Near Future/Construction at the Doyt

Schadenfreude · Post by **Schadenfreude** » Wed Jun 08, 2005 9:24 am

Dayons_Den wrote:They need to do a student ticket pick up for the toledo game much like they do at basketball games so they can sell as many $26 tickets as possible.

I suspect fewer students would attend, though.

Schadenfreude · Post by **Schadenfreude** » Wed Jun 08, 2005 9:30 am

The East may help attendance, but not in an earthshakign way.

I agree that exchanging Miami for Northern Illinois is a wash. I don't say that to denigrate Miami -- which is a much more traditional rivalry for us -- but we never put as many butts in seats for a Miami game as we did in '03 for Northern Illinois. I didn't see the intensity of our games with NIU going down any time soon.

Ball State is probably better for the gate than Buffalo.

But that's outweighed by the improvement we will get exchanging the Michigans for Ohio, Kent State and Akron.

I see improvement. But, again, it won't be earthshaking.

BGman2004 · Post by **BGman2004** » Wed Jun 08, 2005 9:55 am

Does anyone have any pics of the bleachers being taken down?

TG1996 · Post by **TG1996** » Wed Jun 08, 2005 11:01 am

I don't know how much the "we were originally in the East" matters, since divisional play wasn't around all that long before we headed to the West. If anything, the resurgance of BG football has come while we were playing in the West, when many of the current fans (even including some alumni) were paying attention.

That said, I think being in a division with mostly Ohio teams could help things out alot. Not that the Ohio media is going to jump all over a game because its two Ohio teams, but I'd think BG-OU would get more of a writeup in a Sunday paper than BG-CMU/EMU/WMU/BSU...

Falconfreak90 · Post by **Falconfreak90** » Wed Jun 08, 2005 3:04 pm

Schadenfreude wrote:It sounds like we can make more money by reducing seating. There must be a reason why all these major league baseball parks are smaller than they used to be, and I'd guess we are pursuing that same theory.

Schade brings up a good point about the reduced capacity and its effects.

Today's Akron Beacon Journal reported Stanford is undergoing an $85 million stadium renovation that will reduce the capacity from 85,000 to 50,026. They will be able to increase concession areas and add other amenities.

With the end zone seating gone from both ends at the Doyt, the only poor seats in the house are right next to the press boxes on both sides. Those kinda suck but there are only a few of them.

I'm glad we're back in the East. I think that's where we belong.

87 days.....ROCK THE FLOCK!

Falconboy · Post by **Falconboy** » Wed Jun 08, 2005 4:37 pm

Standford had a 85,000 seast stadium??? You gotta be kidding me a very so-so football team that has never been a powerhouse that I can remember, having a 80,000+ seat stadium confounds my mind.

As for moving to the East I think less students might show up cuz they know nothing about Buffalo and Ohio and Kent as much as they do NIU and UT now. over the past 5 years or more students have gotten used to the power teams of NIU and UT in the same div. as us, now they might be even less inclined to come to a game except for maybaye Miami and Miami alone. I'm a little fearful that attendance this year could get ugly for most home games this year except UT game as always. Unless we've maybaye defeat both Wisky and Boise and are pounding the rest of teams and wer'e undefeated will maybaye more people might be interested. Just speculation really but I hope for the best.

PGY Tiercel · Post by **PGY Tiercel** » Wed Jun 08, 2005 4:47 pm

Not being a powerhouse in football does not necessarily equate to poor crowd size. Stanford is a pretty good school and as such probably draws in more fans due to school spirit and alumni involvement than other schools. Its not so much the talent of the team but rather the enjoyment of being on campus and showing school spirit. This can be the only explaination for why UK with only 5 7+ win seasons in 30 some years still averages 50K+ a game. Being in California, they probably also got an inflated budget to build the stadium that big, but now realize that a less than 50% reduction in seats would suffice.

Bleeding Orange · Post by **Bleeding Orange** » Wed Jun 08, 2005 8:24 pm

As far as Stanford goes, it is much bigger on the west coast than we think of it here out east. The stature of that school out there is unmatched. Plus, they have never been a truly great football program, but they have had a loooong rivalry with Cal that may have helped to make that fact irrelevent.

And, they produced Elway. F***in' Elway.

Near Future/Construction at the Doyt

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