Didn't Liberty stadium be bigger? I remember going to a game probably mid 90's when my son's school Mogadore Field played there. Thought seating was pretty big on visitors side.
Jefferson out of the NE8 starting 2023.
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Redzone Blitz
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This site lists 3,000 seating capacity
Buckeye Elite
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I def don’t see Salem joining, because when they were in a conference with most teams in the ne8 they were really bad. I don’t see any teams joining unless their ad wants to make their job easier for easy scheduling
Spread All Day
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I never found it to be small.
That’s what she said lol. Sorry I had too
Spread All Day
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It’s average.
Spread All Day
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When Canfield beats them by 50 points I doubt they will make the return trip just my thoughts.
Buckeye Elite
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It’ll be like 35-7 something like that
Most of Liberty's seating would be on their home side. Hubbard's band is around 200 and had to sit on the visitor's side. They took up between a half or over a third of those bleacher seats. If those numbers are correct (3000) I'm willing to guess it's 2500 for the home side and 500 on the visitors side. Liberty's home side is a nice size.
kingpin2010
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From what I remember, Liberty's stadium is no smaller than other NE8 schools like Range, Struthers, Lakeview, and Girard. Also I am not sure I buy that capacity number in relation to others, according to that site Liberty's stadium has less capacity than Ridge and I know that is not accurate and that Howland is only 2200.
Latest numbers from Ohio stadiums.com
South Range 4500
Girard 4000
Howland 3521
Struthers 3500
Lakeview 3450
Mineral Ridge 3200
Liberty 3000
Here's the rest of the NE8:
Niles 9718
Poland 5754
Hubbard 5000
Jefferson 5000
kingpin2010
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I had clicked on the wrong one for Howland. However, there is zero chance that SR has 1500 more seating capacity than Liberty, and definitely zero chance Ridge is more. If I had to guess, SR and Liberty about the same in the 3500 range, Ridge 2500, the rest look about right.
I'm only going by the numbers on their site. As I remember, Liberty's away side was almost non-existent at around 500. There was more Hubbard fans standing around the fence than actually sitting in the stands because of Hubbard's 200 piece marching band sitting there as well. As I have stated before, most of Liberty's numbers (3000) are coming from their home side which is a nice size. I actually think what's throwing you off is Mineral Ridge I think has a bigger away side than Liberty does.
Willow_Hub
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Liberty's away stands do not seem that small to me. Granted last time I was physically in their stadium was for a Hubbard - Liberty game back in 2010 or 2011. If you read that ohiostadiums.com site, it also says the stadium does not have soccer, but you can clearly see once they put the artificial turf in, they play soccer there.
From the Google satellite view of Leopard Stadium:
Of course, Liberty's away stands are smaller than the visiting stands at Hubbard Memorial Stadium (aka The Beautiful):
From the Google satellite view of Leopard Stadium:
Of course, Liberty's away stands are smaller than the visiting stands at Hubbard Memorial Stadium (aka The Beautiful):
Struthersfan
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Here are some photos I took when it looked like the stadium was close to finished. The home stands are immense. However, the visitor side does look smaller than Liberty's. The numbers at SR do look a bit inflated, especially considering the size of the visitor stands. (JMO)
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Buckeye Elite
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Shocks me Jefferson is that big. Their away stands are tiny and the home are normal to most schools
kingpin2010
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Ridge is the stadium I’m most familiar with and the ridge away side is quite literally about 6-7 rows, although it extends a decent amount width wise I see no way it’s bigger than Liberty and Liberty home side is bigger
Can attest South Range visitors side is not real big. Mogadore played New Middletown Springfield there and we completely filled the visitors side, standing and band in folding chairs in end zone..
Redzone Blitz
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Does anyone know if stadium band shells are included in the total seating capacity? That could be something to take into account if they have a decent size one. We tend to just think of where the fans sit when we think of stadiums but maybe that isn't all they count
Buckeye Elite
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Good question I’m not sure
simkon
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It usually specifies on the website if the band shell or end zone seating is included.
I know for instance Canfield's number includes the permanent band shell but not the seating in the opposite end zone.
Hubbard's 5000 number doesn't include the band shell.
Home side 3000
Visitors side 2000
Band shell 250
simkon
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For Canfield, the visitors side seats exactly 2000. The permanent seating in the endzone is 300. The home side seated 1,350 originally, they recently added 400 seats for students, bringing the total capacity to 4,050.
So technically Hubbard would be 5250 vs Canfield's 4050
or alternatively 5000 vs 3750
I'm somewhat surprised, I didn't think anybody counted their band shell as part of their seating capacity for their stadium.
I guess I learned something today.
Can attest South Range visitors side is not real big. Mogadore played New Middletown Springfield there and we completely filled the visitors side, standing and band in folding chairs in end zone..
Good luck to the young man, I watched him play at YSU. He made the right decision for himself.