Things that are certain in life: Death, Taxes, and if you hold an event outside Louisville people in Louisville will complain about the location.

The reason they left Louisville was because everyone said it was TOO BIG. Since then it got bigger, now everyone wants to go back. There has not been 1 year at WKU where it was completely filled.

If the neigh sayers were really truthful, I think it all boils down to the drive to Bowling Green. They put WKU/BG down just to attempt to shorten the round trip drive they have to make and to a lesser degree the resulting cost of that. Just my opinion.

Things that are certain in life: Death' date=' Taxes, and if you hold an event outside Louisville people in Louisville will complain about the location.[/quote']

 

Most of the complainers are not Louisville people.

I've always like it at westerns stadium until this year. This is supposed to the the crowning weekend of a long season of high school football and it's getting shoved aside like a stepchild. This rearranging is a fiasco and they should have had a stadium contingency in place if they thought this was a possibility. They had no plan and went scrambling. Embarrassing and disrespectful to all those coaches and kids. I liked it at WKU but now wish it would move.

Well football everywhere except at the University. :lol2:

 

That's why they should have it at UK because its never in use...LOL

Only during the week of the state championships... It's hard to draw a good crowd any other time of the year!

 

According to the NCAA WKU averaged 16,306 in attendance last year. I would guess that # is only going to increase this season. That seems pretty good to me considering it is a relatively new FBS program.

Other than the change of schedule this year, I don't know why there is so many complaints about WKU.

I guess if Texas had there games at a longhorn ranch in Amarillo, we would need to find a cow pasture somewhere in the central part of the state. Geez!

I've seen the way that Texas does it mentioned a couple of times. Those complaining about the drive should be glad their schools aren't located down there. Had a school from El Paso made the finals last year they would have had to to travel 614 miles each way to Arlington. Of course that's a quick trip compared to what they would face this year with Houston being 741 miles away.

If the neigh sayers were really truthful, I think it all boils down to the drive to Bowling Green. They put WKU/BG down just to attempt to shorten the round trip drive they have to make and to a lesser degree the resulting cost of that. Just my opinion.

 

Then you should love me, because I was completely upfront about that. :lol2:

 

Although, most of those who like it where it is would have further to travel if it were moved, so I would suspect motivations are mostly the same on both sides.

Then you should love me, because I was completely upfront about that. :lol2:

 

Although, most of those who like it where it is would have further to travel if it were moved, so I would suspect motivations are mostly the same on both sides.

Totally agree Diver!

 

And yes I Love You!

Those places fill up those massive stadiums a whole lot better than we fill up Papa John's or Commonwealth. Texas plays some of their playoff games in AT&T stadium so some people have to travel to Dallas every week for playoff games but apparently they are playing the championship game in a smaller stadium because AT&T stadium is too big. Hell, too many folks are sad about the games being at WKU. We can't even fill up that joint unless a local team is playing. :lol2: :lol2:

I assumed that a place like Ohio would draw a bigger crowd for their high school championships than Kentucky. Even with that being the case hypothetically if Ohio drew 40,000 people (much more than Kentucky draws) to their championship games. That would still leave 65,000+ open seats at Ohio Stadium. Like I said I could care less. I just never understood it mattering if all the seats were filled.

I assumed that a place like Ohio would draw a bigger crowd for their high school championships than Kentucky. Even with that being the case hypothetically if Ohio drew 40,000 people (much more than Kentucky draws) to their championship games. That would still leave 65,000+ open seats at Ohio Stadium. Like I said I could care less. I just never understood it mattering if all the seats were filled.

 

Very true. I do feel like with 40K people it would still present a better atmosphere than 6K-10K people in a 60K capacity stadium.

Naw I like the 2 hr drive not the 5 hr drive to Louisville

The Western schools have traveled for YEARS!! I'm fine with the finals being at Western for a while. It's good publicity for the Toppers facilities. It will help Western get some recruits that normally would'nt consider them.