2010 FCS title game

[TravelingPanther]

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excited.

kaboom

[JayJ79]

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The montana folk will say that all the UNI fans complaining about the cold in Chatty are a bunch of dome wussies. (well, they'd probably use slightly different language, but you get the picture)

[Newt99]

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Great Move.

Having the game in football crazy Texas in a city that you can actually fly into easily is a great move that will make this a much better attended event.

For sure. Direct flights into Dallas from Des Moines are a big plus. It's also a much easier drive, I-35 basically the whole way and about 200 fewer miles than Chattanooga.

I'm still not sure how I feel about moving the game to January but I guess it doesn't hurt to try it out for a couple years and see if it works.

[wloopanther]

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Mountain Panther's head just exploded.

Pizza Hut Park is a soccer specific stadium to all of you clowns out there.

Seems kind of odd they picked this stadium as no football is played there.

[JayJ79]

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Mountain Panther's head just exploded.

Pizza Hut Park is a soccer specific stadium to all of you clowns out there.

Seems kind of odd they picked this stadium as no football is played there.

Given the performance of the Moccasins of UT-Chattanooga, no football was played at Finley Stadium either, other than the championship game.
So no real difference.

[alleycat]

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For sure. Direct flights into Dallas from Des Moines are a big plus. It's also a much easier drive, I-35 basically the whole way and about 200 fewer miles than Chattanooga.

I'm still not sure how I feel about moving the game to January but I guess it doesn't hurt to try it out for a couple years and see if it works.

Also direct flights into D-FW from Cedar Rapids and I hear Dubuque is also trying to get direct flights into D-FW. I was on a flight back from D-FW yesterday and the flight time was 1:40 minutes. I lived in the D-FW area for 6 years and with very few stops you can drive to Frisco in under 14 hours. This is a great area to host.

[Born-a-Panther]

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I just took a flight directly from CR to D-FW in December... extremely easy flight. Though the Dallas airport is insane. My company has an office down there.. wonder if they'd pay for my trip if I promised to stop in at the office for a few hours. Sure would be nice to have a reason to give it a try...

[Blue42]

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Mountain Panther's head just exploded.

Pizza Hut Park is a soccer specific stadium to all of you clowns out there.

Seems kind of odd they picked this stadium as no football is played there.

I checked the Pizza Hut Park web site and they do play high school football games in that stadium. And a high school game in Texas would rival college games in most states, so they have some experience with football.

I don't mind that it's a soccer stadium. There are plenty of bowl games played in stadiums not typically used for football. Aren't they playing a bowl in Yankee Stadium next year? They've played them in San Fran in the baseball stadium, and in Phx in the BOB.

I'd rather play the FCS title game in a nice facility with the right capacity than a 50k seat football stadium that will only be 40% full.

[Silent Earl]

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So there is going to be like a month between the semi-final games and the championship? Very bowl like. Should make for a huge attendence increase. I don't think that stadium is big enough with time to plan, organize charters, etc. I think if UNI went we would take well over half the capacity, there are thousands of Iowans in the DFW area. I think Montana could sell it out on their own.

Weather should be better than Chatty, but still a crapshoot in Jan. Could be in the 60's, could be in the 30's.

[Big Cats]

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Keep in mind that the playoffs are expanding to 20 teams by then so there will be at least one extra week of games in there so probably not a full month between the semis and the championship.

[achrist70]

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I checked the Pizza Hut Park web site and they do play high school football games in that stadium. And a high school game in Texas would rival college games in most states, so they have some experience with football.

I don't mind that it's a soccer stadium. There are plenty of bowl games played in stadiums not typically used for football. Aren't they playing a bowl in Yankee Stadium next year? They've played them in San Fran in the baseball stadium, and in Phx in the BOB.

I'd rather play the FCS title game in a nice facility with the right capacity than a 50k seat football stadium that will only be 40% full.

Many Texas 5A games have more people attend than UNI does.

[alleycat]

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Many Texas 5A games have more people attend than UNI does.

True. When we lived in Texas I attended some of those games. High school football is a religion in Texas. They even sell season tickets in some school districts. Our coach in our district made I believe $67k, and he didn't even have to teach. That was 12 years ago so you could imagine how much they pay coaches today.

[cydave]

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True. When we lived in Texas I attended some of those games. High school football is a religion in Texas. They even sell season tickets in some school districts. Our coach in our district made I believe $67k, and he didn't even have to teach. That was 12 years ago so you could imagine how much they pay coaches today.

I know of some schools in Iowa that sell Season Tickets, with waiting lists to get on. Newton comes to the top of my head, but with how poorly they have been the last couple of years, I doubt its very hard to buy a season ticket now.

I bet some coaches down in Texas are making some mega bucks. According to this article: http://blogs.payscale.com/ask_dr_sal...-for-teac.html the "average" high school football head coach salary in class 4A or 5A was $73,804. Compared to the average teacher's salary of $42,400. It also states that 5 coaches make more than $100k. The highest being $106,004 and the lowest $42,300. Pretty crazy!

I also know a couple of Athletic Trainers that are working for a high school football team in Texas and they are bringing in $50,000+.

[JCPanthers]

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True. When we lived in Texas I attended some of those games. High school football is a religion in Texas. They even sell season tickets in some school districts. Our coach in our district made I believe $67k, and he didn't even have to teach. That was 12 years ago so you could imagine how much they pay coaches today.

Was this your coach?

[cydave]

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Was this your coach?

It was either him, or: