Possible CFB game in Mexico City (Big 12 & Pac 12)
ESPN is trying to convince the Pac 12 and Big 12 to have a game in Mexico City, because... Well I don't know why.
I'm sure it's about the student-athletes
#Amateurism
Boom, can't wait to see Devin el mariscal de campo.
Having been there for work, I can tell you that it's an extremely unsafe place to be. First, it took forever to get the approvals from work, then my team needed an escort to ensure our safety. We couldn't do anything that wasn't approved, so I didn't get to see much of the city, which looked somewhat run down.
I can't imagine the controls you would need to implement to ensure player safety. Seems like a waste of time to me.
It wouldn't be that hard to have reps from the conferences fly down and meet with the drug lords, grease their palms and buy some safety. You would only have to worry about the cops then.
And would put it past anyone in collage football to do so.
Only a Spartan would spell "college" like that
Damn autocorrect in my phone got me.
Is that something they teach in the RC?
Your phone autocorrects "college" to "collage"? You must write a shit-load of texts about collages.
Mexico City is not that unsafe, it is a large city and in Latam, but there are cities in the US which are more dangerous:
http://www.lonelyplanet.com/blog/2012/04/30/are-americans-safer-in-mexi…
http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2012/11/comparing-mexican-…
If you were talking about Caracas or El Salvador I would totally agree with you. But I know a ton of people that travel there and it has been been a problem.
...about two hours. I assume it would take longer than that to get to Penn State from Austin.
Some parts are beautiful but c'mon, the shear cost and logistics of that would be astounding. Is there really much much money to be made?
float this idea when talking about taking the "Texas Brand" globally? Not sure how much push ESPN has in this, especially since they are launching the SEC channel in August.
Steve Patterson has made quite a point of trying to make the global expansion of the Longhorn Empire a priority for his department. Indeed, earlier this month, it came to our attention that they have already scheduled a basketball game with Washigton in 2015. That might not seem so impressive except for the fact that the game is to be played in China. He also floated the idea of a football game in Mexico as well as Dubai.
This is dumb and not terribly safe.
The Wyoming Cowboys play home games at the same elevation.
Nobody should go to Laramie to play an exhibition game either.
Saw no mention on an exhibition game. Just pointing out that a high elevation does not make a game unsafe.
My mom goes to Mexico for work semi often. Juarez City, which is like cartel central. They tell her and her co workers to never take the same route to the warehouse. The cartels will catch on and kidnap them.
My ex once told me a story how her and her mom were at a resort in Cancun and her mom was drugged by a bartender, a couple people saw it though
Now these ungrteful punks are going to be griping about having to take a free trip to Mexico City? If I was them I'd gladly do it and then go do some work for the cartels if I had free time.
Or maybe they complain about the additional time away from their studies? Or missing out on a share of the profits? Or being able to play in front of their friends?
Some of them have families who are barely able to eat. Or are going without themselves.
Your way, nor anyone else's for that matter, is the only way to look at it. Try to think outside of your own experiences for a moment...
D.F.??? Ay Dios!
Michigan vs. PSU Kabul 2016
...it's a tempting idea. Mexico City is the largest city in North America. And despite the stereotypical assumptions of many, crime isn't all that bad there (certainly much safer than the border towns).
If American football is too expand geopgraphically, Mexico seems the most likely place. Having said that, I'd rather see the NFL do it than universities. The student athletes are already being forced to miss too much class because of travel and this wouldn't help the NCAA against "exploitation" arguments.
In terms of football, as long as your team is playing all their games on Saturday's, I don't think you're missing that much time. At a school like UM, where you play 7-8 home games every year, you're probably only missing 4-5 Friday's. If you're one of the schools that play a lot of games during the week days, then yeah, you probably are missing a good bit of class time.
College basketball players do miss a lot of time do to travel - especially when you start taking into account the pre and post season tourney's.
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That's the name of the ticket/resort package for the Cancun game with "coeds" listed as an incentive.
Ick.
How about Cancun and you can do a joint ticket package with a resort?
Whoa, Nellie! It's a beautiful, clear day here in Mexico City. Perfect conditions for footbaw!
Yes, this is a picture of Mexico City. I think. This is the first time in my life that a picture made me cough.
Salt Lake City often looks like that and we're playing there in 2015.
I frequent Mexico City quite often for work and the place is a shit hole. Unlike many parts of Mexico, this has zero travel appeal for the respective fan bases of the teams involved...
Not sure if the talking heads think there is going to be local support but I would venture to say this falls flat on its face if its ever given the green light.
Don't give Big 10 AD's any ideas. Next they'll be rotating the Big 10 championship game through Toronto.
Actually, that will probably happen within the next 10 years.
TYPICAL NEGATIVE NELLIES - this opens up the critical recruiting pipeline to Puebla Glenville Cass Tech HS, which is swarming with talent. #PipelineSchool. DO IT BRANDON!
redeeming reasons for playing American football in a sulphuric pea soup at 7200 feet. The Big 12 and Pac 12 should look into why the IOC said of Mexico City, "Never again, never again." Hint, it wasn't because a couple of American athletes raised their arms in a Black Power Salute.
Besides, you couldn't pick a decent sized field of lettuce with the number of Mexicans that enjoy American Football.
April 24th, 2014 at 10:01 PM ^
We're here, well, I'm not in Mexico City but there are many CFB fans, I live 250 miles north of DF and I'll be there if it happens.
April 24th, 2014 at 11:47 PM ^
and racist too.
Now you know.
I travel to Saltillo a great deal and I am always surprised at the interest in American football. A local college has a team, artificial turn, high school type stadium. Lots of pee-wee league kids running around right now in helmets and shoulder pads.
turf, not turn
As for security; it's safer than Columbus.