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Duncan Idaho

Duncan Idaho

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When travelling for work and such I would always try and catch a localish college football game. Always enjoyed the experience at the smaller venues. Some of the schools I visited;
Coast Guard
The Old Dartmouth stadium
Cornell
Princeton
App State
William and Mary
Utah State
Montana
Lafayette PA
Lehigh
JMU
New Mexico and State
Humboldt State CA
Other than the academies are any smaller venues others have enjoyed attending? I have not visited the MAC
 
Duncan Idaho said:
When travelling for work and such I would always try and catch a localish college football game. Always enjoyed the experience at the smaller venues. Some of the schools I visited;
Coast Guard
The Old Dartmouth stadium
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Princeton has a very nice small stadium.

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Saw many Easton/Pburg HS games Thanksgiving Day at Lafayette stadium in 70's and 80's.
 
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Western Connecticut State is a great environment. Great sized crowds for D3 and a beautiful setting. Good team too. Too bad their league said no football this Fall. It's a New England league and New England is in the best Covid-19 position of any region.
 
Watchdog said:
Always enjoyed Memorial Stadium in Storrs, CT. Great sight lines, close to the action and no sun in your eyes at the end of a Fall Saturday....
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And the kegs in the stands didn't hurt it either.
 
DFW HOYA said:
Princeton Stadium seats 27,000. It's not Jerry World, but 27,000 isn't small.
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Potato po-tat-to.

It is what 8,000 fans smaller that Nippert and 13,000 smaller than the Rent? That's small. It's not high school stadium small like Cooper Field though.
 
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Old Dominion's new stadium looks nice. South Alabama's new stadium debuted over the weekend and looked good too.
 
Nippert is on my list to visit. Appears to be an interesting place. I would put Princeton Cornell JMU near the top of what I meant by smaller venues as opposed to the large P5 types and below places like The Rent Marshall Duke BC Cinci...in size. I remember Calhoun use to patrol the top of Memorial. He would always get pissed when we gave up a score on any following drive of a UConn score.
 
Chin Diesel said:
Old Dominion's new stadium looks nice. South Alabama's new stadium debuted over the weekend and looked good too.
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South Alabama alum here. So happy to be away from Ladd-Peebles Stadium (site of Senior Bowl), which was about 25 minutes from campus (sound familiar). Ladd was run down when I was there 40 years ago. The best thing we did was to finance the $72 million stadium ourselves without any help from the city. Can't wait until I can actually see a game there in person.
 
Pawsox said:
South Alabama alum here. So happy to be away from Ladd-Peebles Stadium (site of Senior Bowl), which was about 25 minutes from campus (sound familiar). Ladd was run down when I was there 40 years ago. The best thing we did was to finance the $72 million stadium ourselves without any help from the city. Can't wait until I can actually see a game there in person.
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Just saw images of the new stadium, nice! 25k seats and close to the field. Congrats.
 
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I went to the Ouachita Baptist University-Henderson State University game last year in Arkansas. These D-2 schools are located in the same town. The campuses border each other. The rivalry game was featured in Sports Illustrated last November with a long article (8 pages)? Great atmosphere. About 10,000 people there if I remember correctly.
 
Redding Husky said:
I went to the Ouachita Baptist University-Henderson State University game last year in Arkansas. These D-2 schools are located in the same town. The campuses border each other. The rivalry game was featured in Sports Illustrated last November with a long article (8 pages)? Great atmosphere. About 10,000 people there if I remember correctly.
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Gotta love stuff like that!
 
Marist, on the Hudson, is a nice setting

I think nova did a nice job with theirs

I always enjoyed game day at Delaware but I’m not sure it’s small.
 
Kolumbo said:
Army Football at Michie Stadium is an awesome experience. I don't know if I'd consider it small though. It's Army after all and 38k.
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Yeah fair, it's not big time P5 big. It's more small time P5 small. More like Duke than Ohio State.
 
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The Coast Guard Academy actually has a neater setting than West Point. Of course, the Army has the better stadium.
 
gioff2323 said:
Marist, on the Hudson, is a nice setting

I think nova did a nice job with theirs

I always enjoyed game day at Delaware but I’m not sure it’s small.
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Nova’s is bad, unless you caught one of the rare games at the Philadelphia Union Soccer Stadium.
 
Kolumbo said:
Army Football at Michie Stadium is an awesome experience. I don't know if I'd consider it small though. It's Army after all and 38k.
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My first college football experience was at Army in West Point. My freshman year of high school, the marching band went for band day. I remember it was a night game and we go to walk around the town between practice and game time. It's one of the best memories form high school I had and it happened within the first 2 months of my high school career.
 
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