Originally Posted by Aclone 
That sounds reasonable to me, as well. Of course, it also tells us exactly where we have to go if in say, twenty years, we want to increase capacity to 70K, 72K, or even 75K (do you really think that if we have a winning, exciting team, that fans won't roll in?). I should add that I'm not a big fan of tearing down perfectly good structures to allow fo eventual expansion.
I'll also assume that they would have more luxury boxes between the south end zone decks, as well. At a reduced price, of course.
Some people may complain about too many seats, but you can't sell those seats if you don't have them. And an additional 10K seats would mean at least an additional half million dollars in revenue a game alone--in ticket revenue only. Beef up the non conference schedule with some recognizable names (read, BCS schools), and we would be selling more season tickets. Seriously, who really wants to pay extra money to come to see Toledo (or SD State) when the come to town? Even Kentucky would beat Kent. Washington State is wandering around out there somewhere, too--and why wouldn't Arizona want to come to town?
Yeah its true that even though we're catching up big time if this comes to fruition...we might easily still be behind the eightball when it comes time to upgrade again. But at this point I'm just going to be happy that
JP has the guts to do something about it.
I got a little perspective this past week when I was in Atlanta at a conference. The veranda outside my hotel room offered an eyeshot of the G.Tech football stadium...and so I was talking with the hotel bartender about it, and he seemed to think that it was total crap because it only seated around 60,000 (at least thats what he said). So, you gotta think places like that are in line for an upgrade soon even as we are catching up to them. But, again, I'd still be ecstatic if all those renderings came to fruition.
