Cities that need new stadiums

Having spent a little while Sunday afternoon stuck in the Edward Jones Dome pressbox elevator, I would say STL needs a new football stadium. But there's nothing wrong with the stadium, it's just poorly operated.

 

I don't like the view at all..you can see Covington in the distance...oooooooh.

 

When Michigan Stadium was built, footings were placed on the east side for expansion. So if this had been done 30 years ago before the advent of luxury boxes, it could indeed have gone to 125K with a Spartan Stadium type upper deck.

 

But could they sell out on a regular basis?

 

I may be wrong, but I think the 125K max capacity at the new Cowboys place is in a concert configuration. The wiki page for it says the regular football capacity will be 80K.

Drove by it recently, though, and it's a big mother for sure.

 

UM, provided it rebounds from this 2007 debacle, could sell 120,000 seats for the next 20 years without an issue.

So could Tennessee and a handful of others. (Penn State fans are a tad more fickle, and they were hopping off the bandwagon during the recent lean years.)

 

Seriously, probably not when home skeds include Appy STate, Ball State and the like when Michigan is on TV every week. It's why Michigan boasts of consecutive games over 100K in attendance rather than sellouts.Perhaps they could over the last 10-15 years or so, but not back in 1974 when the streak started.
ANd honestly, if Michigan-Appy State is on ESPN PLus on Labor Day weekend, they don't get 125K in the stands...

 

Full of drunken couch-burning community college dropouts??

 

If Meeshigan wanted to expand it to 125K, I don't think there would be an issue.......For crying out loud, if you can get 109 to watch Appy State, who knows.