*03/08 UPDATE...BDS + Athletics facilities Construction Update

Wish they would wrap the whole upper deck around

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Have you gotten word yet on where they'll be offering you seats for next year? Friends had seats in U2 and are being displaced and last time I talked to them they were pissed and felt like UA was jerking them around. They've had those seats since that upper deck was built.

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The University sent everyone who is being moved a letter right before Christmas detailing the process. While it was frustrating that it took this long to let us know what the deal was, the letter was pretty detailed and sounded like a fair and sound process

- Nobody who is moving pays Tide Pride right now, once new seats are selected Tide Pride dues will be paid at that seat area level

- Sometime in March we will get into a seat selection software (I'm assuming much like I use to pick Braves season ticket seats) that will show us all available season ticket locations and the donation level for them. We can pick wherever we want to go out of that. The order of people being able to pick is based on how many points you have.

- Then, I assume, any left over seats will be offered to people on the waiting list.


So, assuming the sections I have requested have available seats I think it all should work out ok.

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Not a bad process, but yeah that's really late to let people know. I haven't spoken to them since around Thanksgiving, and at that time they were leaning to just giving up their tickets they were so frustrated with the process. They never buy road or bowl game tickets so I'd imagine their points are on the low end and they'd get seats they don't like anyway. I don't think she's missed a home game since the 90's, so maybe they'll calm down by March.

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It was pretty frustrating all around - especially because they were booting a bunch of folks who had had tickets there for a LONG time (we'd only been there for 5-6 years, lots around us like your friends for 20-30 years), and the University just kind of acted like it was no big deal.

I've got an older friend at church and some that sit around us who decided to hell with it, we don't want to move and gave up their seats. I'm guessing there will be quite a few others like that too.

My daughter was telling me students were dressing up like construction workers and getting the old stadium seats that were in a pile at the site. Unfortunately she did not get me one.

I can't believe all of this was paid by the fund that was opened up by The Strip when Sark came back to campus.

Kingpin tells me we're going back to AstroTurf. We'll see.

I may update Rhoades Stadium construction here too. But the last pics are from over a month ago.

Renovations are being made to the stadium’s press box, clubhouse while constructing new concessions, restrooms, umpire lockerroom and two suites and expansion of the brickyard.


It's a $3 million project. Season is 30 days away so it needs to be completed soon.

Update:

In this video you can see the support structure extending out over Wallace Wade Drive being put up. Making room for an expanded concourse.

Picture from November and today




Stairs to the front entrance gone. Digging tunnel to the lockerroom.

Jeff Allen posted pics today of the progress of the Sports Science Center.