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Both A&M AND Nebraska home games could be at Mile High

PAHIBuff said:
I was informed that this was impossible when I posted it about 6 weeks ago. Let's go over it again. Which number is bigger, 53,000 or 78,000? You have 5 minutes...
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Which number is bigger, 7 or 6?

Life is too short not to maximize the number of game days on the majestic Boulder campus?

The ONLY scenario I would support a CU game at Sports Authority is if the Front Range got it's **** together to host the Mile High Bowl.
 
WizzersGhost said:
aTm's newly remodeled Kyle Field is bigger(102K) and better than most any pro stadium anyway. Jerry Jones' Palace only seats 80K.

For CU, it will be an economic decision: $1.2 million net playing in Boulder versus $2-3 million playing at Mile High; with CU fan concerns addressed for the most part.

Hmmmmm, since Folsom would also be taken over by foreign hordes (CU fanbase is notorious for selling their tix to invading fans), what would you do?

Its not going to be a traditional "home game" atmosphere either way; might as well take a few premium bucks from the rubes!

And I hate Mile High, but knowing CU fans can get decent seats, good parking and decent tailgating, I'd love to grab Aggie and Fusker bux.
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Cowboys stadium seats 80,000 but holds over 100,000 and I really want to see that place.
 
onealcd said:
Cowboys stadium seats 80,000 but holds over 100,000 and I really want to see that place.
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The A&M game here might be played at SAF, but the NU games won't-We need 6 home games a fall. In '19, we're committed to CSU (at SAF) and Fresno (Folsom) in addition to NU. As we have four home conference games, we need that NU game at home to get to six. In '23, we're scheduled to play TCU in Fort Worth in addition to NU. Assuming the third game is a bodybag game of some sort, we still need to play NU at home to get to six.
 
PAHIBuff said:
I was informed that this was impossible when I posted it about 6 weeks ago. Let's go over it again. Which number is bigger, 53,000 or 78,000? You have 5 minutes...
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Well hot damn we should play all of our games there!
 
Rugged said:
Well hot damn we should play all of our games there!
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Big House, DRM, Kyle, Coliseum, Bryant-Denny, Neyland, Beaver, tOSU, LSU Tiger, Rose Bowl and UGA Stanford. Twelve body bag games at $2M each is a tidy paycheck. Because, as PAHIBuff says, it's all about the money.
 
Skidmark said:
Big House, DRM, Kyle, Coliseum, Bryant-Denny, Neyland, Beaver, tOSU, LSU Tiger, Rose Bowl and UGA Stanford. Twelve body bag games at $2M each is a tidy paycheck. Because, as PAHIBuff says, it's all about the money.
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It's really too bad Bohn didn't schedule one-offs against all of them.
 
Aggy never traveled like the big red horde. They wouldn't own Folsom unless we still are super ****ty. Now they may travel if we play at SAF though.

The team needs wins and home games more than it needs cash. The program has to stop acting like a never was.
 
Part of the issue (aside from losing a lot) is season ticket holders have not been given good value for their loyalty. Moving more games to SAF does not address that issue. The whole idea is we want Folsom to be full consistently. Moving marquee games to Denver hinders that goal.
 
Money talks and bull**** walks. If there's a 7th home game with an opponent that will bring in more than 50,000 fans, I expect it will be played in Denver. Nobody at CU is turning down a couple of million $$.
 
Both A&M AND Nebraska home games could be at Mile High

Not even the bugeaters brought 50k fans. This isn't the MNC or the rose bowl
 
Darth Snow said:
http://www.dailycamera.com/cu-colle...some-confusion-about-csu-and-texas?source=rss

Re: A&M contract that says it can be held in Denver.

First: NO (especially re: nubs). Having not one, but TWO home games in ****ing Denver? NOT OK. I hope that contract was written in the hopes of changing the CSU series around and, since CSU was stupid and didn't budge, the clause to hold it in Denver will never be used.

Second: there are actually some fixes to holding games in Denver instead of Folsom according to the info fed Ringo.
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Playing the Nubs in Invesco likely means big big money for CU. NU fans would probably buy half the tickets or more at whatever price we chose. Paying possibly more than the home in Lincoln would pay.
 
Both A&M AND Nebraska home games could be at Mile High

MiamiBuffs said:
Playing the Nubs in Invesco likely means big big money for CU. NU fans would probably buy half the tickets or more at whatever price we chose. Paying possibly more than the home in Lincoln would pay.
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Please factor into your spreadsheet the security cost. When 35,000 Husker fans boast about how SAF can be renamed Memorial Stadium West, a riot between fans is not out of the question.

Tear gas, swat equipment, and Argus goons adds up.
 
Skidmark said:
Please factor into your spreadsheet the security cost. When 35,000 Husker fans boast about how SAF can be renamed Memorial Stadium West, a riot between fans is not out of the question.

