Draft Day One: More Tebow; Is Jags Alualu A No-No...

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Here's the local coverage of the Tebow draft by Denver and what is, probably, the gaffe of the opening round when the Jacksonville Jaguars- who really need butts in seats- went after a reach...

ActionnewsJax's Brent Martineau examines the local Tebow angle and understands folks aren't all that excited about a Pac-10 unknown...

Del Rio Staying In Jacksonville

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FOSG Steve Wrigley reports that the meeting between Jags owner Wayne Weaver and head coach Jack Del Rio is over. The end result is that Del Rio will stay and not walk away from the last three years and $15-million on the contract.

USC AD Mike Garrett will now continue his fishing expedition...

Here's Wayne Weaver's press conference talking about Del Rio's non-exodus...
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The Orlando Jaguars?

The owner of the Jacksonville Jaguars, Wayne Weaver is apparently floating the idea of having his team play a couple of games in Orlando in upcoming seasons. A big reason he is floating the idea; attendance, or lack of it for games in Jacksonville. The Jaguars are having major problems selling out games, sometimes drawing as few as 46,000 people in their 66,000 seat stadium and having their home games blacked out.

More from the Florida Times-Union HERE.

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An interesting discussion. Having lived for a time in Jacksonville, I was actually there when they were awarded the team. The prevailing thought was that they were so football crazed in the River City, they would never have a problem with attendance.

What part of the problem is and nobody has mentioned this; they are now competing with the University of Florida. And quite honestly, people down there are choosing to spend there money in Gainesville. Much like the Atlanta area, North Florida is primarily College Football Territory and as much as they try, unless they have a winning product, people won't come. The Atlanta Falcons for years had the same problem, trying to compete with the University of Georgia. They finally realized they couldn't. They embraced UGA and put a good product on the field...boom...people showed up.

Whether the solution is Orlando...I don't know. I grew up in that area and though the population is big, it is transitory. There aren't a lot of people who live there that are from there. Who knows, maybe they would embrace the Jags, even if it were for just a game or two; my guess is they are just relocating the problem I just talked about. The hardcore football fan in Orlando...also will spend there money with the Gators. Just sayin'.