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mitchella81, on 02 November 2010 - 01:04 PM, said:

This is kind of good economic news for the area. Columbus has landed its third HBCU game. Columbus has already been home to the Tuskegee-Morehouse Classic for nearly 80 years. Also the Fountain City Classic Between Ft. Valley State & Albany State University for 21 years now COlumbus will be home for the Pioneer bowl for the next 3 years at least. hopefully the city will become home to the game permanantly. The Pioneer Bowl is the only NCAA sancationed game involving HBCU colleges and only one of three sanctioned bowl games for division II schools. The game is the Championship game for the CIAA and SIAC conferences. This will be a major economic impact for the city. THe first game will be played December 4th 2010 at the AJ Mclung Memorial Staduim near South Commons.

I know the Memorial Stadium is now smaller than Troy State's, but I think we should try to start a tradition like the one we had with Georgia-Auburn. Maybe an out of conference game with Troy and some team in Georgia.

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Whitewater model is cool precursor to the real thing... Cat 5 rapids. See WRBL Story here-

Design group page here -

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Mercer College is bringing football back to the future - GPB article here. I only mention it because there's still an opportunity for CSU.

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aboutmetro, on 01 August 2007 - 12:19 PM, said:

The Civic Center is nice, but it was built too small to attract really big names.  With just 8,000 seats (I know they advertise 10,000, but they have to 'kill' about 2,000 seats next to the stage in a concert), the numberss just don't work out for a big name act.  Say an act expects to bring in $500,000 for a concert, that would put the ticket price for every single ticket over $60.  That would mean either the ticket prices couldn't be scaled (some higher or some lower). The public would have a fit if it cost $120 for date night or $240 for a family of 4.  With the market numbers that ALTman1 shows, a major concert would be able to draw say, an 18,000 audience.

I wouldn't be opposed to adding another penny to the next splost to increase the size.  Maybe Aflac would do some sort of funds matching if we called it Aflac Arena and put a giant duck on top...

Well, the city government is back to considering the naming rights issue for Civic Center - CLE article here. Still, at the heart of the matter, is the center's size. It's too small to be both profitable for major acts with affordable tickets for spectators.

Edited by aboutmetro, 01 February 2011 - 09:37 AM.

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aboutmetro, on 01 February 2011 - 09:35 AM, said:

Well, the city government is back to considering the naming rights issue for Civic Center - CLE article here. Still, at the heart of the matter, is the center's size. It's too small to be both profitable for major acts with affordable tickets for spectators.

If they are able to rename it I seriously think it would be a local company who purchases the naming rights. Something like Alfac or Carmike Arena

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mitchella81, on 02 February 2011 - 01:26 PM, said:

If they are able to rename it I seriously think it would be a local company who purchases the naming rights. Something like Alfac or Carmike Arena

Aflac Arena sounds cool to me!