Mizzou decreasing football stadium capacity by 6,000 seats

With today's approval of the south end zone renovation, Mizzou will officially decrease capacity from 71,004 to about 65,000.

I assume many of you will take the low hanging fruit and try to relate this to the SJW protest. I would expect nothing else from the Rant.

However, I am more interested in this from the aspect on two different fronts:

1. Live attendance has been declining and become a major issue for many schools. This is largely due to a better product on TV rather than the hassle of driving potentially hundreds of miles, paying for a ticket, paying for concessions/beer, paying for a hotel (1 or 2 nights), and cost of time. If that isn't bad enough, you get a better view, better replays, and production from the TV broadcast.

2. This probably hasn't had much real world impact YET on football, however the CTE crisis is a major threat to the sport. Either football will cease to exist, making spending millions on stadium expansions more risky in the long term....or football will evolve into an entirely different "less violent" game, which fans may be less interested in.

That being said, I'm interested to see how schools respond to these challenges and issues. Sure, schools like Alabama, Tennessee, LSU, etc are always going to draw big numbers. But for the non-elite programs, I think it may become a more common thing to see. If I recall correctly, Kentucky's most renovation was to improve the stadium while also reducing capacity. I think we may see schools start focusing a lot more on fan experience and stadium atmosphere when renovating and upgrading, rather than adding size and capacity.

TL;DR - Attempting actual discussion on tRant.