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Posted on 1/26/16 at 3:44 pm to Numberwang
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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Posted on 1/26/16 at 3:57 pm to I Ham That I Ham
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Buddy.
This is the lil ole Arky mentality that has held our athletic dept. back from swinging for the fences.
The 2001 expansion was a 45% increase in capacity. That's an insane increase to absorb. For perspective, that would be like adding 31,000 seats today.
I'm totally fine with 75,000 seats, SRO of 2,000 and the opportunity to add 5,000 more at some point in the future with little disruption.
I'm not a size-first person. Once you're up over 70,000 you're in the top tier of the country anyway. We have a nice stadium that seats 72,000, but looks more like 85,000 due to our insatiable appetite for luxury suites and club-seating. We have a great stadium. It won't ever be the biggest. No sense in trying.
Posted on 1/26/16 at 3:59 pm to I Ham That I Ham
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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
Another thing. One of the reasons our football budget is always top-shelf is due to the fact that luxury suite tickets basically cost $2,000 per ticket for the season, not including foundation donation.
We have a lot of those. I'm all for getting more of those and letting the blue-collar fans come to games for $25 per.
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