When the bean counters finish, we'll find out what the take home pay was. Be patient.
When the bean counters finish, we'll find out what the take home pay was. Be patient.
Probably need to be non-conf. I vote for scheduling an Ivy, CAA or Big Sky Team . . . or a MAC or MWC Team if you could get seating up to 45,000. Best games . . . Harvard, Yale, Princeton, MT State, MT, Northern IL (a Twin City Recruiter), Western MI, Ohio U, Wyoming, Boise. Play Boise for a MWC invite.
Be better (also) if they play in a football stadium, not a baseball stadium. The playing field for Buter vs NDSU will be a kludge, complete with a dirt infield as part of the so-called football field, and the seating (not made for football) will be awkward. Get the game into one of the Twin Cities football fields - U.St. Thomas, U.Minn (probably the best), even the Vikings stadium - and against a Top 10 FCS school, or an FBS team where the stakes are high should they lose to the Bison, and there will be a lot of people there. (In my opinion - but what do I know).
The HBCU teams typically get the largest crowds. The 2015 Celebration Bowl had 35,528 in attendance. The 1994 Heritage bowl had 36,128.
Pretty tough to top the SWAC classic games. The Bayou Classic (Grambling and Southern), Florida Classic (Florida A&M and Bethune-Cookman), and Magic City Classic (Alabama State and Alabama A&M) routinely draw 60k+. The Florida Classic drew 73,358 in 2003 in Orlando. That might be the biggest ever for an FCS vs FCS game.