Rumor: SMU Will Host The Armed Forces Bowl

[gostangs]

So.....once they get a taste of civilization do you think you can ask the armed services to go back to a second tier city? The cotton bowl awaits them.

[Big Frog II]

Yeah, playing in Fair Park will be something the bowl participants would never forget. That's if they survive it.

[RGV Pony]

I heard it was going to be renamed the armed forces park cities bowl

[CalallenStang]

So.....once they get a taste of civilization do you think you can ask the armed services to go back to a second tier city? The cotton bowl awaits them.

The Cotton Bowl is already going to have a bowl game (Dallas Classic - Big Ten vs. Big XII/CUSA)

[gostangs]

Ohooooooo - Fair Park is so scary!! Typical small town additude.

[Big Frog II]

Additude?

[mrydel]

Additude?

Yes. Apparently tude + tude = Ford

[1983 Cotton Bowl]

Has anyone posted what the proposed capacity of the updated TCU stadium will be? It looks huge in the drawings. That is clearly not designed with MWC membership in mind.

[Metropolis777]

Has anyone posted what the proposed capacity of the updated TCU stadium will be? It looks huge in the drawings. That is clearly not designed with MWC membership in mind.

Normal seating capacity will actually be reduced from 44K down to 40K. However, we will have temporary expandable seating available (like at Cowboys stadium and University of Phoenix stadium) to bump it up to 50K for the big games (like BYU, Utah, Oklahoma, LSU, Tech, SMU - crossing my fingers on the last one needing the extra capacity).

[FroggieFever]

As far as cost figures are running from 190$mm to 320$mm.

[Big Frog II]

As far as cost figures are running from 190$mm to 320$mm.

From the meetings I have been in, $160-$170 million is what I have heard. The west and north sides first, then the east side the following year. Of course we will use the yellow brick the SMU fans are so fond of.

[Stallion]

[deleted] yellow colored bricks are half off at Seconds and Surplus so that should bring the cost way down.

[smu diamond m]

zing

[FroggieFever]

As far as cost figures are running from 190$mm to 320$mm.

From the meetings I have been in, $160-$170 million is what I have heard. The west and north sides first, then the east side the following year. Of course we will use the yellow brick the SMU fans are so fond of.

You would know more than I would...just reporting what I saw on KF.

[gostangs]

I am going to go ahead and predict this gets scaled down a bit. 170 M is a bunch of money for a small private - you would think they would want to get their endowment over a billion before they try to raise that kind of dough for a renovated stadium.