(04-10-2011 10:18 PM)Kit-Cat Wrote:  

(04-10-2011 10:01 PM)wvucrazed Wrote:  This is bizarre, you'd think the BE football members would have all been on board if they had given Nova even an "informal" invite. But I share their concern about the stadium - when will the expansion happen to 30k, assuming it happens? It's still not an ideal situation, even at 30k.

I don't understand why Villanova can't expand its home stadium to 25,000 seats? Any of the other models suggested like the soccer stadium or Franklin Field are stupid.

VU in a 25k on its stadium grounds would be able to offer the city an alternative to Temple's downtown location. A lot of VU alumni live off the mainline and can quickly get to games back on campus.

The stadium has a track, if they removed it and lowered the field I would think fairly easily they could get to 20k+ and that would be better than leasing at PPL park, a total BS move.

http://www.villanova.com/facilities/nova...adium.html

You forget about the people who live near Villanova's stadium. Those people have some $$, and the last thing they want to see is a bigger, noisier stadium in their neighborhood. Right now, they tolerate it, but if it got bigger, they couldn't handle it. Living by a hs stadium myself, I have to admit, I agree with those folks. As it is, I don't care to have a stadium that I can see from my backyard with the bright lights and noisy teenagers to begin with. But I know that it does die down eventually, and is somewhat tolerable. If said hs were to try to expand its stadium and move up in classification, I'd have to talk to the principal and voice my opposition to that. With a bigger stadium means more traffic and more fans, making it harder for me to sleep (I work the graveyard shift at a big retail store), and forcing me to get up earlier so I can beat the traffic going to work. If I had a big salary, I'd get the city involved to stop the hs from expanding their stadium , which is basically what the residents of Radnor Township (where 'Nova plays) have done. This is why 'Nova is looking at off campus options.