DKR West to seat 90,000 by '08

[jtk1519]

University of Texas System regents on Thursday are expected to approve spending nearly $150 million to remodel and expand Royal-Memorial Stadium.

The project, scheduled to be completed in August 2008, would boost seating capacity for football games to more than 90,000.

They are also expected to build a $120 million hotel and conference center on campus.

http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/02/8utbuild.html

No word on if aggy will try and expand DKR East to keep up.

I noticed that Tech is adding another 10,000 seats to Jones as well as finally getting rid of that god-awful turf in favor of the new synthetic grass surface. Should be very nice.

BTW, this what DKR West is expected to look like one both endzones are rebuilt...

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y12/jtk1519/Other/newDKR2.jpg
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y12/jtk1519/Other/newDKR1.jpg

[Slim-Rob]

Sweet. Now you can get college nose bleed seats. JK but 90k is a lot.

I don't know much about College stadiums, but 90k is bigger than NFL stadiums. Is this because the NFL can make the tickets cost more because seating is limited?

[jtk1519]

Sweet. Now you can get college nose bleed seats. JK but 90k is a lot.

I don't know much about College stadiums, but 90k is bigger than NFL stadiums. Is this because the NFL can make the tickets cost more because seating is limited?

It's because of demand... pure and simple. You have college stadiums out there that seat 105,000+ at an average of probably well over $50 per ticket. The NFL could never dream of drawing such a crowd at the prices most of the big college programs charge. The only exception I can really think of is the Washington Redskins who can seat around 90,000 at their stadium.

In my experience, it was far easier and cheaper to go see the Cowboys during the mid-90s that it is to go see the Longhorns now and that's not even counting the Red River Rivalry where you can easily drop $250 or more on one of the worst seats in the house. Again, that's my experience.

[Slim-Rob]

It's because of demand... pure and simple. You have college stadiums out there that seat 105,000+ at an average of probably well over $50 per ticket. The NFL could never dream of drawing such a crowd at the prices most of the big college programs charge. The only exception I can really think of is the Washington Redskins who can seat around 90,000 at their stadium.

In my experience, it was far easier and cheaper to go see the Cowboys during the mid-90s that it is to go see the Longhorns now and that's not even counting the Red River Rivalry where you can easily drop $250 or more on one of the worst seats in the house. Again, that's my experience.

Oh, I had it backwards. I guess a lot of people don't go to NFL because of the same reasons we like College better on here.

[jtk1519]

Some other views of the change...

Current setup...

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y12/jtk1519/DKR01.jpg
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y12/jtk1519/DKR02.jpg

Projected setup...

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b327/utpharmd/08DKRstadium09projectedlook.jpg

[LoneRocket]

It's because of demand... pure and simple. You have college stadiums out there that seat 105,000+ at an average of probably well over $50 per ticket. The NFL could never dream of drawing such a crowd at the prices most of the big college programs charge. The only exception I can really think of is the Washington Redskins who can seat around 90,000 at their stadium.

In my experience, it was far easier and cheaper to go see the Cowboys during the mid-90s that it is to go see the Longhorns now and that's not even counting the Red River Rivalry where you can easily drop $250 or more on one of the worst seats in the house. Again, that's my experience.
I went to two UT games last year mid-level seats $55.00, I also went to two TXState games close to the front row $12.00.

[wide-e-wide]

Will it still look like a big *** tackle box?

[mtbray]

Hell I didn't know tickets were that much...next time I don't go I'll post up and see if someone wants it...assuming I do all sports package again.

[Mad Hatter]

i wish texas had the biggest college football stadium.

[bowiedawgs01]

Try these pics on for size.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v513/hornimal/dkrexpmodel1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v513/hornimal/dkrexpmodel2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v513/hornimal/dkrsketch1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v513/hornimal/dkrsketch2.jpg

[TheDuke]

Try these pics on for size.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v513/hornimal/dkrexpmodel1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v513/hornimal/dkrexpmodel2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v513/hornimal/dkrsketch1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v513/hornimal/dkrsketch2.jpg


Can you say THAT LOOKS SICK!!

I can't wait for that to finish!!

[Reaganrattler07]

Sweet. Now you can get college nose bleed seats. JK but 90k is a lot.

I don't know much about College stadiums, but 90k is bigger than NFL stadiums. Is this because the NFL can make the tickets cost more because seating is limited?

Heh....not as much as FedEx Field :p

[Sicemhorns09]

hmm...kinda looks like the horseshoe... now UT needs to find a way to allow students to attend the games!!

[BigArab]

All you have to do after that is add another wing on the other side and BOOM 120,000 seats.

[Sicemhorns09]

it is only a matter of time

[BigArab]

yeah, 150 mil here, another 150 mil there. Chump change to the UT regents

[Mad Hatter]

i read somewhere that UT is the richest university in the united states becase of oil money they got like way back or something.....


id like to go to a 120,000 + fillled stadium clad in burnt orange :)

[bowiedawgs01]

Not quite the richest, but in the Top 10, if not 5. Those old Ivy League schools are still tops: Harvard, Yale, etc.

