I once attended a game at Rice Stadium back in the mid-80’s when Rice played the Univ of Miami. I kid you not, you could bring in an empty Coke can in exchange for a general admission ticket!😄
The Rose Bowl is a National Historic Landmark, so you can't just 'make it look better' and as someone who lives down the street from it--it already does look nice from the exterior. However the Rose Bowl Legacy Foundation raised the funds for some less exciting, but necessary renovations like the replacement of water and gas lines, new LED Stadium lights, a second videoboard, and they are adding a museum with the preservation of the stadium’s two original locker rooms from 1922. And the Bowl is also used for a lot more than just UCLA games--so much so they had to put a cap on events with over 20K people to only 15X a year. Something people don't see when they're watching a game at home is that this is essentially a stadium in a neighborhood, it's not ringed with stores and parking lots...there are houses across the street. So this is a place where people work out, have picnics there is a jogging path around the entire complex... It's more than just the stadium.
The Rose Bowl is a horrible stadium. Its uncomfortable and hot and its in a super tough place to get to and you gotta park on a golf course. It is a terrible stadium other than when its used for the actual Rose Bowl.
@@babybeacon5713 it’s extremely easy to get to there’s like one offramp off of the 134 freeway and you go down the road and you’re there. you can see it from the freeway as you drive by. And there are actual parking lots the only time the golf course is used for giant events with overflow parking.
I think the reason Rice has such a big-ass stadium is because it also doubled as the home field for the Houston Oilers back in the day before the Astrodome went up- then it reverted to Rice full time. But yes, it's too big and they need to take the lead of Tulane, UAB and/or South Alabama.
Rice Stadium is older than the Oilers. It was built when Rice was the highest level football in town and you can Google old pictures where they used to sell out. UH used to play there too before moving to the Astrodome.
Rice originally played in a 37,000 seat stadium through 1949 before Rice Stadium was built. It's still standing partially on campus and used for soccer and track.
If you like the Yale Bowl you should like the Rose Bowl, the same design. In the 1960s there was a plan to build a football facility on the UCLA campus that would have seated 50-55,000.
@@joek9353 It's 40 minutes in rush hour traffic. There's a game going on right now, which obviously congests traffic, and the current estimated time is 45-55 minutes. And UCLA has free roundtrip shuttles so no one needs to drive at all.
Yea i can agree, especially due to there is 134 fbs teams and the scheduling-- ,, its not like nfl where theres only 32 teams of the most elite football players so people going to go no matter what
Super Bowl VIII was played there at Rice Stadium with my team the Vikings vs the Dolphins. I was young and Naive to think at that time that Minnesota would go to many more. They only went to 2 more. That stadium brings back innocent memories that lead to a nightmare. I missed School for 2 days because it was a blustery day.
Spartan Stadium is a great venue. The team has been struggling which is why attendance has been lower than in the past. They should not reduce anything. They just need a better coach.
@@samelmudir for in state enrollment, they are #1. They have the NIL, facilities, and boosters to be good. This was an L take for Depressed Ginger. Mel Tucker had shitty assistants and wouldn't fire them like Dantonio at the end. That's the main reason they were losing. Recruiting was good
@@sococomfort22s34 Dantonio getting old and tired is what happened. Nothing to do with ND. Michigan and Ohio State don't play them every year either. This whole take by the creator is BS. We won the peach bowl 2 years ago and were in the playoff contention. Throne played hurt and the assistants never made adjustments thr last 2 years which is why we fell off. Everything else is much better than ND from a booster, NIL, and facilities standpoint. ND kneecaps themselves with their recruiting restrictions and not playing in a conference. They will never win another national championship again with that nonsense.
Exactly, because back then it was exciting to be a USC fan. You were watching real life Hollywood entertainment. That’s why LA is just not good for college sports. If it isn’t Hollywood, if it isn’t cool, most people just don’t care.
I went there to watch LSU lose in Ed Orgerons last year and I thought it was really cool. But it definitely wasnt full. And there was tons of local high schoolers at the game cuz they had started giving away tickets. That sounds like an awesome time for those kids, but yea for the actual ucla students if any of them actually care about football they should be able to get to the game easier
Nebraska is NOT planning on spending over 450 million$ to reduce capacity and hold on to it nation longest sale out streak. Fans were surveyed to determine their wants and needs. To fill those needs it was decided that the whole south section should be replaced. The number of seats will be reduced, but the fan experience greatly increased. Nebraska athletic programs is totally self supporting and not receiving money from the state/students fees like many well known teams do. There was a Cornhuskers volleyball match at Memorial Stadium a month ago with a world attendance record for women's sports of over 93,000. Even though our football team has not performed to the high level we have known for a long time in the past, it was great that our fans showed they were not just "fair weather fans". There has a been a small push to sell tickets against lesser opponents, but very little. Maybe a some tickets were bought by a business to give to people who couldn't afford to go on their own. The University had never had to spend a dime to try to sell more tickets. jcb
Yeah but the boosters are buying up unsold tickets so they can maintain the sell out streak, therefore it hasn't been true sell outs but still Nebraska does have a very loyal fan base
When Notre Dame's much shorter second longest sell out streak ended in 2019, they had over 3,000 unsold tickets for a game against Navy. The half a dozen times when the Nebraska needed more tickets to be sold it was in the hundreds. The University yet to have to spend money to advertise or reduce ticket prices to sell more tickets. They easily find boosters to buy tickets to give to people who can't afford them.
Michigan State is fine. I’ll admit the student section looks empty because they’re late arriving. (The upper deck he talks about) but Spartan Stadium is good!
I just wonder if you have ever been to any of these places; I went to see a game at Rice last year, and that football operations building looks great in person. Also the concourse has this cool blue and white stone work in the floor. Rice Stadium may be too big, but it's still cool. They do need a new Indoor Practice Facility, it's just a Bubble like Texas has. The Rose Bowl is cool because they have plenty of chair backs. The Rose Bowl needs a canopy to provide shade from the sun. The Coliseum is just fine, I love that section of suites. Michigan State needs more chairbacks, that would reduce the capacity some and make it more comfortable for their fans. The Alamodome is just fine, UTSA needs to market to more people in San Antonio and offer cheap seats up top. I went to the Alamo Bowl last year, and the Texas vs Washington game was great.
SECU (formerly Byrd Stadium) was just a single level bowl for decades. Around 1991 they added the giant tower with the suites and press box. It looked out of place and terrible just looming over the field the way it did. Around 3 years later they added the upper deck on the opposite side - in part to balance out the look of the place. It worked somewhat - the effect is better in person (when you can see the whole stadium) than on TV (when you can only see the one side). That being said, as a Maryland fan I'm hoping one day there's money in the budget to do some renovations.
I do remember reading that Rice does have the smallest number of living alumni amongst FBS schools. Not sure of the exact number; makes me wonder why their stadium is so big. I don’t know if the school used to have a higher enrollment; I saw some comments saying that the Oilers had something to do with the expanded capacity. I don’t believe the Astrodome was built with football in mind, so the Oilers might have been thinking Rice Stadium was a long-term home for them.
