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SO: Propose we co-host CUSA FB Championship

PostPosted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 10:00 pm
by Water Pony
Steve,

With the excitement of JJ and the probability that our season tickets and game attendance will dramatically increase, Ford Stadium in a couple of years will need to enclose the horseshoe.

With that and 45K seats, we should host CUSA Championship Game, perhaps every other year with UCF. Orlando and Dallas are great destinations. With Memphis hosting the CUSA BB tornament, Dallas and, perhaps, Orlando make sense.

Yes, let's fill up Ford first. Makes JJ salary more palpable doesn't it?

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PostPosted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 10:04 pm
by Hoop Fan
no way you can have a nuetral site championship in cusa. would never work. Own the west and we can have it every other year, unofficially.

PostPosted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 11:22 pm
by Water Pony
Big XII plays on a neutral field, as done ACC, BE and SEC. Despite SMU and UCF, not being neutral per se, they are major markets, as is Memphis, who hosts our BB Tournament.

PostPosted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 11:22 pm
by PhirePhilBennett
CUSA cannot afford the attendance of a neutral field game

PostPosted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 11:35 pm
by SoCal_Pony
Water Pony wrote:Big XII plays on a neutral field, as done ACC, BE and SEC. Despite SMU and UCF, not being neutral per se, they are major markets, as is Memphis, who hosts our BB Tournament.


Did you see all those empty seats at the ACC championship game...really detracts from the event.

I can't see it going to a neutral site at C-USA, although if it did, Dallas would be a natural location.

PostPosted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 12:01 am
by McStang06
Isn't It Beautiful! Now JJ just has to fill the seats.

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PostPosted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 12:54 am
by PonyJones
When JJ gets the Ponies to the Cusa Championship, the MClub will be selling tickets to the game in 12-packs-- and I'm a Buyer.

PostPosted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 9:38 am
by EastStang
None of the CUSA teams travel that well except UTEP. Imagine a Marshall vs. Rice championship in Dallas. Or Memphis vs. Tulsa. Or USM vs. Tulane ( I can hear the bellyaching now).

PostPosted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 10:15 am
by SMUMan02
Water Pony wrote:Big XII plays on a neutral field, as done ACC, BE and SEC. Despite SMU and UCF, not being neutral per se, they are major markets, as is Memphis, who hosts our BB Tournament.


But remarks have been made about how poor the attendance was at the ACC Championship game. The Big XII and SEC we aint. I think it also makes a big difference that their teams are not as spread out as the CUSA teams.