re: Full Rendering of Improvements on Kyle Field..

I think Florida did their's first, then A&M and then Bama. All three are similar.

Florida's Zone:

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LSUfreek's expansion design

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Not saying he ripped that off, but photoshops like that have been seen around TexAgs for a long time.

Don't know how I'm just now seeing that, but that's funny right there

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Not saying he ripped that off, but photoshops like that have been seen around TexAgs for a long time.

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His is just my personal favorite.

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Ok I take back my horseshoe comment. But I believe the first mistake was the initial design on the sideline upper decks. But the bigger mistake is the zone. poorly designed in my opinion. Take that designer and kick him in the nuts.

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I'm not sure it's possible to enumerate all the mistakes that have been made in building Kyle Field over the years. First, I'd start with building a horeshoe around a track. Lots of schools had tracks around their football field, but not all of them built seats in the endzone around the track--Auburn, Missouri, Arkansas, Ole Miss, and Tennessee, just off the top of my head, had tracks around their fields initially, but didn't compound that mistake by building endzone seating around the track--they all got rid of the track before making a major mistake.

The second mistake was building the original stands at too low a rake (not steep enough).

Next, they screwed up by changing from a straight extension of the original grandstand (which they started with a small extension of the west stands topped by a modern press box in 1953), going to cantilevered upper decks in 1967, but then re-using the 1953 press box, causing the east and west upper decks to be built at different rakes (angles)--meaning that you could never seamlessly join the second level.

Third, they should have knocked down the endzone seats of the horseshoe much earlier than they did. They had design concepts showing a squared off endzone in the 60s, but this probably was jettisoned at the same time they decided to recycle the 1953 press box. They cured this mistake when they demolished the horseshoe in '99 as part of the Zone expansion.

I could go on, but those were the big ones, in my opinion.

This time around, I think we're making a mistake by not doing this in one year, and by failing to knock down the east 2nd and 3rd decks. But, if they do as good a job with this renovation as they did with the baseball facility, I'll be satisfied.

Is the team gonna have to play in Houston(or somewhere else) for a year while they construct that? The stadium looks like it will be completely redone for the most part.

Fair enough. I just thought it might be a good time to remind him that, at halftime of the game this year, Texas A&M University had 42 points while Auburn University had 7 points.

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Going to able to pack a lot of buttpirates into that stadium.

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We'll be going in dry on you again this year too!!

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But the bigger mistake is the zone. poorly designed in my opinion. Take that designer and kick him in the nuts.

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First you make a comment about the terrible horeshoe design.

Then about the horrible design of the zone, which is virtually identical both Alabama and Florida's stadiums.