Bryant-Denny stadium approved for expansion

[jakncoke]

UA passed the final hurdle today in its planned expansion of Bryant-Denny Stadium's south end zone.

As expected, The Board of Trustees for the UA System voted this afternoon to approve the $80.6 project. Construction will now start this spring, with work scheduled to be completed in time for Alabama's 2010 football season.

UA's proposal received committee approval yesterday and got the thumbs-up from the entire Board during today's meetings in Birmingham.

The project will bring Bryant-Denny Stadium's seating capacity to more than 101,000 people, making it the nation's fifth-largest college football stadium behind Penn State (107,282), Michigan (106,201), Ohio State (102,329) and Tennessee (102,037).



http://blog.al.com/bamabeat/2009/02/board_of_trustees_formally_app.html

This is Alabama's stadium btw, according to Wiki it's currently at 92,138.

[Trunks]

80.6 million I'm guessing?

They had a good season last year, there stadium was probably sold out every game.

[jakncoke]

even when they were in down it was most likely near sell out every game. One of these days I would love to see some college fork a bill for some mass crazy number seat stadium, something like 250k, it'd be insane.

[Trunks]

Lol, with that many people, I'm not even sure if they could see the field. I went to a OSU game before sat at the 40 yard line, about mid row. I could hardly tell who had the ball. especially when they did PA.

[jakncoke]

I once went to a game at Ralph Wilson and we got some pretty average tickets and I must say I like sitting at home rather watching live. If only I had like a 50+ 1080p tv