Chris Hill announced a couple of weeks ago that the University will begin exploring options for expansion of Rice-Eccles Stadium. That essentially means that within the next three or so years that Rice-Eccles will be getting a facelift and some new additions. That’s got me thinking, what’s on my wish list for the expanded/renovated Rice-Eccles? Here are some thoughts:
10,000 more seats: I think bumping Rice-Eccles by about an additional 10,000 seats, maybe a bit less, say 7500, would put it at about the perfect size of around 57,000 people. The demand is still there for people to get into the stadium, and hopefully it will drive the costs of tickets down a little bit (dream on, right?