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re: Who will be the next SEC program to build a brand new football stadium?
Posted on 5/30/17 at 1:32 pm to Farmer1906
Posted on 5/30/17 at 1:32 pm to Farmer1906
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Following the Texas private school model. Build a smaller, nicer stadium.
Vandy already has a small stadium right in the heart of their campus. There's no room to build a stadium anywhere near campus with it being right by downtown nashville and all the available real estate being bought up by corporations at an astounding pace. Vandy would be best suited by a renovation, but even then, their football program doesn't generate the donations to justify it either.
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Posted on 5/30/17 at 1:32 pm to genuineLSUtiger
Williams Brice certainly seems like the logical next stadium to be redone, especially with Auburn in process on their renovation.
Who knows what Vandy will do.
Who knows what Vandy will do.
Posted on 5/30/17 at 1:33 pm to SummerOfGeorge
Wait Kentucky's stadium has a corporate sponsor from Kroger?
Posted on 5/30/17 at 1:33 pm to kingbob
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What's Vandy gonna do? They don't have the fanbase to demand a new stadium.
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“Even before I took over (as AD in 2003), people were saying, ‘Stadium, stadium, stadium’ because everybody was building stadiums,” Williams said.
Williams said he wants to build a new stadium in the next three or four years, but that depends on the speed of fundraising.
Paying a premium price could get the facility built during one offseason, but the likely scenario would require Vanderbilt to play one season at another home field — probably the Titans’ Nissan Stadium.
A new stadium probably would cost between $60 million and $90 million, or perhaps more depending on amenities and several other factors, Williams said. He wants a new stadium to be better but not necessarily bigger.
Vanderbilt Stadium has a capacity of 40,550, and a new facility would have a similar amount of seating. In the previous five seasons (2011-15), the Commodores averaged 34,526 in attendance at home games.
In 2014, Vanderbilt completed a $31 million multipurpose indoor practice facility, funded by a combination of philanthropy and university investment, according to the school’s athletics website.
Williams said a new stadium would be paid through several sources, including donations, ticket revenue, luxury suite sales and perhaps corporate naming rights.
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Posted on 5/30/17 at 1:34 pm to SummerOfGeorge
Let's go Krogering • Krogering •• Krogering..
Is anybody on here old enough to remember that commercial?
Is anybody on here old enough to remember that commercial?
Posted on 5/30/17 at 1:35 pm to genuineLSUtiger
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That gif is such an apt visual for the Aggies stretch run in the West every year. Perfect.
Bro, not every. Just the last few.
Posted on 5/30/17 at 1:37 pm to Farmer1906
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If you combine the above, it still less than A&M's renovation.
Because none of those other schools needed to spend that much on their stadiums to make them nice.
Posted on 5/30/17 at 1:39 pm to Cocotheape
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A&M basically built a new stadium right? Similar to the Yankee Stadium "renovation" of the 1970s that actually just produced a 90% new structure that occupied the same space as the old one (and both teams treat it as if it was the same old stadium for marketing purposes).
At Kyle Field, the East 2nd deck dates from 1967 and is the oldest remaining part of the stadium. East third deck is from 1979, and the north endzone is from 1999. The rest was built in the latest remodel. A&M looked at a new build, but the location of Kyle Field was worth so much (not just in an intangible sense--the infrastructure for parking and utilities is huge) that they just couldn't justify the cost.
The Yankee Stadium remodel from the mid-70's actually retained a lot more of the old stadium that you think. They lowered the field slightly, and added rows that way, then extended the upper deck with a cantilevered design that allowed them to remove the supports that blocked views--those were the only new seats. The outfield bleachers dated from the 1930, and just had parts shaved off.
Posted on 5/30/17 at 1:40 pm to SummerOfGeorge
Vanderbilt at one time said they were considering sharing an off campus stadium with a potential expansion Nashville MLS team. That would be a disaster. If I was a Vandy alum or student, I would do everything in my power to prevent them from moving off campus.
Posted on 5/30/17 at 1:42 pm to SummerOfGeorge
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10. Jordan Hare Stadium - Auburn (2007) ($?; walkways and underneath facilities updated, new $2.9M HD jumobtron added, $40M renovation to be completed in 2018 adding premium seating, coaches offices, SW Corner additions, new locker rooms and new press box...hitching posts for mules outside every gate, new outhouses complete with corn cobs, dirt parking lot for tractors, spray disinfectant machines to rid hair lice for each gate, audio instructions to find seats because of literacy rate, automatic seating section ejection seats to enhance leaving game early when being slaughtered by the Tide.)
I updated the update on the update of Jordan (pronounced "Jerdin") Hare (pronounded hi-air).
This post was edited on 5/30/17 at 1:45 pm
Posted on 5/30/17 at 1:43 pm to TigersOfGeauxld
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Because none of those other schools needed to spend that much on their stadiums to make them nice.
There's nice and then there's the Burj Khalifa of cfb. Which is currently Kyle Field
Posted on 5/30/17 at 1:46 pm to TomRollTideRitter
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Vanderbilt at one time said they were considering sharing an off campus stadium with a potential expansion Nashville MLS team. That would be a disaster. If I was a Vandy alum or student, I would do everything in my power to prevent them from moving off campus.
Welp, if it would bring more income into the program, I don't see how it would be such a disaster. USCe's stadium is off campus, and both USCe and UK's basketball arenas are off-campus. It seems to be working out for those schools.
The issue is Vanderbilt is at a point where it needs to upgrade now. No premium seating of any kind, no fan amenities to speak of, and nothing to wow recruits with.
If schools like Tulane, Houston, and Cincinnati can build new stadiums, I'm sure Vanderbilt, with all that SEC money, can do it as well.
Posted on 5/30/17 at 1:47 pm to texag7
I think you will see the downsizing of stadiums in the future. Maybe convert them to chair-back seating. People enjoy their 65 inch HD TV too much.
Posted on 5/30/17 at 1:51 pm to texag7
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There's nice and then there's the Burj Khalifa of cfb. Which is currently Kyle Field
We're not gonna argue about this, because while Kyle Field is nicer in some ways, it's not nicer in all ways. It has less premium seating than every other 100K+ stadium in the SEC, plus Arkansas's RRS.
The renovations to Tiger Stadium will remove any advantage Kyle Field may have at present.
Just the facts.
Posted on 5/30/17 at 1:57 pm to Farmer1906
I always seemed to remember Baylor stadium getting taken over
Posted on 5/30/17 at 2:03 pm to TigersOfGeauxld
Whatever you say. Kyle Field is by far the nicest stadium in the country on many levels. I mean our students take an escalator to their seats.
Also, what do you classify as "premium seating"?
Also, what do you classify as "premium seating"?
This post was edited on 5/30/17 at 2:05 pm
Posted on 5/30/17 at 2:24 pm to SummerOfGeorge
Poor Ole Miss.
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Vaught-Hemingway Stadium (2016) ($25M; Completed bowl, added 3,458 seats)
Posted on 5/30/17 at 2:31 pm to SummerOfGeorge
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2. Kyle Field - Texas A&M (2015) ($484M; Stadium Rebuild)
Posted on 5/30/17 at 2:33 pm to TigersOfGeauxld
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The renovations to Tiger Stadium will remove any advantage Kyle Field may have at present.
Just the facts.
Sure sounds like an opinion.
Posted on 5/30/17 at 2:33 pm to CBandits82
It costs money to build the nicest suites in cfb, give your students escalators, etc.
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