re: Construction update

Be a long, long time before that happens. Two upper decks would put us at 85k. Bjork keeps mentioning a deck on the home side being the next project but I wish we'd just make it a big nice, endzone to endzone press box with suites similar to Nebraska, KSU, and Florida. Then when we need another expansion we add a deck to the visitors side, given the people in upper decks are visitors and non season ticket holders. Plus this is far more room on the east side. Just make the west side press box very tall with the foresight to match the height in the future with a deck on the East. One deck is all you need to store away the away fans. Next expansion won't be long given that we only have to sell 2k more season tickets than last year to max out this expansion, given the students are taking up the other 2k that is added. It won't be a question of when can we build this to fill it up, but one of when can we afford to build this and given you can add so many more premium seats, a lot of it will pay for itself. Here's to hoping its completed by 2019 season

It would be a smaller expansion for sure. For them to bowl in their other endzone they would be adding 10-12k seats.

I think matching the NEZ to the SEZ should be the final step. Building a new press box on the west that spans the entire sideline should be the next step in establishing more conformity and our stadium's final look. They could do something really similar to the SEZ and just outfit it accordingly for a press box setting. Eventually having matching awnings over the entire stadium wouldn't be bad either.

I want this built...

or this...

Yeah but the whole damn thing is leaning and crooked now

I think VH tops out at 80k at the very most. If the east and west sides end up mimicking the SEZ and span thewhole field, we'll end up with close to 75k.

A small but beautifully built stadium would represent what Ole Miss is all about and would add to our brand more than having a big stadium. It's already been done by everyone.

I want 75k rebel fans cheering under an amplifying overhang that encompasses a complete stadium. That, my friends, would be a scary place to play. It would be one of the most unique venues in the game, not to mention the mystique of being the 3rd oldest in college football.

If this doesn't happen and our AD screws it up, I'm torching the grove. I wish I was kidding.

Who's with me?!

I've always appreciated how Duke keeps their basketball approach regarding Cameron Indoor. Sure, they could put more in the stands for most every basketball game, but they keep it a tough ticket and ensure that those there are present because they really, really want to be and in turn will be energetic. Sure, asshats from Tennessee, A&M, Michigan and so on are gonna call Vaught-Hemmingway a high school stadium because it doesn't seat 100K, but in the end, that's all they've really got the last time I checked. That's if we can keep our asses off severe probation and sanctions and the recruits keep rolling in .

I imagine VHS will become pretty ritzy over the next 10-15 years. There have been noticeable improvements every year, with the NEZ being the biggest project since the SEZ. That and getting the ball rolling towards full athletic scholarship endowment seem to be the main projects now that the Pavilion is done.

I doubt there's much IX stuff to do right now. The softball and soccer fields are both nice, and WBB has the Pavilion. I doubt there's much to spend on regarding riflery. Doesn't the softball field have like the biggest light board for softball in the conference (or maybe even the country)?