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The stadium was great, but college station needs to use some of the tax revenue football weekends generate to make significant infrastructure improvements to alleviate traffic on game days.

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This. The city needs to put in the effort to make it more convenient to get to and from the games as well as staying in town so people don't have to leave early to get back home before the sun comes up.

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Sound system at this point sucks. Better be way better next year, team too. Canon barely audible, even on the SE tower roof. More charge. Insufficient handicap access to the south end. Need a big board on top of the north end also,

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Sound system is temporary. Will not be finished until west side is rebuilt.

Canon probably quiet because that's the limit on their charge. I'm sure there are safety and insurance concerns.

Second board will go up in northwest tower when it's done.

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Why don't you. You posted those bogus numbers

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My numbers came from A&M Sports website and NCAA.com. You are a troll.

Done.

No showed? What are you talking about? There were very, very few empty seats (mostly the very edge of the upper south zone) when the game began and the seats stayed full until start of the first few minutes of the fourth quarter even though A&M trailed badly. BTW, the student section stayed longer than any part of the stadium. I stayed until the bitter end and most of the students were still there with a few minutes left on the clock.

The only section of the stadium that had empty seats when it started was the second deck zone area next to the student standing section. That area was vacant because they are not selling tickets for it due to the view obstruction caused by the standing students. So, they are empty by design until they fix the view lines as part of the new construction.

Delete post, ban OP for making stuff up. I bet you weren't even at the game.

The lights above student section when looking from alumni seats are blinding. Us 30 something year olds left early because we had a 2 hour drive home, parking garage that takes hours to get out if everyone leaves at the same time & expensive babysitters.

Louder cannon is not unsafe. Wussies are.

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Monarch you pretty much made my point using the sip example. It wasn't long ago they were selling out every game.

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The Aggies were putting as many fans in seats during the Fran years as the sips are now. It would take the death penalty to top that failed experiment.

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expanding the stadium so big may have been a mistake

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You can improve a stadium without expanding it. This is a program that 3-4 years ago had 10-15 thousand empty seats in an 82k stadium. A heisman trophy and cotton Bowl victory later we feel the need to expand to 102k? Very premature IMO

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What a liar. This guy (Victory) is a total and complete liar. "3-4 years ago" would mean 2010 to current year. But, let's go back EIGHT YEARS:

2014: 105,000+
2013: 87,125
2012: 87,014
2011: 87,163
2010: 82,477
2009: 76,800
2008: 82,193
2007: 82,207

Capacity: 82,000 (2007-2013)

Thus, for the past eight years Texas A&M has averaged over 100% attendance every year (save 2009), and overall has averaged over 100% across all 8 years.

What a liar. Big, freaking liar.

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Those numbers are tickets sold
I said "empty seats"

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Victory - stop lying. You do realize that we go to these games year in, and year out, right? I have been attending games at Kyle Field since 1989. You sir, are a liar, to write that "10k to 15K" seats have been empty during the past 4-5 years. The rest of us are calling you out.

I think that when someone blatantly lies like this they should be banned for a while to teach them that Aggies do not lie, cheat, or steal, or tolerate those that do.

Victory is and always has been a tshirt sip imposter.

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expanding the stadium so big may have been a mistake

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You can improve a stadium without expanding it. This is a program that 3-4 years ago had 10-15 thousand empty seats in an 82k stadium. A heisman trophy and cotton Bowl victory later we feel the need to expand to 102k? Very premature IMO

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What a liar. This guy (Victory) is a total and complete liar. "3-4 years ago" would mean 2010 to current year. But, let's go back EIGHT YEARS:

2014: 105,000+
2013: 87,125
2012: 87,014
2011: 87,163
2010: 82,477
2009: 76,800
2008: 82,193
2007: 82,207

Capacity: 82,000 (2007-2013)

Thus, for the past eight years Texas A&M has averaged over 100% attendance every year (save 2009), and overall has averaged over 100% across all 8 years.

What a liar. Big, freaking liar.

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Capacity does not equal seats... There very well could be empty seats with official numbers showing 82k in attendance.

Capacity includes everyone in the stadium. Players, coaches, staff, vending, press, security, etc, etc. Lots of people fall in to those categories. LSU recently made a change to their reporting so it appears they have more seats. "We are listing a stadium capacity now rather than seating capacity, which is in line with what other schools in the SEC are doing,"

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You can improve a stadium without expanding it. This is a program that 3-4 years ago had 10-15 thousand empty seats in an 82k stadium. A heisman trophy and cotton Bowl victory later we feel the need to expand to 102k? Very premature IMO

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IMO...before very long, we'll be complaining about why they didn't add more seats.

Within a decade, there will be approximately 125,000 new alumni here at A&M. With spouses and children, that means at least 250,000+ new folks that are potentially interested in attending games.

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expanding the stadium so big may have been a mistake

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You can improve a stadium without expanding it. This is a program that 3-4 years ago had 10-15 thousand empty seats in an 82k stadium. A heisman trophy and cotton Bowl victory later we feel the need to expand to 102k? Very premature IMO

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What a liar. This guy (Victory) is a total and complete liar. "3-4 years ago" would mean 2010 to current year. But, let's go back EIGHT YEARS:

2014: 105,000+
2013: 87,125
2012: 87,014
2011: 87,163
2010: 82,477
2009: 76,800
2008: 82,193
2007: 82,207

Capacity: 82,000 (2007-2013)

Thus, for the past eight years Texas A&M has averaged over 100% attendance every year (save 2009), and overall has averaged over 100% across all 8 years.

What a liar. Big, freaking liar.

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Capacity does not equal seats... There very well could be empty seats with official numbers showing 82k in attendance.

Capacity includes everyone in the stadium. Players, coaches, staff, vending, press, security, etc, etc. Lots of people fall in to those categories. LSU recently made a change to their reporting so it appears they have more seats. "We are listing a stadium capacity now rather than seating capacity, which is in line with what other schools in the SEC are doing,"

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Wow. The mental gymnastics these closet sips go through to sooth the fact that there actually are 15,000 empty seats every Longhorn game is just plain amazing.

You do realize that your definition of "capacity" actually means MORE people were seated in the stands (not less)? A&M announces and uses the PAID ATTENDANCE figures for its records. The assertion that we had 12-15K empty seats is simply a lie.

Many, many times the Aggies had to bring in folding chairs and seat people on the track and/or sell standing room only tickets to games. The reason we built the "temporary" permanent grandstands in the South end zone is due to the fact that the seats in the decks were sold out AND occupied for almost all games.

Last night was another example. There were thousands of people standing all over the stadium in the concourses behind the ADA seating having purchased SRO tickets from the ticket office for $50.

Yes, there was 110,000+ in attendance last night. Get over it sips and go back to your empty stadium.

Apple and Microsoft have more money than you know who and they can't get a perfect product out the door but it's expected that the new stadium will have no flaws. I've been to a lot of stadiums and traffic and parking where never great.