USA football looks like Apogee

cousin oliver · August 13

Did not realize USA has a brand new football stadium. Looks nice. Almost same as ours tho. Like they copied our design?

https://usajaguars.com/facilities/hancock-whitney-stadium/1

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NTSU52 · August 13

To me it looks more like a scaled down version of UABs new Protective Stadium. But it does look very nice.

DeepGreen · August 13

2 hours ago, cousin oliver said:

Did not realize USA has a brand new football stadium. Looks nice. Almost same as ours tho. Like they copied our design?

Well yeah! It looks just like UNT's stadium.

NT80 · August 13

3 hours ago, cousin oliver said:

Did not realize USA has a brand new football stadium. Looks nice. Almost same as ours tho. Like they copied our design?

https://usajaguars.com/facilities/hancock-whitney-stadium/1

Not so much. Seats 25,000 but not nearly the suites and club level we have.

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greenjoe · August 13

And to save money, the field is only 80 yards long.

DentonLurker · August 13

3 hours ago, cousin oliver said:

Did not realize USA has a brand new football stadium. Looks nice. Almost same as ours tho. Like they copied our design?

https://usajaguars.com/facilities/hancock-whitney-stadium/1

I guess it looks like DATCU in that they're both football stadiums...

UNTcrazy727 · August 13

I think its closer to SMU's Ford Stadium...at least before the endzone expansion.

Texas Stranger · August 14

6 hours ago, UNTcrazy727 said:

I think its closer to SMU's Ford Stadium...at least before the endzone expansion.

The empty seats does give it a resemblance

Aquila_Viridis · August 14

Huge missed opportunity for Jaguar Whiskers Zone.

golfingomez · August 14

the goalposts even look the same!

SMU2006 · August 14

14 hours ago, Texas Stranger said:

The empty seats does give it a resemblance

attendance smack from a school with nearly 40k undergrads and has never had a single sellout....

NT80 · August 14

3 minutes ago, SMU2006 said:

attendance smack from a school with nearly 40k undergrads and has never had a single sellout....

We don't pay our fan$ to attend like you have to...

Dannymacfan · August 14

59 minutes ago, SMU2006 said:

attendance smack from a school with nearly 40k undergrads and has never had a single sellout....

You guys have had teams like Texas Tech, Texas A$M, Baylor, Okie State and heck TCU every other year. It's not a fair comparison. The best team we have ever had at home is Cal, Indiana and Houston?

Attendance records

Rank	Attendance	Date	Game Result
1	36,742	December 30, 2010	SMU 14, Army 16
2	35,569	September 24, 2022	SMU 34, TCU 42
3	35,481	September 24, 2010	SMU 24, 4 TCU 41
4	34,820	September 20, 2014	SMU 6, 6 Texas A&M 58
5	34,790	August 30, 2013	SMU 23, Texas Tech 41
6	34,749	September 5, 2009	SMU 31, Stephen F. Austin 23
7	33,458	September 11, 2004	SMU 13, Texas Tech 27
8	32,267	September 2, 2000	SMU 31, Kansas 17
9	32,074	September 4, 2015	SMU 21, 4 Baylor 56
10	32,016	September 15, 2012	SMU 3, Texas A&M 48
11	32,000	October 22, 2016	SMU 38, 11 Houston 16
12	32,000	September 7, 2002	SMU 14, Texas Tech 24
13	30,987	September 23, 2016	SMU 3, TCU 33
14	30,923	September 20, 2008	SMU 7, TCU 48
15	29,538	September 3, 2005	SMU 23, Baylor 28
16	29,528	November 9, 2019	23 SMU 59, East Carolina 51
17	29,121	September 11, 2021	SMU 35, North Texas 12
18	28,436	September 29, 2012	SMU 16, 15 TCU 24
19	28,142	October 5, 2019	24 SMU 43, Tulsa 37^3OT
20	27,106	September 20, 2003	SMU 6, Oklahoma State 56

Dannymacfan · August 14

Top Ten DATCU Stadium Crowds

Rank	Game	Date	Attendance
1	UNT vs Houston	September 28, 2019	30,123
2	UNT vs Louisiana Tech	September 29, 2018	30,105
3	UNT vs SMU	September 1, 2018	29,519
4	UNT vs Houston	September 10, 2011	28,075
5	UNT vs Army	November 18, 2017	26,392
6	UNT vs UTEP	November 9, 2013	26,119
7	UNT vs UTEP	November 11, 2017	26,108
8	UNT vs Rice	October 27, 2018	25,379
9	UNT vs SMU	September 3, 2022	25,306
10	UNT vs SMU	September 3, 2016	24,718
Source: ^[57]^[58]

keith · August 14

Uh oh...they have ribbon lighting!

