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Ranking the SEC basketball arenas...
Posted on 12/3/14 at 10:22 pm
Posted on 12/3/14 at 10:22 pm
We often times rank the stadium and argue over it for 20 pages.
I thought I would see how far the basketball arenas go.
1. Kentucky - never been but I heard it holds like 24,000 people. Which is insane. That number could be wrong, going off of old memory.
2. Tennessee - this is high to me only becaUe I got to go into it before a Bama tennessee game. Even met Bruce Pearl. Kinda liked how the suites are set up.
3. Arkansas - I saw Walmart does their corporate cult rally's there. Looks like an nba arena.
4. Vandy - raised floor. The odd design for the upper decks. Unique. Would be higher if the team could actually win a big game there.
5. Mizzou - never been in it but it looks decent on TV.
6. South Carolina - kinda like Arkys. Looks like an nba arena.
7. Auburn - small but is probably very clean .
8. Florida - pictures make it look like a bio-dome. I'm sure it gets rowdy but the program is deserving of a new one.
9. Atm - this is low because it looks odd on campus. It's just weird how it sits on the edge of campus. From the outside it looks generic as hell.
10. LSU- cool set up against tiger stadium and the habitat. But I think it is time yall built a new one.
11. Mississippi state - yall are building a great baseball stadium. But what's funny is that your basketball program was very legit for many years and it seems like yall never cared. The arena looks dated as hell.
12. Ole miss - never knew how bad it was until Marshall Henderson. Yall are building a new one so that kept you off the bottom of the list.
13. Coleman coliseum- I don't care if Bear Bryant drew the blueprints. It is way too big (15,000) and the layout sucks. Needs Upper decks, lower attendance by 5000. I'm sure a good engineer could retrofit that into the current building. But probably best to tear it down and start over. The improvements they made 10 years ago don't show up on TV and are weak in person. The place looks dead on tv and the students don't look to be involved at all(the students are supposed to visible and involved in college basketball).
I thought I would see how far the basketball arenas go.
1. Kentucky - never been but I heard it holds like 24,000 people. Which is insane. That number could be wrong, going off of old memory.
2. Tennessee - this is high to me only becaUe I got to go into it before a Bama tennessee game. Even met Bruce Pearl. Kinda liked how the suites are set up.
3. Arkansas - I saw Walmart does their corporate cult rally's there. Looks like an nba arena.
4. Vandy - raised floor. The odd design for the upper decks. Unique. Would be higher if the team could actually win a big game there.
5. Mizzou - never been in it but it looks decent on TV.
6. South Carolina - kinda like Arkys. Looks like an nba arena.
7. Auburn - small but is probably very clean .
8. Florida - pictures make it look like a bio-dome. I'm sure it gets rowdy but the program is deserving of a new one.
9. Atm - this is low because it looks odd on campus. It's just weird how it sits on the edge of campus. From the outside it looks generic as hell.
10. LSU- cool set up against tiger stadium and the habitat. But I think it is time yall built a new one.
11. Mississippi state - yall are building a great baseball stadium. But what's funny is that your basketball program was very legit for many years and it seems like yall never cared. The arena looks dated as hell.
12. Ole miss - never knew how bad it was until Marshall Henderson. Yall are building a new one so that kept you off the bottom of the list.
13. Coleman coliseum- I don't care if Bear Bryant drew the blueprints. It is way too big (15,000) and the layout sucks. Needs Upper decks, lower attendance by 5000. I'm sure a good engineer could retrofit that into the current building. But probably best to tear it down and start over. The improvements they made 10 years ago don't show up on TV and are weak in person. The place looks dead on tv and the students don't look to be involved at all(the students are supposed to visible and involved in college basketball).
This post was edited on 12/3/14 at 10:27 pm
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Posted on 12/3/14 at 10:25 pm to cjared036
1. Tad Pad
2-14. the rest
2-14. the rest
Posted on 12/3/14 at 10:27 pm to cjared036
I think Vandy's is awkward and ugly as frick. But I've only seen on TV and never been there.
