

[gatorright]

I've been going to the Florida/Georgia game since 1969 and saw both the home and home at Florida then UGA. To me, the Jacksonville game is Fla/Ga...it is an event...the others were regular season games. It is the difference between a bowl game and a regular season game. Every school has regular season games and then the possibility of a bowl game, but we and GA are lucky enough to have our regular season games with a bowl in the middle, and the possibility of another bowl after the season. Anything different and special in the current homogenized, big-money college football landscape is reason to celebrate.

[g8tr96]

Was in GV today, first time really (stayed in a hotel close to I75 30 years ago but got there at night). First time to drive around the campus, see The Swamp. Was really nice and I was thinking I'd love to see a Dawg/Gator game there one pretty Saturday afternoon. I like UGA's campus too and it'd be great to see the teams tee it up between the hedges. Then play every 3rd year in JAX 50-50 like usual.

I fully expect the "the last time we played in Athens" joke and other stuff, but I'm serious. I think it would be great fun.

BTW, I was in GV to go to Shands for a MRI. Good folks and a really nice hospital.

Who else would like a rotating series?


Financially it does not make sense to go home and away as both schools would lose money via ticket revenue. UGA comes to the Swamp, they are not going to get 40,000 plus tickets for their fans to buy. Same with UF going to Athens.

Besides.... The W.L.O.C.P. is one of a kind and should be around as is, long after you and I leave this earth......that and I live in Jax and would hate to see it anywhere but there. :happy:

[GatorPrincess8]

Not this crap again.

[BigSlick]

Not this crap again.

This!!!!!

[Spurffelbow833]

Moving the game to home-and-home would be tough on the Waldo and Lawtey city budgets.

[tilly]

Moving the game to home-and-home would be tough on the Waldo and Lawtey city budgets.

This.

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[gatorbogey]

LOL

[Go2gtr]

Next time we go home and home should be when they are rebuilding the stadium in Jax. That makes it a real special treat.

[gator85jd]

Not this crap again.

Well said, Princess!!!