Our new $240 million football stadium will have a capacity of 41,000 and is easily expandable to the mid-50s.
Can you elaborate on the ease of the expansion? Is it like a table that pulls apart in the middle and you just slide in a section of stands that holds 5000 people? Can a couple of groundskeepers or stadium personell convert it in about 30 minutes, of which 20 of those minutes are spent trying to find the extra expansion stands under the stairs or in the basement?
Or, is it more like those fold out stands that they have in high school gyms, or just a tarp of 10,000 fans sitting in the stands that they can string up from the light standards?
The plans for expansion have not been made public, but CSU officials have said the new stadium was designed to be easily expandable. What I've been told by someone closer to the sources than I is that the south bowl will be completely closed off and that there is room to add another deck on the east side.
There is a ton of room on the north side and the north bowl could be closed off if they put a curve in the road (like Florida did for their stadium), but I know they like how the stadium opens up to the heart of the campus. So, I'm not sure of whether closing the north side off is on the table should expansion happen.