Personally, I think we need to dig out and build down to the field. We have to have more sideline space than any stadium I've ever been to. I just got back
from a high school football camp at Troy State and I would absolutely love to have stands as close as they do. Every stadium I've been to in the SEC was
twice as close. I think it would improve the atmosphere tremendously.
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Honestly | #1 | ||
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Posts: 5437 06/23/09 11:21 AM |
I think we should renovate the entire West side before expanding or anything else. That is going to be a major undertaking.
"Because just being good kids who make good grades isn't good enough anymore."- John Cohen
"This league doesn't care how hard you try. This league cares about having real players who can perform certain skills. If you try to throw a fastball in and you miss the middle of the plate, the league doesn't care that you're a really good kid. The game says you better execute the pitch." - John Cohen |
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Sarc Dawg |
West side renovation | #2 | ||
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Posts: 680 06/23/09 11:29 AM |
It'll never match exactly but try to modernize it and bring the amenities up to the level of the east side. Take out the 200 level and convert it to
luxury boxes. Redo the press box.
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lawdawg02 |
that's the first thing on the agenda. | #3 | ||
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Posts: 2873 06/23/09 11:30 AM One Call, That's All
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per ninja. they were in preliminary talks with architects during last football season. bidding probably isn't far away. i don't know about
renovating the entire west side, but i know they are wanting to completely redo the 200s and press box to have press space and suites, and make the 100s into
club seats, i believe. i would anticipate that such a project would include a facelift for the ground level bathrooms and other areas as well.
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CdawgNHouston |
Get rid of that big ass jumbo tron. | #4 | ||
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Posts: 4248 06/23/09 11:38 AM |
these things kill everything about a game day experience.
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State82 |
Ground level area. | #5 | ||
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Posts: 637 06/23/09 11:50 AM |
The area below the old, original west side is horrendous. Needs a complete renovation to the subgrade. Restrooms and concessions in this area are way past
due for demolition and reconstruction.
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Todd4State |
It's TOO LOUD!!!! | #6 | ||
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Posts: 5438 06/23/09 11:52 AM |
All of that new fangled rock n' roll is going to cause my hearing aid to blow up!!!
"Because just being good kids who make good grades isn't good enough anymore."- John Cohen
"This league doesn't care how hard you try. This league cares about having real players who can perform certain skills. If you try to throw a fastball in and you miss the middle of the plate, the league doesn't care that you're a really good kid. The game says you better execute the pitch." - John Cohen |
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615dawg |
A winning team. | #7 | ||
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Posts: 1224 06/23/09 12:08 PM |
Get one of those consistently and expansion will take care of itself.
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Posts: 1421 06/23/09 12:37 PM |
Alabama's sideline seating is a good ways from the field. Or so it seems. But yes. Sit on the east side....then on the west of DWS. There is a
noticable difference in the distance from the field.
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TBonewannabe |
Have a Native American shaman come in to bring the spirits to peace. | #9 | ||
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Posts: 698 06/23/09 12:52 PM |
Then move the burial ground to Oxford.
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Posts: 467 06/23/09 01:30 PM |
The last football game I attended at Auburn I was on the 40 about 1/4 ways up and It seemed to be a far way from the field of play as well. If memory serves
there was a hedge roll about 15 feet from the stands seperating it from the players. It has been several years since so I could be mistaking but the field
seemed far off.
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MSUCostanza |
^^^^^^^^ epic win. ** | #11 | ||
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Posts: 8073 06/23/09 01:44 PM Post Count + 10000 |
Greg Byrne is the Stan Jones of athletic directors.
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norman |
much can be done under the west side | #12 | ||
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Posts: 354 06/23/09 01:53 PM |
its like walking through a cramped, wet crawlspace down there and the bathrooms seem to have no AC (that works most of the time) which makes for a great
smelling combo of BO, Piss/shit, and alchohol. The could also stand to modernize the sales booths down there...bid it out to the lodge and campus book mart to
pay for the building of an enclosed and cooled MSU merchandise area that would actually create revenue.
And wtf, why did they ever decided to get rid of the chicken on a stick??? that was my saturday evening meal (or fourth meal) when I was there. |
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TheBigDA |
The original plan for Scott Field was to have a track around it and | #13 | ||
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Posts: 347 06/23/09 02:30 PM |
for the band to sit on the staging area in front of the west side. All that has since changed. It will cost (IMO) no less than 5-10 mill to redo the west side.
Why spend that change to put a dress on an ugly woman? If we get 50 mill, we could probably tear down and rebuild the whole side. Only set back with that is we
would have to play one season in Jax (shitty, but I think a decent option) or totally on the road until completed. I think the ath dept needs to do a building
drive aimed at updating all facilities. Something like 200 mill by 2012. Yes, that is a high number but MSU needs to stop setting the bar so low. Set it high
and get or fan base to rise up and meet it for once. Put the plans out for a new West side, north endzone, Dudy Noble and renovated up and challange us to meet
it. Also, why not have Bulldog Hostesses at gates with buckets every game for building donations (yes, not the best option, but a change for change idea).
Announce the total 4th quarter of every game and challange fans to break it every week. My $.02.
Edit for clarification: The reason to implode the West Side would be to move the stands closer to the field. This can't be done with a renovation. I would like to see a lower deck, north endzone bowl, and press box built in a year (if so we wouldn't miss a home season), but don't see it feasible. Thus the cause of us having to play home games in Jax.
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Instead of playing in Jackson | #14 | ||
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TheBigDA wrote:What if we built the North endzone section, and then played a season with just the East side and north endzone? We can set it up so that most of our nonconference games are on the road that year, and then get return trips back once the new West side is completed? Not an optimal solution, but better than playing a full season in Jackson...  Your Signature ...
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tossedoff |
No need to play a year elsewhere... | #15 | ||
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Posts: 629 06/23/09 02:55 PM |
Been done before... http://utahutes.cstv.com/trads/utah-trads-ricestadium.html
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Posts: 1423 06/23/09 03:11 PM |
No way in hell that gets done at State. Maybe they could get the lower section completed. Which wouldn't be bad if they were building a first class press
box, club level, and suites. But hell, it took nearly two years to built the east side upper and west side upper.
I would be all for traveling to Jackson for one year if it meant a first class facility on the west side. |
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Posts: 630 06/23/09 03:38 PM |
That also was under a different administration.
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Coach33 |
Well, | #18 | ||
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TheBigDA wrote: Not even an option in my book. Imagine how terrible that would be for our football program. Has any team in the SEC played an entire season away from their home stadium in the past 20 years? "Now he's got me on the war path and all I can do is hurt him," Polk said of Byrne in a phone interview with The Associated Press from Athens, Ga., where he is watching Georgia play North Carolina State in an NCAA super regional. "I'm going to do everything I can to make his life miserable." wow....
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lawdawg02 |
do it in stages. there's no way we lose home games for a year. | #19 | ||
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preposterous.
they'll redo the press/luxury/club seating first. then after the next year they can redo the lower level concourse. no need to implode the west side - just a renovation. |
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The stands ARE far away, but the field is also offset in order to give us more room... | #20 | ||
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which makes it even worse. If you look straight down the field, North to South, it's obvious the field is offset, shifted to the East side. I agree with
digging the field down and bring the stands down.
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