Tear gas, swat equipment, and Argus goons adds up.
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A CU/NU game at SAF would make the CSU riot game look like a walk in the park. It would get ugly.
 
sackman said:
A CU/NU game at SAF would make the CSU riot game look like a walk in the park. It would get ugly.
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This is an odd take on things, imo. By the time the game rolls around, current CU and NU students will have little to no recollection of the rivalry so where would the animosity come from?

Those that were a part of the rivalry will be grown adults. Maybe I am giving too much credit to the fan bases but I do not share your fears/outlook.
 
[h=1]Student sections cleared at CU game for tossing debris[/h]
Updated: November 25, 2005, 7:33 PM ET
Associated Press



BOULDER, Colo. -- Officials ordered two sections full of students at Folsom Field cleared Friday when debris came flooding out of the stands during the fourth quarter of a game Colorado was losing badly to Nebraska.
With Colorado trailing 27-3, water bottles and other junk came flying from the student sections in the southeast corner of the stadium.
Play was halted for about five minutes while officials conferred. Before play resumed, the public address announcer said sections 116 and 117 would be cleared.
Security staff came to the sections to escort fans out of the stadium, although the process took a while and there were still fans remaining in the sections after play resumed.
CU sports information director Dave Plati said the sections are under video surveillance and fans who were seen throwing things onto the field could be subject to prosecution.
 
I want no part of a game against the Nubs at SAF. None. Either get them at our house, where they'll be reasonably contrite, or at their house, where we know we're in a big minority. Put these two fanbases in equal numbers in close proximity and you're just asking for trouble.
 
sackman said:
I want no part of a game against the Nubs at SAF. None. Either get them at our house, where they'll be reasonably contrite, or at their house, where we know we're in a big minority. Put these two fanbases in equal numbers in close proximity and you're just asking for trouble.
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Agreed, but my beef is if we play at SAF then we are effectively giving them a home game in Lincoln and a true neutral site game in Denver. Would smack of small time Bohn scheduling all over again. Forget the team actually needing to win, just want to maximize profit.
 
Love this thread.

I hate Nebraska. Always will. I am only 33, but I hate the little Red. I hate seeing all the idiots with N decals on their trucks overcompensating for other things and just think it is an ugly, boring and plain like the state.

Giving them a game at SAF is idiotic. Whatever you do, the fan base will make the game unbearable. CU could have went 14-0 or 15-0 the year before and the game would be 60% Nebraska fans. No freaking thank you. Nebraska's fan base is large in the state. They would eat up every ticket possible and then some. At least if CU controls it we should have at least 60% of a home crowd at Folsom. And if we are half decent by then, it could be 80% or more.

Texas A & M is a wild card. My brother-in-law said that was his favorite away game in his time at CU from 99-03 (my in-laws loved it too) and I regret missing it. I would love to go to Kyle Field. I would rather not have the house that Jerry bought host the away game for that reason. Same as having the game at Invesco, it takes away from the allure of seeing Ralphie go roughly 250 yards around Folsom by instead having her beeline at Invesco. Now if it is a national audience and CU can make double the cash and also play a "neutral" site game at Jerry's World, then so be it.

That said, under no circumstances does hosting Nebraska at Invesco make sense unless they give us $25 million, because it would be a 30k to 45k split in favor of the Corn at best. No thanks. Better Dead Than Red!

And who cares about the student section and their interest in the Nebraska game? CU Students that are CO born that have CU based families understand the rivalry. Ultimately, it's CU season ticket holders and long-time fans that would like to invest again in a decent product that matter most and we all hate Nebraska. Anyway, it's a right of passage in most CU families, as my 5-year old daughter has learned, to hate anyone CU plays but especially CSU and Nebraska.
 
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Digger - well put.

Before 1988 Folsom was half red for Nub games. As a small kid, I was puzzled and appalled by all of the people I saw cheer for CU every other week, but showed up in red for N. Or, they gave / sold their tickets for that game and didn't show up.

You could get gag jackets that were CU on one side and reversible to NU so you could switch allegiance depending on how the game was going.

It would be simply foolish to host the game at SAF.
 
The one good thing about having it in Denver (i'm against it for the record) is that they can pollute Denver when they let their stupid balloons go. I really wish CUPD would fine them for littering when they do that **** in Boulder. Another obnoxious tradition of theirs. Pollute your ugly ass state but leave ours alone.
 
dply said:
The one good thing about having it in Denver (i'm against it for the record) is that they can pollute Denver when they let their stupid balloons go. I really wish CUPD would fine them for littering when they do that **** in Boulder. Another obnoxious tradition of theirs. Pollute your ugly ass state but leave ours alone.
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Denver is also in our state.
 
If Nebraska wants to move their home game in Lincoln to SAF, I'm cool with that.
 
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