[Husker] Huskers to open 2011 season with 1-AA

[Mike Jaixen]

As I recall, about two years ago, Nebraska was proposing something similar with 
a five game deal.  Three games in Lincoln, one in Laramie, and one at Invesco.  
I assume Wyoming didn't like playing four games away from home, though I'd think 
the revenue in Denver would have been much greater, especially if they could 
play that Denver game on Labor Day weekend.

 Mike Jaixen
http://huskermike.blogspot.com
http://www.cornnation.com




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From: Brad Roth <brad.roth at licor.com>
To: Mike Nolan <nolan at romaine.tssi.com>; "gzimmerman5 at kc.rr.com" 
<gzimmerman5 at kc.rr.com>
Cc: "husker at tssi.com" <husker at tssi.com>
Sent: Wed, December 15, 2010 3:00:52 PM
Subject: RE: [Husker] Huskers to open 2011 season with 1-AA

Perhaps TO should see if he could convince UWyo to move the game to INVESCO 
Field at Mile High.  I can see a number of reasons why Wyo would not want to do 
this...shucks, it may end up feeling like an away game for them in their own 
stadium anyway!

That said, I bet we could fill INVESCO.

-Brad
Lincoln


-----Original Message-----
From: husker-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:husker-bounces at tssi.com] On Behalf Of Mike 
Nolan
Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2010 2:39 PM
To: gzimmerman5 at kc.rr.com
Cc: husker at tssi.com
Subject: Re: [Husker] Huskers to open 2011 season with 1-AA

> However, why on god's green earth are we going to Laramie, WY? Their stadium 
>only seats 34,000. Can't be much of a payday from that gate.

The smaller (by reputation if not size) non-AQ schools have figured 
out that they don't have to take away-only games, even with a big paycheck 
attached.  Just say 'no thanks' to those deals.  

Faced with a choice of offering a home/home series to a Division 1 FBS team,
playing a team from Division 1-FCS if not Division 2, or an open date and
an 11 game season, what would you do?

Nebraska also has a lot of fans and alums in the western end of the state, 
this game will be a whole lot closer than driving to Lincoln.  So it's not
a lose-lose proposition.  
--
Mike Nolan

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