How much $ does it take to buy a quality home game?

[CrazyCajun]

5000 is too small. 7000-7500 will do fine. If you are winning (and no one can say we can't), you'll create a demand for tickets even at that capacity.

Once it's built, it's built. We'd really regret a 5,000 seat facility down the road.

As long as I'm one of the 5,000 which I would be...I wouldn't regret anything. I don't think anything is getting built so it's probably a pointless discussion. I'd rather go smaller and have scarce tickets than be half empty night in and night out on most years. Thursday night would have still had a 1000 empty seats in a 5,000 seat arena, but it sure would have been loud and looked almost packed.

[MelRock]

5000 is too small. 7000-7500 will do fine. If you are winning (and no one can say we can't), you'll create a demand for tickets even at that capacity.

I could live with this if the 2000-2500 extra seats were in an upper deck that could be closed off until it is needed. You do not sell any tickets for the upper level until 80-90% of the lower bowl is sold.

[CrazyCajun]

I could live with this if the 2000-2500 extra seats were in an upper deck that could be closed off until it is needed. You do not sell any tickets for the upper level until 80-90% of the lower bowl is sold.

While we are building, I could live with that as well.

[CajunRebel]

5000 is too small. 7000-7500 will do fine. If you are winning (and no one can say we can't), you'll create a demand for tickets even at that capacity.

Once it's built, it's built. We'd really regret a 5,000 seat facility down the road.

I agree, and I'm the guy who thinks it was a terrible idea to expand Cajun Field. 7k is a good number in my mind. 7k would still be small enough to create demand for season tickets but enough to make sure we're not leaving out lots of fans. If you build it right, you won't notice those extra 3,000 or so seats that will go unused most of the time.