[Blau Vogel]

1) How do some of you figure that Richmond is much more centrally located that Bowling Green?

2) I agree, Louisville is much more appealing as a city, but the venue sucks because even a 10-15K crowd would seem like nobody is there with how much bigger the Pizza Box is getting.

3) WKU and Bowling Green take a big crap on EKU and Richmond. Everything from the stadium(doesn't EKU still have rag tag metal bleachers on one side?). Richmond has nowhere near as many hotels as BG to accommodate and Bowling Green has more restaurants per capita than any other town in our country (real fact, it's something along the lines of that).

4) Let Richmond add 10+ hotels, have more restaurants than Hooter's, Cracker Barrell, Applebee's, O'charley's and your typical drive through joints then tear down their visitor side; build up a new one with maybe skybox are like at Papa John's and WKU and then, maybe then I could see the finals needing to be played in Richmond

From another thread:

According to http://book.kentucky-hotels.org/city/?re...07997&t=mp there are 12 hotels in Richmond with an additional 47 within 23 miles.

EKU installed turf http://www.ekusports.com/news/2009/7/20/...91516.aspx in the summer of 2009, I assume at about the same time or after the last bid.

I am not in favor of or against games being played at EKU...It just surprised me a little that BG had a vast number more hotel rooms than Richmond.

Looks like plenty of restaurants too:

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&rls=co...d=0CAUQtgM