University of North Carolina at Charlotte: Jerry Richardson Stadium

In a football crazy place like North Carolina, you’re guaranteed to fill your stadium to the brim every home game. But when you’re establishing a new football team, you need to start small, right? That’s what the board of trustees decided when they okayed a football program for the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

The team is called the Charlotte 49’ers, and the board of trustees built a 15,000 capacity stadium for them. It fell short of NCAA standards, though, and also struggle to accommodate crowds. But the stadium was built to renovate without demolition, and there are plans for luxury boxes and 25,000 extra seats.