re: The North End Zone. ......

Guys there's ways to make a stadium atmosphere better without adding canyons of seats and decks. A 75-80'000 seat stadium can be as intimidating as anywhere in the country if it's configured correctly. Just look at Autzen Stadium, it's like 55-60,000 seats and is a phenomenal atmosphere because of acoustics. Look at The Seattle Seahawks' stadium..it's the loudest stadium in the world and its around 65000 seats.

I'm fine with them adding suites and a couple thousand loge seats in the endzone. No, there won't be crazy loud fans sitting there, but the acoustics in the stadium will be far better. All that sound going out of the current stadium is awful. I just wish Jeff Long would take it a step further and add some kind of overhang on the upper decks a la Seattle and REALLY get the atmosphere going and have the most I dominating home field around, but he'll never do it. (You'd also shield most of the crowd from inclement weather too and in turn more people would come to bad weather games if they knew they were at least somewhat covered.)

I think in this tv age where crowds will diminish, you've got to give make going to the stadium an unreal event, a damn rock concert. You can do that without adding massive amounts of seats, you've just got to do it smartly and above all add to the aesthetic and atmosphere.


Great article about stadium acoustics and how to create noise
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