Roger Noll Stadium Quotations

The act of building a dome costs you $150 million right off the top, ... The attendance effect you get from having a domed stadium is way too small to justify the additional costs. You'd have to think 50 percent of attendance is at stake without a dome for it to make sense.

The act of building a dome costs you $150 million right off the top. The attendance effect you get from having a domed stadium is way too small to justify the additional costs. You'd have to think 50 percent of attendance is at stake without a dome for it to make sense.

The bottom line is no, it's not worth it. It'd be worth it if you could hold down cost. But even if you get the stadium for free, you can't sustain the revenue without improving the quality of the team. You have to get more high-paid players to sustain that revenue.