FIFY

Prior capacity was 92,542. This expansion added "60 "Tiger Den" suites, 3,000 club seats and 1,500 general public seats."

In no world does that add up to over 102,000 people sitting in a seat watching the game. I'm sorry but the guy selling corndogs does not count like LSU is trying to do. This might be more sad than UT making the seats smaller. They just couldn't handle Bammer having a bigger stadium even after expanding.

It looks great though.

This post was edited on 7/12/14 at 11:47 am

1 ...

Report Post

Posted by TigersOfGeauxld

Just across the water...

Member since Aug 2009

25057 posts

Posted on 7/12/14 at 12:38 pm to Monticello

quote:
Prior capacity was 92,542. This expansion added "60 "Tiger Den" suites, 3,000 club seats and 1,500 general public seats."

Those are old figures. When the expansion was announced, this rendering was shown:

It now looks like this:

Seems they decided to go ahead and fill in the areas previously left vacant for expansion under the video screens and at each end of the rows of suites...

They also added an extra row of general seating up top...

...the 3D seating chart had the upper deck containing only 5 rows. LSU decided to throw in an extra row and just put that barrier up behind it.

Tiger Tracks had an LSU rep on say that the SEZ addition would have 66 suites. Knowing each suite has a capacity of 23 (including 4 standing room only spaces) that's 1,518 total suite capacity. There's now around 3,500 club seats and 2,000 general seats (mainly for visitors), plus somewhere around 1,500 standing room only (SRO) tickets available. The total comes to around 8,518.

The old capacity was 92,542. Adding 8,518 gives a figure of 101,060.

quote:
“We are listing a stadium capacity now rather than seating capacity, which is in line with what other schools in the SEC are doing,” LSU associate athletic director for tickets operations Brian Broussard said. “The stadium capacity takes into account ancillary groups, such as media, game management and concessions staff.”

Using the estimate of 101,060, 102,321 - 101,060 comes to 1,261 for the number of "media, game management and concessions staff.” Not really a lot.

quote:
I'm sorry but the guy selling corndogs does not count like LSU is trying to do.

Alabama itself uses the term "Official Capacity" rather than "Seating Capacity".

Bryant-Denny Stadium

So it looks like you shot yourself in the foot..again. You have bad habit of doing that.