[bowiedawgs01]

1. Harvard University (Cambridge, Mass.) $22,587,305,000
2. Yale University (New Haven, Conn.) 12,740,896,000
3. Princeton University (Princeton, N.J.) 9,928,200,000
4. Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.) 9,922,041,000
5. Univ. of Texas System Administration (Austin, Tex.) 9,360,113,745

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0112636.html

[DragonBand06]

They are also expected to build a $120 million hotel and conference center on campus.

http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/02/8utbuild.html

No word on if aggy will try and expand DKR East to keep up.

I noticed that Tech is adding another 10,000 seats to Jones as well as finally getting rid of that god-awful turf in favor of the new synthetic grass surface. Should be very nice.

BTW, this what DKR West is expected to look like one both endzones are rebuilt...

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y12/jtk1519/Other/newDKR2.jpg
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y12/jtk1519/Other/newDKR1.jpg
Eventually...
Maybe in 20 years (http://www.theeagle.com/aandmnews/091804kyle.php)

[Dawg Fan]

They are also expected to build a $120 million hotel and conference center on campus.




Where on Campus:eek: That campus is already overcrowded. There doesn't seem to be much room for anything else on the grounds.

[wide-e-wide]

Where on Campus:eek: That campus is already overcrowded. There doesn't seem to be much room for anything else on the grounds.


Might have to do away with the dog cemetery.............OH THE HORROR!

[DragonBand06]

Might have to do away with the dog cemetery.............OH THE HORROR!
Wrong school.

[GTown02]

They'll just build it straight up like their other dorms and buildings.

[wide-e-wide]

Wrong school.


I was referring to the planned overhaul of TackleBox field.

[DragonBand06]

Might have to do away with the dog cemetery.............OH THE HORROR!
What is this then???

[garlandowl08]

I was referring to the planned overhaul of TackleBox field.

You're confusing me, go ahead and insult my intellignce, whatever. Which stadium is TackleBox Field? jtk posted about the reneveation of DKR...then DragonBand posted about a future renovation about Kyle...just explain please.

[GTown02]

Tacklebox is wides reference to Kyle Field.


*edited* sorry for wrong info earlier. :(

[bowiedawgs01]

aggy can't even sell out their current stadium consistently.

The hotel is going in on the southern edge of campus. Do you know where Player's is? It's a burger joint at the corner of MLK and Guadalupe (The Drag). They were going to tear it down for a parking garage next to the proposed hotel. Player's fought and won. Now the hotel has to build a 3 story garage beneath itself. But if you know where that corner is, you know where the hotel is going.

Don't forget Texas is also rennovating Disch-Falk, building an outdoor swimming center and a tennis complex. There's always room. :D

I just hope they start to do away with the surface parking and build garages.

Keep up with the Jones'? We ARE the Jones'.

[bowiedawgs01]

Tacklebox is wides reference to DKR.

Are you sure? I think he just quoted the wrong person. He said Tacklbox Field. As in Kyle Field. They don't call it DKR Field.

And it makes sense. Kyle Field is known as a tacklebox.
http://www.walleyesinc.com/images/plano6134.jpg
http://sports.tamu.edu/sports/facilities/images2004/full/kylefield.jpg

[jtk1519]

"Tackle box" is one of the many nick names for DKR East.

The resemblance is striking...

http://us.st11.yimg.com/store1.yimg.com/I/hunting-fishing-inc_1883_11824083

vs.

http://www.aggieathletics.com/sports/facilities/images2004/full/kylefield.jpg

[jtk1519]

Try these pics on for size.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v513/hornimal/dkrexpmodel1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v513/hornimal/dkrexpmodel2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v513/hornimal/dkrsketch1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v513/hornimal/dkrsketch2.jpg

To quote wide, "tight-ness." Thanks for posting those, they are awesome. I can't wait to see it myself. What is really cool is that the endzone seating will finally be moved close to the field. Combine that with the new double deck structure that wraps around and it should get VERY noisy down there since the sound has nowhere to go anymore.

Maybe it's just me, but I think when they finish up with DKR West, it is going to look like a much more attractive version of Tennessee's Neyland Stadium...

http://www.collegegridirons.com/sec/images/neyland153.jpg
http://www.collegegridirons.com/sec/images/neyland152.jpg

[wide-e-wide]

Are you sure? I think he just quoted the wrong person. He said Tacklbox Field. As in Kyle Field. They don't call it DKR Field.

And it makes sense. Kyle Field is known as a tacklebox.
http://www.walleyesinc.com/images/plano6134.jpg
http://sports.tamu.edu/sports/facilities/images2004/full/kylefield.jpg


Well at least two people knew what I meant...that's comforting.

I quoted the wrong person...sorry.
Calm down...it's not like I put the boards on THE WRONG SIDE OF THE FREAKING WINDOWS!

[jtk1519]

Calm down...it's not like I put the boards on THE WRONG SIDE OF THE FREAKING WINDOWS!

:eek:

Dude, now you owe me some Windex. :D

[wide-e-wide]

:eek:

Dude, now you owe me some Windex. :D


At this point we are just about even.

[Mad Hatter]

aggies are just to funny always trying to out do us....they should stick to stuff they know like how to grow maroon carrots.