I went to Rice stadium in the 60’s and they would be close to sellout, then come back on Sunday and watch the Oilers and it’d be 3/4 full. Probably last time it sold out was the Super Bowl between Miami and Minnesota.
They used to fill Rice's stadium when I was a kid. Of course back then they were at least decent and played Arkansas, Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, TCU, Houston, SMU, etc.
Not sure about your last pick. Memorial Stadium in Lincoln has sold out every game since 1962. They also found while researching the latest renovation plans that they have the 5th highest average ticket price in college football. With a reduction in capacity, when the team starts winning more games, prices are going to skyrocket. I think the planned reduction in capacity is really more of a move from "cheap" seats to suites and premium seats, which the fans want. They are not going to lose any revenue with the new renovation, quite the opposite.
@@dacokc Boosters have bought bulk tickets from the more unpopular games and given them to disadvantaged children and their parents as kind of a community outreach program. Many of those are tickets that the visiting team returns as unsold, and they are in the hundreds, not thousands, and certainly not 10k like they are talking about in reducing capacity. But again, they would not be spending this amount of money renovating the stadium if they thought they were going to lose revenue in the long term; they are planning on making new cash streams from these renovations far into the future.
Uscs field is weirdly shaped. Those empty seats in the back are like 40 yards away from the end zone. First time I went I was shocked at how cheap those tickets were and then I knew why. You're so far from the game and those bleachers they have set up behind the end zone block some of the view when teams are in that red zone.
Rice stadium is sold out when the 6a Houston HS football playoff championship to go to state playoffs. I was there for Katy v Pearland. The concession stands closed by halftime. Lol
Maryland left the ACC because of how poorly Maryland Athletics were run. Maryland wanted funds to rehabilitate their Athletic Venues. Looking at Maryland. It appears that nothing has changed to their Football Stadium.
IIRC, after moving to the Big10 Maryland asked the state for $90 to $120 million to largely improve/expand the press boxes and suites. This came on the heels of losing the last annual revenue check from the ACC due the "exit fee" (which was around $30 million) and not receiving an annual revenue check from the Big10 their first year in that league. (I may be wrong about the annual revenue check from the Big10.) And the state legislature was already angry at the school for deciding to leave the ACC w/o consulting the legislature BEFORE making the decision. So the disfunction at Maryland seems to be with the school's governing body as well as the athletic department.
Maryland sports just will never be great. It’s incredible they pulled off that one natty in basketball. Then they’ll win the conference title in football once every 20-25 years. At least Maryland has that field hockey team though! The athletic department would be in shambles without field hockey. Maryland football is still celebrating the orange bowl that they attended for the 2001 season. They will never mention the score, but that was the greatest thing for Maryland football in all of our lifetimes.
@@CarlSmith-p2c , A majority of people have been hard on FSU’s Board of Trustees must have public access, broadcast and/or stream , and provided a transcript upon request. It is the State of Florida Law called “The Sunshine Law”. It is what we must do to be open ;because, the State Tax payers demand it. Clemson is making some noise now. It would be nice, but since the additions to the ACC: The law firm’s representatives have found something(s).
@@RevAlSharptonz Maryland is never going to win a B1G football championship with Michigan, OSU, PSU, USC, Oregon, and Washington in the conference. Not in 25 years, not in 250 years if CFB even exists that far in the future.
Pretty surprised you didn't list IU's Memorial Stadium. That place has been consistently at half capacity at best for most games for as long as I can remember. Only time they sell out is when Ohio State comes to town- and most of the tickets are going to people from Columbus. Even when I went to school there 20 years ago they couldn't even sell out their rivalry game against Purdue half the time.
The first 2 Stadiums you mentioned were host to my Vikings. This time it was Super Bowl XI vs the Raiders. Of course I missed School. This time 3 days. When I got back to School they still were talking about me and my team. 😞
Pretty much all of the planned stadium renovations across the country will reduce their facility's capacity by 10-15%. FSU's renovation to Doak Campbell will remove ~10,000 seats, Nebraska's plan will reduce Memorial Stadium by 15,000 seats, and even Penn State is subtracting a good amount. Attendance has been decreasing, with a few exceptions, over the past 15 years. People don't want to spend their entire day and a good chunk of money to endure 4 hours of TV timeout after TV timeout. Say what you want about the game on TV, it's become an inferior in-person experience.
There is a demographic issues as well. Baby boomers are going to be passing away more and more and not enough people are having babies to sustain the population numbers.
As far as Maryland, the reason we don’t sell out is because we are a basketball dominant state… given the fact that Maryland produces more NBA players per capita than anywhere else in the world. Compile that with two other factors, one the Redskins or the commanders I should say, About 5 miles from College Park, people are pretty much gearing up for the game on Sunday against the Cowboys as opposed to the college football game on Saturday. Another factor is that they took us out of the ACC and put us in the Big Ten with schools that we really don’t care about. I don’t hate Ohio State or Michigan or Michigan State or Penn State …we just don’t care. Duke, North Carolina, Clemson, Florida State, these are the schools that we hate and sell out for, not Purdue or Iowa, schools that are in the middle of the country that we know nothing about.
Man I don’t know about the Alamodome the atmosphere for games is unbelievable and unmatched!! I went to there opening game this year and there was over 50k people in attendance
Yeah I heard San Antonio has really embraced UTSA and the program is making huge strides with investment and ambition. Give it 10 years and they'll be a consistent top G5 program nationally.
UCLA used to share the stadium with USC at the LA Coliseum and that place had the Rams, USC, UCLA, the summer olympics. That place already had so many teams using that place.
Hate the Rose Bowl- have to have a seat on at least row 30 or something just to have a decent view of the field, and then it's so curved down the sidelines that you're too far away from the field.
Surprised you didn't put Temple on this list. They play at the Link in Philly which they never fill (mainly due to it being on the opposite side of the city and lack of school football spirit). I understand it's an NFL stadium, but they definitely need a smaller stadium closer to campus. But there is little to no real-estate to build one.
I remember I went to a Penn State game against Temple at that stadium. The attendance was so bad for Temple, Penn States fans broke the attendance record, and they had a pipe in crowd cheering noises over the PA whenever Temple did something worthwhile.
And they do not need to reduce seating,they need to lower ticket prices. There athletes do not get paid,but the ticket prices for most power5 teams are almost NFL costs.
You missed a big one: Hard Rock Stadium in Miami. To be clear, this stadium is just fine for the Miami Dolphins. But the Hurricanes also play there, and they can’t come close to selling it out unless Florida State is in town. When people said that Miami was the only team whose attendance went up during the Pandemic, they were only half-joking.
@@moose2_the_o756 Hard Rock Stadium opened in 1987 and has hosted the Miami Hurricanes since 2008. It received a renovation in 2015, but is not brand-new by any stretch.
