re: Question about Tiger Stadium

The problem w expanding North is that the distance to the field is further back than in South. The SEZ suites are already painfully far from the field and it’s hard to see all the way to the NEZ. Big money doesn’t want to pay for those views. It’s why they had trouble selling out South Suites and S Stadium Club.

I agree that an even larger video board would be beneficial in NEZ.

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Tear them down for auxiliary operations for the stadium

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No. What they SHOULD do with the old dorms is renovate them and combine rooms to form hotel suites to supplement Lod Cook. How cool would it be to rent one for game day and then be able to stay after the game? They could get big money for the and the renovation, given that they are already residential rooms, wouldn’t be astronomical. This all assumes they aren’t full of asbestos of course.

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Tear them down for auxiliary operations for the stadium

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It's prime real estate and can certainly be put to better use.


2016 reveille article

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The timeline for the repurposing of the east stadium dorms is more fluid, David said. The current intention is to remodel the first floor into offices, a meeting room and storage space for either gameday concessioners or Athletics management, he said.

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I would think lighting and better sound would be a priority upgrade. We truly only fill the stadium once or twice a year

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So what have they done, being that article is from 2016?

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The south side dorms have obviously been demolished and re-purposed. The East side has been cleared of asbestos, but I don't think anything else has been done. I don't think the west and north side has been touched.
I was told Alleva only cared about what could be seen from the outside...he didn't care about the inside of the dorm areas.

103,000 is huge and college football attendance numbers are on the decline and will likely stay that way...I really think Tiger stadium is currently as big as it is ever going to be

They can't expand the north end zone because of the limited space. North Stadium Road, the PMAC and Mike's Habitat are already close enough, adding to the end zone will encroach even further.

Not a whole lot of point of expanding beyond what has already been done. As pointed out, TS only fills to capacity for really big games like Florida, Auburn, & Bama--once or twice a year. Additionally, we've likely reached the limit for how many people we can handle on campus during a big game. Adding another 10,000 seats will only increase the complaints about tailgating limits and post-game traffic.

The reality is that some stadiums have expanded beyond their reasonable size. For example, Alabama is planning on removing a lot of end-zone upper deck seats on one side to build a huge scoreboard screen.

As for the dorm rooms, it sounds like a good idea to make them tailgating rooms, but it's not practical. The security processes are getting stricter, which means that if you were to rent such a room, you wouldn't be able to bring anything of your own into them. Not your own food, and maybe not your own luggage. Who would want to sign up for that?

I wish all of that weren't true, but that's the foreseeable future of sports. The pain of going to a game is increasing, which makes such expansion and in-stadium suites counter-productive.

GEAUX TIGERS!

In my mind they 110% need a better video board in that endzone. Imagine one that wraps around almost the entirety of the north endzone.

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Or they took their actual seats and the LSU fatties couldn’t fit in where they were supposed to fit.

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I realize part of the game here is to be as big of a dick as you can be at times...but do you not see the numbers on the bleachers? The numbers on the bench are the middle of each seat. As you can see, he's nearly on top of the 2 there, which means his seat alone has take half o #2's seat already.

These oversized lawn chairs are MUCH LARGER than the allotted seat dimensions on the bleachers. When these types of chairs are brought it, they extend beyond the seat they bought and paid for into the seat space bought and paid for by another ticket buyer.



These two took an additional seat away form this row by simply having chairs large than the dimensions in the stadium.

so...your point is valid, but misplaced here. the "fatties" in this case are those taking up more space than they paid for by bringing in lawn chairs.