Our attendance says it concerns a lot of people...Our highest attended game is 32k that didn’t involve Mcneese or southern bringing boat loads of fans or Texas A&M or Alabama. Home games with power 5’s are feware far between and even more so with teams like Texas A&M and Bama..so unless you are planning to play Mcneese and southern every year no reason to build anything bigger than 40k and that’s probably still too big. Build a stadium for 6 Saturday’s ever year, not a stadium for 1 game every 5 or 6 years.
And i still think attendance will keep dropping...people’s attention spans are getting smaller and smaller especially younger people. Hard for a family to drop that kind of money if their kids struggle to make it to half time. It’s not just here, it’s eveywhere and there are a lot of different variables effecting it.
Gambling is another variable. If you like betting why would you go to a game when you could sit at your tailgate spot or home and follow all the games you have money on? The bottom line is make the stadium as high end as possible. Purists will hate it, but the experience is more important than the size of the stadium.
Would look great to have additional 15k fans on top of the 15k diehards in attendance every Saturday...your 2 for $50 is great for the individual fan.... but as someone stated earlier...$50 tickets aren’t going to pay off the new stadium debt...you need more people paying into the parking, tailgate, excellence fund accounts to make it feasible....
This is just more of a case to renovate Cajun Field. We don’t know where we will be, we can always keep it around 35k, and if we needed more we could always just expand, and where CajunField is the expansion is easy. It’s already dug in .
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