The only thing I've heard....

[Xenomorph]

...is that in addition to offering 2 - 2.5 mil a year, we'll be telling the next coach that major stadium "upgrades" are on the way within 24 months.

 

[Xenomorph]

...is that in addition to offering 2 - 2.5 mil a year, we'll be telling the next coach that major stadium "upgrades" are on the way within 24 months.

 

[Shmuley]

nm

 

[topdawg.sixpack]

would be a renovated west side, making the chairback section there a club level similar to the east side. I know Byrne has talked about this and been wanting to do it.

Dont know if this includes horseshoe or not, but we need more suites, and horshoeing makes sense if we are going to add suites.

 

[Xenomorph]

...It really completes the stadium, and after having sat up high there Friday the view is much better than I'd thought it would be.

Comparing it to our stadium there would be pros and cons to doing something similar though.

Pros... our east and west sides are much farther apart than OM's. It would add lots more seats to ours if we bowled in to the height of the grandstands.

Cons.. Ditto

 

[lawdawg02]

per the horse's mouth. during the auburn game, i heard him say that he already had bids from architects and was waiting on a couple more before deciding. but he said the timetable was the next few years.

the talk didn't include horseshoeing, but i would like a horseshoe endzone with suites, like um's. it would be a nice fit.

 

[UpTheMiddlex3Punt]

Put the students about 5-7 yards from the endzone.

 

[vhdawg]

....the key is being high enough up to be able to judge distance. Alabama's new endzone expansion is a perfect example of this.

I can only think that the idiots that choose to sit in our own endzone bleachers are simply idiots.

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

That needs to be priority over the closing in of the north endzone. They could start out with just horseshoeing the bottom part of the end zone kind of like how Bama's north end zone used to be before their expansion.

 

[rebelrouseri]

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[Xenomorph]

...Your best team in 5 years on Friday left probably 10K empty seats.

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

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[rebelrouseri]

2.5 or whatever, coming off yet another losing season, and talking about expansion. Just sounds funny to me.

 

[Ole Miss Grad]

MSU returning 7000 tickets the week of the game, along with it being a Friday after Thanksgiving may have played a part in that.

 

[dawgfan77]

Bama last year, 56,000 and some change I beleive

 

[was21]

expansion of Davis-Wade. It will follow that pattern.

 

[The Big Slick]

Alabama. Standing Room Only.

Next Questions Please.

 

[mstatefanatic]

and dig out the field to get the stands closer to the sideline. When Scott Field was originally built there was a track around it. Unless we plan on putting it back, we need to push our seats close like at other SEC schools in particular Florida and LSU. There's a reason those stadiums are so loud.

 

[ckDOG]

Ole Miss should be very familiar with that. You guys weren't selling out all games before each expansion. We weren't selling out all games prior to our last expansion either. Too lazy to look it up, but I'm pretty sure average attendance rose for both schools after their respective expansions despite not filling the previous capacity. Plus, skyboxes are always incorporated. More skyboxes = more revenue.

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[RebelBruiser]

MSU returning 7000 tickets the week of the game, along with it being a Friday after Thanksgiving may have played a part in that.

Yep, and we still had 55,000+ for the game. The Egg Bowl being around Thanksgiving (and with hunting seasons open) will never be the most attended game, especially if the visiting team only brings 3000 fans.

 

[KennyB]

???

 

[FlabLoser]

<span class="post-title">When was the last time you sold out what you have now?*</span>

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The pre-expansion stadium (capacity 42,500) wasn't selling out on a regular basis before the most recent expansion took place. After the recent expansion almost every game sells more tickets than the old stadium would have held - during modern history's worst stretch of MSU football no less. And at least once or twice a year the new place is sold out or almost sold out.

"Build it and they will come" is proven true.

Furthermore, expansions are more about revenue-generating suites than seat expansion. Its about pulling coin. But more people will show up regardless.
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[Xenomorph]