I think the original expansion plan was to fill in the grass with seats before starting on a second layer of seats on the sides. That being said, people have really grown to like the grass at the end zones. A temporary situation has become a feature so I don't know if they will fill those in now. There was also discussion a while back about a sizable donation being made towards a new team center.

I’d say filling in the north end zone, opposite the video screen would be logical. Concrete, rebar, benches and hand rails. It would also preserve the berm with moving shade from the screen for families. Depends on the footprint for future athletics facilities though - that may alter that idea.

Look at SMU’s football stadium

Keep the grass for now. A training facility overlooking the field would be cool, a second or third level could include a banquet room / viewing balcony / deck thar could be used by many.

I like keeping the grass under the scoreboard, and filling in the North endzone with seats. Maybe go "up" on the East side.

Going up on the west side would allow for earlier opportunities for shade for the east though. :chin:

This is true. Wondering about what to do with the building/press box on the West side. Building around it may look weird.

I like getting more than one sellout crowd before we worry about this. :razz:

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We do like to get ahead of ourselves.

I wouldn’t put anything out of reach for Blue so long as he is here.

I agree. And I am definitely one to get ahead of myself. I’m already preparing for the move up to the mountain west conference!

When was the last time we won a DI division / league title?

Not quite yet.

So how does EWU get 9,000 a game attendance when their town is only 10,000?

Lots of bored people in Spokane?

Look familiar?

Could you imagine Aggie Stadium having skybox suites one day? That would be cool for sure.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_J._Ford_Stadium

Nice capacity

We need some of that Dr. Mike money to make that happen ;)

Back when I played NCAA Football on the PS3, that was my go-to stadium when creating the Ags and dropping them into the MW.

I think you’d need about 15000 folks kicking in at my level to make this a reality. Or get one really big sponsor!

If we fill the north endzone w seats (sort of like SMU), that’ll make a horseshoe quite reminiscent of our logo. I think it would look super cool!!

Chevron Bechtel Allegiant Mondavi Stadium

Phase 2 will have a big name sponsor to cover a very significant amount of the cost. None of the above mentioned

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Dunning Pavilion?

My only request for any stadium upgrades is more shade or at least move the games to 7pm.

An upper class or grad student in environmental design or such put together a thorough study and proposal a number of years ago on how to tweak and improve AS, including some options for shade.

As far as cementing in the end zone, I'm not sure we'd gain more than we would lose. Say a thousand people sit in the grass, and cement gets us 2,000 poor-sight seats... that's not a big bump.

A double deck over the student section could add 4-8,000 seats (realistically), would add shade for the lower level, and probably would add restrooms and additional concessions. Maybe even reception boxes and great sight lines.

@DrMike the suspense is killing us! Davis Enterprise coliseum?