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Obviousman · Status: Offline

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Curt Yeomans · Status: Offline

Only 320 Club level seats? WOW, that's a big drop down from a couple of years ago when they planned to add about 1,000 club level seats. I'm kinda surprised someone at the Hattiesburg American didn't catch that the numbers don't add up. At the paper I work at, not only am I expected to double-check my figures, but the managing editors checks them as well when he proof reads my work. That's just odd.

Left Too · Status: Offline

3,700 new seats. How much is this going to cost and what is the "income" (selling suites, whatever) from this going to be. I am still totally confused about this expansion. Will someone please explain?!

Curt Yeomans · Status: Offline

Here's the breakdown from SouthernMiss.com (the HA article left out the 530 club level seats being added elsewhere in the stadium).

http://southernmiss.cstv.com/genrel/041407aaa.html

asdf · Status: Offline

I never understood the math for this expansion. $31 million for 3700 seats! 34 suites in the end zone; they will have the worst view in the house. Here is a link to a picture of the expansion:

http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/2328/mmrobertsdn7.jpg

This will cap off the stadium and prevent any future expansion, unless you want to tear down the athletic center. I guess the boosters realize that USM will never draw more than 35,000 to a game. To me, if I was a big money donor, I would want something more like this:

http://img57.imageshack.us/img57/3061/therock4sr0.jpg

This seems like it would have more bang for the buck. Bring the stadium up to 40,000+, have luxury suites along the sidelines, and still be able to expand in the future.

Now for me, I would like to see USM do something like UCF:

http://ucfathletics.cstv.com/facilities/ucf-brighthouse.html

$47 million for 45,000 seats (we will already be 66% of the way there in money). Over the next 10 years or so, tear MM Roberts down and build a new stadium where Mississippi Tank is. Move athletics to the edge of campus and build new academic and residential buildings in the open space:

http://img410.imageshack.us/img410/631/stadiumplanzm8.jpg

Okay, this has been a slow day for me and I haven't had anything better to do than to play with google. If you want to see someone who really knows how to use Google SketchUp, look at the model of MM Roberts in Google earth done by USMAEC.

-- Edited by asdf at 22:41, 2007-04-15

stinky cheese man · Status: Offline

as a historical note. i was told when i came here years ago that when the first football stadium expansion occurred, there was a proposal to build a new stadium out in lamar county somewhere--i believe where the van hook golf course used to be. it was obviously rejected.