They are both 45K.
http://www.gofrogs.com/facilities/tcu-facilities-football.html
http://www.baylorbears.com/facilities/mclane.html
Here we are with 70k tickets sold to the OU game and we are worried about filling 60k seats? If UH gets into the Big12, ticket sales will increase. Maybe they wonât full up for UH vs Kansas, but I would expect a full stadium for conference games against Texas and OK teams.
Baylor is 42K seats plus the end zone berm. 45K is with SRO.
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I was out there Thursday and there had actually been part of the exterior removed, so maybe they are preparing to do some work. The hole on the corner is about twice as big as it was before.
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Thank you guys so much for answering my question.
Somehow yall managed to turn this into a stadium expansion thread.
50k is more than adequate. It will keep UT and OU out of NRG.
A review of the SWC attendance (Houston) through the years does not support the need for a 60k stadium. Those are the facts, however I wish the city would support a 70k stadium. By city support, I am referring to butts in the seats. There is nothing better than college football in the fall!
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On one hand, Iâm not sure how relevant football attendance stats are from 30-40 years ago. Things have changed. We play on campus now. We tailgate now. More students live on campus now. Houston itself has grown.
So I have no idea what our ultimate limit is on fan support.
On the other hand, Iâd hate to see us expand the stadium on the come without several years of 25K+ season ticket sales.
Further, the next stadium project simply must include more suites and club seats. Revenue is the name of the game, not capacity.
I lean towards spending the money to make the stadium as nice a football palace as possible instead of spending the money to add a bunch of cheap seats far away from the action.
We are similarly situated to Miami. Big city. Pro football town. Here is their football attendance history since they got good in 1981. I canât imagine UH should expect better than this:
1981 = 39,851
1982 = 30,100
1983 = 44,555
1984 = 41,309
1985 = 45,070
1986 = 48,571
1987 = 53,920
1988 = 53,106
1989 = 51,634
1990 = 62,096
1991 = 57,964
1992 = 55,675
1993 = 47,887
1994 = 60,331
1995 = 38,204
1996 = 41,612
1997 = 28,916
1998 = 43,202
1999 = 39,263
2000 = 58,430
2001 = 46,162
2002 = 69,539
2003 = 58,135
2004 = 59,134
2005 = 45,310
2006 = 41,908
2007 = 43,589
2008 = 46,299
2009 = 47,551
2010 = 52,782
2011 = 48,654
2012 = 47,719
2013 = 53,837
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Thatâs 20+ years agoâŠthings have changed since then. The entrenched alumni base has grown and is growing as more kids come through the growing on campus dorm life.
Miami is a Private School with 11,000 undergrads, and has a lot of T-shirt fans that show up for winning football.