The way Mike Hamrick sees it, playing a college football game on field turf is better than playing one on frozen tundra.
The UNLV athletic director recently received multiple offers from University of Wisconsin representatives, asking if he would consider selling next year’s Wisconsin-UNLV football game set for Sept. 8 to the Badgers, so it could be played at the “neutral field” site of Lambeau Stadium in Green Bay. The first offer was for $1 million. The second offer was for $1.3 million. Both times, Hamrick told the Wisconsin officials to take a Lambeau Leap. (Actually, he just politely said “no.”)