re: South Carolina "The Stadium Project"

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I’ve attended college football games at most of the stadiums in the SEC. At almost all of them, you’ll find a tailgating scene and a vibe similar to what you find at Georgia: A vast array of small, isolated parking lots, faceless parking garages, and small fan gatherings situated on wherever space that can be claimed. I have yet to find anything similar to what we have at Williams-Brice, which is surrounded by the State Fairgrounds and Gamecock Park, and thus on gameday resembles a vast occupying army encampment complete with tents and flags flying into the horizon.

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What if it were possible to tailgate along the Congaree River before a South Carolina football game? The Congaree is not the type of waterway that is ever going to allow for something like the Vol Navy tailgating scene in Knoxville. What is possible, though? Shouldn’t we be asking those questions?

What if there were a long greenway stretching from the waterway to the stadium, allowing for pedestrian traffic and tailgating? What if there were commemorations of the school’s athletic history along that greenway? What if, as has already been mentioned by many others, there were opportunities for residential and retail development that would make gamedays more enjoyable?

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