• fugawe09
    188
    you can fit more butts per square foot on bleachers than grass. I think they assume each grass end zone holds about 1000. Each bleacher section has an average of 400-450 seats. You could fit maybe 5 sections each end? So net gain of a couple thousand? Given how popular the grass berms are and that they wouldn’t be great seats, I don’t know if the juice is worth the squeeze. Unless maybe there was a desire to move the students to an end zone. The north end zone at the Toom I think had a bigger impact on the game than students at the 50. I wonder if there is a market for on-field cabanas. I have seen some schools starting to bring premium seating onto the field to fill in dead space around end zones to bring the crowd noise closer.
  • ucdavisaggie05
    123
    Agreed on all points, just trying to maximize seats while minimizing cost. I don’t have a problem moving the students to the end zone especially with my time at Toomey but I imagine there would be some uproar about what was communicated/promised back ahead of construction.
  • SoCalAggie
    57
    I like the grass. I think it adds character. Without it our stadium wouldn’t feel unique at all.
  • DrMike
    717
    I did a little googling to find what the top NILs were. These are estimates, but a see similar numbers from various articles. Top schools like Texas paid out something like $20M, do the Sac12 would be able to jump to big boy table!

    Of course, no one knows what NIL collectives will look like when the revenue sharing kicks in. Power 5 conferences can pay up to $22M - presumably most of that domes from donors redirecting their NIL ‘pledges’. Group of 5 limit is much lower.


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  • BlueGoldAg
    1.2k
    Scroll to the 3 minute mark to hear their opinion about the push for Sac to be in the PAC12:

  • yolohw
    6
    The Pac-? needs some of those schools to join for a different reason, as they all sponsor baseball. Colorado St, Boise St, and Utah St do not, which leaves them with 4 teams otherwise. Of lesser importance I'm sure. Boise had a team for a minute in 2020.
  • SoCalAggie
    57
    I’ll be mad is sac goes and we don’t….
  • SoCalAggie
    57
    There is no reason they have an advantage over us. If they make this happen it’s because they took a chance that we weren’t willing to take. I don’t think financially they are in a better spot than us. Same region. Currently worse facilities…
  • DrMike
    717
    they didn’t really say anything, did they? Other than sac wants to move up obviously….else no meat
  • BlueGoldAg
    1.2k
    Yes, it seems most of the talk is about momentum and keeping the push alive.
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