Rutgers votes to bulk up its stadium

By Darrell Laurant  |   Thursday, January 31, 2008  |  Comments( 0 )

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Call it a post-postseason victory for Rutgers.

Meeting on Jan. 30, the Rutgers University Board of Governors approved a $102 million expansion of Rutgers Stadium, increasing the seating capacity to nearly 56,000.

The logic is time-honored: If you enlarge it, more will come. And the project will be funded by ticket sales for the 14,000 added seats (and, of course, by the wallets, checkbooks and credit cards of alumni). It won't hurt that Gov. Jon Corzine has announced that he will involve himself in the fund-raising campaign.

The upgrade will start with 1,000 new mezzanine seats being added by the start of the 2008 season, the remainder of the seating (most of it in a new, 12,000-seat end zone expansion) completed for 2009.

Commentary: As always, such things will have a positive ripple effect on the program. The added capacity will give Rutgers more money to attract more big-name teams for home games. That will help out-of-state recruiting, which will make for better teams, which will bring in more fans to keep the cycle turning.
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