(05-15-2018 09:38 PM)bullet Wrote:  Chicken or the egg?

You have to have 30k to get decent home games. And you have to have decent home games to have good attendance.

Also, you can get the a good bit of the new stadium effect with half the stadium without the expense of rebuilding the whole stadium.

We can get good home games by utilizing Gillette. This is what I said on this subject on UMassHoops.com

McKinney post_id=473607 time=1526322267 user_id=2547 Wrote:

eldonabe post_id=473605 time=1526317772 user_id=79 Wrote:Honestly, why spend anything significant on this pile of concrete if there isn't a way to make it substantially bigger at some point? They must have something in mind. Right?

On the one hand I see where you're coming from. We may not need a 30k seat stadium right now, but I don't see how we get into a conference and/or attract "high level opponents" without one. We either have a reasonably sized stadium designed for FBS (not one the size designed for College Division and Division II) or we accept that the more attractive games on the schedule will have to be played off-campus.

On the other, given the finances and higher priority of other facilities (like an IPF) I'm thinking the latter may be really the only viable option. If that's the case I can see why they'd be going down the path of "fan experience" rather than capacity. Even if we do have to play a game or two away from campus, with these cheap enhancements at the very least it will improve the experience for a lot of games and commencement. And that "experience" upgrade might help attract "mid level opponents". I'd think those upgrades would be good enough to get basically anyone outside of the P5. Surprisingly it appears they've been able to do this so far. But who knows how long they'll be able to do that.