Wow.... these new stadiums are pretty sick... all of them seem be for mls...but man they all super nice...how bout San Jose.....18,000https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...61a04ea2ee.png
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Wow.... these new stadiums are pretty sick... all of them seem be for mls...but man they all super nice...how bout San Jose.....18,000https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...61a04ea2ee.png
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thanks, that's pretty much how I assumed it was, take it to Orlando and the Bars right across the street wont know about the game, Puerto Ricans and college football are not connected in any way... haha, but the stadiums all look good on this thread for sure....
I sat by a father son combo that was local one of the years. They said they have a lot of H.S. (I would assume divisional/state title games) there and they try to go to those as well. They said for the most part those games sell out as well. You would probably see even more local interest if tickets were more openly available although outside of this year there has been at least a decent window of the season to purchase championship tickets.
As far as Frisco, selfishly I wouldn't mind a change of venue since I've done Frisco 4 out of 5 years. Outside of that I don't see much wrong with it though. It's a small enough community and stadium it felt like we packed that town and stadium, but it's a huge metro area that doesn't really even know the game exists yet provides easy travel in and out and really enough rooms available that that would never be an issue.
Also, I think a lot of the complaints about the area are more of a cause of the NDSU effect. Our fans book up pretty much all the closest hotels which spreads out the opponents fans. Even this year I've heard reports of lots of empty rooms in Frisco, which I'm sure a lot of NDSU fans cancelled their rooms after many JMU/YSU folks already found other rooms farther out. IMO, a competent AD even if NDSU also made it down there could find an area somewhat close to hold some fan events and encourage their fans to stay in that area. Also for the YSU guys, don't give away 3K of YOUR tickets.
The last year I was down there the ISUr year. We didn't even go to the NDSU pep rally because I didn't want to deal with the sea of yellow. We went down to the Plano Legacy area and it was so busy we decided to get further out so we wouldn't have to deal with the lines and crowd. We decided to go to the ISUr fan event, which was the only thing I could find for them which was just a few forum posters agreeing to meet up at a certain bar. It was like 8 dudes in red in a full bar a people that had no idea there was a game going on the next day. They had at least 4K fans down there for the game. Redbird fans were oddly stand offish though. We ended up at another bar a ways away from Frisco but close to the hotel that we booked last minute. Another fairly full bar with little to no FCS fans, outside of 6 Redbird fans. Two of them came over and we talked about the game for quite a while. The other four in their group wouldn't dare look at us. I bought them a round of shots and they stared at them for a half hour I think questioning whether I had poisoned them. Tailgating was similar. They spread themselves out and didn't seem interested in mingling much even with their other fans.
I'm not really a fan of Orlando as the only 4 FCS schools in the state are either in the MEAC or Pioneer. So there is really no chance any of them will be in the championship and their fans don't really show much interest in FCS playoff football anyways.
Not that many local people attend in Frisco anyway... besides some bars and hotels having some welcome signs... which can be done any where.Orlando has easily double the population of locals as well as hundreds of thousands of tourist every day from all over the country and world..throw up a few signs you will feel just as welcome...I think rotating it keeps it fresh too...if a team makes it few years in a row or 2 of 4 people want a different expierance... least I do
What is the stadium in LA or Carson the Chargers are planning to use?
StubHub Center.
http://www.sacbee.com/sports/spt-col...ion%20Football
I don't think you should be concerned about FCS schools in the state it's hosted in, especially if they've never been to or likely ever will be in the NC game. You should worry about who's made it the past 20 years (that's still an FCS school) and what approximate region of the country they are in. That's the southeast and mid-atlantic outside of NDSU and Montana.
Heck, it's in TX now and SHSU has been twice since it's been in Frisco and SFA was there back in the 80s. I think that's it for TX schools.
All time appearances by state (excluding now FBS schools):
Montana - 8
Ohio - 7
North Dakota - 5
Delaware - 4
Kentucky - 4
South Carolina - 3
Texas - 3
Virginia - 3
Illinois - 2
Louisiana - 2
Pennsylvania - 2
Florida - 1
Idaho - 1
North Carolina - 1
New York - 1
Iowa - 1
Washington - 1
Maryland - 1
Alabama - 1
FCS champ participating schools by time zone region of country.
EST - 27
CST - 14
MST - 9
PST - 1
Yep. It needs to be more eastern and central if you want to maximize attendance. Sorry west coasters.