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KronoGator · 01-31-2013, 07:43 PM

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

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

**ovillegator** · 01-31-2013, 07:45 PM

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 · 01-31-2013, 07:47 PM

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

GATOR_4Life · 01-31-2013, 07:53 PM

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Originally Posted by 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.

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 · 01-31-2013, 07:57 PM

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

**Marshall** · 01-31-2013, 07:58 PM

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** · 01-31-2013, 08:07 PM

Keep in Jax

g8rfan22 · 01-31-2013, 08:23 PM

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Originally Posted by 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.

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 · 01-31-2013, 08:24 PM

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Originally Posted by 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!

meh....that all you got??

j/k

85gator · 01-31-2013, 08:46 PM

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 · 01-31-2013, 09:23 PM

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

No1GatorFreak · 01-31-2013, 09:31 PM

leave it in jax every year

go gatah

Go2gtr · 01-31-2013, 09:41 PM

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 · 01-31-2013, 09:44 PM

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 · 01-31-2013, 09:48 PM

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 · 01-31-2013, 09:52 PM

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

GatorBen · 01-31-2013, 10:02 PM

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

malscott · 01-31-2013, 10:16 PM

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 · 01-31-2013, 10:34 PM

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

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gatorbogey · 01-31-2013, 10:36 PM

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.