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Originally Posted by PHX31
I really hope they play downtown. As an ASU season ticket holder that rides light rail to all of the games I'm not at all looking forward to the possibility of having to drive to UofP stadium in glendale. Aside from UofP stadium being made for football, the logistics and convenience factor for everyone, especially the students, favor and makes much more sense to play downtown at chsse field.
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It would be somewhat inconvenient to have it in Chase Field. Aside from the weird configuration, the max capacity for a football game is around 45,000 (although I remember reading in one of the earlier stories that Chase Field could max out at 50,000 for a football game). The 2004 Insight Bowl between Oregon State and Notre Dame drew 45,917 and 43,536 for the ASU and Rutgers bowl game in 2005. So that is nearly 30,000 less seating than Sun Devil Stadium.
Average attendance numbers for ASU the last two years has been between 58,000-62,000 with the biggest games (USC, Oregon, Arizona, Mizzouri, etc) drawing sellout crowds of about 72,000. In recent years with ASU performing well, capacity overloads were experienced at Sun Devil Stadium with attendance over 74k-76k...considering the football team is expected to improve it could cause some issues. We would have to deal with much less seating and upset fans. Although for one year, I think that wouldn't be too bad considering there are only 7 home games. I am hoping they split the venue sites so that the biggest games are held at the University of Phoenix Stadium to accommodate larger crowds.