🏈 Bryant-Denny Stadium

[Guest]

What is the latest on expanding the south endzone? Is it a "definitely someday" or a "maybe someday"? Has topping 100,000 been confirmed as an associated goal in the expansion?

Please breakout what is rumor vs. what has been honestly reported.

Thanks.

 

[rammerjammer]

I have nothing definite..all I have heard was rumor. I think that it is inevitable. Rumor I have heard is around 103K....Maybe Terry or Porter will have something in writing. Those two can find a needle in a haystack when it comes to articles on Bama.

 

[Argo]

Only thing I've seen.

No word on how big ‘bigger’ will be for Bryant-Denny Stadium


TUSCALOOSA | While University of Alabama President Robert Witt said the university’s growth may make another Bryant-Denny Stadium expansion necessary, UA officials aren’t saying much about what shape that expansion would take.

Witt said growth in the student body could make a stadium expansion and other campus improvements necessary. It would be the fourth time in about the last 20 years that the stadium would be expanded and would probably take the capacity from about 92,000 seats to about 100,000 seats.

University officials are saying plans are too preliminary to discuss in detail.

“We’re looking at ideas to recommend to the board [of trustees],” Athletic Director Mal Moore said in a prepared statement. “But any plans for expansion of Bryant-Denny Stadium remain in an exploratory phase. I understand and fully appreciate the interest our fans have in a potential stadium expansion. But nothing concrete has occurred regarding this issue.”

The Tuscaloosa News asked UA’s athletic and public relations departments how much the expansion would cost, how many seats it would involve, if a feasibility study had been done, if a ticket price increase would be involved and what would become of the electronic scoreboard in the south end zone. Officials responded that expansion plans are too preliminary to know the answer to those questions.

Even as the finishing touches were put on the north end zone expansion last year, university officials hinted that another expansion could come sooner than expected. They also told city of Tuscaloosa officials months ago to make a stadium expansion a contingency in plans for street improvements in the area.

Witt said the expansion would come in the stadium’s south end zone. That is where the large electronic score board, known to fans as the Jumbotron, is located. Any expansion at that end of the stadium would likely require the scoreboard’s relocation or removal.

The city of Tuscaloosa has also planned jointly with UA on improvements to Bryant Drive, which runs by the stadium’s south end zone. Tuscaloosa Mayor Walt Maddox said university officials told the city months ago that a stadium expansion was possible and to plan on accommodating it in bid alternatives for the work.

“The Bryant Drive plan has a built-in contingency plan for a stadium expansion,” Maddox said.

Maddox said he and city officials were pleased to hear talk of a possible stadium expansion.

“We’d view that as positive, he said. “We’d like them to expand it to 200,000.”

City Engineer Joe Robinson said the expansion would possibly hang over Bryant Drive the way that the stadium’s western upper deck extends over Wallace Wade Drive.

Since its construction in 1929, Bryant-Denny Stadium has been expanded seven times.

In 1987, UA added its first upper deck on the stadium’s west side. The expansion added 12,000 seats and increased stadium capacity to about 70,000. The expansion cost $15.5 million

Ten years later, it added an east upper deck, adding about 13,000 more seats, bringing the stadium capacity to almost 84,000 at a cost of $35 million.

The latest expansion, which opened last year, cost $47 million and brought the stadium’s capacity to 92,138. In addition to more seats, the latest improvements included the plaza outside the north end zone, luxury boxes and other amenities.

UA’s Five-Year Facilities Development Plan lists a stadium expansion as a possible project. The plan put the price tag at $50 million.

http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/article/20071012/NEWS/71012008/1010/NEWS05

 

[Atlanta_Tider]

2009 and around 100k seating.

 

[imported_Porter]

From what I understand, they were looking at 3 different "plans" and just recently decided on one. I expect an announcement will take place after the season.

 

[rammajamma]

From what I understand, they were looking at 3 different "plans" and just recently decided on one. I expect an announcement will take place after the season.

How about a retractable dome to go with it?

 

[imported_Porter]

From what I understand, they were looking at 3 different "plans" and just recently decided on one. I expect an announcement will take place after the season.

How about a retractable dome to go with it?

That is too Birmingham'ish...

 

[Atlanta_Tider]

From what I understand, they were looking at 3 different "plans" and just recently decided on one. I expect an announcement will take place after the season.