Yea, Rice Stadium was built for Rice, U of H, the Oilers, and the Superbowl. Most of these older stadiums were intended for the city and not just one college
Rice could not fill the stadium even if they had the fans for it because the upper deck is not structurally sound enough to hold fans at capacity crowd
Spartan Stadium always has the upper deck open for seating. You're focusing on the student section portion in your criticism and otherwise just literally making things up about attendance. MSU, even with down years, is a top-25 program in attendance every year in the NCAA. I think you're mostly focused on the seasons where Rutgers and Maryland were the final opponent of the season which speaks more to the abysmal draw those two are in the Big Ten the Saturday after Thanksgiving than the state of MSU football in down seasons. Cutting capacity by around 15k is extreme and suggests you don't do research on your videos to me.
The LA Coliseum has become a hideous venue. They put that disgusting look ing superstructure halfway down the bowl, which takes away the beautiful streamlining it originally had. UGLY
The Alamo Bowl wasn't built to secure a NFL team - that was a slight hope, but the Spurs played there for many years, as well as it can handle hockey. The bid for the NHL before they bid for the NFL. And it obviously hosts the Alamo Bowl game. Would be pretty good to do some research on some of these - USC/UCLA/MSU have had full stadiums when they are good. Nebraska isn't shrinking for crowd problems. They are doing so as they are putting better seating into it as well as improving the concourse of the stadium
It's not as extreme as the ones you mentioned, but most 100k+ stadiums are too big for the average home game. Even LSU at 92k+ fans looks bad when there's 10k empty seats in the upper decks vs mid-level teams
You filled this video with far too many Power 5 teams IMO. Want stadiums that are far too big for the crowds they attract? Look no further than the MAC and Sun Belt.
How many FBS stadia still have a track? The LA Coliseum did for many years; so did Maryland and Texas, among others. As far as the Rose Bowl is concerned, I attended several UCLA games in 2014 and '15, and it's very far from the Westwood campus. To get there by mass transit, you have to take a Metro light rail line to downtown Pasadena, walk a few blocks, then take a shuttle bus to the Rose Bowl. Alas, the lease was extended a few years back, and UCLA won't be able to move to Inglewood and the more accessible SoFi Stadium until at least the early 2040s.
Been to the huskers games the end zones both need to be done to fit the sideline stands! Always went to September games if you go its has a strong wind flow put luxury boxes to block out the wind tunnel! Spring games were that way too! 75k ideal size! I would rather tailgate outside and watch a big screen!
There are no good solutions to UCLA's stadium issues (other than having good teams, which they may have this year). There is no land anywhere near Westwood that would make a good stadium site. Most non-campus stadium situations suck. I worked at the U of South Florida. It was just too much of a hassle to get students to Raymond James.
Day games are not the problem for UCLA or USC fans. It is actually the exact opposite, they do not want games scheduled for evening hours. Getting away from Late start times is one of the biggest reasons thst both schools are headed to the Big Ten.
The Rose Bowl they can do something about while preserving its history. Replace all bench seating with regular seats, and space them out really well, give people lots of leg and wiggle room. Doing so you could probably cut the capacity to about 65k, and in this day and age that should be more then enough to still host the Rose Bowl game. And as for the lack of covered seating, look at Olympiastadion in Berlin. Add an overhang exactly like they have there. It would look great.
Rice used to have a serious football program back when the stadium was built. They were in the SW conference so they had to have a huge stadium to match their SWC counterparts like A&M and UT.
You should do another with some additional teams. Being a Seattle native and go to majority home games you have to put UW on here. Sure it’s a pretty stadium with the views but their expansion was a bad move. I’ve been to all the games this year so far and they have so many empty seats all over and they are good this year. 2016 they went to the playoffs and still had like 10-15k empty seats almost every game. I know I may get shit for this one but also Arkansas. When the razorbacks do sell out it looks awesome, but it’s just to bit now and they just don’t fill up that often
Simmons Bank Liberty Stadium in Memphis is one I’m surprised you didn’t mention. When they play an SEC team like Ole Miss, Miss St or Tennessee the stadium will fill up above 50,000. In 2019, the year Memphis went to the Cotton Bowl, they sold $5 tickets to sell out the stadium for national prime time tv. Outside of that, they averaged about 35 to 40k a game. The stadium seats about 57,000. I don’t know if the upcoming renovation will reduce that, but they would benefit much more from a 40,000 seat stadium.
Seats are being taken out in Nebraska for the 360 concourse that will be built around the stadium. Not because Scott Frost and Mike Riley destroyed the program and made it bad.
Some of these schools should look to a design similar to what Boca Juniors has in Argentina. One side is completely flat which could be used for about 10 levels of boxes while the rest of the stadium could be a two tier stacked C shape that puts every seat right on top of the field. You get extra premium boxes for donors and the general seating could be lowered while making a louder and more intimidating home field atmosphere.
The issue with the rose bowl and ucla is because it’s so far from the school. The school easily a hour and a half away with LA traffic and without, its a 28-35 minute drive. You lose a lot of the core students that could pack the place out or get in for free if it’s closer. Easily the ones that aren’t driving yet or could take public transportation that won’t take 3 hours to get to the stadium. Like usc has its stadium within a block of campus. And they also have a train that runs between the stadium and school, so people can commute in as well. It’s also 10 minutes from downtown LA, which is a huge plus for tourist or the public in general as it’s near the center of the city. Only issue for usc is its fanbase is too “Hollywood”. They don’t show up til the 2nd quarter, they aren’t deeply invested like football in the south, Texas or the BIG10 schools. There’s just too much to do in LA on a Saturday. If neither school isn’t on a notable win streak or has the attention of the nation like say the Pete Carrol era, Matt Barkley Era, Caleb Williams and Lincoln Riley Era.. the turnouts aren’t full capacity.
Rice stadium would be the best cfb stadium had it been built in College Station, Austin, Baton Rouge etc. It’s neglected and sad but there’s not a bad seat.
Rice Stadium’s seating is around 50k now as they have eliminated all of the end zone seating in both ends. That’s still about 45k too many seats, except when they play the University of Houston.
The students are nerds at Rice😊 There once was a day when Rice football was the game to go to in Houston and it would be sold out and half an hour before kick off. My grandfather was a 50 yard line man.
Rosebowl will never change.. Of course the Rosebowl is played there every January and gets PACKED.. it’s also host to many other sporting events. LAFC vs Galaxy fill that stadium up. UCLA I’ll not built a smaller stadium.
USC is going to need all of those seats-and more on Oct.26th when Rutgers plays there. Half of NJ is going to want to be there,not to mention the West Coast alumns.
The main thing is enrollment and alumni proximity. It doesn’t matter how good Rice became, because its enrollment is tiny - 4,800 - and its alumni are dispersed nationally. Duke, Northwestern and Wake Forest have the same issues. By contrast, South Florida has 37,000 undergraduates, most of whom are from the area and remain there after graduation. If USF were 11-0, they’d fill a 50,000-seat stadium. Amazing schools, but Rice, Duke, Wake and Northwestern would fill that size stadium only for big games, but never regularly - unless it’s with other team’s fans.
