the posters thinkin this is a good idea must be pretty naive. Unless there is a big big sponsor there is no way in hell SMU surrenders the $25 parking passes and the extra revenue generated by box seats and Boulevard passes to go play a game at the Cotton Bowl so the City of Dallas can keep the money. Orsini has worked [deleted] creating these revenue streams which SMU never had in the past-and it is a substantial increase based on having an on-campus stadium.
If a sucker from TCU agrees to it, and a sucker from the City of Dallas allows the two schools to profit off the game (no profit going to the city), and the game is during the State Fair, I like it.
CalallenStang wrote:If a sucker from TCU agrees to it, and a sucker from the City of Dallas allows the two schools to profit off the game (no profit going to the city), and the game is during the State Fair, I like it.
I vote no, because I think if anything SMU should participate in an annual "State Fair Cotton Bowl Classic" pitting SMU against someone bigtime. Give like 70% of the gate to whomever comes to play SMU in order to attract them. Teams along the lines of Notre Dame.
It'll never happen because teams won't want to give up a home game. Too bad we couldn't get a waiver from the NCAA like they used to give to those season opening games (like at the Meadowlands etc) or to those teams traveling to Hawaii. Maybe Steve-O could get that down.
How many seats are in the new updated cotton bowl? Even if we got 50K to attend a SMU/TCU game the stadium would still look half empty. I vote we keep the series the way it is. Moving back to the cotton bowl for even one game is a step backward.
Neither Amon Carter nor Ford have consistently (ever?) sold out for SMU v. TCU in the last 20 years. Why on earth would we go to a stadium that would be half full?
I'm with Stallion. Place would look hideous with 12K fans. Stick that sucker at Jerry World. On another note, will high school playoff games get moved to Jerry World or do you think they'll stay at God's Stadium?
