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The Old Dominion University football program begins its third season of competition and its first as an official member of the CAA this fall, and for the third consecutive year the Monarchs have sold out their 14K season ticket allocations. ODU had about 97% percent renewal rate, and still has a 1700 person waiting list, which is equal to about 6K tickets. I like those numbers and all done without running single ad, or having to discount tickets or having give-a-ways. Can't wait for the season to get started.

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What's the short name that the fans yell during the games?

Montana fans will use Griz instead of Grizzlies
Montana State, and UNI, fans use Cats (I hate cats for UNI btw)
SDSU uses Jacks
USD uses 'Yotes
YSU uses 'Guins (which is stupid to me, but whatever)

Do ODU fans use 'Narchs?

Blue-and-white clad OLD DOMINION fans chanted "ODU! ODU!" or "Lets go Monarchs", we aren't that lazy yet...Cats is bad, but could be worst.

Flagship.

I expected the 14,000 to go fast, rebuys etcetera. I think your wait listers are going to have to wait for additional seating. Your admin has not so easy decisions to make in the future, add 1,000 seats here and there in the corners or wherever and sink the budget into what potentially turns out an expensive chop job or prepare to tear down and rebuild...both ideas have pros and cons. Go ODU

One concern is that if Old Dominion falters in the CAA this season, how many fans will choose not to renew? I don't consider this a high risk since we waited so long for football, plus most fans I've talked to at the games recognize how good the CAA is. Everyone wants to cheer on a winner, but will the support be there next year with one or two conference wins? Just playing devil's advocate.

Next season I hope to get more than just my two from the past two seasons.

JMUpurplehazed wrote:I expected the 14,000 to go fast, rebuys etcetera. I think your wait listers are going to have to wait for additional seating. Your admin has not so easy decisions to make in the future, add 1,000 seats here and there in the corners or wherever and sink the budget into what potentially turns out an expensive chop job or prepare to tear down and rebuild...both ideas have pros and cons. Go ODU

Another option some of us discussed in one of my engineering classes is something like this:



It can be built in three steps, made from metal, would take up the side parking lots, and wouldn't touch the clamshells (we don't want it to touch the clamshells because then those would have to be updated for current building codes which is too expensive to do on such an old structure). Just consider it a stadium that literally wraps around another stadium.

ps. sorry for the crappy pic, but I didn't want to spend a lot of time creating it.

I think the JMU model will prove itself to be the wisest. Nuke one side at a time. Hell, if the demand is sufficient, do it in back to back seasons, unlike JMU, and have a whole new stadium with only a two-year period of disruption.

Chopping pieces at a time works for stadiums built since the Civil War. W&M would have to dismantle the entire stadium and start anew because our structure is brick. I don't think a stadium would fit on the area just behind Zable (practice field). I guess the best thing for us would be to build "up" somehow but I'm not sure if that can be safely accomplished.

Tribal wrote:Chopping pieces at a time works for stadiums built since the Civil War. W&M would have to dismantle the entire stadium and start anew because our structure is brick. I don't think a stadium would fit on the area just behind Zable (practice field). I guess the best thing for us would be to build "up" somehow but I'm not sure if that can be safely accomplished.

Is there really demand at W&M for that? Is W&M slated to grow that much in the future? I mean, in the last 2 seasons, a semi-final & a #2 seed, I see sellouts for W&M at 12,259 Zable:
09' UD and JMU
10' UD, Nova, UR

Thats 5 of 12 games, 5 of 10 regular season. I see 5 of the other 7 games being 8-9ks, with the outliers being the Weber playoff game (6400 something) and VMI (11+k something).

Congrats on the tix sales...becoming more and more Montana of the East.