Stadium RFP

If we're going to do this, I hope we can get the capacity to closer to 80k. It might suck short term if we're only getting around $72k-$75k there, but the enrollment has gone up so much the alumni base is going to jump up drastically over the next 10 years. Would rather be prepared for the demand 10-15 years from now so we don't have to talk about another expansion at that point.

They are only concentrating on the North Endzone. I believe your 80k will be likelier to happen when we do something with the West side.

I guess there’s a bunch of people with a lot of money to fill those seats but with how expensive everything else in life is and the emergence of AI making jobs obsolete and things, I am leery of expanding so much.

I'm a fan of over 70k, I think we're overestimating our fan support if we got to 80k

70k with the ability to hit 75k for big games seems about right. OU is going from 80k to 73k with their stadium upgrade. Florida is going from 88k to 80k with their stadium upgrade.

2 of the most legendary stadiums in college football will have capacity between 70k and 80k. Seems like good company lol.

Really need to focus on aesthetics and acoustics by replicating the south endzone design on the east and west sides. And make it a rowdy atmosphere.

Would love to see the RFP’s if anyone has access.

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If we're going to do this, I hope we can get the capacity to closer to 80k. It might suck short term if we're only getting around $72k-$75k there, but the enrollment has gone up so much the alumni base is going to jump up drastically over the next 10 years.

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Still constrained by the size of Oxford and remoteness of Oxford. Theres not much between Jxn/Tupelo/Memphis and Oxford. You dont have much of a secondary staging town to capture overflow travellers coming in for game. Not a whole lot of attendees w/in short drive. If you go to a game you’re pretty much constrained to stay in town for at least that night, if not the night before as well.

For the above reasons the capacity will always be somewhat lower than what it would be if Oxford wasnt located in the area it is.

Part of what makes it unique as well