Off-campus home games?

[joshvanklomp]

Saw an article that Northern Illinois is taking a MAC home game and playing it at US Cellular Field in hopes of helping low late-season attendance and improving the school's presence in the Chicago area. The NIU AD cites that the University of Alabama did a similar thing, moving games off campus from Tuscaloosa to Birmingham.

Is this something you could ever see Wyoming doing? Are there any facilities in the state that could even accommodate this, or would they have to look closer to Denver for a venue? If Denver was the only possibility, I would be shocked if anything happened, unless it became a yearly neutral-site game with CSU or AFA. But neither of them have been scheduled late in the season in recent years for it to even be likely if late-season attendance boosts were the goal.

Thoughts?

 

[wyocowboy2014]

Saw an article that Northern Illinois is taking a MAC home game and playing it at US Cellular Field in hopes of helping low late-season attendance and improving the school's presence in the Chicago area. The NIU AD cites that the University of Alabama did a similar thing, moving games off campus from Tuscaloosa to Birmingham.

Is this something you could ever see Wyoming doing? Are there any facilities in the state that could even accommodate this, or would they have to look closer to Denver for a venue? If Denver was the only possibility, I would be shocked if anything happened, unless it became a yearly neutral-site game with CSU or AFA. But neither of them have been scheduled late in the season in recent years for it to even be likely if late-season attendance boosts were the goal.

Thoughts?

Not really any options in state. It would be awesome if we could do something at CFD park, but that would require too much infrastructure to be built/brought in. There are no other decent size fields with a big enough draw close by except Denver. I am sure that the other MW schools would throw a fit if we attempted something in Denver too.

 

[GoPokes86]

Mile High would be about the only thing that could actually host a game and we'd have to draw an opponent that would get 30,000 Wyoming fans and 30,000 opponents fans before it could happen. CFD would be really cool, but the turnaround from frontier days to having a game ready stadium would be damn quick and cost a ton of money. Unfortunately the tyranny of distance makes this a bit unreasonable for us.


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[WestWYOPoke]

CFD arena isn't big enough to have a regulation football field in it, you could maybe squeeze in a field in the parking lots north and east of the arena, but the arena itself isn't large enough.

 

[cowpoke pride]

Maybe Denver....if it was against Colorado (They would gladly play a OOC road game 28 minutes away from campus). That's the only way it would work. No other facilities in state that could accommodate a game. No way we would give up a home game to play neutral site against either CSU or Air Force. And we can't get 30,000 in Laramie, how would we ever get 30,000 in Denver.

 

[wyocowboy2014]

CFD arena isn't big enough to have a regulation football field in it, you could maybe squeeze in a field in the parking lots north and east of the arena, but the arena itself isn't large enough.

If the fencing is removed that separates the track from the rodeo arena, it would fit.
This is to scale too.

 

[WyoBrandX]

There was talks about playing Nebraska at Mile High stadium a few times. I think its a good idea to do that.

 

[WestWYOPoke]

CFD arena isn't big enough to have a regulation football field in it, you could maybe squeeze in a field in the parking lots north and east of the arena, but the arena itself isn't large enough.

If the fencing is removed that separates the track from the rodeo arena, it would fit.
This is to scale too.

Yes, I also thought of this, however, the photo pit at the end of the south edge of the fencing is a permanent structure, it is not removable.

 

[Wyovanian]

CFD arena isn't big enough to have a regulation football field in it, you could maybe squeeze in a field in the parking lots north and east of the arena, but the arena itself isn't large enough.

If the fencing is removed that separates the track from the rodeo arena, it would fit.
This is to scale too.

Um, that's great 'n'all, but the point of playing the games in more populated locations is to increase late-season attendance. How on Earth does playing a game in front of FAR fewer seats translate to increased attendance? You're also talking about late-season weather, which means abandoning the Wildcatter. Makes about zero sense...

 

[PokeOLoco]

Nothing going on in Coors field late in the fall