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re: How are the expansion projects coming?
Posted on 7/18/14 at 5:07 pm to Draconian Sanctions
Posted on 7/18/14 at 5:07 pm to Draconian Sanctions
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Posted on 7/18/14 at 5:10 pm to lsufball19
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yes it is. UT has been renovating Neyland for a few years now. It's every bit as modernized as the rest of the conference outside as much premium seating.
UT has done fine work on Neyland Stadium. That stadium prolly has the best-looking concourses in the conference...
Posted on 7/18/14 at 7:41 pm to TigersOfGeauxld
Posted on 7/18/14 at 7:44 pm to TigerNick23
South side of the stadium right now.
UK also announced at media days that it'll be going to turf in 2015.
UK also announced at media days that it'll be going to turf in 2015.
Posted on 7/18/14 at 8:04 pm to TigersOfGeauxld
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That stadium prolly has the best-looking concourses in the conference...
For now.
Standard
Champions Hall (West wide 1st deck)
12th Man Club (west side 2nd deck)
Founders (founders suites)
This post was edited on 7/18/14 at 8:05 pm
Posted on 7/18/14 at 8:21 pm to AaronDeTiger
I'm still curious how adding 60+ suites and a couple thousand club seats and a couple rows of general seats added 9K seats to the stadium. We built a club level, two levels of suites and a giant upper deck in our last expansion and it only added around 8K seats.
Posted on 7/18/14 at 8:26 pm to TideJoe
It's math bro. And there is also SRO which you didn't count.
Posted on 7/18/14 at 8:26 pm to TideJoe
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I'm still curious how adding 60+ suites and a couple thousand club seats and a couple rows of general seats added 9K seats to the stadium. We built a club level, two levels of suites and a giant upper deck in our last expansion and it only added around 8K seats.
Didn't it include SRO too?
Posted on 7/18/14 at 8:28 pm to Farmer1906
70 suites
3,200 club seats
1,500+ general seats
1,500+ SRO
3,200 club seats
1,500+ general seats
1,500+ SRO
Posted on 7/18/14 at 8:31 pm to Jefferson Davis
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70 suites
3,200 club seats
1,500+ general seats
1,500+ SRO
Ok. I think you guys are the only school that counts SRO in your stadium capacity. Not that it matters, the expansion looks great but it didn't look like 9K seats.
Posted on 7/18/14 at 8:31 pm to Farmer1906
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Care to expound?
Steeper stadiums reflect the sound back toward the play of field. That is why the Big House isn't as loud as ts even though it has more than 20k more seats.
It is also why Centurylink Field (Seahawks) is so laud even though it seats less than 70k.
Posted on 7/18/14 at 8:31 pm to TideJoe
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I think you guys are the only school that counts SRO in your stadium capacity.
Yeahhhh noooo
Posted on 7/18/14 at 8:40 pm to bbap
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Yeahhhh noooo
I didn't realize that was common practice. Not a big deal. UT in the 90s had a stadium capacity of ~104K but had several games over 106K. I guess the extras were the SRO.
I wonder how many SEC schools sell SRO seating? I know Bama and AU don't.
Posted on 7/18/14 at 8:44 pm to TideJoe
LSU didn't either until this expansion. Mainly because there was no SRO areas. You have to have the space before you can sell the tickets..naturally.
Posted on 7/18/14 at 8:49 pm to bbap
I wonder if Bama could sell SRO in the corners on the ramps? Lots of people stand there during the game. The admin probably wouldn't do it if they could because they're in bed with a lot of the ticket brokers and want to keep prices as high as possible.
Posted on 7/18/14 at 9:11 pm to TideJoe
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I'm still curious how adding 60+ suites and a couple thousand club seats and a couple rows of general seats added 9K seats to the stadium.
Already asked and answered:
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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.
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“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.
Alabama itself uses the term "Official Capacity" rather than "Seating Capacity".
Bryant-Denny Stadium
102,321 new seating capacity in Death Valley
This post was edited on 7/18/14 at 9:16 pm
Posted on 7/18/14 at 9:13 pm to TigersOfGeauxld
LSU has decided to count vendors as well now, which is how we got above 102k. Tons of places do this, we were late to the party.
Posted on 7/18/14 at 9:15 pm to TigersOfGeauxld
Wonder if they're going to go trough and put the 3rd ribbon board on the bottom
Posted on 7/18/14 at 9:17 pm to bbap
Really? That's silly.
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