(02-28-2022 01:21 PM)tigerfan39 Wrote:  

(02-28-2022 12:08 PM)Claw Wrote:  

(02-28-2022 11:31 AM)gusrob Wrote:  I LOL twice during the Houston/SMU game, when the broadcast team announced "Houston is having their 7th sell out of the season." They did so twice, that I caught.

1st laughable point: They built a puny bball arena on campus. I belive it holds a whopping 7,100 people.
2nd laughable point: There were open seats ALL over the the place.

Attendance is a game. The numbers presented are a complete joke. They indicate NOTHING. And having a sellout means.....nothing.


Can we stop pretending that the Liberty Bowl is why the Big12 hasn't brought us in? It's likely what Big12 officials say on-the-record. However, Memphis as a city simply doesn't align with the values of the other Big12 cities/states.

I don't think the stadium is THE problem with the Big XII, but it is very likely ONE of the problems.

This is a pretty simple lesson and it just befuddles me why anyone with ties to Memphis doesn't get it.

The NFL wanted us to build a new stadium. We didn't accept that. They put their teams in cities that did.

The NBA said the Pyramid wasn't good enough and we had to build a new arena for them to come. We did. They came.

We have been passed over multiple times for conference promotions by schools with newer facilities. This has been going on back to the days before the Big East.

The Liberty Bowl was built in the 1960's. That's 60 years ago folks. There is no organic economic development around it. There never has been any of any consequence. It does not function as an economic engine for the neighborhood or the city or the university. You don't continue to invest in something that has six decades of poor return on investment.

Wake up and smell the coffee. The Liberty Bowl is non-functional by 2020 standards of what a stadium should do in terms of economic impact. That is primarily due to the location, and that isn't changing.

Grow or die.

Claw - you're wrong. the nfl selected Jacksonville and they did not build a new stadium.

I beg to differ. They say it was a new stadium in their Wiki.

TIAA Bank Field is an American football stadium located in Jacksonville, Florida, that primarily serves as the home facility of the Jacksonville Jaguars of the National Football League (NFL). The stadium opened in 1995 as Jacksonville Municipal Stadium on the site of the old Gator Bowl Stadium

Bank of America Stadium in Uptown Charlotte was opened in 1996 after the Panthers played one year at Clemson's stadium.