The Michigan Doily-Wednesday, September 21, 1977-Page 9

NO DECKS DEALT
Stadium seating expansion is ruled out

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By BOB WARREN
Despite all :rumors, there will not be any expansion of Michigan
Stadium's seating capacity in the near future.
The increasing demand for more football tickets has once again
touched off talk about double-decking the stadium that presently seats over
104,000 people.
"All of the continued talk about double-decking the stadium is pure
rumor," expressed Assistant Athletic Director Charles Harris. '
Harris acknowledged that the stadium was originally structured to be
double-decked, but that was in the days when $900,000 for Michigan Stadium
was considered exorbitant.
"It would cost at least $250-300 per seat to double-deck the stadium,"
Harris said, "and with the estimated 50,000 more seats, we would be running
a risk."
The risk Harris was talking about, was the possibility of Michigan foot-
ball fortunes taking a turn for the worse which would inevitably leave
Michigan with a half empty stadium.
"People tend to forget that ten years ago, 63,000 was considered a great
crowd for Michigan football games," Harris commented.


UPI top ten news
brings Bo the blues

By FFATS STROPS
"Do me a favor and vote us out of
first place," commented Bo Schem-
bechler following Saturday's nar-
row win over Duke's Blue Devils.
SORRY,, BO, but following the
second weekend of college football,
the Michigan Wolverines still dom-
inate the UPI's Board of Coaches
poll with a sizeable lead over second
place Southern California.
"We don't deserve it," Schem-
bechler added, "There's no team in
the country that's good right now
There aren't going to be any
four and five touchdown blowouts
and you might as well get used to
it."
NEVERTHELESS, the Wolver-
ines were able to scrape 27 of the 39
available first place votes for a 63
point edge over the Trojans. South-
ern Cal ran into many of the same
problems Michigan did over the
weekend when it had to rally in the
last quarter to nip Oregon.
Preparing for their struggle in
Columbus this weekend, Ohio State
and Oklahoma find themselves in
second and fourth places respec-
tively.
THE BIGGEST jump of the week
was Penn State moving up to fifth-

following its 31-14 'trouncing of
previously unbeaten Houston. The
Cougars achieved the largest drop
of the week from in the Top Ten to
completely out of the Top Twenty.
The Second Five was filled out by
Texas Tech, Texas A&M, Colorado,
Texas and Florida.
Notre Dame and Alabama joined
Houston as teams knocked out of
the Top Ten.
UPI TOP TWENTY

"Our first priorities are to the students, faculty, staff and the alumni
when considering football seating," Harris said.
"If we cannot be assured of, filling 150,000 seats, we'd be foolish to take
on such an endeavor."
Although the athleticdepartment will not commit itself to double-
decking the stadium, it is changing some traditional seating arrangements
to accommodate some of the alleged 30,000 people who have requested
season tickets without success.
Band members said that the usual twelve rows alloted to the band on
game day have been shaved to seven rows to add room for paying patrons.
Harris denied this charge.
Harris did confirm that Band Day will be cut from the traditional 13,000
high school students to 8,000, once again allowing for more non-season ticket
holders to obtain seats.
Another rumor that has been floating around Ann Arbor for a few years
is the possibility of building a luxury press box on the east side of the stadium
to be rented for large parties at high cost.
"As always, this is another rumor, and nothing more than that," Harris
repeated. "It's a good idea but as all the other ideas, it must be approved by
the Board of Athletic Control and the Regents, and neither group has been
approached with the idea."
It should be noted that the Athletic Department is in the midst of a five
year improvement plan for Michigan Stadium.
Since the plan began three years ago, the tartan surface has been
replaced as well as a remodeling and enlarging of all the rest rooms. A new
electrical system has been installed and every year $35,000 to $40,000 is spent
on painting the structure.
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"So you see we have been doing many things to make Michigan football
comfortable and enjoyable to the fans and we're proud that there is such a
demapd for more seats," Harris concluded. "However, rumor will not
double-deck a stadium."

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