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I don’t know if a full rebuild of the NEZ could’ve been accomplished concurrently with this phase of construction. My guess is no. Therefore, I don’t see tremendous harm in not announcing phase 2 for the time being.

However, I’m curious as to how they’ll get to ~ 27/30K with the next phase...from what I’ve read, the new construction actually holds 15K. If current capacity is ~ 22.5K, we’d lose 7.5K from the end zone....then we’d have to add another 12-15K on the end zone. That’s a stretch for that footprint...somehow, I don’t think the next phase gets us to 30K.

For now, I’m of the mindset that our performance is more important than the facility. We have a new, on-campus stadium. We also have expansion plans. Some schools in the AAC (Temple & USF) would kill for that. What we haven’t shown is the ability to compete & win consistently at the FBS level. That will be the greater attraction IMO.