Time to end the neutral site experiment???

whatshouldicareabout

If you zoom in, you'll see this was taken with 5:27 before kickoff.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DtSyHCIV4AE8cGt.jpg:large

DugtheDoog

whatshouldicareabout said:

If you zoom in, you'll see this was taken with 5:27 before kickoff.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DtSyHCIV4AE8cGt.jpg:large

You obviously aren't well informed. Even Larry Scott knows that the only number that matters is tickets sold. Attendance is for pussies.

HuskyJW

We were specifically told that viewership is up 36% on Late Night games.

So GFY

2001400ex

The game will be in Vegas when they stadium opens and the game will be more full. The PAC won't travel like SEC does, ever. But Vegas will be better location and warmer.

Also would like to see a pic in the second quarter, not before the game.

Edwin_Bambino

This taken at kickoff
25k fans in the stadium tops. The Sounders would be questioning their business model if that was their crowd.

DerekJohnson

What's wrong with playing at the home stadium of the #1 seed team? Or alternate... Even numbered years, the game is played at the home field of the north champ. Odd numbered years, the home field of the south champ.

BeerThirty

so many better options. It will probably be in Vegas though. That is a small step up

HuskyJW

Huskies are 2-0 in championship games in that stadium.

I hope it stays there forever

whuggy

It's not a where problem. All the other conferences fill their neutral site championship games. Pac 12 fans simply care less than everywhere else in the country. That aint gonna change. We are the pussified West.

KrunkJuice

I read an article a week or so ago that said the game will be in Santa Clara in 2019 and the conference has a opt out option for 2020. I hope they opt out and go with the best record in conference.

PurpleThrobber

whuggy said:

It's not a where problem. All the other conferences fill their neutral site championship games. Pac 12 fans simply care less than everywhere else in the country. That aint gonna change. We are the pussified West.

Yeah but..,

The SEC and ACC are relatively driveable from most of the schools. Same with Big10.

The PAC is spread out all over and anybody coming from the north or Utah or Colorado has potentially risky driving conditions.

Plus Friday night is FS.

FireCohen

Vegas baby, our only hope

CFetters_Nacho_Lover

whuggy said:

It's not a where problem. All the other conferences fill their neutral site championship games. Pac 12 fans simply care less than everywhere else in the country. That aint gonna change. We are the pussified West.

The fuck it isn't. Chicago to Indianapolis is 3 hours. From Madison is 4.5. From Ann Arbor is a little over 4. From Columbus, about 2.5 hours.

That's just the Big 10. You can drive from Norman to Arlington in about 3.5 hours. Better yet, Norman to Indianapolis takes 90 minutes less than driving from Seattle to Santa Clara.

PurpleJ

Play it in the Tacoma Dome. It's an epicenter of culture. People will flock!

CaptainPJ

whuggy said:

It's not a where problem

The hell it ain’t! Hookers and blow at the CCG on the Google Campus, or fucking Vegas?”

Child please

Tequilla

Edwin_Bambino said:

This taken at kickoff
25k fans in the stadium tops. The Sounders would be questioning their business model if that was their crowd.

That's not kickoff

Edwin_Bambino

Sorry picked the wrong photo. This was 2 min before kickoff.

Mad_Son

Edwin_Bambino said:

Sorry picked the wrong photo. This was 2 min before kickoff.

I don't think that was before kickoff... I'm pretty sure I remember browning having to throw the ball away on that play.

RaceBannon

Vegas is an easy drive from LA and has lots of rooms

If you get highly ranked USC and UW playing for a CFP berth you could probably fill Santa Clara and sure could Las Vegas or Inglewood

Texas and OU will sell out if they are both Owen 12

But the West is the wide open spaces. Dallas is an easy shot from Oklahoma and it is in Texas as noted elsewhere

DerekJohnson

whuggy said:

It's not a where problem. All the other conferences fill their neutral site championship games. Pac 12 fans simply care less than everywhere else in the country. That aint gonna change. We are the pussified West.

Yes, which is why we need to take a different approach, such as outlined in my previous post.

DerekJohnson

RaceBannon said:

Vegas is an easy drive from LA and has lots of rooms

If you get highly ranked USC and UW playing for a CFP berth you could probably fill Santa Clara and sure could Las Vegas or Inglewood

Texas and OU will sell out if they are both Owen 12

But the West is the wide open spaces. Dallas is an easy shot from Oklahoma and it is in Texas as noted elsewhere

To keep doing what we're doing will continue to diminish the Pac-12. The conference needs to take a different approach.