Re: Better venues for the championship game
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Bisonoline
I didnt say that. Nice try asshole.
Ouch! You implied that once the Frisco locals get to know you they will ask who you are playing this year. Or did you not?
Re: Better venues for the championship game
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DoWe
Ouch! You implied that once the Frisco locals get to know you they will ask who you are playing this year. Or did you not?
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Re: Better venues for the championship game
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BisonTru
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.
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very informative and entertaining post.... I don't think Orlando would go over that well in Bison Nation.... and God help you if they put the game in South Florida ...
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The Citadel is renovating their stadium again and it should be ready by the time the Frisco contract is up.
The NCAA ban has moved to North Carolina so Charleston is able to bid again, and it looks like the Hall of Fame Bowl is in limbo. their is plenty of alcohol and Shrimp and Grits in Charleston. And, if it makes a difference, Charleston is the kind of place that wives and girlfriends like to visit ( just don't take both;) ).
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Cocky
I prefer somewhere where it warm or indoors. Unless your traveling in a large group or a short distance its cheaper to fly, so location isn't really important to me.
It's only cheaper to fly if you have to start staying 1 or 2 nights in a hotel each direction due to a cross country drive. If something is within a reasonable days drive from you (8-10 hours IMO), then there's no way a flight is cheaper than driving.
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dgtw
Atlanta is great for me since I can drive over and back in one day and won't have to get a hotel.
But the FBS championship will be in Atlanta on a rotating basis and is played the Monday after the FCS game. There is also the possibility of a Falcons playoff game that weekend. I doubt they'd want to run the risk of having to deal with three games in three days there.
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You could say the same thing about the DFW area. There's a FBS playoff game there on a rotating basis in cowboys stadium and always the possibility of cowboys home playoff games too.
All that does is drive up hotel prices in the region that year. It would just suck for the visiting fan bases that year to have to pay more or go further out for a better hotel deal.
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PAllen
It's been in Orlando - Attendance sucked.
It's been on the west coast - Attendance sucked.
Please. It has been in orlando once, in 1979, the second ever I-AA championship.
5,500 in attendance to see a game between Eastern Kentucky and Lehigh. EKU currently has 16,959 students to Lehigh's 6,961 students. I can't imagine how much smaller the schools were in 1979.
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walliver
The Citadel is renovating their stadium again and it should be ready by the time the Frisco contract is up.
The NCAA ban has moved to North Carolina so Charleston is able to bid again, and it looks like the Hall of Fame Bowl is in limbo. their is plenty of alcohol and Shrimp and Grits in Charleston. And, if it makes a difference, Charleston is the kind of place that wives and girlfriends like to visit ( just don't take both;) ).
I'd love to see it in Charleston. A destination town that is reasonably drive-able for the entire eastern seaboard. You're right, it won't take much convincing to get the family to go either.
All I ask is that you get Charleston to aggressively pursue a bid in 2020 and for the love of God, resist the urge to pass bathroom bills in SC.
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Of course east coasters want the game on the east coast..they're ****ing lazy :)
Having it in a centralized location such as Dallas, or even up in OKC or KC makes sense for travel. Max flights are 4 to 4 1/2 hours. Easier on travel for the student athletes.
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Funny how an east coast team wins the chipper after 6 years and all of sudden we need to move the location to the eastern part of the country.xlolx
I wouldn't be apposed to Orlando.