I was a season ticket holder for UCLA for 15 years. Day games in September are over 100 degrees with no wind and no shade and pac 12 after dark games in November drop down to the 20’s with a cold wind coming off the San Gabriel mountains. Couple that with the traffic getting in and out of the stadium as well as being 26 miles from campus and the entire situation is just a nightmare. Not to mention the football team has been mediocre for almost 30 years now and why would anyone show up to games.
Western Kentucky University’s Stadium could be on this list. Even though it’s already small at only 23,000 seats, they barely fill 5-8 thousand a game. Students also barely attend the games anymore unless it’s homecoming
The Rose Bowl exists because of the Tournament of Roses and the Bowl Game. As previously mentioned it's owned by the city of Pasadena and managed by the Rose Bowl Operating Company, a non-profit organization whose board is selected by council members of the city of Pasadena. UCLA and the Pasadena Tournament of Roses also have one member on the company board. IT's used for many purposes. It's only been UCLA's home stadium since 1982, before then UCLA played at the Coliseum. When the Rams were talking about coming back to LA, the Rose Bowl turned down requests to the the RAMS homefield until Sofi was built, because Pasadena wanted to continue it's Artists Flea Market on Sundays. No doubt the stadium could use some upgrade, the National Historic Landmark status has many implications including tax breaks. I'm sure the Operating Company is aware of the details, but they also should be cognizant of how stadiums like SoFi are passing the stadium by. History and Tradition are powerful assets in stadium atmospheres and environments, but not at the expense of how the market changes. I personally do not believe the Rose Bowl is too big given it's multiple purposes but would like to see it make judicious improvements. Stadium size is very difficult to gauge since the trend of attendance is long-play assessment.
@logo115 I actually like it for football. It's just a huge stadium. You would think a school with the highest enrollment in the state (52K students), could seat a stadium with a capacity of less than 25K. I'd be surprised if they've ever sold out a game.
@@j.thompson9345 they also don’t have a very old fan base so it’ll fill up with time. If they keep up their recent success then it should help it grow too
I went to Rice. You could put every living Alum in the stadium and it probably would not fill it. We had 2700 undergrads. But with the history of it hosting Super Bowl VII or whatever and the cost of renovating, it’s not going anywhere.
As a Miami fan, which I understand, we play in an NFL stadium, but we definitely need own identity when it comes to stadiums because it is so sad to watch Miami game on TV at hard rock Stadium and there barely any fans in attendance
Well that's simply not true. A very elementary Google shows Rice has had over 84,000 alumni and the stadiums capacity is up to 59,000 when it's expanded seating.
@@MrMackievelli apologies, thst stat was from a few years ago when the stadium still had a 70k capacity. But it is no longer true, though the current expanded capacity is still the size of their living alumni base.
I would say if there’s a part two the hard rock stadium for Miami hurricanes ain’t working. The canes need a new home they can sell out cause they still can’t do it even with a good team
As a current Rice student this was a fun watch. The joke on campus is that if every living student and alumni were to attend a game, the stadium still would not be full. That also acknowledges another important point being that Rice has one of the smallest student populations of any "major" national university (for context - Rice is a T20 school academically) - our overall student population with grad students is under 8,000 and each undergrad class is around 1100 up from 700 before 2010. Also some fun facts - the stadium has hosted a Super Bowl in 1974 (I'm told it was a nightmare due to the lack of parking and traffic) and we recently did a 60th anniversary celebration of JKF's speech doing a group photo standing on the field that was taken from the ISS. But yeah the stadium is a frustrating situation especially considering Rice's campus is otherwise beautiful and yet here we have this awful jungle of concrete that ruins the aesthetic of the campus and takes up way too much space. A 10,000 person stadium would be more than enough. At the very least they should take out the upper decks and put in real seats instead of benches. This would go a long way... especially considering how large Rice's endowment is
I once attended a game at Rice Stadium back in the mid-80’s when Rice played the Univ of Miami. I kid you not, you could bring in an empty Coke can in exchange for a general admission ticket!😄
and some PAC12 homers were thinking SMU and Rice could save the conference ;)
😂😂😂
@@dacokc Wow 😂😂😂😂😂
@@dacokcthey absolutely could. But it would require Rice to do an about face and reverse a 50+ year trend of hating on their athletes.
Rice needs to invest in its football program. They are in Houston with that huge population and high-school football.
The Rose Bowl is a National Historic Landmark, so you can't just 'make it look better' and as someone who lives down the street from it--it already does look nice from the exterior. However the Rose Bowl Legacy Foundation raised the funds for some less exciting, but necessary renovations like the replacement of water and gas lines, new LED Stadium lights, a second videoboard, and they are adding a museum with the preservation of the stadium’s two original locker rooms from 1922. And the Bowl is also used for a lot more than just UCLA games--so much so they had to put a cap on events with over 20K people to only 15X a year.
Something people don't see when they're watching a game at home is that this is essentially a stadium in a neighborhood, it's not ringed with stores and parking lots...there are houses across the street. So this is a place where people work out, have picnics there is a jogging path around the entire complex... It's more than just the stadium.
The Rose Bowl is a horrible stadium. Its uncomfortable and hot and its in a super tough place to get to and you gotta park on a golf course. It is a terrible stadium other than when its used for the actual Rose Bowl.
@@babybeacon5713 it’s extremely easy to get to there’s like one offramp off of the 134 freeway and you go down the road and you’re there. you can see it from the freeway as you drive by. And there are actual parking lots the only time the golf course is used for giant events with overflow parking.
@@babybeacon5713 any more whining?
@@humpfreegamingThe entire video is what makes a stadium awful. Are you lost?
@@jayandrusiak you seem to be
I think the reason Rice has such a big-ass stadium is because it also doubled as the home field for the Houston Oilers back in the day before the Astrodome went up- then it reverted to Rice full time. But yes, it's too big and they need to take the lead of Tulane, UAB and/or South Alabama.
it did host Super Bowl 8 for the 1973 season.
Rice had a good program in the 1950's, when the large capacity was needed.
Rice Stadium is older than the Oilers. It was built when Rice was the highest level football in town and you can Google old pictures where they used to sell out. UH used to play there too before moving to the Astrodome.
It started as a municipal stadium for the city in partnership with Rice. Everybody played there
Rice originally played in a 37,000 seat stadium through 1949 before Rice Stadium was built. It's still standing partially on campus and used for soccer and track.
If you like the Yale Bowl you should like the Rose Bowl, the same design. In the 1960s there was a plan to build a football facility on the UCLA campus that would have seated 50-55,000.
How come they never did? UCLA should not be playing their games at the Rose Bowl.
I believe the Rose Bowl is a one hour drive from the actual campus. What student wants to put up with that.
@@joek9353 I think the University of Miami has a similar problem.
@@joek9353 It's 40 minutes in rush hour traffic. There's a game going on right now, which obviously congests traffic, and the current estimated time is 45-55 minutes. And UCLA has free roundtrip shuttles so no one needs to drive at all.
@@ronniesouthern7829 UCLA rich neighbors said no. They didn't want games there on Saturdays.
Rice should just chop off both upper decks and call it a day.
