Josh Brooks with some facilities updates

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developing both right and left field

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I'd love to hear more on exactly what this entails. It's deflating watchign all other big ballparks around the south have these fun arse party decks in the outfields compared to what we have. Hopefully we'll join that club soon but I don' think they mentiond that in those initial renderings the other day did they?

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massive video board to the wall where the mural currently is

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I do love that since that mural was frankly a bit embarrassing, but at the same time I kinda hate that we're getting rid of the center hanging scoreboard. I think every arena worth a damn in america has a center hang scoreboard...we were very late to the party in getting one and now we have to remove it because fo the ceiling uh. I mean what if you're sitting in that student section behind the basket, or in the corners? You're gonna have to turn around every time to see it?

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Hopefully we'll join that club soon but I don' think they mentiond that in those initial renderings the other day did they?

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None of this has been detailed yet and had only been supposed or hoped for until Brooks said it himself during the interview last night. He said the initial focus had to be advancing the student athlete experience by adding batting cages, the pitching lab, and a new locker room to put the training facilities on par with the rest of the conference. While doing so, it’s also allowing us to go ahead and address some things on the 3rd base side in terms of expanded seating and extending the awning to cover most of the existing seats. But he said after that’s done, the plan already is to do something about developing right and left field with the input of Coach Johnson.

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but at the same time I kinda hate that we're getting rid of the center hanging scoreboard

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So he didn’t say they’d be ditching the hanging Jumbotron. As it is now, we have a small wall video board and a hanging Jumbotron, I get the sense this would just be making that wall board way bigger and adding premium seating options to that area of the arena. I believe both the wall board and hanging unit would remain

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I mean what if you're sitting in that student section behind the basket, or in the corners? You're gonna have to turn around every time to see it?

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Student section is moving court side like Auburn has theirs. It will no longer be behind the basket or stuffed into the corners

Maybe they are and I just missed it but Josh didn’t say anything about it in his interview

I don’t think McGarity had the inclination or the fundraising clout to make it happen. By all accounts, Josh is very likable and plays the development game very well.