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New Proposed Rays Stadium Could Host Big East Bowl

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per this morning's SPiT, "ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL?: The new stadium could also hold about 35,000 fans for football, and the Rays have had some preliminary talks with officials of the Big East Conference about establishing a bowl game."

Thoughts?

-chris

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35000? for a bowl game.  they would have to either add seats or make this a lower seed bowl.

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Heck, we had over 35k for Elon..  No way this could support a BE bowl game...  People want to come to Florida and if USF were in the bowl game, it would be at least 25k - 35k short of available seats... 

We sold out Ray Jay for some decent home games.  Give away tickets to sponsors, media, etc, and then offer soem seats up to the opposing school and Ray Jay isn't big enough...

I'd rather put a BE bowl after the first (or before) in RJS.

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I just don't see how you could configure this for a football game.

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I thought Tropicana would be a little weird for a bowl game.  This new stadium is only a fraction of the size of Tropicana.  35k is REALLY small for a bowl game.  If we were playing in it we'd have 35k alone, not to mention the other team's fans and just locals that want to watch a college football game.

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That new stadium would be the perfect size for the PapajohnsPersonalPanPizza.com Bowl.

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if St Pete was to have a Bowl game I dont see USF going to many of them. Bowl games are more about people traveling to the City and Spending money than it is about ticket sales. USF fans would drive over tailgate, watch the game, and drive back. We would not spend a boat load of money in St Pete

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I imagine if an additional Bowl was added it'd be a lower tier bowl given the limited size.

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That new stadium would be the perfect size for the PapajohnsPersonalPanPizza.com Bowl.

That there is funny...

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