(01-20-2017 06:52 AM)rtaylor Wrote: (01-19-2017 10:51 PM)CougarRed Wrote: We had out share of fans living in fantasy land at Robertson Stadium. It had about 27,500 seats but our athletic department lied and said it had 32K. And most believed the 32K number.
Why don't you go to Nippert and count every seat yourself?
As a matter of fact, I did.
Just like I counted the dots at the old Robertson and at the new TDECU, I counted the dots on the Cincy ticket website.
I counted them about an hour before the Houston game last September. I went to the site to see if it was a sell out, and I was amazed at how many tickets that were still available for sale.
Also, we were both up for Big 12 membership, so I wondered if Cincy was fibbing about Nippert Capacity. I mean, it was 35,000 pre-renovations. Then they added 1100 club seats and 53 suites. And magically it became 40,000? With the Big 12 sniffing around? Didn't make sense.
I got 33,634 seats at Nippert which included the 1100 new club seats but did NOT include the 53 suites/patios, etc. I figure at an average of 20 per suite, the seating capacity at Nippert was 34,700.
This is consistent with the
FC Cincinnati match in July of 2016, announced as a "record breaking sell out crowd" of 35,061.
As BearcatsUC mentioned, the appendix to the lease agreement with FC Cincinnati contains the seating capacity by section. I searched, and BearcatsUC actually added the seating capacity up
and posted it on the Cincy board in September of last year: 34,379.
I think that 34,379 number includes some but not all of the suites, and the FC Cincy sell out crowd of 35,061 includes some SRO. Below are some pictures from that game. Nippert was full. Fuller than it was for Houston.
PS Cincy announced a crowd of 40,015 for Houston last September.