What's the best solution? The Seal Building has served its purpose but it's time to move on. While we don't need 10K more seats, it looks very CUSA down in the south end zone.
What are your ideas?
What are your ideas?
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Bowl it in, include premium seating and entertainment areas, and chair back the whole stadium to take the total seat count back down to around 60,000
If they do that they should go ahead and chair back the entire lower stadium keeping student section bleachers.
There are a lot of stadiums that aren’t bowls. It’s like it’s a status symbol to some people. Put chairbacks in the entire stadium, or at least the lower levels, creat more premium areas. Spend the money to improve the game day atmosphere which is severely lacking lately and then if the demand is there look at a real cost vs return in bowling in the stadium We need to invest in winning more so than some visual aspects for TV.
A new alumni house with premium areas that allow field view. Indoor/outdoor bar at the bottom that can service tailgaters on game day. Also make it the go to wedding venue to bring more business to town in the summers.
No more gen pop. Go big.
Yes, either do it right or don’t do it at all. No more half a$$ rinkey dink band aids to just get by. Our current south end zone is a Vanderbilt level embarrassment.
Speaking of Vandy. They are renovating both endzone of their stadium. The south endzone looks like it will have premium seating. The north endzone looks like they are building a basketball building and adding some seats off the outside of the building for football.
Plus upgrades to the football practice facilities and a few other sports. $300 million.
Plus upgrades to the football practice facilities and a few other sports. $300 million.
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You just described Vaught Hemingway perfectly, as well as Shreveport's Weedeater Bowl stadium
I like this idea and it would make me much more likely to attend a game if I wasn’t sitting on a bench for 4 hours.
I don’t know much about the necessary rise and run needed for chairbacks. Is there room to retrofit the entire stadium if we rip out the bleachers?
Yeah, I think this is another Eckie's pond legend. Maybe the rise and run isn't ideal, However I think you could fit in some type of chairback with the existing structure. Those black temp chairbacks fit....kinda.
regardless, that west side needs to be completely rebuilt anyways. Chairbacks are just one more reason.
There is a plan to re-do the rows and aisles of the stadium to accommodate chairbacks.
I completely agree we need chairbacks. What looks CUSA are those gosh awful ugly and uncomfortable bleachers!
We'd need to raise like a billion bucks to do this, with what construction costs in Starkville run.
They are already in the process of moving the press box to the M-Club to go with the addition of the west side club seats.
Probably would be the only stadium in the country with a press box in the end zone. The announcers won't be able to see a thing.
They have already got plans for the 200 level West Side renovation, that's going to happen at end of this coming season. They are moving the press to M-Club building somehow and adding massive premium areas to the West Side.
Auburn moved their press box to the endzone several years ago. Expect other schools to do the same in order to free up very valuable real estate for season ticket purchasers.
These endzone press boxes are for print media members, not play by play announcers. There's no reason they need the best seats in the stadium.
This is hilarious to me. Gonna see Dave Neal sitting there with a big *** goal post in the background when they do the pre-game feed from the press box.
If you value what the stadium look like, (SEC level), then what's underneath isn't as important as what appears on TV and in public view, because that's more impressionable.
Even with moving the press box to the south endzone, they still need to do away with the Dawgstudent Decks (trademark pending) and put in some permanent seating to bowl that end in. maybe with some sort of viewing platform at the top or general locations for standing and viewing.
I am also of the opinion that both upper decks are fair game for complete overhauls; why not convert 50-75% of those to premium areas? Do we expect we'll ever sell out those spaces again? It's important not to do away with general admission completely, but maybe rethink how and where those are offered. Regardless of the old gal's age, I think there are opportunities to improve the stadium and make it a great experience if they do this right.
I am also of the opinion that both upper decks are fair game for complete overhauls; why not convert 50-75% of those to premium areas? Do we expect we'll ever sell out those spaces again? It's important not to do away with general admission completely, but maybe rethink how and where those are offered. Regardless of the old gal's age, I think there are opportunities to improve the stadium and make it a great experience if they do this right.
Those black temp chairbacks are far and away the worst idea this athletic department has ever had. And yes, I recognize the significance of that statement, but I'm only partially kidding.
Just like anyone else that sits in the end zone seats or clubs. End zone views are awful
OK, that's not so bad then. I read "moving the press box to the end zone" as being everybody, including announcers, since that's where they sit now.
Coaches, PA, TV and Radio will remain on the sideline..... And every NFL stadium built in the last 10-15 years the press box is in the corner of the endzone.
Put a very large mirror in the south endzone. It will make the stadium look huge!!!!
If you value the fan experience at the game then what's under the stands is as important as anything else. Your view results in Ole Miss' stadium. That place is awful.
Press boxes???
All a writer needs is a legal pad with paper, a working pen, and just be on the sidelines recording stats and making notes…
Except what you see on TV of their place looks like shiite as well
Where will the announcers be? Do they get their own mini sky box just for them? Or will they get some detached cubicle rigging that’s out of the way of premium sight lines?
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