OT: Kyle Field Expanding to 102,500 Capacity
Texas A&M is adding about 20,000 seats to become the third largest stadium in college football, trailing only Michigan and Penn State. Kyle Field is already known for being extremely loud, so Texas A&M has a very good chance to have the best home field advantage in college football. Its been a good year for them: Moving to the SEC, beating Alabama, Heisman winning QB, now this. They also have a great recruiting class coming in. Texas can't be too happy right now.
Links: http://kylefield.com/
It looks like that will put them at 45 seats more than Neyland Stadium where the Tenn Vols play.
KHOU had its own story on television apparently. Here's the (LINK)
The price tag involves rather a lot of work beyond the addition of seats - it is an extensive renovation. G. Rollie White Coliseum will be torn down in the process and the expanded stadium will have its field moved 18 feet south of its present location, per the story. Some concept images are in the accompanying video.
thinking that it was a desperate move to get out of Texas' shadow and they'd just be stomped in the SEC, but they've surprised me.
Benefitted greatly by Manziel's rise to fame, they really have stepped out of Texas' shadow. I feel like they have an identity other than "The Second Most Popular School in Texas"
A&M opens the video on their website by describing how each university has a moment that defines its existence or sees it fall. They then state that the defining moment in the history of Texas A&M University is the remodel of their football stadium. They have fully embraced the culture of the SEC..
Wow. That's really sad.
Has anyone from Michigan athletics ever addressed the idea of another stadium ever expanding to seat more than the Big House? Would we then expand to make sure we continue to have the most in the country?
Ask the Tennessee Volunteers.
Thanks to Fielding Yost, Michigan Stadium grounds has the potential to expand capcity to 200,000. Just the threat alone should deter other schools from trying to pass Michigan's capacity.
How would we start working towards that expansion? Do we wrap around the brick colliseum to cover the north and south end zones, or do we do an outdoor seating vertical end zone expansion similar to what they are doing with Lambeau this year in their S. end zone?
I do like the idea of getting closer to a solid 140,00.
I thought it was more like 140,000.
I think the most impressive thing is that they get 30,000 students per game. And they all sit between the endzones, not in the corner or endzone.
Well yeah. We don't need to mimick their weirdness, but the way they yell during games would probably help.
Grabbing ballsacks and yelling go hand-in-hand.
It's also nuts that a team like A&M who has really done nothing since the 1930s gets that many people at their games in the first place.
Well, when someone is ranking College Station behind the likes of Lubbock, TX and Stillwater, OK as a destination, maybe there's not really anything better to do on a Saturday afternoon than go to the football stadium no matter how good the team is.
http://espn.go.com/blog/ncfnation/post/_/id/2227/ranking-the-big-12-towns.
You lost me at Layne's......
That's a damn shame about Sodolak's, if true. It's been about two years since we were last there. That experience must have been priceless with those grad prospects. That is a real strange drive out their, especially if you are trying to find it the first time with a GPS (something which I swear is not possible).
...you mean send you into a grease coma.
Always tasted awesome. Always felt like crap 2hrs later.
Gosh, I love the arrogance of some Michigan fans. You realize Southerners can make fun of Michigan too, right? I mean Ann Arbor is located between the wonderful towns of Detroit and Toledo, Ohio. Wow. I mean, those two cities are the most attractive, awesome, and desirable cities to visit and live in. I guess we can also throw Flint in and hey, 2 of the top 5 murder capitals of the US all within an hour drive! Note: In response to MSUDad's comments about Lubbock and College station... don't know why my comment was pushed down here.
TAM was suppose to expand their stadium to 120K and become the largest stadium in the NCAA. I'm glad they deiced to only go up to 102K. TN may try to pass Michigan again, but I think Michigan will always expand if necessary to keep its lead as the largest football stadium.
I'm just happy Texas A&M will finally have enough space for their massive amount of oversigned recruits when they come to games.
Yes, they have a little brother complex, but you would too if you had an entire classification of jokes aimed at you. I'm referring to the "Aggie joke" humor subgenre, which I didn't know about until living in Texas. Example: What's the best thing to ever come out of College Station? Highway 6. Did you hear about the Aggie whose dog kept getting hurt while chasing parked cars? The Sparties have no idea how bad it could really get.
To hell with the SEC.
Awe, that's cute. Just 12k to go.
check out these renderings of the new Atlanta stadium proposals, featuring (very late in the video of the renderings (scroll down to #2), Spike Albrecht and your Meeeechigan Wolverines beating Louisville...
http://www.sbnation.com/nfl/2013/5/1/4289310/atlanta-falcons-stadium-concept-art-design
A&M fans use LOUD VOICES and Kyle Field as it is is incredibly loud. Add 20k more fans and reshape the stadium to funnel more noise back on the field is going to result in some unpleasant times for the opposing team's QB.
Dang.. Looks amazing but they better keep it up in the SEC or that'll be a whole lot of empty seats. If they can keep going they way they are, more power to them, but that's a really expensive gamble on the future of their program.