[thepostman]

I think we will easily average 12,000 this season, if not more...there is already word that opening game is expected to have a crowd much like the crowd that showed up to last years homecoming...which would be amazing....

if we get that much for the opening game, imagine what homecoming will be like....FILL THE GRASS!!!!

[Cider Jim]

If you look up "Big South Conference" in Wikipedia , it tells you the seating capacity of our BSC schools' football, basketball, and soccer arenas. Liberty has the largest seating capacity for both football (12,000) and basketball (9,000). In second is VMI at 10,000 for football and 2 schools tied for 3rd with 8,000 capacity (GW & Stony Brook); in basketball, Winthrop is second with 6,100, VMI 3rd with 5,800 and CSU dead last with 790 capacity.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_South_Conference

(it also lists that LU won the last 2 BSC Quiz Bowl tournaments, Fumble).

[JDUB]

here are some pics of carter finley. this is what LU could look like in a few years












i doubt we get the whole bowl thing, but you can see the way they added an upper deck on the side, with the sky boxes above it

[PAmedic]

exactly right.

thats close to one of the shots we were using before for reference

[SuperJon]

we were talking about expansion at the spring game. i forgot which stadium it was, maybe one of you can help me out, but there is a stadium that looks like ours that has been expanded the way we are talking about expanding.

Kidd-Brewer at App.

[PAmedic]

http://flamefans.info/forums/viewtopic. ... c&start=30

[flameshaw]

I am hearing that ticket sales are very brisk. I know that three weeks ago I couldn't get 4 seats together in section 5, where I have beeen for 10+ years. I was guaranteed the two I had last year, which was nice, but I wanted all 4 together.

Don't want anyone thinking negative, this is a great problem to have, and hope it gets harder to get ducats in the future. Look forward to the day when we are sold out before the season starts.

[PAmedic]

I certainly hope this doesn't negatively impact my ability to score seats in a panic at the last minute by calling in favors (that no one really owes me to begin with)

[JDUB]

that day may not be soon if they start expansion

[jcmanson]

that day may not be soon if they start expansion

Even if they were to start the building today, it would take at least one year to complete. So, there may be a year or two, where it is hard to get tickets. Wouldn't that be nice?!

[flameshaw]

I certainly hope this doesn't negatively impact my ability to score seats in a panic at the last minute by calling in favors (that no one really owes me to begin with)

Just buy a couple of season tickets, they are not that expensive, give them away to people that don't have tickets and some day you will have someone to owe you. Look at it as a good investment.

You should join the Flames Club too, because that will help your priority in future years. BTW, I will give you one of my tickets to the first home game with ND unless you get in as a honorary leprechaun.

[PAmedic]

I certainly hope this doesn't negatively impact my ability to score seats in a panic at the last minute by calling in favors (that no one really owes me to begin with)

Just buy a couple of season tickets, they are not that expensive, give them away to psople that don't have tickets and some day you will have someone to owe you. Look at it as a good investment.

You should join the Flames Club too, because that will help your priority in future years. BTW, I will give you one of my tickets to the first home game with ND unless you get in as a honorary leapercaun.

done and done, funny man.

just not at the high-roller level like you and SMOOTHIE

[SuperJon]

Tickets will never be hard to get. They'll never sell-out. What they'll do is sell as many tickets as there is a demand for and tell the people to sit on the grass, stand on the concourse, etc.

[jcmanson]

Tickets will never be hard to get. They'll never sell-out. What they'll do is sell as many tickets as there is a demand for and tell the people to sit on the grass, stand on the concourse, etc.

You are right, I forgot this is Liberty.

[SuperJon]

That's how most schools with stadiums like ours are. App St can only hold 16,000 but they pack 21-23,000 in for a game every week.

[flameshaw]

A lot of years ago, no one thought we would have a 12K seat stadium. However, your point is well taken, but you MIGHT make it to the age you want something besides grass under your...............................................................................butt.

[givemethemic]

great article...thanks Smoothie..that's why your my boy!!!

[SuperJon]

Notice how there is a top deck built right on top of the bottom deck.

[PeterParker]

With "billions," hopefully, the benefactor will want to do it up right and make it state of the art from the beginning and fold in some forward thinking principles (allowances for future technology) into the design as well as incorporating an element of aesthetics to it. Here are my votes for inspiration for some possible design elements: (red brick with white columns instead...the acoustics would reverberate nicely off the wall of the FOC in a set up similar to this = Loud)

But he believed there were enough football-playing evangelical Christians out there who would love the chance to play there. He noted that Notre Dame and Brigham Young University had both managed to field top football teams, despite their religious affiliations.

Also, as a side note: if LU is insistent on holding to some of the cultural absolutes of the way (i.e. hair code, movie & music protocols, etc.) then the BYU model is going to be the model closest to what LU's student code policy is.

Notre Dame, while Catholic in nature, mirrors a secular school student life-wise (they even have something like a "Department of Alcohol Responsibility" on campus) so Notre Dame has a less difficult time recruiting then say a BYU or LU, even though it has a religious affiliation.

Notre Dame also has the allure of the hallowed tradition that is Notre Dame Football. Now, that's not to say that LU can't create a hallowed pigskin tradition of its own over time, after all, the legacy and aura surrounding a program has to start somewhere. Here's to hoping that one day LU Football can capture at least a fraction of the allure, reputation and nostalgia that surrounds the likes of Notre Dame or Army/Navy football.


Some Links: If we aspire to be the Evangelical version, we should keep abreast of what they are doing to set themselves up academically as well as athletically to be the premier institutions of higher learning & athletics.


1. http://www.nd.edu/~stratgic/final/index.shtml A Strategic Plan Notre Dame 2010: Fulfilling the Promise [For those who take the time to read this, hopefully the LU movers and shakers, there is some good stuff in here.]


2. http://www.nd.edu/~frswrite/mcpartlin/2000/Weber.shtml Interesting perspective by ND student for peer project.

[4everfsu]

Would they expand the present staduim or build at a new location?

[PAmedic]

Would they expand the present staduim or build at a new location?

expand the current one.

the guy I spoke with was quite clear; as we spoke, we were standing atop the temporary suite, and he stated that was the approx height at which the new deck would begin, only cantilevered (?) out 10 feet or so over the existing level.

[01LUGrad]

Is anyone else out-of-their-mind excited about all of this?

By the way...I already have plans to skip the Rock n Roll 1/2 marathon at the Beach this year to attend the first home game.

[PAmedic]

been told I'm normally out of my mind, but

[krh44]

been told I'm normally out of my mind, but

By more than one person

[Fumblerooskies]

I'm about ready to wet myself...
...of course, at my age, that is not uncommon.