Baylor's football stadium

[T_O_Bull]

Baylor has a beautiful new stadium. Opened this year at a cost of $266,000,000. The only thing I have to ask is why is it not a full bowl and why only 45,000 capacity? Sounds like a lot of money for so few seats.

T_O_B

 

[ColoNoCoHusker]

The pictures I've seen probably don't do it justice but it looks very nice. The price per seat seems pretty outrageous. Colorado St is planning on spending $195-$220 million for 36k seats. Another ~$80 million in deferred upgrades could push it to 42k down the road. As you say, a lot of $$ for not many seats. The new round of college stadiums all seem to be in the $6-7.5k/seat range.

 

[Landlord]

Baylor has a beautiful new stadium. Opened this year at a cost of $266,000,000. The only thing I have to ask is why is it not a full bowl and why only 45,000 capacity? Sounds like a lot of money for so few seats.

T_O_B

They don't have anyone to fill anymore seats.

 

[NUance]

Only way they could start a sellout streak.

 

[huKSer]

This

 

[tschu]

Yeah, they have no use for 90,000 seats or whatever. But that stadium is super-nice. Really incredible from all of the pictures and TV footage I've seen. That's something that they'll recruit very well to continuing in the future.

 

[louisianared]

All depends on what you need. No need to build a 80k seat stadium if you are only going to average 40k.

Tulane just built a really nice stadium that seats 30k and it has done wonders for the game day atmosphere. I'm a season ticket holder at Tulane and there is a very big difference in the overall atmosphere between the new stadium and dome. Everything for tailgating to the crowd noise is better.

Tulane went from crowds worse than what Miami has in the picture above to this:

Yulman Stadium (New):