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Cotton Bowl Moving to Arlington in 2010

Discussion in 'College Football Forum' started by sds70, Feb 27, 2007.

  1. sds70

    sds70 'King Kong Ain't Got **** On Me!!!!!'

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    Sooooooooo, if the Cotton Bowl is moving out to the Cowboys New Stadium in Arlington in 2010, I'm sure the UT-OU game will follow also. Perhaps the Cottow Bowl now will get into the BCS rotation or host a national championship game in the future.

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    Cotton Bowl to move to new stadium in Arlington

    Associated Press


    DALLAS (AP) _ Hoping to get the Cotton Bowl back on college football's national stage, the board that oversees the game voted Tuesday to move it to the new Dallas Cowboys stadium starting in 2010.



    The Cotton Bowl Athletic Association voted to move the game to the new Dallas Cowboys stadium beginning in 2010.
    Cotton Bowl Athletic Association chairman Bruce Gadd declined to reveal details of the contract with the Cowboys but said it will last more than a decade.

    "This is one of the most important decisions in the 71-year history of the AT&T Cotton Bowl," Gadd said in a statement. "Moving the Classic preserves the Classic's legacy and, at the same time, secures its future as one of college football's best postseason bowl games."

    Backers want to get the Cotton Bowl into the Bowl Championship Series mix and make it the future location of a national title game.

    The move was approved by a voice vote during a somber regular meeting of the Cotton Bowl Athletic Association board of directors, Gadd said. He said no negative votes were voiced, although some board members may have declined to vote.

    "There were tears in the room," he said. "When it was over it was unanimous, and there was some applause. ... It was a move we had to make. There was not one incident of someone standing up and saying maybe we shouldn't do this."

    The first game at the new venue in Arlington, located between Dallas and Fort Worth, will be New Year's Day, 2010.

    Plans for the $1 billion stadium, scheduled to open in 2009, include a retractable roof that would cover a hole similar to the one at Texas Stadium in Irving.

    A domed stadium is important to bowl game officials because of Dallas' sometimes cold January weather. Gadd said weather was a key factor that kept the Cotton Bowl from being included in the BCS when the postseason format was adopted in 1994.

    "As anyone can imagine, this decision was difficult, but after completing our due diligence, we determined that a move to the new stadium would remove all weather concerns, keep us competitive in a changing college postseason landscape and provide a world-class facility for our partners, the players and fans," Gadd said.

    The game, first played in 1937, has always been held at the Cotton Bowl, which opened in 1932. The stadium is also home to the annual Texas-Oklahoma and Grambling State-Prairie View A&M games, which are surrounded by the State Fair of Texas. Both are under contract there through 2010.

    "We have no plans beyond that," said Texas athletic director DeLoss Dodds, who has called the fair the basis of the Texas-OU tradition and the reason for playing it in Dallas.

    Gadd said the New Year's Day game name won't change because it is trademarked by the association.


     
  2. Coops Greatest Fan

    Coops Greatest Fan I just post here

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    About time they decided to move it off the fair grounds and into a facility that doesn't need a lot of work done to it. The Cotton Bowl stadium itself needs a lot of restoration done to it and it honestly surprises me that they hadn't done it. Mom and I were there in 2000 (2001) and I was shocked that with all the prestige of the "Cotton Bowl", the stadium really did suck. Mom and I vowed to never go back unless they moved it. Guess we can hope that K-State doesn't go there before 2010!
     
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    Isn't K State a basketball school now?
     
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    Not just yet....give us til next season and we'll be up there. Still a football school as well.....
     
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    Well, when a school sells its soul for Huggins, it gets what it deserves. Hopefully he'll keep the DUIs to a minimum and his players out of jail, but I doubt it.
     

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