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Another potential positive for the AAC.

http://www.philly.com/philly/sports/colleges/temple/20151023_Temple_s_goal__35_000-seat___100_million_stadium.html

Temple hosts Notre Dame next Saturday night at Lincoln Financial Field (home of the Eagles) and the game is sold out.

make it happen! would love to see AAC games on TV with packed venues and 35k fits Temple better than Lincoln Financial, which can always be used when scheduling opponents who will bring large numbers (like PSU and ND did this year). Oh...and beat the Irish while you are at it.

It's going to happen.

Temple just broke ground on a new soccer and field hockey complex as well. Great to see.

Temple Memphis Houston SMU to PAC

If Temple sustained success in football, I wonder if they could be a candidate for ACC expansion

A 35,000 seat stadium is not going to be attractive to any P5 conference. I don't care how nice the stadium is....

LA_Mustang wrote:A 35,000 seat stadium is not going to be attractive to any P5 conference. I don't care how nice the stadium is....

Disagree- the future is eyeballs and TV, not butts in seats. Think you'll see stadiums getting smaller in the future and empty bleachers replaced with more premium seating options

Baylor and TCU are two of the top five programs in the country right now and located right in the middle of football crazy Texas, and their new stadiums each seat about 45,000

Agreed, ECM. 35-40k is enough for most smaller schools. TV doesn't care how many seats there are. UH did a nice job building a 'big time' looking stadium without going to 50k seats. They built it way smarter than people in the 90s did like us.

East Coast Mustang wrote:

LA_Mustang wrote:A 35,000 seat stadium is not going to be attractive to any P5 conference. I don't care how nice the stadium is....

Disagree- the future is eyeballs and TV, not butts in seats. Think you'll see stadiums getting smaller in the future and empty bleachers replaced with more premium seating options

Baylor and TCU are two of the top five programs in the country right now and located right in the middle of football crazy Texas, and their new stadiums each seat about 45,000

Not that I disagree with you generally but I think temple has around 38k students. Building a 35k stadium is kinda weak...

East Coast Mustang wrote:Disagree- the future is eyeballs and TV, not butts in seats. Think you'll see stadiums getting smaller in the future and empty bleachers replaced with more premium seating options

How many eyeballs will a program attract to TV that feels like it can only get 35,000 to its home games?

LA_Mustang wrote:

East Coast Mustang wrote:Disagree- the future is eyeballs and TV, not butts in seats. Think you'll see stadiums getting smaller in the future and empty bleachers replaced with more premium seating options

How many eyeballs will a program attract to TV that feels like it can only get 35,000 to its home games?

Baylor and TCU have 45K and I bet a few causal fans tune in to that game next month

I'd rather have 35K and sold out than 45K at the Linc with 20,000+ empty seats...optics look better

ReedFrawg wrote:

East Coast Mustang wrote:

LA_Mustang wrote:A 35,000 seat stadium is not going to be attractive to any P5 conference. I don't care how nice the stadium is....

Disagree- the future is eyeballs and TV, not butts in seats. Think you'll see stadiums getting smaller in the future and empty bleachers replaced with more premium seating options

Baylor and TCU are two of the top five programs in the country right now and located right in the middle of football crazy Texas, and their new stadiums each seat about 45,000

Not that I disagree with you generally but I think temple has around 38k students. Building a 35k stadium is kinda weak...

24K undergrad...Houston has 33K undergrad and built a 40K stadium and I don't think that was "weak." And the Houston area is a lot more college football crazy than Philly

ReedFrawg wrote:

East Coast Mustang wrote:

LA_Mustang wrote:A 35,000 seat stadium is not going to be attractive to any P5 conference. I don't care how nice the stadium is....

Disagree- the future is eyeballs and TV, not butts in seats. Think you'll see stadiums getting smaller in the future and empty bleachers replaced with more premium seating options

Baylor and TCU are two of the top five programs in the country right now and located right in the middle of football crazy Texas, and their new stadiums each seat about 45,000

Not that I disagree with you generally but I think temple has around 38k students. Building a 35k stadium is kinda weak...

College game attendance is down nationwide and it is a continuing trend. Why regret overbuilding when you can expand if necessary?

smusic 00 wrote:Agreed, ECM. 35-40k is enough for most smaller schools. TV doesn't care how many seats there are. UH did a nice job building a 'big time' looking stadium without going to 50k seats. They built it way smarter than people in the 90s did like us.

We had the whole neighborhood restrictions issue to deal with....but having an on campus stadium is huge for us.

Ford looks pretty cool when it's packed for a big game...that 2010 Friday night game vs TCU looked awesome on television.