Auggie
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So Northwestern is announcing a new stadium to replace the highly inadequate Ryan Field and while it is state of the art and has many amenities you would see in a modern NFL stadium the big news is that it will be reduced capacity, all the way down to 35,000:
On social media many are criticizing the size and calling out it is a fraction of what most other B1G stadiums come in at. But on the flip side not only does NW not need a huge stadium as a private school with an undergraduate enrollment in the low teens but for most games how many fans are really in these massive stadiums? Nick Saban has been coming down hard on the 'Bama fans for a half filled Bryant-Denny Stadium even for SEC conference games. Is it time to cut out entire seating sections and add in areas with amenities to draw in fans? Maybe cut back on the student section as many of these under market value tickets are not being used while students are getting lit up in the parking lots or the bars? The below swaths of unused seats are in the 1st Q of a Bama OOC game and are primarily in the student sections:
Is it time to reimagine NCAA football stadiums?
Northwestern unveils design for new, smaller football stadium — a replacement for the 97-year-old Ryan Field
Northwestern University released renderings Wednesday of the proposed design for a new football stadium, a replacement for Ryan Field.
www.chicagotribune.com
On social media many are criticizing the size and calling out it is a fraction of what most other B1G stadiums come in at. But on the flip side not only does NW not need a huge stadium as a private school with an undergraduate enrollment in the low teens but for most games how many fans are really in these massive stadiums? Nick Saban has been coming down hard on the 'Bama fans for a half filled Bryant-Denny Stadium even for SEC conference games. Is it time to cut out entire seating sections and add in areas with amenities to draw in fans? Maybe cut back on the student section as many of these under market value tickets are not being used while students are getting lit up in the parking lots or the bars? The below swaths of unused seats are in the 1st Q of a Bama OOC game and are primarily in the student sections:
Is it time to reimagine NCAA football stadiums?