OT: Las Vegas a new destination in college football?
When Las Vegas’ 65,000-seat domed stadium opens in 2020, its primary purpose will be to serve as the home of a team who will be known as the Las Vegas Raiders. However, it could also have far-reaching effects on college football.
1) UNLV Rebels
2) The Las Vega Bowl
3) PAC-12 Football Championship game
4) College Football Championship game
5) Neutral site games
http://www.espn.com/blog/pac12/post/_/id/109061/las-vegas-new-football-…
thought of that about a year ago. I don't remember him personally visiting Chaparral High School, but he sent some staff members (Coach Tuioti was the the high school coach's son-in-law)
Which should appeal to Family First Freeze.
That's what I was thinking too - there's every chance it becomes a Final Four venue rather early on in its life. Of course, that means more opportunities to be at a hoops (well, converted to hoops temporarily) venue where you need a telescope to see the action, but all the same, I bet it happens not too long after it opens.
What about Frozen Four?
New stadium to host the Final Four and the new arena to host earlier rounds. The tournament might be in Vegas every year for awhile now.
The linked article states that NCAA Bylaws prohibit NCAA tournaments from taking place in Nevada. So unless the NCAA changes its bylaws (possible, but unlikely), you won't see any NCAA basketball tournament games there any time soon.
How money can change the minds of the NCAA if Las Vegas really wants something.
Las Vegas isn't going to outbid Indianapolis or New Orleans or Phoenix or whatever. Why would they? This isn't some weird untapped money source. It's yet another big stadium in yet another second-tier metropolis that wants to be thought of as "big league." There are somewhere between 10 and 20 of those across the nation.
And unlike Dallas, Seattle, Atlanta, and all of those other places, Las Vegas doesn't have a bunch of hotel rooms sitting empty on the first weekend of April, so there is actually less money in it for Las Vegas than there is for places like Tampa, Minneapolis, and Detroit.
The NCAA isn't going to think "1. put a championship in Las Vegas, 2. ???, 3. profit" That's not how the NCAA makes its money anyway.
B1G should dump Rutgers and add UNLV. I would love to travel there for games, and it's a cheap flight from anywhere.
Seriously though I would imagine the PAC12 will be taking a look.
It should also contribute nicely to a rise in STDs. What happens in Vegas may not necessarily stay in Vegas.
This is 2017, if you don't have STDs you are doing it wrong
Is that what she said? She's really dumb.
Too soon?
I know for a fact however that she did say that.
like Las Vegas.
People are always looking for an excuse to do Vegas for a weekend and here it is. Plus I think people will flock to LV to watch since the team appears set to be good for the forseeable future. I wouldn't be surprised if the Raiders draw more LA people than the Chargers and Rams, given the Chargers' stadium situation and the Rams' overall level of suckishness.
Now how well they're going to draw on a week night, I'm not sure. That's where you'll really see if the team has local support. But those weekend games will be packed.
Trust me, it has not become more family friendly.