Menu
Events and Attractions

Austin To Wait Until '16 For Inaugural Bowl Game, Add More Corporate Resources

Austin Sports Commission Exec Dir Lance Aldridge yesterday said that the city "will not host a college football bowl game this year but will wait a year" until '16, according to Kirk Bohls of the AUSTIN AMERICAN-STATESMAN. There was a "four-hour meeting" on Monday involving Aldridge, TicketCity.com Founder Randy Cohen and members of locally based student-housing developer American Campus Communities. Aldridge said they “came to the conclusion with this short a time frame and so little lead time that it’d be best to wait and launch next year." Bohls noted the city plans to "marshal more corporate resources and gain a more marquee conference affiliation before then." Neither TicketCity nor American Campus Communities "has formally agreed to be the title sponsor yet." Aldridge said, "They’re sports guys. They want to be big players and support local communities in their backyard. Both companies were going to be heavily involved in the bowl. We had discussions with two other companies, but these two far and away showed the most interest.” Meanwhile, Aldridge said that he would "notify the NCAA and the Football Bowl Association of the plans immediately." He added that Austin "will have to apply for recertification." He also "anticipated no problems in regaining certification and said his dream still is to draw a Power Five conference team to Austin" (AUSTIN AMERICAN-STATESMAN, 5/27).

SBJ Morning Buzzcast: March 25, 2024

NFL meeting preview; MLB's opening week ad effort and remembering Peter Angelos.

Big Get Jay Wright, March Madness is upon us and ESPN locks up CFP

On this week’s pod, our Big Get is CBS Sports college basketball analyst Jay Wright. The NCAA Championship-winning coach shares his insight with SBJ’s Austin Karp on key hoops issues and why being well dressed is an important part of his success. Also on the show, Poynter Institute senior writer Tom Jones shares who he has up and who is down in sports media. Later, SBJ’s Ben Portnoy talks the latest on ESPN’s CFP extension and who CBS, TNT Sports and ESPN need to make deep runs in the men’s and women's NCAA basketball tournaments.

SBJ I Factor: Nana-Yaw Asamoah

SBJ I Factor features an interview with AMB Sports and Entertainment Chief Commercial Office Nana-Yaw Asamoah. Asamoah, who moved over to AMBSE last year after 14 years at the NFL, talks with SBJ’s Ben Fischer about how his role model parents and older sisters pushed him to shrive, how the power of lifelong learning fuels successful people, and why AMBSE was an opportunity he could not pass up. Asamoah is 2021 SBJ Forty Under 40 honoree. SBJ I Factor is a monthly podcast offering interviews with sports executives who have been recipients of one of the magazine’s awards.

Shareable URL copied to clipboard!

https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Daily/Issues/2015/05/27/Events-and-Attractions/Austin-Bowl.aspx

Sorry, something went wrong with the copy but here is the link for you.

https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Daily/Issues/2015/05/27/Events-and-Attractions/Austin-Bowl.aspx

CLOSE