(08-19-2014 09:55 AM)CougarRed Wrote:  

(08-19-2014 08:45 AM)uhcoog27 Wrote:  Including ADA spaces, Houston seats 41,038.

Interesting. I have not seen that number before. Everything UH is putting out says 40,000.

Care to reveal the source for 41,038?

Thanks.

Michael Yancey, in facilities planning, told me. They've put a lot of thought into parking availability, and he knew the numbers from those discussions.

(08-18-2014 04:15 PM)SMUmustangs Wrote:  

(08-18-2014 10:08 AM)DowdyPirate Wrote:  

(08-18-2014 08:34 AM)SMUmustangs Wrote:  

(08-17-2014 08:10 PM)True Bearcat Wrote:  UCF - 45301

ECU - 50000

SMU - 32000

Memphis - 62380

Temple - 68532

USF - 66321

UCONN - 44000

Tulsa - 31000

Tulane - 30000

Houston - 40000

Cincinnati 35097

Temple has the largest capacity, and Tulane the smallest. The average stadium capacity is 48, 603.

IIRC some of you figures don't jive. Houston now seats more than 40,000, Tulane seats 24,000. Tulsa seats 27,500. Cincy now more than 35,000.

Some body from these schools correct me if I am wrong.

Don't know where some of those numbers are coming from, but Tulsa and Tulane are both 30k stadiums. Cincy was recognized I'm pretty sure earlier. And Houston is 40k.

I know for certain Tulsa's stadium seats 27,448, now TU pubs it at 30,000 which is where I am sure you are getting your figure. I have read that the Tulane stadium will seat 24,000...expandable to 30,000 if the need ever rises. Maybe a Tulane poster can verify this.

Also, I may be wrong but I thought Houston's stadium would seat 42,000. Again maybe AttackCoug or some othe Cougar can verify.

All we have been told is that 5k-10k seats can be added to the north and east sides. Keep in mind the west side is absurdly low because of the NIMBYs but that height restriction could probably be confronted if the will of the people (e.g. ticket demand) existed. TU admin never gives us the real truth (IMO), remember they stuck to 27k seats forever and still claim 30k capacity when there is no chance there is 5k SRO. Now the true expansion may be more and they don;t want to get the MIBYs fired up, who knows. If there is true demand the options are endless, from buying up homes to raising existing structures. Wish I could provide a better answer.

Tulane's 73 million dollar facility is the newest and most state of the art football stadium along with Houston in the conference and has the option to add 10,000 plus seats when ticket demand is there.

(08-19-2014 02:28 PM)Savacool Wrote:  Tulane's 73 million dollar facility is the newest and most state of the art football stadium along with Houston in the conference and has the option to add 10,000 plus seats when ticket demand is there.

(08-18-2014 05:12 PM)Philly Brian Wrote:  As someone pointed out the Eagles just added 1600 more seats pushing the stadium capacity to close to 70k. Up until the 1970s we (Temple) had our own stadium located about 30 min north of the campus. We needed to build a new one but instead of doing that we moved into the then brand new Veterans Stadium with the Eagles and Phillies.
It became apparent early on that with the Vet being a 30 to 40 minuete trip south of the campus that it was less than ideal. Like our current stadium, it was too big for our needs. We averaged 26k fans last year but I imagine that a good Temple team could average 30k to 35k. I think that ideally we should have a 40k stadium.

There was talk and plans to build a 30k campus stadium back in the 1990s but it never came about. Talk has resumed once again and we should hear a yes or no by the end of this year.

The good news is that we host both Penn State and Notre Dame in 2015 so we will see very good attendance figures next year. This year I expect to once again average around 26k. We did 26k with a 4 win team. I think we might get more fans even with a 4 win season.

All things considered, we need a campus stadium badly ..

The rent got raised to five million a year I seem to remember reading.
Any new talk of a new stadium since the rent increase.

I'm still partial to the grand ole stadium,