FBS? Doesn't the Fargodome need to be expanded first?

[scottietohottie]

The FD is nice for High School Championship games too. I don't even watch when they play in gf. It's a championship game play where the champs play not where a crappy big sky team plays!

[WYOBISONMAN]

Maybe we can just raise the roof.......

[Bison 4 Life]

This goes back to money. If you were an accountant and looking at the cost/benefit analysis, what would you think?

$50-100 million for a stadium.
$20 million increase in budget, every year.
Increased travel budget

Take those cost outlays and look at the possible revenues mitigated by fewer home games.

How long would it take to recoup that? Remember how hard it was to raise the money for the SHAC?

[NorthernBison]

Doesn't matter how many butts are in the seats as long as the tickets get sold. It's all about the $$$$$$$$$$

The problem is that the tickets WON'T get sold after a pattern develops where you don't need season tickets to be able to attend a game. The income stream becomes unreliable. That's why outdoors in Fargo is a bad idea.

[ZHerd]

An outdoor stadium is a retarded idea. 1) the dome is an awesome home field advantage. Outdoor stadiums simply aren't as loud. 2) Many of the avid noise making fans in dome playoff games wouldn't be interested in sitting outside in Dec and Jan games and I can't blame them. 3) Believe it or not the dome is a good recruiting tool. I've spoken with former NDSU players who came largely because they had always wanted to play ball in a dome. Domes are expensive but If we are going to pay for a new stadium we might as well do it right.

[ZHerd]

Again as an FBS team there would be no games in December and probably an end of November game every other year so I think it's a non-factor.

Seriously we are fucking North Dakotan's and we can't handle a 10 degree day in mid November? WTF has happened to us???

Some of us suffer enough outdoors during the week. So sorry if wanting to be in the warmth during weekends somehow makes us wimps.

[BisonTeacher]

An outdoor stadium is a retarded idea. 2) Many of the avid noise making fans in dome playoff games wouldn't be interested in sitting outside in Dec and Jan games and I can't blame them.

If we go fbs....there wont be any playoff games...and no games in dec or january at home.

[ZHerd]

If we go fbs....there wont be any playoff games...and no games in dec or january at home.

Currently yes, but we don't know what changes might occur down the line. Even if a playoffs never take place the other two reasons still stand

[MarkyMark]

The city has looked at it and it wasn't feasible to expand. We would need an invite from a FBS conference to move to DI.

When was a FargoDome expansion studied by Fargo? I keep seeing random people post that can't be done but I didn't know it had been studied by Fargo.

[totoinfl]

When was a FargoDome expansion studied by Fargo? I keep seeing random people post that can't be done but I didn't know it had been studied by Fargo.

As much as my googling fingers could find.

http://www.crookstontimes.com/articl...NEWS/130719973

http://bringmethenews.com/2013/07/10...ger-fargodome/


However nothing about the completion of the study which was mentioned to be last October.