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Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast

Gameday homes, Dak, and Starkville real estate

Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast

Richard Johnson and Alex Kirshner

Sports News, Sports, Football, News

4.9 β€’ 916 Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 30 June 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

This episode is an example of the bonus episodes we regularly publish on our Patreon, which you can subscribe to at splitzoneduo.com. Patrons will see another episode going up on their feeds just as they see this one. Maybe you know someone who's spent a weekend at a gameday home –– a property they or a friend bought exclusively for use on college football game weekends. This episode is about the growth of those properties in the SEC –– and in Starkville, Mississippi, in particular –– and how Mississippi State's mid-2010s success has had a tangible impact on the housing supply in the Bulldogs' city. Taylor Shelton is a Georgia State geographer who recently conducted a first-of-its-kind study into the proliferation of gameday homes, how they've boomed in recent years, what they've done to housing markets in cities like Starkville, and what they've changed about how SEC cities use their space. In other words, this is an interview about what football can mean to real estate markets and college towns in the American South. You can find Taylor's study at www.taylorshelton.info, and his Twitter handle is @kyjts. Or you can enroll at Georgia State and get the paid version of all he has to offer.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Could you clear up for people just real quick. What is a quote-unquote game day home?

0:07.0

Yeah, so this is not something that we have an official definition of or that anybody has set in stone, but like the of

0:15.0

or that anybody has set in stone, but like the definition of pornography, maybe it's kind of a, you know it, when you see it, type situation.

0:19.0

And if you've lived in any of the places where this manifests.

0:22.9

It's definitely something you know when you see,

0:24.5

but long story short, it's basically a second home

0:28.2

or maybe a third or fourth or fifth home

0:30.2

for some of these especially wealthy people that's purchased for use and occupation during the

0:36.8

weekends of home sporting events. This happens for a variety of sports.

0:42.9

I think it's most concentrated in college football

0:46.0

for a variety of reasons,

0:47.8

though there's some evidence that college basketball

0:49.6

and college baseball may have something to do with it as well. And the other kind of piece of this is that as part of being used primarily for these weekends of home sporting events,

1:02.6

especially college football games,

1:04.0

of which you're only gonna have,

1:05.4

you know, seven or eight home college football games

1:07.8

each year, that the vast majority of the year otherwise

1:11.6

it's going to be sitting vacant. It's not going to be

1:14.5

anybody's permanent house. It's not going to be primarily rented out,

1:18.7

whether to a long-term renter or to to short-term rentals like Airbnb or something like that, right?

1:25.5

So it's basically a property that's used primarily

1:28.4

for occupancy and use only during home sporting events and otherwise it's vacant.

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