FCS title game site and day to move

[panthertrack]

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Armon G. Carter Stadium in Forth Worth?

[Mountain Panther]

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Armon G. Carter Stadium in Forth Worth?

Do you know the capacity?

Not too big and not too small....don't want to have a huge stadium with lots of empty seats on TV.

[JD720]

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Armon G. Carter Stadium in Forth Worth?

I was thinking that one or SMU's new stadium. Without looking it up, I think both are around 40k. Dallas Fort Worth would probably be the easiest drive for most UNI fans. Houston's stadium (the cougars, not the Texans) is about the same size and a few hours south.

I think Flordia is more likely due to many teams on the east cost. I think Central Florida would be an interesting choice. The stadium is about the same size as the ones in Texas I mentioned. Also, it is in Orlando, which would definatly qualifty as a destination city.

[clenz]

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Armon G. Carter Stadium in Forth Worth?

TCU's stadium? It is a nice stadium, but like has been said I don't know if we want national TV to see 15,00-20,000 filling a stadium of about 46,000 1/3 or 1/2 full. That doesn't look good for the FCS.

Not that I hate the idea, I like TCU's stadium, but just appearing to have a full stadium, be it smaller, would do more for national attention than a half empty 50K seating stadium

[CincyPanther88]

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NCAA HQ is in Indianapolis. Lucas Oil Stadium would be a perfect venue. Plus it's 2 hours away from me. But it's closer than Chatty to y'all.

[panthertrack]

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TCU's stadium? It is a nice stadium, but like has been said I don't know if we want national TV to see 15,00-20,000 filling a stadium of about 46,000 1/3 or 1/2 full. That doesn't look good for the FCS.

Not that I hate the idea, I like TCU's stadium, but just appearing to have a full stadium, be it smaller, would do more for national attention than a half empty 50K seating stadium

It seats 44,000. I understand what you're saying about the half-empty argument, but I also don't think that playing in a 20,000 seat stadium is going to do much for exposure, either. There are 20,000 seat high school stadiums in TX, aren't there?

The only problem I could envision with the TCU venue is that they want to add even more seats and are in the bidding process to make it almost 60K.

[panthertrack]

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NCAA HQ is in Indianapolis. Lucas Oil Stadium would be a perfect venue. Plus it's 2 hours away from me. But it's closer than Chatty to y'all.

Lucas Oil is a wee bit big. 63,000 expandable to 70,0000.

[CincyPanther88]

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Lucas Oil is a wee bit big. 63,000 expandable to 70,0000.

Details, details.

[JD720]

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Lucas Oil is a wee bit big. 63,000 expandable to 70,0000.

Is it retractable to about 35,000?

[clenz]

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It seats 44,000. I understand what you're saying about the half-empty argument, but I also don't think that playing in a 20,000 seat stadium is going to do much for exposure, either. There are 20,000 seat high school stadiums in TX, aren't there?

The only problem I could envision with the TCU venue is that they want to add even more seats and are in the bidding process to make it almost 60K.

Agreed. I know they are currently expanding, might be almost done, getting it up to about 50,000.

I understand the playing in a smaller venue doesn't create the same excitement either. Playing in a larger stadium could bring the "lure" of, look they are good enough to play in the "big time" stadiums as well.

I just don't want to see it moved to a 55K+ stadium, and have it look like a JV basketball game on TV

[harry joy]

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There are new soccer stadiums in most major cities that seat 20,000. There is no track around the field, they are more like the dome.

[Purple member]

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The stadiums below is are taken from wikipedia, so no guarantees.
I like Vegas. Not many FCS teams around, but you can get there from anywhere.

39,790 Nashville Tennessee Vanderbilt Commodores football
36,800 Las Vegas Nevada UNLV Rebels football and Las Vegas Bowl
36,000 Hattiesburg Mississippi Southern Miss Golden Eagles
35,542 Tulsa Oklahoma Tulsa Golden Hurricane football
33,941 Durham North Carolina Duke Blue Devils football
32,000 University Park Texas SMU Mustangs football
32,000 Houston Texas Houston Cougars
31,500 Winston-Salem North Carolina Wake Forest Demon Deacons football
31,000 Lafayette Louisiana Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns
30,000 Wichita Kansas No current users
30,000 Denton Texas North Texas Mean Green football
30,000 Norfolk Virginia Norfolk State University Spartans

[Panther-at-Arms]

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We could never have the game in Cedar Falls. Everyone would fly into Cedar Rapids and wonder where the stadium is at.

[06panther10]

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They would fly into Cedar Rapids even if they knew it was in CF, because its pretty damn hard to fly into CF.

[Panther-at-Arms]

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I think you missed my point.