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CUSA Title Game
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Fri Aug 20, 2004 11:20 amby Stallion
can't believe no one has mentioned that CUSA Presidents approved a Conference Title game to be played at a home rather than neutral sight. I think this will prove to be the correct decision when you consider the size of many of the schools in CUSA and the distance for even the mid-size schools. The one possible acceptable alternative was New Orleans which might be able to attract a decent crowd from both schools.
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Fri Aug 20, 2004 12:34 pmby OldPony
I would vote for NO as a permanet site.
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Fri Aug 20, 2004 12:53 pmby PonySnob
It will be interesting to see how the western half of CUSA does against the eastern half. It's basically the SWClight against CUSAlight.
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Fri Aug 20, 2004 3:58 pmby Charleston Pony
this is absolutely the right way for CUSA to go. It worked well for the MAC and the only problem could be if a team leases a stadium (Tulane?) and has a conflict with the schedule, but for a conference whose members struggle to fill their own stadiums, playing at a neutral site would have been a big mistake. Assuming the game will be nationally televised, it's important for the conference's imagee to have a packed house of enthusiastic fans. I expect praqctically any member of the new CUSA will be able to deliver a packed house if they get to host this game.
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Fri Aug 20, 2004 5:58 pmby MrMustang1965
Prediction: SMU will host this game in 2010. Bank on it!
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Fri Aug 20, 2004 6:12 pmby davish75
How about 2005
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Fri Aug 20, 2004 6:36 pmby MrMustang1965
davish75 wrote:How about 2005
I'd love it!
But I think we'll need a little time to adjust to the CUSA and get our feet firmly planted in the conference competition.
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Fri Aug 20, 2004 10:04 pmby RGV Pony
Thumbs down to a championship game played in a cavernous, empty Superdome. Maybe they can have it in New Orleans if it's at Tad Gormley Stadium, then maybe they'll have at least a 3/4 full stadium.
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Sat Aug 21, 2004 11:19 amby EastStang
Not only that but New Orleans has the NO Bowl two weeks later. That might bother their sponsors. My guess is that the only real possibility would be Dallas and that was too remote.
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Sun Aug 22, 2004 8:15 pmby that's great raplh
NOLA is a great town - but don't foget we used to have a WAC champ game in Vegas that no one ever attended
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Mon Aug 23, 2004 1:30 amby MrMustang1965
that's great raplh wrote:NOLA is a great town - but don't foget we used to have a WAC champ game in Vegas that no one ever attended
Las Vegas: What happens here, stays here! Maybe that's why.