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Posted on 1/26/16 at 11:15 am to I Ham That I Ham
Posted on 1/26/16 at 11:15 am to I Ham That I Ham
Dude.
When we expanded in '01 to 72,000, we were adding 20,000 seats. That was more than enough. Our avg attendance was probably like 50,000 fans back then. It took us a few years before we could come close to filling it up consistently.
During Petrino's time, we used the 76,000 seating capacity for those seasons. We have had over 76,000 in that stadium a handful of times.
I think 76-78,000 seats with the ability to SRO and temporary another 5,000 fans would be ample. If demand is ever there, we could make the south end upper deck permanent during one off-season and raise permanent capacity by 5,000.
I'm of the mind that college football attendance is going to go down over the next decade. Yes, NWA is booming and growing. Fayetteville is adding 1,500 people a year right now, if not more. I'd still prefer a 78,000 seat stadium that's really, really nice to a larger one that we rarely fill up.
When we expanded in '01 to 72,000, we were adding 20,000 seats. That was more than enough. Our avg attendance was probably like 50,000 fans back then. It took us a few years before we could come close to filling it up consistently.
During Petrino's time, we used the 76,000 seating capacity for those seasons. We have had over 76,000 in that stadium a handful of times.
I think 76-78,000 seats with the ability to SRO and temporary another 5,000 fans would be ample. If demand is ever there, we could make the south end upper deck permanent during one off-season and raise permanent capacity by 5,000.
I'm of the mind that college football attendance is going to go down over the next decade. Yes, NWA is booming and growing. Fayetteville is adding 1,500 people a year right now, if not more. I'd still prefer a 78,000 seat stadium that's really, really nice to a larger one that we rarely fill up.
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Posted on 1/26/16 at 11:19 am to Numberwang
We need nicer, not bigger.
This stadium update mostly does that and every stadium update moving forward should do that.
This stadium update mostly does that and every stadium update moving forward should do that.
Posted on 1/26/16 at 3:44 pm to Numberwang
Buddy.
This is the lil ole Arky mentality that has held our athletic dept. back from swinging for the fences. This is the SEC, the biggest baddest conference in the country. If yall just want to have a wine and cheese parlor next to the football field that's great I guess but it's not the commitment to winning that the other schools are making. Why do we have to max out at mid 70k seats and quit trying to expand? Did you know that Auburn expanded to an 85,000 seat stadium in 1987. Auburn is a town about the same size as Fayetteville in rural Alabama and the school doesn't have some Crimson Tide level history or huge student body.
The point I'm trying to make is that other schools in the conference are expanding big (aTm, Bama, LSU, MSU). Even SCAR has had an 80K seat stadium since the mid 90's and they share a state with another Power school.
Meanwhile we're probably gonna add a couple thousand seats and a bunch of you just think it's amazing while you sit in your upperdeck seats admiring the 500 fans that benefit from the $160,000,000 pricetag facelift
This is the lil ole Arky mentality that has held our athletic dept. back from swinging for the fences. This is the SEC, the biggest baddest conference in the country. If yall just want to have a wine and cheese parlor next to the football field that's great I guess but it's not the commitment to winning that the other schools are making. Why do we have to max out at mid 70k seats and quit trying to expand? Did you know that Auburn expanded to an 85,000 seat stadium in 1987. Auburn is a town about the same size as Fayetteville in rural Alabama and the school doesn't have some Crimson Tide level history or huge student body.
The point I'm trying to make is that other schools in the conference are expanding big (aTm, Bama, LSU, MSU). Even SCAR has had an 80K seat stadium since the mid 90's and they share a state with another Power school.
Meanwhile we're probably gonna add a couple thousand seats and a bunch of you just think it's amazing while you sit in your upperdeck seats admiring the 500 fans that benefit from the $160,000,000 pricetag facelift
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