How about a retractable dome to go with it?

That is too Birmingham'ish...

You mean nevergonnahappenish!

 

[srollins]

From what I understand, they were looking at 3 different "plans" and just recently decided on one. I expect an announcement will take place after the season.

How about a retractable dome to go with it?

That is too Birmingham'ish...

Well, not really... :wink:

When UA officials say they are going to build, they build. When B'ham says they are going to build a stadium to lure an NFL team, it fizzles out. ^^KN

 

[Argo]

Right now I'd be happy to see a little fund raising for the UA television network. They should be ashamed to charge over 15 bucks for that stuff.

 

[imported_Porter]

From what I understand, they were looking at 3 different "plans" and just recently decided on one. I expect an announcement will take place after the season.

How about a retractable dome to go with it?

That is too Birmingham'ish...

You mean nevergonnahappenish!

New Plans

 

[Atlanta_Tider]

From what I understand, they were looking at 3 different "plans" and just recently decided on one. I expect an announcement will take place after the season.

How about a retractable dome to go with it?

That is too Birmingham'ish...

You mean nevergonnahappenish!

New Plans

UAB couldn't fill half of a 40,000 person stadium... I see no need for a dome or new stadium in Birmingham. Uab should use the Met for football like Hoover does, cept Hoover draws more fans.

 

[imported_Porter]

From what I understand, they were looking at 3 different "plans" and just recently decided on one. I expect an announcement will take place after the season.

How about a retractable dome to go with it?

That is too Birmingham'ish...

You mean nevergonnahappenish!

New Plans

UAB couldn't fill half of a 40,000 person stadium... I see no need for a dome or new stadium in Birmingham. Uab should use the Met for football like Hoover does, cept Hoover draws more fans.

Why do you hate Larry Langford? The man has a vision!

 

[Atlanta_Tider]

From what I understand, they were looking at 3 different "plans" and just recently decided on one. I expect an announcement will take place after the season.

How about a retractable dome to go with it?

That is too Birmingham'ish...

You mean nevergonnahappenish!

New Plans

UAB couldn't fill half of a 40,000 person stadium... I see no need for a dome or new stadium in Birmingham. Uab should use the Met for football like Hoover does, cept Hoover draws more fans.

Why do you hate Larry Langford? The man has a vision!

His vision has cracked me up for a few years now!!! His ideas are as bad as when they opened a Davenports up in Hoover!!!!

 

[rammerjammer]

Don't even get me started on this jack-ass. Why not get some freakin' infrastructure in and out of this suck-hole called Burmen-hayum so that you could make it in and out of this God-forsaken money pit that they are hell bent on building. Oh wait a minute. THAT WOULD MAKE SENSE!!!. We know that'll never happen.

^^RAN

 

[rammajamma]

With all that glass on the side of this 40k seat half stadium, aren't they afraid that some crazy Bama Fan might throw half a brick through it?

 

[Elephantitis]

Expect something in the near future.

And in near future, I mean before January 1st.

 

[Guest]

From what I understand, they were looking at 3 different "plans" and just recently decided on one. I expect an announcement will take place after the season.

How about a retractable dome to go with it?

That is too Birmingham'ish...

You mean nevergonnahappenish!

New Plans

UAB couldn't fill half of a 40,000 person stadium... I see no need for a dome or new stadium in Birmingham. Uab should use the Met for football like Hoover does, cept Hoover draws more fans.

Why do you hate Larry Langford? The man has a vision!

His vision has cracked me up for a few years now!!! His ideas are as bad as when they opened a Davenports up in Hoover!!!!

I'd love a new stadium in B-ham along with a NFL team. Just sayin...

 

[BamaHeat]

Hmmm....

NEW LEAGUE TO BE LED BY FORMER NCAA PRESIDENT
http://www.allamericanfootballleague.com/

 

[rammerjammer]

Hmmm....

NEW LEAGUE TO BE LED BY FORMER NCAA PRESIDENT
http://www.allamericanfootballleague.com/

While I think they are doing this at the right time of year for this to even have a remote possibilty of success............I think it will be yet another XFL or USFL or World League or add whatever else you want right here.

I'm surprised that the NFL hasn't come up with something similar to the minor leagues and put it during the late winter early spring. They would have enough money to make something like this work and I'm sure they could pull some talent from there as well.