Posted on 12/3/14 at 10:27 pm to cjared036
No Steg. No care.
Posted on 12/3/14 at 10:28 pm to cjared036
Tennessee, Arky, Vandy, and probably the new Auburn are probably all better than Rupp. Just because a lot of people can be in there doesn't make it awesome. It is bland, and not that great. It's what you get when something is built in a generic architectural time. Same goes for Dean Dome in Chapel Hill.
Posted on 12/3/14 at 10:28 pm to cjared036
Is Bama shutting down UGA sports now. Niiccceee.
Posted on 12/3/14 at 10:32 pm to cjared036
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12. Ole miss
List is not legit because Ole Miss is 15th in a 14 team league.
Thankfully this is our last season in it.
Posted on 12/3/14 at 10:32 pm to cjared036
Usually we have pics in these threads
Posted on 12/3/14 at 10:33 pm to cjared036
PMAC sucks but we're stuck with it for a while as they just built the basketball practice facility onto the back of it. The practice facility is really nice though.
This post was edited on 12/3/14 at 10:40 pm
Posted on 12/3/14 at 10:35 pm to cjared036
Love the inside of our arena. The outside could use a serious face lift though
This post was edited on 12/3/14 at 11:52 pm
Posted on 12/3/14 at 10:44 pm to cjared036
lil small which could be a problem later,,but hard to top it.
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Posted on 12/3/14 at 10:50 pm to cjared036
This post was edited on 12/3/14 at 10:57 pm
Posted on 12/3/14 at 11:00 pm to cjared036
ours is actually pretty awesome on the inside:
but it is kinda off on its lonesome:
Our campus is pretty damn big, tho. So everything is really spread out.
but it is kinda off on its lonesome:
Our campus is pretty damn big, tho. So everything is really spread out.
Posted on 12/4/14 at 12:09 am to cjared036
UF is completely renovating the O'Dome after this year. The final renderings from the winning bid aren't out yet, but we have seen some conceptual designs:
FWIW, here is one of the losing bids:
FWIW, here is one of the losing bids:
Posted on 12/4/14 at 1:58 am to cjared036
Posted on 12/4/14 at 2:05 am to cjared036
Mizzou Arena is pretty new, it reminds me of pro stadiums how it's laid out.
Posted on 12/4/14 at 7:10 am to cjared036
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11. Mississippi state - yall are building a great baseball stadium. But what's funny is that your basketball program was very legit for many years and it seems like yall never cared. The arena looks dated as hell.
I haven't been to a ton of other venues for basketball but the inside of the hump is fine. The outside looks dated and I wish we would have renovated it just to keep up with the rest of the look around campus.
We just put up a new jumbotron this year.
Doesn't look like the outside is going to change much though because we just built a practice facility on it a couple of years ago.
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But what's funny is that your basketball program was very legit for many years and it seems like yall never cared
Couldn't be further from the truth. The hump used to be one of the top 3 atmospheres in the league.
This post was edited on 12/4/14 at 7:11 am
Posted on 12/4/14 at 7:13 am to cjared036
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10. LSU- cool set up against tiger stadium and the habitat. But I think it is time yall built a new one.
Agree. The PMAC is outdated on the outside and I hate the one level circular seating design. Yeah it is awesome when it is rocking but that is the fans more than the arena itself. Hopefully there are plans for a new one to go with some of the Nicholson Corridor plans.
#can't wait for the streetcar.
Posted on 12/4/14 at 7:59 am to cjared036
Compared to some of the other pics posted, ours does really suck. Glad they got rid of the early 2000s elephant logo on the court though.
This post was edited on 12/4/14 at 8:00 am
Posted on 12/4/14 at 8:19 am to cjared036
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1. Kentucky - never been but I heard it holds like 24,000 people. Which is insane. That number could be wrong, going off of old memory.
If you've never been, how can you rank it #1?
That is the problem with these threads. Very few people have been to all the arenas.
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