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Michigan AD: 120,000-seat stadium a possibility

One would not normally look at Michigan Stadium, home of 109,901 Wolverine fans on fall Saturdays, and think "this needs to be considerably bigger." It's already the biggest stadium in North America, after all, and renovations were just completed there last year. Time to leave the Big House alone for a few decades, yes?
Well, maybe, but maybe not. Michigan athletic director Dave Brandon was on WTKA-AM in Ann Arbor this morning, and as the Detroit Free Press reports, he shared a vision that would accommodate perhaps 10,000 or more fans in the hallowed stadium:
"One of the things that I?ve said publicly I?d love to do at some point is close in at least one of the ends, and that?s all part of the master plan for growth. The south end of the stadium would be the place that we would start, and if we were to take the bleacher system up to the top of the scoreboards, which would be even with the elevation of the East and the West towers, create a concourse that would afford fans the ability to get from one side to the other, both indoors and outdoors, both in the concourse and additional bleacher capacity.
"It would take the total capacity up close to 119,000, maybe even 120,000. I would love to do that at some point under my watch."
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Now, this wouldn't be building for the sake of building; Brandon reiterated multiple times during the interview that the expansion would need to be precipitated by fan demand; the extra seats would have to be sold immediately in order to actually pay for any new construction, so they're not driving the heavy construction equipment to the Big House just yet. Still, Brandon specifically mentioned doing the expansion under his watch, and he's already almost 60 years old, so this probably isn't a 2050 project either.

Entire article: http://eye-on-collegefootball.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/24156338/29601474
 
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That's ambitious, considering how hard they had to fight to get the funding for the last project. Hoke better start winning in a hurry if Brandon hopes to open up their wallets again so soon.
 
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Re: "It would take the total capacity up close to 119,000, maybe even 120,000. I would love to do that at some point under my watch."

They are just trying to break the world's record for the "biggest pile of [Mark May]".

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stowfan;1928378; said:
Very surprising to me. Recently watched the replay of the 2008 Capital One Bowl on BTN. Several of the commercials were UM trying to sell football tickets.
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They must be going for the domino's pizza strategy.

Phase 1: Increase the size of stadium, thus increasing the number of empty seats.

Phase 2: Launch a huge advertising campaign centered around all of the empty seats emphasizing how shitty your product is, but promising that you will improve.

Phase 3: Not sure, domino's pizza is still gross and michigan football still sucks donkey balls.
 
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stowfan;1928378; said:
Very surprising to me. Recently watched the replay of the 2008 Capital One Bowl on BTN. Several of the commercials were UM trying to sell football tickets.
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Yup, they've tried a lot of different methods to sell tickets over the last few years. At first they were offering cheap packs of tickets, but eventually relented and sold them individually by game.
 
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