Inside The Soon-To-Be Renovated Humphrey Coliseum
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Yes let’s build a new arena for the 4000 people tops that come to basketball. That ship has sailed. Just fix up what is there now with better seating and concessions.
Alabama's new arena has about 3/4 circumference of the lower area reserved for students, with bleacher seats instead of chairbacks since the students never sit down anyway. Maybe we should consider something similar.
Based on our attendance and the fact that we actually still have a team...
I don't know if we need basketball money either....
I don't know if we need basketball money either....
I’m far from qualified to do this but let me try to address several things in this thread.
- Just Phase 1 of this project (which is primarily what is discussed in the article) has a $50 million budget. It’s far from lipstick on a pig.
- There will be parts of the concourse that look at least somewhat similar to now. This is a renovation, not a total 100% gutting. So yes, some places will look familiar but even the familiar looking spots will be improved.
- It’s at the entrances where you’ll have the large openings and be able to see the bowl from the entrance/concourse. It’s not a 360-degree thing where you can see the court all the way around.
- On timing, remember Phase 1 isn’t scheduled to be completed until the beginning of the 2023-24 season. Work starts immediately after this season but it’s not scheduled to be done for about a year and a half.
- Phase 2 timing is TBD. And while much of it won’t be seen unless you’re a player/coach/etc, it is set to be a tremendous upgrade.
- Not renovation related, but as for why this article read the RSS feed and posted twice on the board, I have no idea.
- What is renovation related, go back and check out our Dear Ol State pod with Cohen. He answered a lot of stuff not covered in the article, including the popular reseating questions.
- That’s all I’ve got for now. By the way, thanks to all of you that continue to read articles or listen to Dear Ol State podcasts. It really is much appreciated.
- One more thing… Hail State! (Or Go Dawgs! Whichever you prefer)
- Just Phase 1 of this project (which is primarily what is discussed in the article) has a $50 million budget. It’s far from lipstick on a pig.
- There will be parts of the concourse that look at least somewhat similar to now. This is a renovation, not a total 100% gutting. So yes, some places will look familiar but even the familiar looking spots will be improved.
- It’s at the entrances where you’ll have the large openings and be able to see the bowl from the entrance/concourse. It’s not a 360-degree thing where you can see the court all the way around.
- On timing, remember Phase 1 isn’t scheduled to be completed until the beginning of the 2023-24 season. Work starts immediately after this season but it’s not scheduled to be done for about a year and a half.
- Phase 2 timing is TBD. And while much of it won’t be seen unless you’re a player/coach/etc, it is set to be a tremendous upgrade.
- Not renovation related, but as for why this article read the RSS feed and posted twice on the board, I have no idea.
- What is renovation related, go back and check out our Dear Ol State pod with Cohen. He answered a lot of stuff not covered in the article, including the popular reseating questions.
- That’s all I’ve got for now. By the way, thanks to all of you that continue to read articles or listen to Dear Ol State podcasts. It really is much appreciated.
- One more thing… Hail State! (Or Go Dawgs! Whichever you prefer)
Remember when we made fun of The Tad Pad for sucking? Well, the worm has turned. That's one of the worst facilities in the SEC and it screws up the baseball field area we spent a gazillion on.
Just shows we're completely fine with sucking, because if basketball was good, people would show up.
Just shows we're completely fine with sucking, because if basketball was good, people would show up.
Cohen was on Joel T Coleman's podcast recently and Joel explicitly asked him about the student seating. Cohen basically told him that alumni would get priority over the students.
Here's the link
And they have the Pavilion now and still suck, 13-15 and 4-11 SEC. And you're 100% right about "if basketball was good people would show up", regardless of the arena but a silk purse is better than a sows ear. Until there is a winning program though why is there a need to spend a "gaxillion" on an arena because it doesn't do jack shat to make the team better? "Build it and they will come" was a myth in a movie. We haven't been relevant in close to 2 decades and don't deserve a quality arena
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