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Message: [QUOTE="CL82, post: 3132961, member: 44"] So, without getting into an 1000 word rebuttal, if you put the stadium on campus going to the game has a less of a pro feel. You are going back to campus, not out to an abandoned airfield. The notion that our program is some different than every other in America is absurd. Others drive further with equivalent, if not worse "infra structure issues. As I note frequently, that was exactly how tailgating started in the first place. Get to the stadium early and beat the crowd. Walk around campus while someone fires up the grill. Eat before the game. Enjoy some good company, and maybe an adult beverage or two. After the game same thing. Fire up the grill relax and talk about the game maybe throw a football around and play a little corn hole. All of a sudden your drive out is pretty mellow since you avoided the idiots rushing out in the third quarter. (By the way this works relatively well at the Rent.) Penn St. should be what we aspire to be. The schools aren't all that different. (Blah, blah, blah winning tradition, blah, blah, much bigger school blah.) But if you don't like that, choose West Point or Rutgers both are northeastern schools and have "challenging infrastructure" and yet both can fill and empty their stadium effectively. I've been to games at both, if you are smart, it isn't bad at all. I get the argument if you going to a weeknight game (which are an abomination for football) and if you are coming from Fairfield County. The extra distance is tough. But on a weekend? Just not buying it. [/QUOTE]

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