I've always wondered why the uppers are asymmetrical... I thought that maybe it was just because one side was new and one side was old, but they're definately different. Does it have anything to do with the fact that LSU's stadium used to be a horse shoe shape and when they closed the south endzone, it wasn't completely rounded? That's the only thing I can think of.
The old (1970's) west deck never did match the new east deck. The new west deck was designed to match the east deck seating, but with three club levels instead of two skybox levels and with an integral press box. The old west deck was built over and around the 1950's press box. The external look of the new west deck is completely different due to its utilization of existing structures and ramps. Also the east deck uses escalators, but the west deck uses elevators. Apparently outdoors escalators are maintenance nightmares. I think both decks were extended into the south endzone because there was space available, but not to the north.
Well it's not too many seats per se, but we barely sell-out now Well we Do sell-out but only for really big games... i dont think we need an additional ~5000 seats... sure it would be nice... i won't complain
But perhaps with more seats the prices of all seating would come down some and would allow more people to be able to attend the games. Not to mention allow them to extend the student section farther around the endzone to allow more students to get tickets. Just some drunk rambling. Since all i have to do tommorrow is go to formation I figured I would start drinking this afternoon.
Not to many seats if you take into account that huge video scoreboards (that are relatively new, and I just couldn't see replacing them). You take the West upper and East upper and wrap them around until they each touch a side of the scoreboard. It would probably add about 10,000 more seats (5K on each side of the scoreboard) and bring our capacity to about 104,000--which is still smaller than Penn State, Tenn., Michigan and probably the same size as Ohio St.
