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UNLV Can Host Arizona State At Raiders’ Allegiant Stadium Sept. 12 If Rebels Move Colorado State Home Game From Oct. 24 to Oct. 23

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.

Stadium Authority Chairman Steve Hill looks at authority consultant Jeremy Aguero.

 

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.

 

 

Sun drops below top of the stadium Thursday afternoon.

Here’s authority board chairman and LVCVA chief Steve Hill chatting about the stadium’s value to Southern Nevada.

LVCVA CEO/Stadium Authority Chairman Steve Hill

 


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Alan Snel: Alan Snel brings decades of sports-business reporting experience to LVSportsBiz.com. Snel covered the business side of sports for the South Florida (Fort Lauderdale) Sun-Sentinel, the Tampa Tribune and Las Vegas Review-Journal. As a city hall beat reporter, Snel also covered stadium deals in Denver and Seattle. In 2000, Snel launched a sport-business website for FoxSports.com called FoxSportsBiz.com. After reporting sports-business for the RJ, Snel wrote hard-hitting stories on the Raiders stadium for the Desert Companion magazine in Las Vegas and The Nevada Independent. Snel is also one of the top bicycle advocates in the country.
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