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[QUOTE="Scooch, post: 4787162, member: 628"]
One more point... the Dome is too big, and has been since the day it opened.

As best I can tell, the largest capacity at Archbold Stadium was 40K, when they expanded it in the 1950s.  I certainly didn't attend games then, so maybe others can speak to how consistently full the place was in the 50s/60s.  But as we all know, by the 70s they were reducing capacity and when it was demolished it sat a paltry 26K.

So we opened a new place that sat [I]double[/I] the stadium it replaced, which is crazy.  No one would do that today, and there's never been evidence that the community could consistently support a 50K seat venue for football.

I'd argue that this excess capacity has been a problem for the football program for 40+ years.  There has never been a capacity-induced demand dynamic for our fanbase.  Even in the heyday of the 90s -- when we regularly drew 45K per game per season -- one could [I][U]always[/U][/I] get into the Dome for the biggest games, and usually cheaply if you were willing to sit up top in the 300s.

This lack of capacity-restricted demand has led to a fan base that never has urgency to buy tickets.

Installing seats is amazing, not because of the new comfort for the fan, but because it lops off 8,000 seats that never should be been built in the first place.
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