[DragonBand06]

aggy can't even sell out their current stadium consistently.
http://sports.tamu.edu/sports/facilities/images2004/full/kylefield.jpg

[bowiedawgs01]

Is that picture, the same one I posted I might add, supposed to mean something? Your reading comprehension is severely lacking.

[wide-e-wide]

Let's see that same view of the stadium after halftime...
It will look like a P Diddy concert at the Grand Ole Opry.

[DragonBand06]

Is that picture, the same one I posted I might add, supposed to mean something? Your reading comprehension is severely lacking.
Wow! You finally got something correct! Congratulations! You should be a teacher...

[bowiedawgs01]

When arguing with aggy, I'm always correct.

[wide-e-wide]

I have been accused of making HS kids look dopey...by the omnipotent one "Firebird"......
I would just like to take this opportunity to point out........these HS kids don't need any help in order to look and sound dopey.

DBand06...you're not on the debate team are you?

[bowiedawgs01]

Kyle Field official capacity: 82,600

2005 home games

SMU - 75,128
TSU - 72,741
BU - 79,280
OSU - 78,451
ISU - 86,172
UT - 86,617

Season Capacity Total = 495,600
Season Actual Attendance = 478,389
Season % Capacity = 96.5%

That's 2 sellouts and 4 non-sellouts. The last one aided by Longhorn fans that bought up a bunch of tickets. My dad and I sat in the aggy student section along with a thousand other Longhorn fans.

[wide-e-wide]

96.5%
Well that will just about do it...
Time to add more seats bubba.

[jtk1519]

I hate to be picky, but the TSU game needs an asterisk next to it. Because of the hurricane, actual attendance was around 50,000. That certainly can't be held against aggy though.

[bowiedawgs01]

No asterisk needed. I'm using tickets sold, not turnstile. These attendance numbers are what were reported in the box score by A&M. They include season ticket holders that didn't necessarily show up.

[LoneRocket]

Hopefully when they finish, they will allow high school games there again.

[jtk1519]

No asterisk needed. I'm using tickets sold, not turnstile. These attendance numbers are what were reported in the box score by A&M. They include season ticket holders that didn't necessarily show up.

That's pretty much what I said.

[bowiedawgs01]

lol No it's not. You said to give them an asterisk b/c only 50,000 showed up. I gave them credit for what they reported in every game, not what showed up at any particular game. And they STILL can't fill it to capacity consistently.

[DragonBand06]

lol No it's not. You said to give them an asterisk b/c only 50,000 showed up. I gave them credit for what they reported in every game, not what showed up at any particular game. And they STILL can't fill it to capacity consistently.
96% is pretty full... At least it's not like SMU or anything...

[wide-e-wide]

96% is pretty full... At least it's not like SMU or anything...


Yeah...that's only two 2%rs away from being full...
Score yet another moral victory for aggy.
These guys are unstoppable.

[bowiedawgs01]

96% is pretty horrible if you compare it to Texas who averages over 100% capacity. Comparing your attendance to SMU is sad. Even aggy hasn't fallen that far.

[jtk1519]

lol No it's not. You said to give them an asterisk b/c only 50,000 showed up. I gave them credit for what they reported in every game, not what showed up at any particular game. And they STILL can't fill it to capacity consistently.

Actually, I was saying to put an asterisk next to it because of the hurricane. The attendance that night, be it counted by butts in the seats or tickets sold, is going to be seriously skewed because of the hurricane thus making that game a poor one to use for the basis of comparing attendance figures. A lot of last minute tickets that might have been sold weren’t because of the hurricane and a lot of people that might have purchased tickets for the game didn't show up because of the hurricane. Either way, no matter how you count the attendance, the TSU game should not be used because extreme circumstances forced the numbers deviate from their norm and from what they might have been.

In other words, aggy should not have that attendance number held against them because of the very unique circumstances surrounding that game. Now, putting the boards on the wrong side of the freakin' glass... well, aggy deserves some mocking for that. ;)

[slorch]

what i truly love about this board...
is that you could be talking about the choir at church or the lady at the cafeteria at your kids school and it always turns into Bevo vs aggy.
It's hillarious!!!

[bowiedawgs01]

You're right jtk. More Texas State fans could've made the trip if it weren't for the storm. :D

[jtk1519]

You're right jtk. More Texas State fans could've made the trip if it weren't for the storm. :D

You said that... not me. :D

[garlandowl08]

This was also a losing year for us...I'm no expert by any means on t.u., so I don't know f they have ever had a losing season (sarcasm), but do a similar statistic on them in a losing season. You may still be above 96% but I would be surprised. I will say that the timing for a stadium expansion may not be great, but you gotta take all things into account.

[bowiedawgs01]

Texas expanded when demand was strong for years in a row. A&M's demand has been waning for a few seasons in a row. The fact that it was a losing season has something to do with it. But comparing it to a Texas losing season doesn't matter since we expanded with demand. Go back the last 4 seasons and compare A&M's attendance to Texas'.

[lonny23]

I thought UT and A&M both were already over 90K, but I see that's not the case.