(04-25-2017 01:23 PM)pilot172000 Wrote:  I think that having this bowl game played in a smaller venue is a great idea. MLS soccer didn't start gaining ground until they stopped playing in Coliseums designed for NFL and Mega Colleges and started developing friendly confines of their own. The Camelia Bowl is one of the few things that the Belt got right. It looks great on TV and all the seats are quality seats. Instead of practically giving tickets away to save face come bowl season, you could actually generate demand and sell at a premium bowl tickets for venues like this. We want to go to bowl games with a great atmosphere, not hollowed half empty stadiums.

You are absolutely correct. A few years ago Major League Baseball made a conscious decision to move to smaller stadiums. Today, MLB's stadium sizes range from 31,042 at Tropicana Field in St Petersburg, FL (Tampa Bay Devil Rays) to the old Dodger Stadium, which has a capacity of 56K. But 7 MLB stadiums have a capacity of under 40K, and only two Stadiums (Yankee Stadium and Dodger Stadium) are over 50K.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U....y_capacity