Attendance is driven by wins and losses. You win people come.
Yea i can agree, especially due to there is 134 fbs teams and the scheduling-- ,, its not like nfl where theres only 32 teams of the most elite football players so people going to go no matter what
Super Bowl VIII was played there at Rice Stadium with my team the Vikings vs the Dolphins. I was young and Naive to think at that time that Minnesota would go to many more. They only went to 2 more. That stadium brings back innocent memories that lead to a nightmare. I missed School for 2 days because it was a blustery day.
I lived in Houston as a kid and the 74 Super Bowl was blacked out in Houston due to NFL rules.
Spartan Stadium is a great venue. The team has been struggling which is why attendance has been lower than in the past. They should not reduce anything. They just need a better coach.
Pre Harbaugh the Spartans were #1 in the state
@@samelmudir for in state enrollment, they are #1.
They have the NIL, facilities, and boosters to be good. This was an L take for Depressed Ginger. Mel Tucker had shitty assistants and wouldn't fire them like Dantonio at the end. That's the main reason they were losing. Recruiting was good
You all don’t play Notre Dame anymore. Imo that took a hit to the program bc that was a huge non conference game for MSU every year and a rival game.
@@sococomfort22s34 Dantonio getting old and tired is what happened. Nothing to do with ND. Michigan and Ohio State don't play them every year either. This whole take by the creator is BS.
We won the peach bowl 2 years ago and were in the playoff contention. Throne played hurt and the assistants never made adjustments thr last 2 years which is why we fell off. Everything else is much better than ND from a booster, NIL, and facilities standpoint. ND kneecaps themselves with their recruiting restrictions and not playing in a conference. They will never win another national championship again with that nonsense.
Big Ten needs to dump this school and go after Stanford, Miami and UNC
during the Pete Carroll era, USC averaged 90,000
Exactly, because back then it was exciting to be a USC fan. You were watching real life Hollywood entertainment. That’s why LA is just not good for college sports. If it isn’t Hollywood, if it isn’t cool, most people just don’t care.
Thats before they sucked and before California started taxing l8ke crazy
ucla needs a on campus stadium! 25 miles from campus is insane, however we have a contract to play til 2044 😭😭😭
Not to mention that Pasadena is more of a USC town. At least that was my experience living there some years ago.
Where could one place a stadium in Westwood? There's no room on campus.
@@VincentPaterno-hs2fv idk get rid of the golf course/country club lmao
I went there to watch LSU lose in Ed Orgerons last year and I thought it was really cool. But it definitely wasnt full. And there was tons of local high schoolers at the game cuz they had started giving away tickets. That sounds like an awesome time for those kids, but yea for the actual ucla students if any of them actually care about football they should be able to get to the game easier
@@anewwonder Now that you mention it, the Rose Bowl is basically built on a golf course.
Nebraska is NOT planning on spending over 450 million$ to reduce capacity and hold on to it nation longest sale out streak. Fans were surveyed to determine their wants and needs. To fill those needs it was decided that the whole south section should be replaced. The number of seats will be reduced, but the fan experience greatly increased. Nebraska athletic programs is totally self supporting and not receiving money from the state/students fees like many well known teams do. There was a Cornhuskers volleyball match at Memorial Stadium a month ago with a world attendance record for women's sports of over 93,000. Even though our football team has not performed to the high level we have known for a long time in the past, it was great that our fans showed they were not just "fair weather fans". There has a been a small push to sell tickets against lesser opponents, but very little. Maybe a some tickets were bought by a business to give to people who couldn't afford to go on their own. The University had never had to spend a dime to try to sell more tickets. jcb
Yeah but the boosters are buying up unsold tickets so they can maintain the sell out streak, therefore it hasn't been true sell outs but still Nebraska does have a very loyal fan base
When Notre Dame's much shorter second longest sell out streak ended in 2019, they had over 3,000 unsold tickets for a game against Navy. The half a dozen times when the Nebraska needed more tickets to be sold it was in the hundreds. The University yet to have to spend money to advertise or reduce ticket prices to sell more tickets. They easily find boosters to buy tickets to give to people who can't afford them.
Rice needs a Tulane or USF size stadium… agreed.
Michigan State is fine. I’ll admit the student section looks empty because they’re late arriving. (The upper deck he talks about) but Spartan Stadium is good!
I just wonder if you have ever been to any of these places; I went to see a game at Rice last year, and that football operations building looks great in person. Also the concourse has this cool blue and white stone work in the floor. Rice Stadium may be too big, but it's still cool. They do need a new Indoor Practice Facility, it's just a Bubble like Texas has. The Rose Bowl is cool because they have plenty of chair backs. The Rose Bowl needs a canopy to provide shade from the sun. The Coliseum is just fine, I love that section of suites. Michigan State needs more chairbacks, that would reduce the capacity some and make it more comfortable for their fans. The Alamodome is just fine, UTSA needs to market to more people in San Antonio and offer cheap seats up top. I went to the Alamo Bowl last year, and the Texas vs Washington game was great.
Went to the UCLA Colorado game on Halloween in 2015. I have never been in a stadium as hot as that was that day
Osu still sucks
4:08 "after UCLA's major renovation" and talking about the Coliseum. Come on, man
SECU (formerly Byrd Stadium) was just a single level bowl for decades. Around 1991 they added the giant tower with the suites and press box. It looked out of place and terrible just looming over the field the way it did. Around 3 years later they added the upper deck on the opposite side - in part to balance out the look of the place. It worked somewhat - the effect is better in person (when you can see the whole stadium) than on TV (when you can only see the one side). That being said, as a Maryland fan I'm hoping one day there's money in the budget to do some renovations.
Pretty sure Rice has more seats in its football stadium than it has living alumni
I do remember reading that Rice does have the smallest number of living alumni amongst FBS schools. Not sure of the exact number; makes me wonder why their stadium is so big. I don’t know if the school used to have a higher enrollment; I saw some comments saying that the Oilers had something to do with the expanded capacity. I don’t believe the Astrodome was built with football in mind, so the Oilers might have been thinking Rice Stadium was a long-term home for them.
@@michaeljohnson7493 it was built originally as a municipal stadium for the city since at the time the city didn't have one
@@michaeljohnson74934,800 undergrads. It’s tiny. Wake Forest is even smaller, and Duke and Northwestern are almost that small.
Even the Rams back in the 1970's had problems selling out a lot of games. I remember empty seats all over the place
I went to Rice stadium in the 60’s and they would be close to sellout, then come back on Sunday and watch the Oilers and it’d be 3/4 full. Probably last time it sold out was the Super Bowl between Miami and Minnesota.
There was a Super Bowl held in Rice Stadium - VIII, Steelers over Vikings.
They used to fill Rice's stadium when I was a kid. Of course back then they were at least decent and played Arkansas, Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, TCU, Houston, SMU, etc.
Not sure about your last pick. Memorial Stadium in Lincoln has sold out every game since 1962. They also found while researching the latest renovation plans that they have the 5th highest average ticket price in college football. With a reduction in capacity, when the team starts winning more games, prices are going to skyrocket. I think the planned reduction in capacity is really more of a move from "cheap" seats to suites and premium seats, which the fans want. They are not going to lose any revenue with the new renovation, quite the opposite.
