re: best campus and facilities in sec west?

i always thought bamas was the best, but i know our indoor shite is sweet

ARKY's stadium in Fayettnam is an awesome venue despite the lowered number of seats !

Miss. State fans can't really give an opinion on Arky's football stadium since it seems we always play them in Little Rock.

Most Ark fans don't want to play in LR anymore. At least not conference games.

Downstate politics rule, though.

Yes. When we travel to LSU, Miss. St. is in Little Rock. The Little Rock contract requires 1 conference game a year. Most of us want a bomb to land on War Memorial. But those who have never attended the U of A, the lazy, and those with an odd sense of entitlement seem to have enough power to keep extending the LR contract, costing the U of A millions every season.

Pictures coming, FTW.

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I will say that I wish there was some sort of a rotation. I like the one conference game a year cause it actually has some meaning, I just wish they would alternate with all the west schools or something so no one school got stuck playing us every year in the craphole that WM unfortunately is.

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That's my thinking. Rotate the games among your SEC west opponents. That way LSU and State would at least be able to come up to Fayetteville once every four years.

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i have- been 7 years though. compared with the rest of the west i put you 4 or 5.

jordan hare is a dump, i don't care about how many people it holds

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If you haven't been in seven years you have missed out on a lot of the renovations/improvements. I'm not saying it is great, but the Daktrocnics board in the south endzone, a newer/nicer socreboard in the north endzone, ribbon boards on the upper deck fascias, and an increased number of restrooms and concession areas have made it a lot better. The one thing that would really help would be a new audio system. I believe the only speakers are in the south endzone above the scoreboard, and the echo makes it virtually impossible to understand about half of what it said over it if you are in the north stands.

The Auburn campus is a mixture of old and new. Several areas, especially the Quad dorms and other parts of the central campus, are some of the oldest buildings there and are on the National Historic Register. This greatly limits what can be done to those buildings - they cannot be razed and even renovations are governed by very strict limitations.

However, there has been and continues to be a lot of construction on campus which you would have missed out on by not being there in seven years. The Pharmacy Building was completely redone in 2004 or so. The Shelby Center is a state of the art engineering facility. The new basketball arena, plus the new University Village for on campus housing is completely transforming the northwestern quadrant.

Alabama has the most modern stadium in the SEC as it is; it will certainly be head and shoulders above the rest after the latest expansion is done. That isn't even debatable. Outside of football, the rest of our facilities aren't anything special.

As for the campus, you can't really compare Bama and LSU because the architecture is so different. They are both very nice in their own ways.

Tuscaloosa is one of the biggest shite holes I've ever been too. I still can't believe people would even consider going to school their. I'm just glad I'm getting the hell out of this dump in 2 months.