On TV the grand stand chair backs seats behind home plate looked almost empty
Maybe early on. We left the spring game with 4 minutes left to go to Dudy Noble, and when we got there the grandstands had a lot of empty seats. However, after the spring game finished and especially after they let fans go to the chairbacks after 5th inning, the lower grandstands filled in.
Stadium is awesome! Place was packed! I love all the old school designs.
The outfield lounges look SO impressive from the grandstand. I kept thinking, "There is nothing like this anywhere else in college baseball." Just now I realized there is nothing like our outfield lounges (in total across the the entire outfield) in ANY baseball stadium.
I made sure to walk all the way around the concourse and on both upper concourses. I was surprised how many people were in the upper concourses behind the back row of lounge spots. I expected it behind the frat lounge spots in right field, but there were a lot in the left field upper concourse, too.
I noticed the first base line grass terraces are completely filled by people just sitting on them. Not on chairs on the tiers, just sitting on the tiers. It looks a little strange and seems like a waste of the them--I don't think they weren't meant for that.
They are allowing people to use folding chairs on the berms. That's good.
There were a lot of people carrying small coolers somewhat larger than the too-small maximum size. That's good--apparently the school is not holding everyone to that.
It was very crowded on the concourse under the grandstand. Don't know if it will be a lot worse next year when there are two decks of people sharing that concourse or less crowded because a lot of those people in the concourse today will have a place to sit in the upper deck plus there will be two entrances to the stadium instead of just one like today.