“sold out every game”… yet boosters essentially give away tickets in the upper end zone to keep that streak going..
@@dacokc Boosters have bought bulk tickets from the more unpopular games and given them to disadvantaged children and their parents as kind of a community outreach program. Many of those are tickets that the visiting team returns as unsold, and they are in the hundreds, not thousands, and certainly not 10k like they are talking about in reducing capacity. But again, they would not be spending this amount of money renovating the stadium if they thought they were going to lose revenue in the long term; they are planning on making new cash streams from these renovations far into the future.
@@dacokcthis isn’t something isolated to NU football? Every team does that.
Rice Stadium hosted a SuperBowl,at least it has that on its resume.
Uscs field is weirdly shaped. Those empty seats in the back are like 40 yards away from the end zone. First time I went I was shocked at how cheap those tickets were and then I knew why. You're so far from the game and those bleachers they have set up behind the end zone block some of the view when teams are in that red zone.
Rice stadium is sold out when the 6a Houston HS football playoff championship to go to state playoffs. I was there for Katy v Pearland. The concession stands closed by halftime. Lol
Regarding the Rose Bowl, I think they put the tarps up during the covid years. Never saw a tarp there before covid
Maryland left the ACC because of how poorly Maryland Athletics were run. Maryland wanted funds to rehabilitate their Athletic Venues. Looking at Maryland. It appears that nothing has changed to their Football Stadium.
IIRC, after moving to the Big10 Maryland asked the state for $90 to $120 million to largely improve/expand the press boxes and suites. This came on the heels of losing the last annual revenue check from the ACC due the "exit fee" (which was around $30 million) and not receiving an annual revenue check from the Big10 their first year in that league. (I may be wrong about the annual revenue check from the Big10.) And the state legislature was already angry at the school for deciding to leave the ACC w/o consulting the legislature BEFORE making the decision. So the disfunction at Maryland seems to be with the school's governing body as well as the athletic department.
Maryland sports just will never be great. It’s incredible they pulled off that one natty in basketball. Then they’ll win the conference title in football once every 20-25 years. At least Maryland has that field hockey team though! The athletic department would be in shambles without field hockey. Maryland football is still celebrating the orange bowl that they attended for the 2001 season. They will never mention the score, but that was the greatest thing for Maryland football in all of our lifetimes.
@@CarlSmith-p2c , A majority of people have been hard on FSU’s Board of Trustees must have public access, broadcast and/or stream , and provided a transcript upon request. It is the State of Florida Law called “The Sunshine Law”. It is what we must do to be open ;because, the State Tax payers demand it. Clemson is making some noise now. It would be nice, but since the additions to the ACC: The law firm’s representatives have found something(s).
@@RevAlSharptonz Maryland is never going to win a B1G football championship with Michigan, OSU, PSU, USC, Oregon, and Washington in the conference. Not in 25 years, not in 250 years if CFB even exists that far in the future.
@@brucetucker4847 give us the terps back
- an ACC and UNC fan
We’re there tarps on the stadium at rice when jfk gave the speech ?
Pretty surprised you didn't list IU's Memorial Stadium. That place has been consistently at half capacity at best for most games for as long as I can remember. Only time they sell out is when Ohio State comes to town- and most of the tickets are going to people from Columbus. Even when I went to school there 20 years ago they couldn't even sell out their rivalry game against Purdue half the time.
IU seemed to fill the stadium this year.
The only time those seats get filled up is during concerts. Coldplay came to Snapdragon Stadium and it’s the first sellout of the season
The first 2 Stadiums you mentioned were host to my Vikings. This time it was Super Bowl XI vs the Raiders. Of course I missed School. This time 3 days. When I got back to School they still were talking about me and my team. 😞
Pretty much all of the planned stadium renovations across the country will reduce their facility's capacity by 10-15%. FSU's renovation to Doak Campbell will remove ~10,000 seats, Nebraska's plan will reduce Memorial Stadium by 15,000 seats, and even Penn State is subtracting a good amount.
Attendance has been decreasing, with a few exceptions, over the past 15 years. People don't want to spend their entire day and a good chunk of money to endure 4 hours of TV timeout after TV timeout.
Say what you want about the game on TV, it's become an inferior in-person experience.
There is a demographic issues as well. Baby boomers are going to be passing away more and more and not enough people are having babies to sustain the population numbers.
@@sococomfort22s34 It's not lack of people its the trash culture of the people.
As far as Maryland, the reason we don’t sell out is because we are a basketball dominant state… given the fact that Maryland produces more NBA players per capita than anywhere else in the world. Compile that with two other factors, one the Redskins or the commanders I should say, About 5 miles from College Park, people are pretty much gearing up for the game on Sunday against the Cowboys as opposed to the college football game on Saturday. Another factor is that they took us out of the ACC and put us in the Big Ten with schools that we really don’t care about. I don’t hate Ohio State or Michigan or Michigan State or Penn State …we just don’t care. Duke, North Carolina, Clemson, Florida State, these are the schools that we hate and sell out for, not Purdue or Iowa, schools that are in the middle of the country that we know nothing about.
Man I don’t know about the Alamodome the atmosphere for games is unbelievable and unmatched!! I went to there opening game this year and there was over 50k people in attendance
Yeah I heard San Antonio has really embraced UTSA and the program is making huge strides with investment and ambition. Give it 10 years and they'll be a consistent top G5 program nationally.
UCLA used to share the stadium with USC at the LA Coliseum and that place had the Rams, USC, UCLA, the summer olympics. That place already had so many teams using that place.
Hate the Rose Bowl- have to have a seat on at least row 30 or something just to have a decent view of the field, and then it's so curved down the sidelines that you're too far away from the field.
We were at the UCLA Colorado game on Halloween in 2015. 90 degrees+! Damn stadium was a cooker.
Surprised you didn't put Temple on this list. They play at the Link in Philly which they never fill (mainly due to it being on the opposite side of the city and lack of school football spirit). I understand it's an NFL stadium, but they definitely need a smaller stadium closer to campus. But there is little to no real-estate to build one.
Same goes for University of South Florida playing at Raymond James Stadium. Same reasons as you list for Temple.
I remember I went to a Penn State game against Temple at that stadium. The attendance was so bad for Temple, Penn States fans broke the attendance record, and they had a pipe in crowd cheering noises over the PA whenever Temple did something worthwhile.
And they do not need to reduce seating,they need to lower ticket prices. There athletes do not get paid,but the ticket prices for most power5 teams are almost NFL costs.
Too bad about the issues at Michigan State. When Spartan Stadium is full, the players say it feels like the fans are right on top of you.
LA memorial coliseum is selling out at least 2 games this year…
Rice Stadium Hosted Super Bowl VIII. Also, Houston Oilers did a stint there.
You missed a big one: Hard Rock Stadium in Miami.
