It looks like the upcoming LendingTree Bowl may be the final action for Ladd Peebles Stadium, which has served as the former home of South Alabama, the Senior Bowl, and even occasional home games for Alabama, Auburn, Southern Miss, and Tulane:

https://www.fox10tv.com/news/mobile_coun...386b0.html

Having gone to the 2019 Lending Tree Bowl, I can safely say from an unbiased perspective that the stadium was hopelessly antiquated to put it lightly. May have been historic and closer to Downtown Mobile, but South Alabama and city deserve better (and have gotten it).

(11-28-2021 10:05 PM)chargeradio Wrote:  It looks like the upcoming LendingTree Bowl may be the final action for Ladd Peebles Stadium, which has served as the former home of South Alabama, the Senior Bowl, and even occasional home games for Alabama, Auburn, Southern Miss, and Tulane:

https://www.fox10tv.com/news/mobile_coun...386b0.html

I think Ladd has already hosted its last Lending Tree Bowl.

https://lendingtreebowl.com/2021/11/lend...y-stadium/

Quote:Mobile, Ala. (November 12, 2021) – The LendingTree Bowl will have a new home this bowl season.
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The 23rd annual LendingTree Bowl will be played on Saturday, Dec. 18 at 4:45 p.m. (CT) and will be televised by ESPN. The matchup will be announced on Sunday, Dec. 5 on Bowl Selection Sunday.

“We appreciate everything the Ladd-Peebles Stadium Board and their Management Team did to make our bowl game a success the past 22 years,” said [LendingTree Bowl president Jerry] Silverstein.

(11-28-2021 10:20 PM)Love and Honor Wrote:  Having gone to the 2019 Lending Tree Bowl, I can safely say from an unbiased perspective that the stadium was hopelessly antiquated to put it lightly. May have been historic and closer to Downtown Mobile, but South Alabama and city deserve better (and have gotten it).

I’ve also caught a game there. Downtown Mobile is unique and intimate, some really cool stuff to see. Personally, I liked Ladd Peebles. A lot of history there. I was surprised how tiny the concourses were, considering the SEC games it would’ve hosted decades ago. Only negative for me was parking, as they didn’t allow normal people to park in the parking lot, you had no option but to park in a yard of a really sketchy neighborhood. They kept a steady police presence in a 2-3 block radius though.

Classic stadium I remember most for hosting the Senior Bowl. Of course, who can forget the Marshall-ECU Mobile Bowl if you watched it.

Interesting the article says Mobile County high schools pulled all football games after the 2nd mass shooting at Ladd Peebles since 2019. Have to say, I'm not surprised as that was probably the least safe area surrounding a stadium I've been to.

I enjoyed my trips to Mobile and to that stadium. That's a fun bowl trip.

I live in Mobile, AL The last football game was a high school game. After the last shooting, all high school games moved to other high schools and they are going to build 5 high school stadiums for the schools playing there. Lending Tree has announced starting this year to play at Hancock Whitney Stadium. I think they had something worked out for 2022 and future but the shooting and everyone moving out bumped the schedule up. The only thing left is the Gulf Coast Challenge(game between 2 HBCUs) left there. No announcement on the future of that game for 2022 season. The city of Mobile has neglected that stadium for decades, well before South started playing football. City of Mobile didn't give any money but the the county did give money toward the stadium.

(11-29-2021 11:05 AM)kevinwmsn Wrote:  I live in Mobile, AL The last football game was a high school game. After the last shooting, all high school games moved to other high schools and they are going to build 5 high school stadiums for the schools playing there. Lending Tree has announced starting this year to play at Hancock Whitney Stadium. I think they had something worked out for 2022 and future but the shooting and everyone moving out bumped the schedule up. The only thing left is the Gulf Coast Challenge(game between 2 HBCUs) left there. No announcement on the future of that game for 2022 season. The city of Mobile has neglected that stadium for decades, well before South started playing football. City of Mobile didn't give any money but the the county did give money toward the stadium.

The Gulf Coast Challenge matchup was annunced earlier this year. It'll be Alabama A&M vs Jackson State in 2022 and 2024, Alabama A&M vs Florida A&M in 2023.

(11-29-2021 05:20 AM)esayem Wrote:  Classic stadium I remember most for hosting the Senior Bowl. Of course, who can forget the Marshall-ECU Mobile Bowl if you watched it.

I was on a plane to Germany to visit my brother while the game was being played. I asked him to watch the game and let me know the score when I landed. When I saw him, he quickly dismissed it by saying we smoked them and went on to tell me we were up by 30 at the half when he turned it off. I went around for three days thinking we had won until I heard a bowl recap on the Armed Forces Network. Yikes! I never have been able to muster the strength to go back and watch that game.

Skeeter Davis and Betty Jack Davis once played there. It should be declared a landmark based on that fact alone.