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kickballpro
FedupMiner said:
I agree it’s going to be changing quickly. There is more money to be made in a large college football playoff format than all these meaningless bowl games now days that teams and starting players don’t even want to play in. Teams and players want to play for a national championship.

These playoff games will draw more than 47k fans and that is why, like you mentioned, these large cities like Nashville, LA, Minneapolis, Vegas etc. want these games and their stadiums hold more than 47k fans and they have luxury suites for the high roller fans. These sites will generate more revenue than a game at the Sun Bowl will.

Weather isn’t really an issue. The Penn State and Ohio State games were freezing and didn’t simply from selling out. And I am curious why you think the age of the Sun Bowl is a something going on favor of hosting a college football playoff game?

Trying to be proactive and investing hundreds of millions of dollars into making the Sun Bowl a desirable college football destination will turn into a disaster IMO. We already altered the Sun Bowl to accommodate “ big time” soccer matches and lol how that turned out.
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I mention the age of the Sun Bowl playing a factor because earlier this year in El Paso, 350 bowl executives met for 2 days.

One of the talking points was the Bowl Presidents want the Bowl Games to be the host sites for all Playoff games.

The long standing tradition of the Sun Bowl is one thing the Sun Bowl has over other places.

I do not believe El Paso and the Sun Bowl will ever host.

All I am saying is that the College Football Playoff is the future of the Sport, it’s going to blow up, it’s going to be massive, and it’s going to be lucrative.

And if the Sun Bowl wants to be involved, they better start now because we will be left behind like we are in everything else.
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kickballpro said:
It won’t happen in El Paso only because we aren’t ready for it now and won’t do anything to get ready.

But in our lifetimes, we will see a 32 team playoff with all neutral sites. The NCAA will bid out all of the host sites.

Cities building Indoor Stadiums want games. Nashville, Chicago, Indianapolis, Minneapolis, Detroit, Las Vegas, Jacksonville, So-Fi will all want games.

All the fair weather cities and dome stadiums have a chance. Sun Bowl has 2 things going for it, the age of the Sun Bowl and it’s in a fair weather city.

The current playoff is already broken. You finish top 4 and don’t get a home game? The seeding makes little sense. You have games being played in poor weather.

It’s all going to change and quickly
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I agree it’s going to be changing quickly. There is more money to be made in a large college football playoff format than all these meaningless bowl games now days that teams and starting players don’t even want to play in. Teams and players want to play for a national championship.

These playoff games will draw more than 47k fans and that is why, like you mentioned, these large cities like Nashville, LA, Minneapolis, Vegas etc. want these games and their stadiums hold more than 47k fans and they have luxury suites for the high roller fans. These sites will generate more revenue than a game at the Sun Bowl will.

Weather isn’t really an issue. The Penn State and Ohio State games were freezing and didn’t stop it from selling out. And I am curious why you think the age of the Sun Bowl is a something going on favor of hosting a college football playoff game?

Trying to be proactive and investing hundreds of millions of dollars into making the Sun Bowl a desirable college football destination will turn into a disaster IMO. We already altered the Sun Bowl to accommodate “ big time” soccer matches and look how that turned out.
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kickballpro said:
It won’t happen in El Paso only because we aren’t ready for it now and won’t do anything to get ready.

But in our lifetimes, we will see a 32 team playoff with all neutral sites. The NCAA will bid out all of the host sites.

Cities building Indoor Stadiums want games. Nashville, Chicago, Indianapolis, Minneapolis, Detroit, Las Vegas, Jacksonville, So-Fi will all want games.

All the fair weather cities and dome stadiums have a chance. Sun Bowl has 2 things going for it, the age of the Sun Bowl and it’s in a fair weather city.

The current playoff is already broken. You finish top 4 and don’t get a home game? The seeding makes little sense. You have games being played in poor weather.

It’s all going to change and quickly
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One major issue is the fact that UTEP can’t get enough money together to seriously renovate either of their tentpole facilities. And the voters don’t want to raise taxes to help renovate facilites that are not property of the city. So this is all a moot point.
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UTEP vs SHSU

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Roy_Bigwood_05 said:
line opened at -4.5 and bet up to -6 in most shops now. I have it UTEP -7.5 so hammer up to 8 if you like a good value.

I love the Miners tonight and hit the early -4.5 at open. Total is 146 not sure how I feel about that pero Go Miners!
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"UTEP is 4-2 in their last 6 meetings against Sam Houston, and 5-1 against the spread. Under is 3-0 in their last 3 meetings, and in their most recent meeting last season, UTEP won 65-63 on the road, covering the spread, as the game went under the point total. In this Sam Houston Bearkats vs UTEP Miners Prediction, UTEP is coming as a -4.5 home favorites. Sam Houston is better offensively, scoring 6.7 points more than UTEP, while UTEP is better defensively, allowing 12.3 points less. The Miners are winning by an average of 8.6 points this season, while the Bearkats are winning by an average of 1.9 points. The Miners have been undefeated at home this season, but are just 1-3 against the spread in their last 4 home games. The Bearkats are terrible on the road lately, with five consecutive losses, as they failed to cover in each of those five games. I expect the hosts to get the job done in this one, so take the UTEP Miners and lay the points at home."
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kickballpro
FedupMiner said:
Yep there is too much money to be made. That is why there will never be college playoff games being played in the Sun Bowl. Do you think the college football mafia is going to make more money with Clemson vs. Texas in a 47k Sun Bowl stadium than DK Royal Stadium that seats over 100k and has more than 100 luxury suites? It would be cool to have playoff games here but it just ain’t going to happen.
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It won’t happen in El Paso only because we aren’t ready for it now and won’t do anything to get ready.

But in our lifetimes, we will see a 32 team playoff with all neutral sites. The NCAA will bid out all of the host sites.

Cities building Indoor Stadiums want games. Nashville, Chicago, Indianapolis, Minneapolis, Detroit, Las Vegas, Jacksonville, So-Fi will all want games.

All the fair weather cities and dome stadiums have a chance. Sun Bowl has 2 things going for it, the age of the Sun Bowl and it’s in a fair weather city.

The current playoff is already broken. You finish top 4 and don’t get a home game? The seeding makes little sense. You have games being played in poor weather.

It’s all going to change and quickly
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UTEP vs SHSU

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DBminer said:
No no no everyone needs to stop picking Utep or expecting Utep to win… that’s when we start losing games … everyone please go back to the Utep is awful… no faith in bronzeing please … utep is known for not being able to get over the hump … so please keep not believing
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Crap. I was just thinking that even our hedging was good against La Tech. We are losing for sure now 🤔
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