To be clear, this stadium is just fine for the Miami Dolphins. But the Hurricanes also play there, and they can’t come close to selling it out unless Florida State is in town.
When people said that Miami was the only team whose attendance went up during the Pandemic, they were only half-joking.
That's a brand new stadium. I'd love to see the dolphins popo in that one.
@@moose2_the_o756 Hard Rock Stadium opened in 1987 and has hosted the Miami Hurricanes since 2008. It received a renovation in 2015, but is not brand-new by any stretch.
Alamodome is a gem 💎
Yea, Rice Stadium was built for Rice, U of H, the Oilers, and the Superbowl. Most of these older stadiums were intended for the city and not just one college
Somehow, it being L.A. and alot of other things one can do, does not stop USC from putting alot more people in the stands.
Rice could not fill the stadium even if they had the fans for it because the upper deck is not structurally sound enough to hold fans at capacity crowd
Spartan Stadium always has the upper deck open for seating. You're focusing on the student section portion in your criticism and otherwise just literally making things up about attendance. MSU, even with down years, is a top-25 program in attendance every year in the NCAA. I think you're mostly focused on the seasons where Rutgers and Maryland were the final opponent of the season which speaks more to the abysmal draw those two are in the Big Ten the Saturday after Thanksgiving than the state of MSU football in down seasons. Cutting capacity by around 15k is extreme and suggests you don't do research on your videos to me.
Rice may still be the D1 school with the lowest enrollment.
You do videos on a variety of topics. I’ve rarely ever seen anyone do that successfully. Very unique and I’m a big fan of it.
The LA Coliseum has become a hideous venue. They put that disgusting look ing superstructure halfway down the bowl, which takes away the beautiful streamlining it originally had. UGLY
Let’s go UTSA, as a student here yah the dome isn’t a great spot for our team. Wish we had our own stadium especially one on campus
Rice has nothing in common with Minnesota’s stadium
The Alamo Bowl wasn't built to secure a NFL team - that was a slight hope, but the Spurs played there for many years, as well as it can handle hockey. The bid for the NHL before they bid for the NFL. And it obviously hosts the Alamo Bowl game. Would be pretty good to do some research on some of these - USC/UCLA/MSU have had full stadiums when they are good. Nebraska isn't shrinking for crowd problems. They are doing so as they are putting better seating into it as well as improving the concourse of the stadium
It's not as extreme as the ones you mentioned, but most 100k+ stadiums are too big for the average home game. Even LSU at 92k+ fans looks bad when there's 10k empty seats in the upper decks vs mid-level teams
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You filled this video with far too many Power 5 teams IMO. Want stadiums that are far too big for the crowds they attract? Look no further than the MAC and Sun Belt.
It does look like a library in the endzone
"Make sure you're following me on 'X'" 😂😂
I always bust a gut when someone calls Twitter X lol.
Virginia Tech needs to add seats to Lane Stadium. It’s always hard to find tickets
You need to come to my school. Texas A&M commerce why they built another side of the stadium is beyond me, but they had to to play division one.
What does this mean?
Can you someday do stadium renovations that turned out to be good? I personally think UW Husky Stadium is a success removing the 400 meter track.
How many FBS stadia still have a track? The LA Coliseum did for many years; so did Maryland and Texas, among others. As far as the Rose Bowl is concerned, I attended several UCLA games in 2014 and '15, and it's very far from the Westwood campus. To get there by mass transit, you have to take a Metro light rail line to downtown Pasadena, walk a few blocks, then take a shuttle bus to the Rose Bowl. Alas, the lease was extended a few years back, and UCLA won't be able to move to Inglewood and the more accessible SoFi Stadium until at least the early 2040s.
One side of Husky Stadium was completely demolished and rebuilt so it seems much closer to the field for the fans.@@VincentPaterno-hs2fv
Rice took away the tarps recently so you get to just stand by the end zone at the games now
Been to the huskers games the end zones both need to be done to fit the sideline stands! Always went to September games if you go its has a strong wind flow put luxury boxes to block out the wind tunnel! Spring games were that way too! 75k ideal size! I would rather tailgate outside and watch a big screen!
There are no good solutions to UCLA's stadium issues (other than having good teams, which they may have this year). There is no land anywhere near Westwood that would make a good stadium site. Most non-campus stadium situations suck. I worked at the U of South Florida. It was just too much of a hassle to get students to Raymond James.
I watched UCLA vs USC last year and they STILL had to use tarps. Thats fucking embarrassing
Day games are not the problem for UCLA or USC fans. It is actually the exact opposite, they do not want games scheduled for evening hours. Getting away from Late start times is one of the biggest reasons thst both schools are headed to the Big Ten.
The Rose Bowl they can do something about while preserving its history.
Replace all bench seating with regular seats, and space them out really well, give people lots of leg and wiggle room. Doing so you could probably cut the capacity to about 65k, and in this day and age that should be more then enough to still host the Rose Bowl game.
And as for the lack of covered seating, look at Olympiastadion in Berlin. Add an overhang exactly like they have there. It would look great.
Rice used to have a serious football program back when the stadium was built. They were in the SW conference so they had to have a huge stadium to match their SWC counterparts like A&M and UT.
You should do another with some additional teams. Being a Seattle native and go to majority home games you have to put UW on here. Sure it’s a pretty stadium with the views but their expansion was a bad move. I’ve been to all the games this year so far and they have so many empty seats all over and they are good this year. 2016 they went to the playoffs and still had like 10-15k empty seats almost every game.
I know I may get shit for this one but also Arkansas. When the razorbacks do sell out it looks awesome, but it’s just to bit now and they just don’t fill up that often
Simmons Bank Liberty Stadium in Memphis is one I’m surprised you didn’t mention. When they play an SEC team like Ole Miss, Miss St or Tennessee the stadium will fill up above 50,000.
In 2019, the year Memphis went to the Cotton Bowl, they sold $5 tickets to sell out the stadium for national prime time tv. Outside of that, they averaged about 35 to 40k a game. The stadium seats about 57,000. I don’t know if the upcoming renovation will reduce that, but they would benefit much more from a 40,000 seat stadium.
Seats are being taken out in Nebraska for the 360 concourse that will be built around the stadium. Not because Scott Frost and Mike Riley destroyed the program and made it bad.
what about carter finley (nc state)
it’s not that big bro, at least compared to others on this list. hope it gets renovated tho
@@danielbaucom5252 ah ok. its just under 60k people it can hold.
Some of these schools should look to a design similar to what Boca Juniors has in Argentina. One side is completely flat which could be used for about 10 levels of boxes while the rest of the stadium could be a two tier stacked C shape that puts every seat right on top of the field. You get extra premium boxes for donors and the general seating could be lowered while making a louder and more intimidating home field atmosphere.
The issue with the rose bowl and ucla is because it’s so far from the school. The school easily a hour and a half away with LA traffic and without, its a 28-35 minute drive. You lose a lot of the core students that could pack the place out or get in for free if it’s closer. Easily the ones that aren’t driving yet or could take public transportation that won’t take 3 hours to get to the stadium.
