PAC 12 championship game

[Denver_sc]

Maybe a full stadium trumps all these? I have no problem with a Vegas championship game, as long as the stadium is full. I'll guess they'll get more fans in the seats in Vegas than Santa Clara.

The Santa Clara thing was always weird. In any conversation that I've had with someone who has attended a non-49ers game there (P12 Championship, Super Bowl, this year's NC Game), the attendee has always more or less come to the same conclusion: there's no "there" there. There's no nightlife, no major attractions, hotels are stupid expensive because "Bay Area", and if you get some sort of competing event in the Bay Area with corporate attendees it gets even more expensive.

Compare that with Vegas and it's a no brainer. As a college kid, I could scrape and afford a (very) economical trip to LV, but there is no way I could have afforded to go to the Bay Area. Las Vegas flights are relatively cheap for the entire footprint, and it's less than a 12 hour drive for all but 4 schools. There's also more than 150K hotel rooms in Vegas so rooms are never is too expensive. Additionally, it's a vacation destination because there's a ton of stuff to do there. It's much more attractive to most people to spend a weekend in Vegas than it is to spend a weekend in Santa Clara.

I think we'd see a much higher attendance in Vegas than the P12 ever had in Santa Clara.

 

[BuffsNYC]

The Santa Clara thing was always weird. In any conversation that I've had with someone who has attended a non-49ers game there (P12 Championship, Super Bowl, this year's NC Game), the attendee has always more or less come to the same conclusion: there's no "there" there. There's no nightlife, no major attractions, hotels are stupid expensive because "Bay Area", and if you get some sort of competing event in the Bay Area with corporate attendees it gets even more expensive.

Compare that with Vegas and it's a no brainer. As a college kid, I could scrape and afford a (very) economical trip to LV, but there is no way I could have afforded to go to the Bay Area. Las Vegas flights are relatively cheap for the entire footprint, and it's less than a 12 hour drive for all but 4 schools. There's also more than 150K hotel rooms in Vegas so rooms are never is too expensive. Additionally, it's a vacation destination because there's a ton of stuff to do there. It's much more attractive to most people to spend a weekend in Vegas than it is to spend a weekend in Santa Clara.

I think we'd see a much higher attendance in Vegas than the P12 ever had in Santa Clara.

I recently went to a conference at Santa Clara University. The closest decent hotel was in San Jose, which is a weird ****ing town. All the restaurants closed at 10 and I had to drink in the hotel bar.

 

[Highlander]

I recently went to a conference at Santa Clara University. The closest decent hotel was in San Jose, which is a weird ****ing town. All the restaurants closed at 10 and I had to drink in the hotel bar.

That is meant to get people off the streets before the shooting starts.

 

[jizzrag85]

The Santa Clara thing was always weird. In any conversation that I've had with someone who has attended a non-49ers game there (P12 Championship, Super Bowl, this year's NC Game), the attendee has always more or less come to the same conclusion: there's no "there" there. There's no nightlife, no major attractions, hotels are stupid expensive because "Bay Area", and if you get some sort of competing event in the Bay Area with corporate attendees it gets even more expensive.

Compare that with Vegas and it's a no brainer. As a college kid, I could scrape and afford a (very) economical trip to LV, but there is no way I could have afforded to go to the Bay Area. Las Vegas flights are relatively cheap for the entire footprint, and it's less than a 12 hour drive for all but 4 schools. There's also more than 150K hotel rooms in Vegas so rooms are never is too expensive. Additionally, it's a vacation destination because there's a ton of stuff to do there. It's much more attractive to most people to spend a weekend in Vegas than it is to spend a weekend in Santa Clara.

I think we'd see a much higher attendance in Vegas than the P12 ever had in Santa Clara.

I’d never go to SC for a game. Vegas? Done.

 

[The Alabaster Yak]

More Pac12 conference news. Immediate reaction is that this, along with moving the Championship game feel like positives:



BTW I didn't see a catch all thread for conference news. Did I just miss it?

I was just using the Pac 12 restructuring thread but it’s all relevant