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rocket city poke

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I know no one here likes BYU, but they sold a record 44,000 season tickets already. THere are a handful of programs that were on the lower end of P4 before all the NIL and transfer portal that are actually doing better they are one of them. I would put Texas Tech, Baylor, Iowa State, Memphis, and SMU on that list as well. Texas schools in general benfeting from the NIL and the portal.
 
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rocket city poke said:
I know no one here likes BYU, but they sold a record 44,000 season tickets already. THere are a handful of programs that were on the lower end of P4 before all the NIL and transfer portal that are actually doing better they are one of them. I would put Texas Tech, Baylor, Iowa State, Memphis, and SMU on that list as well. Texas schools in general benfeting from the NIL and the portal.
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As soon as athletes were permitted to transfer and not have to sit a year, I knew it was going to benefit the big Texas universities significantly.

Kids who are born and raised in Texas are brought up to have a kind of weird over the top love of Texas. They even do a Texas Pledge of Allegiance in elementary school. A lot of them end up wanting to come back if they leave the state.

There are also a lot of talented football players in Texas. UT, TAMU, Texas Tech, SMU, Houston, etc can't take all of them every year. So they offer scholarships/NIL to the ones they think are the best, but are always keeping tabs on Texan athletes that went elsewhere. If they prove themselves at another school, they are immediately on the horn to get them to transfer back.
 
cowpoke pride said:
They bet on themselves with going indy in 2010. They hit and landed in the Big XII. Got to give them credit.
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I hate it - but they deserve their current position. It doesn't hurt that they have huge donors and a very wealthy church behind them that sees BYU athletics as a front door to their faith, but they doubled down and won. We continue to bet $0.01 a pull on the penny slot and think that the casino will look past the high rollers and comp us a room in the penthouse. In related news, I see that capacity at the War is sliding towards the low 20ks with the remodel to the press box and loge suites. Pretty soon we will be below quite a few FCS teams in terms of capacity.
 
LawPoke said:
I hate it - but they deserve their current position. It doesn't hurt that they have huge donors and a very wealthy church behind them that sees BYU athletics as a front door to their faith, but they doubled down and won. We continue to bet $0.01 a pull on the penny slot and think that the casino will look past the high rollers and comp us a room in the penthouse. In related news, I see that capacity at the War is sliding towards the low 20ks with the remodel to the press box and loge suites. Pretty soon we will be below quite a few FCS teams in terms of capacity.
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The low 20k's?

Wasn't the capacity around 29k before these most recent renovations? How many seats were removed?
 
TheRealUW said:
The low 20k's?

Wasn't the capacity around 29k before these most recent renovations? How many seats were removed?
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I don't know how many exactly, but the change in the lower west side must be a lot. It's a lot less rows than the old benches, and the individual seats results in many fewer "seats" per row. When you were sitting in those sections before, it felt "full" (with a lot of people in and around you) and now even when technically full it feels sparse (if that makes sense).
 
cowpokeguy said:
I don't know how many exactly, but the change in the lower west side must be a lot. It's a lot less rows than the old benches, and the individual seats results in many fewer "seats" per row. When you were sitting in those sections before, it felt "full" (with a lot of people in and around you) and now even when technically full it feels sparse (if that makes sense).
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I am just now realizing that they widened all those seats and also spaced out the rows further. You add in the rows completely lost to the loge/club and I wouldn’t doubt The War lost 5-6k seats.

I’ll wait until it is done to make a final judgment but the renderings make that west lower section look more like a basketball arena than a football stadium.
 
Since built here are the War Memorial Stadium capacity and attendance numbers:

Capacity by year

20,000 1950
25,500 1970
33,500 1978
32,580 2004
30,514 2007
30,181 2010
29,811 2024
25,000 2025

All time attendance

34,745 csu 1997
34,291 byu 1990
7 games over 30,000

Sellouts/Capacity
11

Ironically the largest closest population base Cheyenne has nearly doubled in size since 1978 while the capacity has been reduced by 8,500.
 
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