Wash St Football - Support, Buy-in, Attendance

[coachnorm]

Doesn't surprise me. Old Hollywood money and Nike money.

Believe it or not, Stanford probably has twice the money that Oregon and USC has. Stanford is so filthy rich that it makes a decision to demolish its old stadium of 80,000 plus seating. Demolition started end of November and they are playing the following September. That stadium was totally leveled to the ground. Construction was 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. Can you imagine the costs to do this in the Bay area? This was not done with athletic funds, the University just felt like doing it? USC got easy money from Stan Kronke in rent for the Rams to support the renovation of the Coliseum?

I have personally seen both USC and Stanford's facilities and I did not see much difference between them. Just some west coast info for fellow elitedoggers.

[OLJWales]

Iteresting thing I didn't know. From 1999 - 2001 the Idaho Vandals also played their home games at Martin Stadium. Pullman is 10 miles from Moscow Idaho.

That kind puts in perspective of just how out of the way Pullman is

We should nuke Moscow , ID just on general purposes.

[confucius say]

Good stuff. Can you do a similar comparison to Texas Tech when he was there? This is interesting to me

Only looked at 2008, his best year there where they went I think 11-1. Averaged right around 53k which was the stadium capacity. Interestingly, Lubbock has over 250k people, ten times Starkville. And ttu has 40k students now. Prob was less in 2008 though, but still roughly double state both then and now.

[CadaverDawg]

Only looked at 2008, his best year there where they went I think 11-1. Averaged right around 53k which was the stadium capacity. Interestingly, Lubbock has over 250k people, ten times Starkville. And ttu has 40k students now. Prob was less in 2008 though, but still roughly double state both then and now.

Interesting stuff man. Thanks for doing the research

[MStateDawg]

it is a school bigger than msu in a town bigger than Starkville

It's only "bigger" if you include the enrollment of all their satellite campuses. The Pullman campus has fewer students than State does at the Starkville campus. As far as population of Pullman, that's the only significant population in the area whereas The Golden Triangle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden..._(Mississippi)) has a population of over 128K.

[RocketDawg]

Oregon and USC are the only pac 12 programs with SEC caliber facilities.

UCLA has a decent football stadium (Rose Bowl) and Arizona State's isn't bad.

[RocketDawg]

Pullman is also the same number of miles from Starkville, ms as it is from diomede, Russia.

Not surprising. Remember - Sarah Palin "could see Russia from my house". ** And Washington's not all that far from Alaska.