Can't without expanding seat capacity - and added restroom facilities on gameday. I don't know if it's legal to bring in portable restrooms on gameday to accommodate capacity. Could close up the north end zone with assigned seating, I think that would increase official attendance by at least 500.

i want that stadium expansion, especially after a season like this. My frustration with our AD's stadium renderings and then inaction was already extreme, but after seeing these attendance numbers, and the lack of concessions, bathrooms, and non-grass seating im even more feral for expansion.

I agree as long as they keep one of the grass berms for the kids.

I think our numbers were a little higher - I think Idaho game was well over the 8000 reported. This was for 6 home games, and no causeway

Expand standing room only tickets. Plenty of room on the walkways up above.

Concessions seemed to be a problem of purveyors not bringing enough food

Can we add more mobile vendors, including 1-2 authentic taco trucks? Limit the offerings to speed production, say, tacos only (reduce line wait time).

Don't forget, this could be a peak year... LL, MH, Meyer find, Hutton, soft early schedule and top-5 ranking. All the stars lined up... well, except for #4 seed. Darn.

@AggieFinn Venue capacity is determined by square footage (every human is allocated x square feet), number of exits and the pathways to get there, and number of toilet fixtures. There are ways to safely overload a facility by using portolets, opening extra gates, and hiring extra firefighters and medics to stand by. I haven’t worked with the UCD fire department but my experience elsewhere has been that if you maintain a positive and proactive relationship with the fire marshal they will work with you to a point on the “big” events but will grow weary of granting exceptions when it becomes routine. It’s about safety and probability but also optics. No fire department wants other departments to view them as soft on the NFPA code, kind of this my mustache is bigger than yours thing. So you have to get creative on how you ask for exceptions, make it look like you are “innovating” with processes or equipment.

It’s tough to justify a major capital expenditure when the increase is attendance is attributable to people with free tickets.

I'd say capacity is 14,832 unless we were lying about how many people were at the Utah Tech game.

I've been going to Aggie Stadium since 2007 and still don't know what "capacity" is.
I remember a couple seasons early-on when they said "10,000. No more." It seems like whatever the Fire Marshal feels like, or whether he/she likes football :D

Exactly. These are the basic facility management issues that they can never get right. The first game with students and big games like MSU should have food trucks and portable cans inside the gate.

There’s 9,000 seats plus the berms.

The berms can fit whatever they feel like......1,200 to 5,000. Standing room 500-1000 more. No rhyme or reason, it seems. That gets us to around 14,832.

My point is they don't even know....and I'm not sure we've really reached a "capacity" crowd (whatever that is). I'm asking honestly, has anyone here been turned away at the ticket booth?

a long time ago but Causeway 2008.