Expansion plans... Will they ever happen?

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dthree36

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Ok, so a question that has been circling my brain because there is nothing else of interest in the Horns universe at the moment. With Aggieland expanding their tackle box and surpassing the horns seating capacity, does this trigger a need for expansion of DKRM? I have seen the mock of the Kyle field and must say that I am surprised they could make that stadium look good. DKRM has been improved greatly over the years but I have never been a fan of open ended stadiums.

I know they have "permanent" bleacher seats in the south end-zone but its not a full bowl and still open. Even if they did enclose the south end-zone, what do you do with the Godzillatron... it would have to be moved somewhere. I could care less about seating capacity or being the largest College Venue in Texas. I just want to see DKRM fully enclosed and have as rowdy an environment as possible.
 
"With Aggieland expanding their tackle box and surpassing the horns seating capacity, does this trigger a need for expansion of DKRM?"

Not necessarily. Their new capacity will be somewhere around 102K, so with ours around 101K and not even playing A&M, I don't think it's a competition. I've always said that if recruits "need" that kind of stuff to want to go to a particular school, then it's probably not the kind of kid that would want to go to Texas anyhow.

"DKRM has been improved greatly over the years but I have never been a fan of open ended stadiums."

You and me both, but enclosing it would be costly and a process that wouldn't achieve much.

"Even if they did enclose the south end-zone, what do you do with the Godzillatron... it would have to be moved somewhere."

To the top of whatever deck they created there. A&M is doing the same thing with their new south end zone.

"I just want to see DKRM fully enclosed and have as rowdy an environment as possible."

And therein lies the crux of the problem with what you're saying... that we'd somehow be louder/rowdier if we enclosed the stadium. We have enough problems filling it as is, so adding 10-20K more seats in the south end zone wouldn't exactly bump the amount of butts in seats. On top of that, we're Texas. We don't exactly have the attitudes or vocal presence at the home games to begin with. I've been to some loud ones at DKR: UH 1990, A&M 1998, NU 1999, etc. What did they have in common? All were hard-fought wins over ranked opponents. We don't get a lot of those these days. Even with VY in the 2005 season, our "loudest" home game was probably Texas Tech, and that was a big snore by halftime. Throwing more empty seats into the foray might help the echo and decibel level occasionally, but I just don't think it would make a huge bang for the buck.
 
I think DKR-TMS will expand again someday. We just need to have another big-time season first: I think the '04 and '05 seasons got the ball rolling for the construction of Godzillatron and the expansion of the north end zone.
 
If they do work on the south end and have to reconfigure or relocate Godzillatron, let me suggest they start by cutting some of the speakers.
 
Actually, they're adding more.

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Enclosing the stadium will not change the quiet nature of the Texas Fan but it would help trap the noise and give a Faux Rowdy perception. Most spectators at a UT game are loud when its needed and quite if the game slips away.

Horns11 You are absolutly correct when you state the hard fought games usually result in loud db levels. I just wish the loud noise would last the whole game not not just for brief periods through out.

I have the solution but it would possibly create more problems and that is "Beer Sales".
 
The best improvement, either on Godzillatron or the score boards between the upper and lower deck, would be to keep the scores of the top 25 and Big 12 games. Games in progress would be current score,quarter and running clock.
Finished games would have the final scores. Games not begun would have start time. Ala major league baseball.
Whatever loopy dude or dudess that runs it now seems to show scores in some sort of random queue that was devised by three monkeys and a rock.
Now when there is a game of interest (Big 12 or Top 25) I look up to see if the score might be up when there is a break in our game(time out, huddle, etc) with the thought of "suprise me". Yeah, I know I can find it on the i Phone, don't want to. Want to it all on the scoreboard.
 
If we have a good couple of seasons, stadium expansion will take care of itself. By the time aggy finishes their expansion, their team will revert back to the norm and they will be looking at 15,000+ empty seats per game.

By the way, UT should always have the biggest and best venue in the state.

- Mike

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I say rip down the West Side upperdeck and redo it in a functional way with more suites and VIP areas.

It is the most disfunctional upperdeck I have ever seen in my life. The middle is concave instead it should be convex. More seats at the 50 closer to the field, then further from the field.
 
Actually, I wonder what the capacity of the stadium would be if the entire stadium was enclosed with the West Upper Deck wrapping all the way around. 150,000?
 
The distance to the field makes it nearly impossible from most of the UpperDeck to even see what is going on.....

The Prime seats they do not have because of the concave structure and it does not aestically fit in with any of the architecture on campus. It is a mass of unattractive concrete from all angles, very bland and dry.

There is or at least in my limited knowledge no structural need for the Concave of the seats, if anything it should be a Convex approach increasing the premium seats and reducing the nosebleeds.

But hey if you like it someone has to buy tickets up there, good for you.
 
We'd probably lose about 10K seats if we redid the west side to match the east side and connect it at the "gap" in the NW corner of the endzone. And the project would probably take over 2 years because of the sheer amount of demolition that would need to happen. I agree that the 50-yard-line seats in the west upper deck are too far away.

I think winning is pretty much the only thing that would cure the "grass is greener" complaints, so maybe we can worry about renovations once we're actually good again.
 
Maybe, I don't know the definition of Concave and Convex or maybe my sarcasm meter is not on, it is still concave from any angle.
 
They could add a covering to the upper decks similar to what Bama did. I would also suggest removing Godzillatron and rebuilding that end so it would be a small area of seats but also Moncreif could then be redone to be closer to field with coaches offices being directly adjacent to field. similar to what OSU did I believe.
 
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