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Alan1

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EWU AD is interested in meeting with the Spokane School Board to discuss playing Eastern home football games in their planned 5,000 seat downtown sports stadium. Hmm.
 
They use to play some games at the old Joe Albi Stadium. When they were installing the red turf, they played that whole season at Joe Albi.
 
Unlike Hillsboro Stadium, there’s pretty good city bus service from downtown Spokane to the campus in Cheney. Of course, in post-pandemic America...

...this has to be for one game a year before students return, when they’re playing what’s left of western D2 schools. Right?

Well, I can see a demographic consideration here. Younger people trying to avoid driving (people who have looked at the data know this is a thing), and if you happen to be trying to appeal to pre-college students, you kind of have to go to them.

FYI the gist of this stadium is a sharing arrangement between Spokane public schools and a prospective 3rd division- naturally named USL League One- soccer team seeking to site in Spokane. So I would imagine that part of the attraction is that the soccer team will sell beer. Do they sell beer at Roos? Seems like another factor.

EDIT AGAIN- the quote I saw on eGriz has EWU athletic department considering “championship events” at the new stadium. So Big Sky soccer finals? That makes some sense.
 

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