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re: Do you think your stadium should be expanded?

Posted on 1/23/11 at 1:00 pm to
Posted by CapstoneGrad06
Little Rock
Member since Nov 2008
72570 posts
Posted on 1/23/11 at 1:00 pm to
If it was structurally possible, I think Alabama could add 10-15,000 to BDS, and still fill it up.
Posted by CatFan81
Decatur, GA
Member since May 2009
47188 posts
Posted on 1/23/11 at 1:00 pm to
Commonwealth needs upgrades more than anything, but closing in one of the endzone upper decks wouldn't be a bad thing either.
Posted by TigersOfGeauxld
Just across the water...
Member since Aug 2009
25057 posts
Posted on 1/23/11 at 1:01 pm to
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Financially not viable. Where the he'll to park?


One of the reasons LSU is building high rise parking garages, no doubt. First one opens in 2012, across from the Union.
Posted by BSB HVR
Member since Nov 2010
1742 posts
Posted on 1/23/11 at 1:01 pm to
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200k seats so we can impress and bring in more jack linebackers


Well that's really what I wanted to say....If we can have the biggest, I'm in. Just that there's no way to do it without building a whole new stadium. Especially since being the biggest means being bigger than what Texas has on the drawing board.
Posted by TigersOfGeauxld
Just across the water...
Member since Aug 2009
25057 posts
Posted on 1/23/11 at 1:03 pm to
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Especially since being the biggest means being bigger than what Texas has on the drawing board.


WTF does Texas find room for a new on campus stadium? That is not a large campus by any means.

Posted by heartbreakTiger
grinding for my grinders
Member since Jan 2008
138974 posts
Posted on 1/23/11 at 1:03 pm to
i think we should add at least another 12k in seats we could slap a 3rd deck on the south endzone like ufs triple deck they have in their endzone and at the sametime add more suites to the stadium.

also we need to go back to the troughs in bathrooms to avoid having lines
Posted by attheua
Tuscaloosa
Member since Apr 2008
5442 posts
Posted on 1/23/11 at 1:03 pm to
No more seats, but the east and west exteriors could be better if they added some more brick/glass like the north and south ends. The east and west skybox rows need to be updated with glass facades to match the new ones as well imho.
Posted by heartbreakTiger
grinding for my grinders
Member since Jan 2008
138974 posts
Posted on 1/23/11 at 1:05 pm to
we also need purple field turf or possibly alternating every 5 yards purple and gold field turf
Posted by TigersOfGeauxld
Just across the water...
Member since Aug 2009
25057 posts
Posted on 1/23/11 at 1:05 pm to
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also we need to go back to the troughs in bathrooms to avoid having lines


amen.
Posted by BSB HVR
Member since Nov 2010
1742 posts
Posted on 1/23/11 at 1:10 pm to
I don't really know anything about Texas' stadium, or campus, but they're planning on expanding to 120k plus. And why are the lines so bad TS?
Posted by busey
First Coast, Florida
Member since Feb 2010
22958 posts
Posted on 1/23/11 at 1:11 pm to
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Commonwealth needs upgrades more than anything, but closing in one of the endzone upper decks wouldn't be a bad thing either.


True.
Posted by TigersOfGeauxld
Just across the water...
Member since Aug 2009
25057 posts
Posted on 1/23/11 at 1:14 pm to
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And why are the lines so bad TS?


FWIW he didn't say they were especially bad, just that didn't used to be much of a line with the troughs.
This post was edited on 1/23/11 at 1:19 pm
Posted by RebFeBrees
Pensacola, FL
Member since Dec 2009
13855 posts
Posted on 1/23/11 at 1:18 pm to
Yes we should expand and hopefully we will within the next 3-4 years. Unfortunately we have a penny pinching short-sighted AD that drags his feet on stadium expansions.

We don't need a big expansion just bowling in the NEZ and making a nice concourse area beneath the jumbotron. Below is a pic with the old magnavox "jumbotron". We have a much nicer one now.









This is one some guy obviously made with MS paint but the idea is pretty cool to add more luxury seating which is a must when doing any expansion.


This post was edited on 1/23/11 at 1:19 pm
Posted by McKeezy
Jacksonville, FL
Member since Aug 2010
3941 posts
Posted on 1/23/11 at 1:19 pm to
Dream:

make our big jumbotron take up the gap between the two upper decks. it woiuld be about 60 yards wide and make it abt 30 yards high

and on the other side close the gap between the upper decks but do it with bleacher seat. it would be over 100k with a boss jumbotron.
Posted by Monticello
Member since Jul 2010
16197 posts
Posted on 1/23/11 at 1:32 pm to
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One of the reasons LSU is building high rise parking garages, no doubt. First one opens in 2012, across from the Union.


Prepare for your student parking pass to triple in cost. Parking decks tend to cost around 6-10,000 dollars per spot to build.
Posted by TigersOfGeauxld
Just across the water...
Member since Aug 2009
25057 posts
Posted on 1/23/11 at 1:36 pm to
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Prepare for your student parking pass to triple in cost. Parking decks tend to cost around 6-10,000 dollars per spot to build.


They are way, way ahead of you dude. There was a thread several pages long in The Rant complaining about parking fees a few days ago.
This post was edited on 1/23/11 at 1:38 pm
Posted by tylerdurden24
Member since Sep 2009
46791 posts
Posted on 1/23/11 at 1:37 pm to
UGA has discussed and drawn up plans to wrap the 600 level (uppermost deck) around to the tall skysuites. Would put us above 100,000 seats and require East Campus Rd. to be tunneled underneath the east side of the stadium. I want to see it happen just so we can say that we're so football obsessed in GA that we tunneled a main artery of campus beneath the stadium, let alone having 100,000 seats.

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However, these plans were drawn up under Damon Evans, so I'm not sure McGarity will agree. Also, I think there are a lot more pressing issues that need to be tended to first, namely expanding Foley Field and fixing up Rutherford and Carlton Street to look nice (the two roads that run between Stegman Coliseum, Butts-Mehre building, and Foley Field/Dan McGill Tennis Complex). Also, another parking deck by the aforementioned athletic structures wouldn't hurt
This post was edited on 1/23/11 at 1:39 pm
Posted by WRhodesTider
Birmingham, Al
Member since Nov 2005
900 posts
Posted on 1/23/11 at 7:40 pm to
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I think the gaps should be closed in, the field lowered, and more seats put in BDS. And a roof.


The only way the the gaps could be closed in is if the sideline decks were replaced. Field won't be lowered because you wouldn't be able to the endzones from the endzone seats.
Posted by AesopsGators
Member since Feb 2009
1829 posts
Posted on 1/23/11 at 8:01 pm to
I wouldn't mind a stadium expansion but unless I'm much mistaken I don't think there is enough physical space unless some other buildings get torn down or the stadium gets a redesign.
Posted by Africom
Stuttgart, Germany
Member since Mar 2008
1641 posts
Posted on 1/23/11 at 8:02 pm to
No! no one wants to pay big $ to sit in shitty seats.
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