PVA&M & Grambling to Continue Playing at Cotton Bowl

[TexasTerror]

Great news! The decision has been changed and both the Red River Shootout and more importantly to the FCS community, Prairie View A&M-Grambling series, will continue at the Cotton Bowl instead of moving to the Dallas Cowboys new stadium.

Moving the games away would've taken away from what made these two games special -- the fact they were played at the Cotton Bowl during the Texas State Fair, always a major drawing card, especially for corndog lovers!
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Cotton Bowl keeps UT-OU game
Contest to stay through 2015; Prairie View, Grambling deal also set
11:45 AM CDT on Friday, April 20, 2007

By DAVE LEVINTHAL / The Dallas Morning News
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No Arlington. No Austin. No Norman, Okla.

In a reversal of Dallas' recent football fortunes, Mayor Laura Miller will announce Friday that the University of Texas and University of Oklahoma will continue to play their age-old annual football showdown in Fair Park's Cotton Bowl – at least through 2015.

On Thursday, officials familiar with the announcement had also said Grambling University and Prairie View A&M University will agree to play their annual game at the Cotton Bowl through 2015.

The schools' new contracts, which several Dallas officials say will include hundreds of thousands of dollars in new city-funded incentives, ends months of speculation that they soon would leave the aging Cotton Bowl for other venues, including the Dallas Cowboys' new stadium in Arlington, 20 miles away.

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/042007dnmettexoucotton.25448997.html

[SU Jag]

Great news! The decision has been changed and both the Red River Shootout and more importantly to the FCS community, Prairie View A&M-Grambling series, will continue at the Cotton Bowl instead of moving to the Dallas Cowboys new stadium.

Moving the games away would've taken away from what made these two games special -- the fact they were played at the Cotton Bowl during the Texas State Fair, always a major drawing card, especially for corndog lovers!
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Cotton Bowl keeps UT-OU game
Contest to stay through 2015; Prairie View, Grambling deal also set
11:45 AM CDT on Friday, April 20, 2007

By DAVE LEVINTHAL / The Dallas Morning News
[email protected]

No Arlington. No Austin. No Norman, Okla.

In a reversal of Dallas' recent football fortunes, Mayor Laura Miller will announce Friday that the University of Texas and University of Oklahoma will continue to play their age-old annual football showdown in Fair Park's Cotton Bowl – at least through 2015.

On Thursday, officials familiar with the announcement had also said Grambling University and Prairie View A&M University will agree to play their annual game at the Cotton Bowl through 2015.

The schools' new contracts, which several Dallas officials say will include hundreds of thousands of dollars in new city-funded incentives, ends months of speculation that they soon would leave the aging Cotton Bowl for other venues, including the Dallas Cowboys' new stadium in Arlington, 20 miles away.

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/042007dnmettexoucotton.25448997.html

I couldnt imagine the State Fair Classic being played anywhere else. The Texas State fairgrounds is a big part of the game/weekend atmosphere.

[TexasTerror]

I couldnt imagine the State Fair Classic being played anywhere else. The Texas State fairgrounds is a big part of the game/weekend atmosphere.

Agreed...

I think the Red River Shootout would more likely end up on campus sites than move to Arlington...

The PVA&M-Grambling game has no business leaving the Fair Grounds...

[TexasTerror]

Not so fast...from our buddy in Monroe, Nick D...

State of the State Fair Classic
It now appears that city officials in Dallas were being a bit optimistic when they talked about a new deal that would keep Grambling and Prairie View playing at the aging Cotton Bowl through 2015.

Initial reports late last week had Grambling and Prairie View getting $100,000 while Texas and Oklahoma were to receive $300,000 -- on top of the combined $250,000 the the Longhorns and Sooners already receive.

But Pete Schenkel, a Dallas-area businessman and former chairman of the State Fair of Texas, now says negotiations with Grambling and Prairie View are still in the beginning stages: "We only started talking to them Wednesday," he said in published reports.

Officials are scrambling to keep both GSU's contest and the Texas-Oklahoma rivalry in the Fair Park complex after the AT&T Cotton Bowl Classic announced a 2010 move to the Dallas Cowboys' new stadium in Arlington. About $50 million in mostly bond-funded improvements followed at the 77-year-old Cotton Bowl, then the announcement of new incentive packages for the complex's two largest remaining games.

http://www.thenewsstar.com/news/blogs/blog3/2007/04/state-of-state-fair-classic.html

[DFW HOYA]

Grambling wants more money, so something will be worked out.

Bottom line, they'll be back with PV, and that's good for everyone.

[UNHWildCats]

its all about the benjamins