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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
Actually the Stampeders are finding it harder to attract fans to games and the biggest gripe people have is the stadium. It sucks and it's barely US high school quality. There's nowhere to get warm in the cold months and the concourse is far too small for the capacity of the stadium. Typical of Flames fans to say a 50+ year old relic of a stadium like McMahon stadium is good enough and the arena is the only thing that counts.
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Comments like this are laughable. How many stadiums have you been to? I've been to a decent number of NCAA stadiums and outside of the recent additions, the likes of which McMahon needs, places like Michigan Stadium, Notre Dame Stadium and Spartan Stadium offer almost an identical fan experience as McMahon.
The typical NCAA stadium looks like this:
Spartan Stadium in East Lansing, basically Mcmahon with End Zone seating and a second tier. The luxury/press box addition would be nice to see at McMahon.
(putting spolier tags on the pictures so this post isn't a mile long)
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Non-facade exterior, look familiar?
And here's the concourse:
If you want examples from other major NCAA stadiums feel free to look around, or I'll provide more. As was said above, the major differences are almost always the facades, full end zone seating and the inclusion of luxury seating. Otherwise they are pretty much on par, and the spectator experience is almost identical.
Here are the stadiums of some of the top high school programs in the US:
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De la Salle
Katy, TX
Our Lady of Good Counsel, Olney, MD
With the exception of Allen High School in Texas, which has gone nuts with their stadium, high school football stadiums in the US are pretty much the same as in Calgary, they just have their own instead of a shared facility.