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RobertKatz
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  Message Not Read  Progressive Field
   Posted: 8/11/2011 7:48:29 PM 
I was at the Tribe game last night, then heard that there will be a college hockey game this winter at Progressive Field. I was thinking it would be cool (cold also I guess) to play the MAC chap game there. Keep it in Cleveland and have a cool factor like tha game at Wrigley Field last season. What effect would that have on attendance? I would go even if 'Cats weren't in it.
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anorris
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  Message Not Read  RE: Progressive Field
   Posted: 8/11/2011 8:17:33 PM 
RobertKatz wrote:
I was at the Tribe game last night, then heard that there will be a college hockey game this winter at Progressive Field. I was thinking it would be cool (cold also I guess) to play the MAC chap game there. Keep it in Cleveland and have a cool factor like tha game at Wrigley Field last season. What effect would that have on attendance? I would go even if 'Cats weren't in it.
Have to guess it would lower attendance purely because of the cold factor.
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Mike Bundt WHIZ
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  Message Not Read  RE: Progressive Field
   Posted: 8/11/2011 8:31:34 PM 
I think it would be awesome to have it there and I would definitely favor that instead of having it in Detroit. Sure, Detroit is a good location for people in the MAC West but Cleveland is a much more favorable location for teams in the East. 

I'm from Buffalo so driving to Cleveland would be a lot easier for me and I would consider going no matter who was in it. I think it could possibly rise the attendance being their even if it had cold weather. 

Also, it would be awesome to have the game in a new neutral field such as Progressive field.

With all that being said, I don't think this will ever happen and I think it'll stay in Detroit for a long time.
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Pete Chouteau
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  Message Not Read  RE: Progressive Field
   Posted: 8/11/2011 9:12:49 PM 
One might go to the first Progressive Field MAC Championship game regardless of the teams playing.

I sincerely question the sanity of the person who says they would do it a second time.

These baseball park football games are getting tedious. The Northwestern game at Wrigley was the shark jump.
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Pataskala
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  Message Not Read  RE: Progressive Field
   Posted: 8/11/2011 9:26:49 PM 
Pete Chouteau wrote:
One might go to the first Progressive Field MAC Championship game regardless of the teams playing.

I sincerely question the sanity of the person who says they would do it a second time.

These baseball park football games are getting tedious. The Northwestern game at Wrigley was the shark jump.


I highly suspect of football games played at newer baseball parks.  Older fields like Wrigley were built to be more multi-purpose fields; I think the Chicago Cardinals played football there in the 40s and 50s and da Bears were there for most of the 60s and 70s.  But newer fields were built for baseball, so shoehorning a football field inside the walls is often difficult.  AT&T Park, where the Fight Hunger Bowl is played, can't accommodate benches on opposite sides of the field, so both teams are on the same side.  Goofy.  If they can do it, great.  But I'd rather see the MAC championship game played on a field that doesn't have a sodded-over infield. 

We will get by.
We will get by.
We will get by.
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anorris
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  Message Not Read  RE: Progressive Field
   Posted: 8/11/2011 9:32:29 PM 
Pataskala wrote:
Pete Chouteau wrote:
One might go to the first Progressive Field MAC Championship game regardless of the teams playing.

I sincerely question the sanity of the person who says they would do it a second time.

These baseball park football games are getting tedious. The Northwestern game at Wrigley was the shark jump.


I highly suspect of football games played at newer baseball parks.  Older fields like Wrigley were built to be more multi-purpose fields; I think the Chicago Cardinals played football there in the 40s and 50s and da Bears were there for most of the 60s and 70s.  But newer fields were built for baseball, so shoehorning a football field inside the walls is often difficult.  AT&T Park, where the Fight Hunger Bowl is played, can't accommodate benches on opposite sides of the field, so both teams are on the same side.  Goofy.  If they can do it, great.  But I'd rather see the MAC championship game played on a field that doesn't have a sodded-over infield. 

They did build new Yankee with football in mind, but even so, it just isn't a great setup.  Sodded over infields, many of the seats end up sucking, etc. etc.

It makes no sense whatsoever to me when there is an NFL stadium just up the road a few blocks -- you'd have to think it would cost more to screw around converting things than just rent a ready-to-go field.

Plus, again, you're outside, in Cleveland, on a lake, in December.

I see no advantage to it, on any front.
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colobobcat66
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  Message Not Read  RE: Progressive Field
   Posted: 8/12/2011 8:50:48 AM 
Why can't they rotate to Lucas Field in Indy every 3rd year or so.  The distances from everybody except Temple, Buffalo and Mass wouldn't really be that bad.  Oh, of course it doesn't make any difference with Temple because they would never play in the championship anyway and they'll be gone from the MAC anyway in a year or two.  (Watch them prove me wrong and win the East this year)
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anorris
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  Message Not Read  RE: Progressive Field
   Posted: 8/12/2011 11:35:31 AM 
colobobcat66 wrote:
Why can't they rotate to Lucas Field in Indy every 3rd year or so.  The distances from everybody except Temple, Buffalo and Mass wouldn't really be that bad.  Oh, of course it doesn't make any difference with Temple because they would never play in the championship anyway and they'll be gone from the MAC anyway in a year or two.  (Watch them prove me wrong and win the East this year)
I wouldn't be opposed to the idea, but with our game 24 hours before the Big Ten Championhsip at Lucas Oil, it won't happen unless that game moves.
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