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re: The North End Zone. ......
Posted on 1/26/16 at 10:06 am to TheCheshireHog
Posted on 1/26/16 at 10:06 am to TheCheshireHog
Yes. We could have added another 5,000 seats in that endzone. Instead we had fricking temporary bleachers a mile above the ground. Not so surprisingly they weren't a hit with the fans. I'm not saying our stadium isn't nice but the expansion was smaller than it could have been and this newest will likely be the same. Schools like aTm or LSU do it big but we're gonna add like 1000 seats and still have an ugly yellow Broyles complex in the endzone.
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Posted on 1/26/16 at 11:15 am to I Ham That I Ham
Dude.
When we expanded in '01 to 72,000, we were adding 20,000 seats. That was more than enough. Our avg attendance was probably like 50,000 fans back then. It took us a few years before we could come close to filling it up consistently.
During Petrino's time, we used the 76,000 seating capacity for those seasons. We have had over 76,000 in that stadium a handful of times.
I think 76-78,000 seats with the ability to SRO and temporary another 5,000 fans would be ample. If demand is ever there, we could make the south end upper deck permanent during one off-season and raise permanent capacity by 5,000.
I'm of the mind that college football attendance is going to go down over the next decade. Yes, NWA is booming and growing. Fayetteville is adding 1,500 people a year right now, if not more. I'd still prefer a 78,000 seat stadium that's really, really nice to a larger one that we rarely fill up.
When we expanded in '01 to 72,000, we were adding 20,000 seats. That was more than enough. Our avg attendance was probably like 50,000 fans back then. It took us a few years before we could come close to filling it up consistently.
During Petrino's time, we used the 76,000 seating capacity for those seasons. We have had over 76,000 in that stadium a handful of times.
I think 76-78,000 seats with the ability to SRO and temporary another 5,000 fans would be ample. If demand is ever there, we could make the south end upper deck permanent during one off-season and raise permanent capacity by 5,000.
I'm of the mind that college football attendance is going to go down over the next decade. Yes, NWA is booming and growing. Fayetteville is adding 1,500 people a year right now, if not more. I'd still prefer a 78,000 seat stadium that's really, really nice to a larger one that we rarely fill up.
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