re: Have to hand it to Alleva, of course gameday will be the ultimate judge

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How does it cost money to schedule better games?

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Because you can't just get decent competition to come into Tiger Stadium without them expecting something in return. This generally comes in the form of a return trip to their stadium. When you visit someone else's stadium for a game, you make basically no money on it. Therefore, forgoing a future home game and giving the other team a return trip to their stadium costs you money relative to other options (such as the neutral site games or scheduling rent-a-wins)