| FTBL The ball continues to roll on stadium expansion...

[imported_Porter]

http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/article/20071114/NEWS/71114038/1007

 

[Swamptick]

That's awesome. Thanks for the link Porter!

 

[crimsontradition14]

That's awesome!

 

[Guest]

Nice find Porter. ;tr

I was pretty dissapointed that we didn't move up to at least second in capacity in the SEC with last year's expansion. Of course it was only one side, but without the skyboxes...there is no telling what our capacity would be. Hopefully if we expand this time, we will take the #1 spot. It might not matter to some fans of other teams, but a 105k+ stadium full of screaming Bama fans...definitely means a lot to us. In fact, there is only 3 stadiums in the NCAA that even compare to SEC stadiums. Michigan Stadium 107,501 , Beaver Stadium 107,282 , and Ohio Stadium 101,568 which sits behind Neyland Stadium at #4. If Bryant-Denny stadium were to move up in that kind of company, it would really be special.


Here is the capacity rankings for the SEC:


12. Vanderbilt Vanderbilt Stadium - 39,790

11. Mississippi State Davis Wade Stadium - 55,082

10. Ole Miss Vaught-Hemingway Stadium - 60,850

9. Kentucky Commonwealth Stadium - 67,530

8. Arkansas Razorback Stadium - 76,000

7. South Carolina Williams-Brice Stadium - 80,250

6. Auburn Jordan-Hare Stadium - 87,451

5. Florida Ben Hill Griffin Stadium - 88,548

4. Alabama Bryant-Denny Stadium - 92,138

3. LSU Tiger Stadium - 92,400

2. Georgia Sanford Stadium 92,746

1. Tennessee Neyland Stadium 104,079

 

[It Takes Eleven]

Nice find Porter. ;tr

I was pretty dissapointed that we didn't move up to at least second in capacity in the SEC with last year's expansion. Of course it was only one side, but without the skyboxes...there is no telling what our capacity would be. Hopefully if we expand this time, we will take the #1 spot. It might not matter to some fans of other teams, but a 105k+ stadium full of screaming Bama fans...definitely means a lot to us. In fact, there is only 3 stadiums in the NCAA that even compare to SEC stadiums. Michigan Stadium 107,501 , Beaver Stadium 107,282 , and Ohio Stadium 101,568 which sits behind Neyland Stadium at #4. If Bryant-Denny stadium were to move up in that kind of company, it would really be special.

Thanks for the article.

The 8,300 or so seats we added from the last expansion should be the absolute minimum we add with this one. That would be sufficient to put us over 100,000. We lost some lower level seats with The Zone arrangement. Luxury boxes may have cut some potential UD seating, but it might not have been that many due to sight line restrictions in being able to see the entire end zone from the UD.

If they don't do anything like The Zone in the lower seating, and have no luxury boxes, I would think the maximum pickup would be 10,000. That would put us #4 nationally and behind UT.

Lowering the field level and adding more lower level seating is an option, but that would shrink the promenade areas on either side of the field, and could affect sight lines from the end zone seats.

RTR,

Tim

 

[BamaPride]

Hmmm that drill rig looks familiar. :shock: