I think the dept of athletics should sell whatever tickets can be put in the BJC (15k) and if there are bad weather forecasts leading up to the event they do it there . Make the call Thursday of that week if possible.
If the weather is going to be ok, they try to hold it at the beav early in the afternoon before a night psu game. The 16k fans with sold tickets for the BJC get designated seats (close) in the beav. From there its Free to get in for anyone else and its first come first serve for these walk up seats.
Issues
- does BJC need a fee whether they host event or not? meaning if they are in on the planning but end up not going there do they get a small fee anyway. this would impact the financial implications that make this worth the effort.
- BJC may have to order food/drink and other things that are perishable that need to be factored in
- Parking challenge for wrestling only spectators and people that park for wrestling but stay all day without going to football. Although if wrestling only people park in the yellow lots and can leave after wrestling this might not be so bad. Maybe you dont want a big time headliner for football, but still a night game against an IU type team.
- i would hold it outside the regular season time frame (mid October) to get the best weather possible. I dont know if you can do that per the NCAA rules. A year when Iowa isnt on the conference schedule comes to mind. However, iowa might not want to help out if it moves their grapple at the gridiron event to #2 on the attendance list. they are a prideful bunch over there.
- a large amount of humans to pull it off. They can do it, but does that cut down on the financial incentive to make it happen.
