Cajun Field Renovation Plans

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If I understood correctly, this is what Maggart is going to do and is awaiting bids. I think it is the smart thing to do unless you have no confidence in Napier. I think Napier will turn this around to much higher than HUD was in his first couple of years and our fan base will exceed prior levels. That is what Maggart is banking on. Building a smaller facility doesn't send much of a message to our fan base. Again, build for higher expectations in winning and a growing fan base.

Attendance is decreasing all over the country. We don't need a 40,000 seat Cajun Field. All that would do is guarantee that we play in a half empty (or worse) stadium in 90% of our home games. The only exceptions will be if we play a P5 team at home, or when we play Southern, McNeese, USM, Houston, or LaTech at home. Every other home game will average of 20K-24K if we're winning, 12K-15K if we're losing.

We don't need to kid ourselves about our future needs. We're struggling with attendance just like most AAC teams are these days. Very, very few G5 programs need 40,000 seat stadiums. The wave of the future is smaller, but very nice stadiums with lots of creature comforts. Now is not the time for us to take on a lot of debt to build a monument of a stadium that'll rarely be needed, if it ever is.

[Esqueleto]

Attendance is decreasing all over the country. We don't need a 40,000 seat Cajun Field. All that would do is guarantee that we play in a half empty (or worse) stadium in 90% of our home games. The only exceptions will be if we play a P5 team at home, or when we play Southern, McNeese, USM, Houston, or LaTech at home. Every other home game will average of 20K-24K if we're winning, 12K-15K if we're losing.

We don't need to kid ourselves about our future needs. We're struggling with attendance just like most AAC teams are these days. Very, very few G5 programs need 40,000 seat stadiums. The wave of the future is smaller, but very nice stadiums with lots of creature comforts. Now is not the time for us to take on a lot of debt to build a monument of a stadium that'll rarely be needed, if it ever is.

Amen. You said it all. Just give us a comfortable 25-30k seat stadium. You want tikets to be a hot commodity, not something you can't give away.

[Turbine]

The mystique of The Swamp will go through the roof when it is all underground.

[basinbear]

Amen. You said it all. Just give us a comfortable 25-30k seat stadium. You want tikets to be a hot commodity, not something you can't give away.

The stadium will be somewhere between 30 to 35 thousand

[CajunVic]

Amen. You said it all. Just give us a comfortable 25-30k seat stadium. You want tikets to be a hot commodity, not something you can't give away.

You about said it ALL right there.

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The stadium will be somewhere between 30 to 35 thousand

Perfect.

[Duckster]

From Wikipedia:
Stadium Capacity-

38,016- Marshall
36,900- Louisiana
36,387- Boise
36,800- Nevada
36,000- So. Miss
35,117- Washington St.
34,000- Navy
32,480- Wyoming
32,000- SMU
31,500- Wake Forest

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From Wikipedia:
Stadium Capacity-

38,016- Marshall
36,900- Louisiana
36,387- Boise
36,800- Nevada
36,000- So. Miss
35,117- Washington St.
34,000- Navy
32,480- Wyoming
32,000- SMU
31,500- Wake Forest

That's plenty of capacity for every one of these schools. A crowd of 20K in most of these stadiums will look respectable.

[CharlieK]

That's plenty of capacity for every one of these schools. A crowd of 20K in most of these stadiums will look respectable.

25k in a 35k stadium looks pretty full because people spread out....


As has been said many times here....bowl the stadium, tear down the upper deck, build a pressbox/suite/office complex and call it good around 36K

[HoustonCajun]

25k in a 35k stadium looks pretty full because people spread out....


As has been said many times here....bowl the stadium, tear down the upper deck, build a pressbox/suite/office complex and call it good around 36K

That is the perfect stadium for us. And In the East side of the stadium and NEZ, continue the look of the concession and bathroom that is in the SEZ so it wraps around to give it a more symmetrical look. Then, as the Cox Building is demolished, build a Square in its place that includes a smaller version of the FDL fountain that is in the Quadrangle on campus, tying the athletic and academic campuses together and giving the whole athletic complex a finished look.