Serious question for fans and alums, since there is an FBS ready stadium a short 15 minute drive from campus; wouldn't it make perfect sense to lease versus spending on our existing stadium. As an alum, I would prefer to spend the weekend downtown and tailgate at Mothers (Owner -TSU Grad) and hit Sabbitino's for dinner after the game. Plus it's much easier coming in from out of town.

I would think it would make financial sense and accelerate a possible move up, another tertiary effect would be the casual fan in Baltimore coming to a game they normally never would of attended. I can see this expanding our fan base to the non alums that have pride in the city of B'more.

Any thoughts?

If you dare travel to Baltimore, prepare to return a bloody mess, that is if you return at all ~ Edgar Allen Poe

I agree that if we were to ever make the move, we should do so at M&T. However, i don't think we are close to ready, and the grass is not always greener on the other side. Take a look at UMass and the situation they are in. They lost a lot of money in year 1 of FBS. When they started losing ticket sales dropped off and put them in a further hole for revenue. UMass is paying a fortune to lease Gillette stadium (I know that is it is much further from campus). I think we may start to see a reverse shake up in the lower FBS teams coming to the FCS as the monster FBS schools take full control of the revenue stream. Just my 2 cents. I could easily be wrong.

I agree that if we were to ever make the move, we should do so at M&T. However, i don't think we are close to ready, and the grass is not always greener on the other side. Take a look at UMass and the situation they are in. They lost a lot of money in year 1 of FBS. When they started losing ticket sales dropped off and put them in a further hole for revenue. UMass is paying a fortune to lease Gillette stadium (I know that is it is much further from campus). I think we may start to see a reverse shake up in the lower FBS teams coming to the FCS as the monster FBS schools take full control of the revenue stream. Just my 2 cents. I could easily be wrong.

I agree that if we were to ever make the move, we should do so at M&T. However, i don't think we are close to ready, and the grass is not always greener on the other side. Take a look at UMass and the situation they are in. They lost a lot of money in year 1 of FBS. When they started losing ticket sales dropped off and put them in a further hole for revenue. UMass is paying a fortune to lease Gillette stadium (I know that is it is much further from campus). I think we may start to see a reverse shake up in the lower FBS teams coming to the FCS as the monster FBS schools take full control of the revenue stream. Just my 2 cents. I could easily be wrong.

(04-10-2013 07:30 AM)RGTiger Wrote:  I agree that if we were to ever make the move, we should do so at M&T. However, i don't think we are close to ready, and the grass is not always greener on the other side. Take a look at UMass and the situation they are in. They lost a lot of money in year 1 of FBS. When they started losing ticket sales dropped off and put them in a further hole for revenue. UMass is paying a fortune to lease Gillette stadium (I know that is it is much further from campus). I think we may start to see a reverse shake up in the lower FBS teams coming to the FCS as the monster FBS schools take full control of the revenue stream. Just my 2 cents. I could easily be wrong.

If Georgia State, Unc Charlotte and ODU can make the move I'm not sure why we aren't ready? Playing LSU was a game changer for us! The FBS schools may eliminate FCS games in the future and that would seriously dilute a product which just lost App state and Georgia Southern...JMU leaves we need to go as well. My preference would be to play in a football only conference in CUSA/Sun Belt and keep remaining sports in Caa or even better if it was an option A10.

We gained much more from Playing LSU than hosting a playoff game against Lehigh. It would be nice to have two shots a year to play against BCS opponents and play a conference slate against tier 2 fbs schools (USA,SunBelt,Mac). Good lord,most of the fcs playoffs were not on tv they were carried on espn 3 ughh. Not to mention the payout would double if we played an LSU as a FBS school ourselves.

If you dare travel to Baltimore, prepare to return a bloody mess, that is if you return at all ~ Edgar Allen Poe

Thought this tweet would interest you

Gary Johnson (@SunBeltInsider)
4/10/13, 10:55 PM
Jacksonville St, Delaware, Townson, UTC, Lamar, Indiana St, Illinois St, Missouri St and SHSU and Richmond have all been in contact with SBC

I would like to see us in a FBS conference but I am not sure how successful we would be. I feel like we would be in another drought like we had been for years in the CAA. Bottom feeding the conference bc we dont have the funding and fan support. I am actually looking forward to being the big fish in a little pond for once.

I would like us to move up too, but I just do not think TU has the resources to do it.

as much as m&t would save me driving time the answer is unitas!!! it's our actual home and even if we draw 25k, 35, 40 plus that would still look very empty in a 70k stadium. see usf in the bucs stadium.

as far as moving up I would like to see a few more years of winning before we make moves but i'm not sure time will allow. would like to see us stay with ud, w&m and jmu if we can.

Time is the key. Things are shuffling now amongst conferences and we do not want to get left behind. If we move because teams we want to stay with are moving, i think we will have to move if someone wants us.

(04-10-2013 11:09 PM)hburg Wrote:  Thought this tweet would interest you

Gary Johnson (@SunBeltInsider)
4/10/13, 10:55 PM
Jacksonville St, Delaware, Townson, UTC, Lamar, Indiana St, Illinois St, Missouri St and SHSU and Richmond have all been in contact with SBC

Thanks, Hburg.

Townson??? Lol Have faith Etiger- they know our name in Louisiana- trust me they know us now, I will have folks walk up to me down here in SEC country and ask me where our school is located again, Maryland? I tell 'em Baltimore!!

Serious, JMU moves moves we need to go as well. If the opportunity is given, we need to act.

If you dare travel to Baltimore, prepare to return a bloody mess, that is if you return at all ~ Edgar Allen Poe

(04-10-2013 09:49 AM)RGTiger Wrote:  Take a look at UMass and the situation they are in. They lost a lot of money in year 1 of FBS. When they started losing ticket sales dropped off and put them in a further hole for revenue. UMass is paying a fortune to lease Gillette stadium (I know that is it is much further from campus).

UMass isn't paying anything to lease Gillette Stadium. It's a revenue-sharing agreement, and back-loaded so that UMass gets all the profits from the first 13k fans or so.

Ticket sales during the transition season were very disappointing, but no lower than previous seasons. It should be noted that ticket prices more than doubled, so ticket revenue was more than double what UMass received in the CAA, despite attendance remaining the same. It's the same as if UMass doubled its attendance, but kept its prices the same as in the FCS days.

I think UMASS is doomed by having the stadium 90 minutes from campus. So hard to have a home field advantage even if 35,000. attend when capacity in the stadium is 50 +. Possibly I am wrong about the distance being a negative as i do not live in that region and maybe the commute is not a big deal.

Nothing beats playing on campus, that makes it a college game. GaSt plays in the Georgia Dome and it has no feeling of any excitement and that's less than a mile from campus. I liked Johnny U, you could get to 25K pretty easy, plus you just invested a bunch of money that would be thrown away. Also downtown you'll be paying to park. All the money from that and concessions will stay with the Ravens.

How in the hell did this get to 2 pages!?!

(04-16-2013 02:03 PM)andy7171 Wrote:  How in the hell did this get to 2 pages!?!

we are dreamers andy...dreamers!

You could expand Johnny U to seat 20k pretty easy by adding seats in the end zones.