New Stadium Plans

RikeMiley

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In total, 20,000 new chairbacked seats will be added in the west and south. Of the four seating levels in the south, the bottom two sections will be for students, while the third deck will have chairbacks, and the top deck will not. The entire west side will consist of chairback club seats.
You will also see wider seats in the new areas, increasing from 14 to 20 inches. That alone is why you will see capacity drop by 6,000.
Dannen also shared that 25 percent of the stadium seats currently do not require a donation, and the plan is to keep that number the same.
The big difference will be that the two new sections of the club seating on the west side will come with a premium. Seats in the upper north and south end zones could actually be less expensive than they are now.
This will all get sorted out in a stadium reseat, which will also eliminate the “legacy” or grandfathered pricing that roughly 40 percent of season ticket holders currently have. Moving forward, everyone will pay the same amount for a seat in a section.



Why the **** would you put bleachers in the upper south if you're rebuilding the whole thing? That's dumb as hell, I guess they felt they had to leave donation free tickets available in the upper endzones.
 

Zeke Husker

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In total, 20,000 new chairbacked seats will be added in the west and south. Of the four seating levels in the south, the bottom two sections will be for students, while the third deck will have chairbacks, and the top deck will not. The entire west side will consist of chairback club seats.
You will also see wider seats in the new areas, increasing from 14 to 20 inches. That alone is why you will see capacity drop by 6,000.
Dannen also shared that 25 percent of the stadium seats currently do not require a donation, and the plan is to keep that number the same.
The big difference will be that the two new sections of the club seating on the west side will come with a premium. Seats in the upper north and south end zones could actually be less expensive than they are now.
This will all get sorted out in a stadium reseat, which will also eliminate the “legacy” or grandfathered pricing that roughly 40 percent of season ticket holders currently have. Moving forward, everyone will pay the same amount for a seat in a section.



Why the **** would you put bleachers in the upper south if you're rebuilding the whole thing? That's dumb as hell, I guess they felt they had to leave donation free tickets available in the upper endzones.
Yes, you get what you pay for.
 

dinglefritz

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In total, 20,000 new chairbacked seats will be added in the west and south. Of the four seating levels in the south, the bottom two sections will be for students, while the third deck will have chairbacks, and the top deck will not. The entire west side will consist of chairback club seats.
You will also see wider seats in the new areas, increasing from 14 to 20 inches. That alone is why you will see capacity drop by 6,000.
Dannen also shared that 25 percent of the stadium seats currently do not require a donation, and the plan is to keep that number the same.
The big difference will be that the two new sections of the club seating on the west side will come with a premium. Seats in the upper north and south end zones could actually be less expensive than they are now.
This will all get sorted out in a stadium reseat, which will also eliminate the “legacy” or grandfathered pricing that roughly 40 percent of season ticket holders currently have. Moving forward, everyone will pay the same amount for a seat in a section.



Why the **** would you put bleachers in the upper south if you're rebuilding the whole thing? That's dumb as hell, I guess they felt they had to leave donation free tickets available in the upper endzones.
Benches make empty seats less obvious to the cameras.
 
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NikkiSixx

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lol they aren't starting till after the 2026 season, just in case the season is an unmitigated disaster requiring lots of buyout funds...
 

RikeMiley

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The plan to use memorial stadium as a concert venue is off to a bad start, the Zac Bryan concert is currently under a thunderstorm delay, not sure if it'll go through.
 

RikeMiley

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Edit: The opener Kings of Leon bailed and didn't play and Zach Bryan did a shortened set, good start.
 
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TDLaww2020

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Something bothers me about the north side of the stadium. The seats on the western edge of the north side look almost completely blocked from seeing the field. While we're at it the east bowl seats look tacky as hell too.

Am I crazy?
 

NikkiSixx

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Something bothers me about the north side of the stadium. The seats on the western edge of the north side look almost completely blocked from seeing the field. While we're at it the east bowl seats look tacky as hell too.

Am I crazy?
decades of mismanagement by the board of regents & university brass, including donors voices in that mess too.
 

redwine65

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to raise the big screen you put them onto of the 4 red posts at the entrance...look how michigan did it with their 6 blue posts...
then the area can be filled in with quality seating...if you win the seating will be filled.

it's important to get it right

plus after the south is done...the north endzone will be next like in a decade or two.., and built like the south to connect all the hallways and make a true bowl, with uniform appearance.....so you may lose some seating there..
 
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