re: 2016 Arkansas Recruiting Thread - Football & Basketball Commits

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But yeah, 90K is too many seats, IMO. I'd rather have $80K that were slightly more spacious.

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Agreed, I think ~80k in a smart capacity model is a good size given the size of our fan base, though the expansion to the NEZ will be all club seats, which we don't have a problem filling. I've had

I know it'd never happen, but one thing I wish we'd do is to remove the upper deck bleachers on the East side -- the setting sun in an afternoon game is brutal -- and replace that with like 6 to 8 rows of chair back seating, similar to those Pig Heaven seats on the rim of both the East and West upper decks. It seems like the upper deck corners are almost always empty unless there's a really hot ticket game (e.g. Alabama 2010, LSU 2014). Maybe a way to address that would be to reduce capacity up there and replace it with quasi-premium seating. My season tix were in East upper deck before moving to South Indoor Club a few years ago. The view is worse but the comfort level and experience are far and away better, especially with a 3 year old in tow.

Either way, I like that the expansion plan Long set forth a few years ago as part of the Facilities Master Plan was well-thought out and not just a blind reach to add capacity. They understood that the best way to add capacity was to add premium, in demand seating as opposed to just throwing more bleachers in.