DentonLurker · August 14

2 hours ago, SMU2006 said:

attendance smack from a school with nearly 40k undergrads and has never had a single sellout....

I know he’s an SMU fan, but he’s not wrong on this. We should really avoid attendance smack.

DeepGreen · August 14

26 minutes ago, DentonLurker said:

I know he’s an SMU fan, but he’s not wrong on this. We should really avoid attendance smack.

When you bring in Tech, TCU, A&M, and sometimes Baylor you're going to have good attendance.

Coffee and TV · August 14

33 minutes ago, DentonLurker said:

I know he’s an SMU fan, but he’s not wrong on this. We should really avoid attendance smack.

A lot of us don't forget the SMU days of pre-June Jones. Getting a ticket for an SMU game was like going to the fireworks stand - buy 1 get 5 free.

SMU2006 · August 14

3 hours ago, NT80 said:

We don't pay our fan$ to attend like you have to...

Kinda seems like you don't pay for sh*t but expect different results.

SMU2006 · August 14

2 hours ago, Dannymacfan said:

You guys have had teams like Texas Tech, Texas A$M, Baylor, Okie State and heck TCU every other year. It's not a fair comparison. The best team we have ever had at home is Cal, Indiana and Houston?

Attendance records

Rank Attendance Date Game Result

1 36,742 December 30, 2010 SMU 14, Army 16

2 35,569 September 24, 2022 SMU 34, TCU 42

3 35,481 September 24, 2010 SMU 24, 4 TCU 41

4 34,820 September 20, 2014 SMU 6, 6 Texas A&M 58

5 34,790 August 30, 2013 SMU 23, Texas Tech 41

6 34,749 September 5, 2009 SMU 31, Stephen F. Austin 23

7 33,458 September 11, 2004 SMU 13, Texas Tech 27

8 32,267 September 2, 2000 SMU 31, Kansas 17

9 32,074 September 4, 2015 SMU 21, 4 Baylor 56

10 32,016 September 15, 2012 SMU 3, Texas A&M 48

11 32,000 October 22, 2016 SMU 38, 11 Houston 16

12 32,000 September 7, 2002 SMU 14, Texas Tech 24

13 30,987 September 23, 2016 SMU 3, TCU 33

14 30,923 September 20, 2008 SMU 7, TCU 48

15 29,538 September 3, 2005 SMU 23, Baylor 28

16 29,528 November 9, 2019 23 SMU 59, East Carolina 51

17 29,121 September 11, 2021 SMU 35, North Texas 12

18 28,436 September 29, 2012 SMU 16, 15 TCU 24

19 28,142 October 5, 2019 24 SMU 43, Tulsa 37^3OT

20 27,106 September 20, 2003 SMU 6, Oklahoma State 56

UNT has 5x the undergrads and they can't be bothered to walk across campus to watch a football game at a really nice and still new stadium. Says a lot doesn't it.

MeanGreenMat · August 14

1 hour ago, SMU2006 said:

UNT has 5x the undergrads and they can't be bothered to walk across campus to watch a football game at a really nice and still new stadium. Says a lot doesn't it.

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GMG_Dallas · August 14

2 hours ago, SMU2006 said:

Kinda seems like you don't pay for sh*t but expect different results.

Charmin Soft

It's a joke

Big Z · August 15

5 hours ago, Coffee and TV said:

A lot of us don't forget the SMU days of pre-June Jones. Getting a ticket for an SMU game was like going to the fireworks stand - buy 1 get 5 free.

And we had a national televised game on a Thursday after Dan McCarney got fired.

DentonLurker · August 15

6 hours ago, DeepGreen said:

When you bring in Tech, TCU, A&M, and sometimes Baylor you're going to have good attendance.

We can keep making this excuse until we are blue in the face and our conference mates will keep outdrawing us for games.

DeepGreen · August 15

1 hour ago, DentonLurker said:

We can keep making this excuse until we are blue in the face and our conference mates will keep outdrawing us for games.

Get those four teams in to our stadium (DATCU?) and see what our attendance would be.