OK, I'll go first, the Buckeyes are adding seats above the two team entrance tunnels to push capacity at the Horseshoe to 3rd in college football, behind The Big House and Happy Valley. Also going to permanent night lights.



First Look: Artist Rendering of the 2,522 New Seats and Permanent Lights Going into Ohio Stadium for 2014

I've never understood how The Horseshoe is one of the largest and loudest stadiums in the country when it's not a complete bowl. Props to you guys for making it a great place.

TERPS will have to step it up on this front as well ... just at 54000 now ... half of the Buckeyes, Michigan, and others ... hoping some wins will translate into bigger at Maryland too!

(06-07-2013 11:04 AM)PIRATE TERP Wrote:  TERPS will have to step it up on this front as well ... just at 54000 now ... half of the Buckeyes, Michigan, and others ... hoping some wins will translate into bigger at Maryland too!

Not anytime soon. We're still trying to pay off the last expansion.

(06-07-2013 03:37 AM)stratecashomie Wrote:  I've never understood how The Horseshoe is one of the largest and loudest stadiums in the country when it's not a complete bowl. Props to you guys for making it a great place.

Loudest was a long time ago: close the end of the horseshoe to surround the field with fanatical fans, have nothing else to do in a fairly small cow town with absolutely nothing even close to being as big as Buckeye Football.

Its not like the corners where the horseshoe buts up against the endzone stand soaks up a substantial amount of noise. :) Put 100,000 people all around a football field wanting to see big hits and big plays, the details of the shape doesn't matter all that much.

As far as the fanatical fans, that's the normal college town dynamic. Greater Columbus is in and amongst Cincinnati and Cleveland now, after the growth of the past twenty years, but fifty years ago it was less than half their size, 1m+ for the end C's and 1/3 of a million for the middle C. It was in reality the biggest of the second tier of cities, even though it always looked on itself as the smaller of the top tier, so it never had the distraction of pro sports in the Big Three to pull the Buckeyes below top spot in the Central Ohio sporting landscape.

Among the largest is even easier: just add a deck, rinse and repeat. Took some ingenuity, to be sure, but that's why the designers get paid their dough. And putting seats to replace a big part of the tunnel canopies is more of the same.

I'm OK with the added seats so long as it doesn't feel less like a horseshoe. Smith said they were sensitive to that in that link and hope he's right.

RU should have been expanding already. The BIG membership has already caused greater interest in tickets. We need to build on spec. Once the BIg schools are coming to campus, even an expanded stadium will be filed.

(06-08-2013 08:34 AM)ohio1317 Wrote:  I'm OK with the added seats so long as it doesn't feel less like a horseshoe. Smith said they were sensitive to that in that link and hope he's right.

Based on the drawing, it doesn't look like the lines of the new seats will make it look any more like a bowl.