Like usc has its stadium within a block of campus. And they also have a train that runs between the stadium and school, so people can commute in as well. It’s also 10 minutes from downtown LA, which is a huge plus for tourist or the public in general as it’s near the center of the city. Only issue for usc is its fanbase is too “Hollywood”. They don’t show up til the 2nd quarter, they aren’t deeply invested like football in the south, Texas or the BIG10 schools. There’s just too much to do in LA on a Saturday.
If neither school isn’t on a notable win streak or has the attention of the nation like say the Pete Carrol era, Matt Barkley Era, Caleb Williams and Lincoln Riley Era.. the turnouts aren’t full capacity.
Rice stadium would be the best cfb stadium had it been built in College Station, Austin, Baton Rouge etc. It’s neglected and sad but there’s not a bad seat.
You can add Simmons Bank Liberty Stadium (University of Memphis). Only times it might sell out is if like Ole Miss or Tennessee visit.
Rice Stadium’s seating is around 50k now as they have eliminated all of the end zone seating in both ends. That’s still about 45k too many seats, except when they play the University of Houston.
rice stadium is nice to go jogging in the morning
The students are nerds at Rice😊 There once was a day when Rice football was the game to go to in Houston and it would be sold out and half an hour before kick off. My grandfather was a 50 yard line man.
Is your grandfather still the 50 yard line man?
Rice used to be big
Rosebowl will never change.. Of course the Rosebowl is played there every January and gets PACKED.. it’s also host to many other sporting events. LAFC vs Galaxy fill that stadium up. UCLA I’ll not built a smaller stadium.
USC is going to need all of those seats-and more on Oct.26th when Rutgers plays there.
Half of NJ is going to want to be there,not to mention the West Coast alumns.
THE Maryland stadium is too steep up top as well
The main thing is enrollment and alumni proximity. It doesn’t matter how good Rice became, because its enrollment is tiny - 4,800 - and its alumni are dispersed nationally. Duke, Northwestern and Wake Forest have the same issues. By contrast, South Florida has 37,000 undergraduates, most of whom are from the area and remain there after graduation. If USF were 11-0, they’d fill a 50,000-seat stadium. Amazing schools, but Rice, Duke, Wake and Northwestern would fill that size stadium only for big games, but never regularly - unless it’s with other team’s fans.
I was a season ticket holder for UCLA for 15 years. Day games in September are over 100 degrees with no wind and no shade and pac 12 after dark games in November drop down to the 20’s with a cold wind coming off the San Gabriel mountains. Couple that with the traffic getting in and out of the stadium as well as being 26 miles from campus and the entire situation is just a nightmare. Not to mention the football team has been mediocre for almost 30 years now and why would anyone show up to games.
Western Kentucky University’s Stadium could be on this list. Even though it’s already small at only 23,000 seats, they barely fill 5-8 thousand a game. Students also barely attend the games anymore unless it’s homecoming
The Rose Bowl exists because of the Tournament of Roses and the Bowl Game. As previously mentioned it's owned by the city of Pasadena and managed by the Rose Bowl Operating Company, a non-profit organization whose board is selected by council members of the city of Pasadena. UCLA and the Pasadena Tournament of Roses also have one member on the company board. IT's used for many purposes. It's only been UCLA's home stadium since 1982, before then UCLA played at the Coliseum. When the Rams were talking about coming back to LA, the Rose Bowl turned down requests to the the RAMS homefield until Sofi was built, because Pasadena wanted to continue it's Artists Flea Market on Sundays. No doubt the stadium could use some upgrade, the National Historic Landmark status has many implications including tax breaks. I'm sure the Operating Company is aware of the details, but they also should be cognizant of how stadiums like SoFi are passing the stadium by. History and Tradition are powerful assets in stadium atmospheres and environments, but not at the expense of how the market changes. I personally do not believe the Rose Bowl is too big given it's multiple purposes but would like to see it make judicious improvements. Stadium size is very difficult to gauge since the trend of attendance is long-play assessment.
I got one. Center Parc Stadium (Georgia State Football). Seats 70K, but they'll be lucky to get 20K.
Tbf they didn’t build it for Georgia State. The stadium is just a weird setup for football in general
@logo115 I actually like it for football. It's just a huge stadium. You would think a school with the highest enrollment in the state (52K students), could seat a stadium with a capacity of less than 25K.
I'd be surprised if they've ever sold out a game.
@@j.thompson9345 they also don’t have a very old fan base so it’ll fill up with time. If they keep up their recent success then it should help it grow too
That stadium seats about 27,000 ... not 70,000.
@rashaadjorden1187 well actually seats 24,333. But if you remove the covered upper deck, the capacity increases to over 50K.
I went to Rice. You could put every living Alum in the stadium and it probably would not fill it. We had 2700 undergrads.
But with the history of it hosting Super Bowl VII or whatever and the cost of renovating, it’s not going anywhere.
I LIKE BIGGER STADIUMS BIGGER IS BETTER THE UCLA STADIUM NEEDS A DOME IN SACRAMENTO NEEDS TO A TEAM THEY HAVE BASKETBALL TEAM
As a Miami fan, which I understand, we play in an NFL stadium, but we definitely need own identity when it comes to stadiums because it is so sad to watch Miami game on TV at hard rock Stadium and there barely any fans in attendance
The most insane thing about Rice’s stadium is that it could house every single person who ever graduated from the school and still have open seats.
Well that's simply not true. A very elementary Google shows Rice has had over 84,000 alumni and the stadiums capacity is up to 59,000 when it's expanded seating.
@@MrMackievelli apologies, thst stat was from a few years ago when the stadium still had a 70k capacity. But it is no longer true, though the current expanded capacity is still the size of their living alumni base.
4:08 Mt USC looks so awful. ruined!
It will be interesting to see how well UCLA and USC draw when Michigan plays out there in the coming years.
Add to that, Penn State and Ohio State.
I would say if there’s a part two the hard rock stadium for Miami hurricanes ain’t working. The canes need a new home they can sell out cause they still can’t do it even with a good team
Nebraska??
How is Ryan Field not on this list
perhaps because it's coming down at season's end?
Its crazy bc even on the game cfb25 the seats be empty
As a current Rice student this was a fun watch. The joke on campus is that if every living student and alumni were to attend a game, the stadium still would not be full. That also acknowledges another important point being that Rice has one of the smallest student populations of any "major" national university (for context - Rice is a T20 school academically) - our overall student population with grad students is under 8,000 and each undergrad class is around 1100 up from 700 before 2010.
Also some fun facts - the stadium has hosted a Super Bowl in 1974 (I'm told it was a nightmare due to the lack of parking and traffic) and we recently did a 60th anniversary celebration of JKF's speech doing a group photo standing on the field that was taken from the ISS. But yeah the stadium is a frustrating situation especially considering Rice's campus is otherwise beautiful and yet here we have this awful jungle of concrete that ruins the aesthetic of the campus and takes up way too much space. A 10,000 person stadium would be more than enough. At the very least they should take out the upper decks and put in real seats instead of benches. This would go a long way... especially considering how large Rice's endowment is