(3/6) Grambling-Prairie View May Follow Cotton Bowl Lead
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Grambling-Prairie View following the Cotton Bowl to Arlington? Grambling would never follow the Cotton Bowl game in abandoning this legendary south Dallas venue, right? Well, there are other emotions at play. The Dallas City Council saw to that a couple of seasons ago when it approved $250,000 in game incentives for GSU and Prairie View through 2009 -- while giving $625,000 apiece to Texas and Oklahoma, who play the following weekend in the same venue. Get [Al] Wash [Promoter of the State Fair Classic], and many Grambling fans, talking about that deal and, well, you can forget another mention of cotton candy and ferris wheels. It gets serious."I don't understand why the State Fair and the city have never seen the fact that we need dollars worse than Texas-Oklahoma need dollars," Wash said this week. "It's a business, and a business decision will be made." (News Star Blog) OU-TEXAS Implications: It would be hard to believe the Dallas City Council would invest bond money (as stated before Dallas isn't obligated to spend bond money, says Dallas CFO), without guarantees past 2009 from GSU-PV and 2010 OU-TEXAS. When all four schools are waiting for improvements passed by the Dallas voters. At the same time, Dallas recruiting LSU, Notre Dame, Texas A&M, Texas Tech to play at the Cotton Bowl stadium, could delay any renovations passed by Dallas voters. "It's absolutely worth significant upgrades to the facility to get four weeks of college football," Dallas Mayor, Ms. Miller.
Grambling-Prairie View following the Cotton Bowl to Arlington? Grambling would never follow the Cotton Bowl game in abandoning this legendary south Dallas venue, right? Well, there are other emotions at play. The Dallas City Council saw to that a couple of seasons ago when it approved $250,000 in game incentives for GSU and Prairie View through 2009 -- while giving $625,000 apiece to Texas and Oklahoma, who play the following weekend in the same venue. Get [Al] Wash [Promoter of the State Fair Classic], and many Grambling fans, talking about that deal and, well, you can forget another mention of cotton candy and ferris wheels. It gets serious."I don't understand why the State Fair and the city have never seen the fact that we need dollars worse than Texas-Oklahoma need dollars," Wash said this week. "It's a business, and a business decision will be made." (News Star Blog) OU-TEXAS Implications: It would be hard to believe the Dallas City Council would invest bond money (as stated before Dallas isn't obligated to spend bond money, says Dallas CFO), without guarantees past 2009 from GSU-PV and 2010 OU-TEXAS. When all four schools are waiting for improvements passed by the Dallas voters. At the same time, Dallas recruiting LSU, Notre Dame, Texas A&M, Texas Tech to play at the Cotton Bowl stadium, could delay any renovations passed by Dallas voters. "It's absolutely worth significant upgrades to the facility to get four weeks of college football," Dallas Mayor, Ms. Miller.
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