By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com
The home stadium sites for the UNLV football team in 2020 have come into a little more focus.
UNLV will not play all of its home games at Raiders’ Allegiant Stadium. The Rebels’ second home game will be at Sam Boyd Stadium where UNLV will host Louisiana Tech Sept. 5.
And UNLV’s third home game will also be at Sam Boyd Stadium on Sept 12, when the Rebs host Arizona State.
But here’s a catch: The Raiders have agreed to allow UNLV to host Arizona State at Allegiant Stadium on Sept. 12 if UNLV can move the Oct. 24 Saturday game with Colorado State to a Friday game one day earlier on Oct. 23. Here’s the schedule for now:
Here’s a stadium report from Raiders stadium point man Don Webb to Steve Hill, the chairman of the Las Vegas Stadium Authority. The report and UNLV schedule were items on the Stadium Authority’s May 21 meeting agenda.
The Raiders are also giving the public Las Vegas Stadium Authority a free suite for Raiders games, but food and beverage are not included. The Authority will have to pay for that. The free suite is for the Authority to use for economic development purposes, community support and civic fundraising.
The Raiders say the 65,000-seat domed stadium is still on schedule to be completed July 31. The stadium project is $1.97 billion, with construction at $1.4 billion and the rest of the project budget spent on items like land acquisitions for the 62.5-acre site, design/engineering fees, stadium fixtures/equipment costs and utility/infrastructure expenses. Southern Nevada is contributing $750 million to help build the stadium.
Here’s authority board chairman and LVCVA chief Steve Hill chatting about the stadium’s value to Southern Nevada.
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