Fort Charlotte is the old British fort overlooking the port into Nassau. Seems appropriate to me for this to be alternate spot. We also have the Caribbean Hutt literally down the street from the stadium. Perfect!
Kidding aside, does anyone know how the Hell Charlotte was chosen as the venue for this bowl.
Seems very odd to me. I know it had to be moved, but why here?
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I’d guess that Hill knew about the issue and made an offer. He met a lot of the bowl officials when we attended in 2019.
The Bahamas Bowl is owned and operated by ESPN events. ESPN already has production people in the Charlotte area (SEC Network & ESPN U). The date of the Myrtle Beach Bowl was moved to Saturday December 16th two days before the Bahamas Bowl on Monday December 18th. My guess is ESPN will use some of the same crew to broadcast both bowls. Renting out Richardson Stadium is probably cheap. Hosting the bowl in Charlotte is likely cost effective for ESPN.
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This feels logical. Add in how easy it is to get to Charlotte by air and plenty of hotel options and it makes a ton of sense for ESPN and the schools that are eventually invited.
For us, it is another chance for exposure of our campus as you know they will talk about our program and Biff during the broadcast so let’s hope the season ends on an upswing.
Also hope this is a view into how we will use the stadium as a venue for future events to drive more revenue. High School football championships make a ton of sense. Not sure about concerts (insert sound system comment here) but it’s a great venue and would like to see it used more.
clt says we are lucky that david tepper introduced live music to charlotte
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Asheville is the Maui of North Carolina and Charlotte is the Bahamas of North Carolina
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At least our stadium will get to see a good football team play.
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I was wondering last night how much the field will be painted for the bowl game?
Not the Polaner All Fruit Bowl?
I’m sure they got the naming rights at a deal because of the last minute location change, but still surprised that a small regional restaurant chain can afford bowl naming rights.
- absolutely
- potentially
- weather and team dependent
- only if Lutz does the coin flip
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clt asks if you plan to attend?
This just gets more ridiculously comical as we go on.
I think it’s cool.
Put it this way - these bowls are usually the ONLY thing on TV around this time of year, so all the sports addicts and casuals will get a good look at our campus.
Can’t hurt.
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Dupe.
Merged the two threads into one and tweaked the title.