Kyle Field renovation from a different angle

I wanted to talk about Kyle Field from a different perspective. That is, what do you want to see in the finished product regardless of what has already been announced? Here are my thoughts.

1. East stands. I want to see the students remain here. I like the fact that we give our students such good seats. This also means that these will remain discount seats, so there isn't going to be much return on anything that we do here. Just do enough that it doesn't look out of place in the finished product.

2. North stands (i.e. The Zone). Say what you will about Wally Groff, but that SOB thought that people would pay a premium to sit in the end zone as long as you gave them access to booze and air-conditioning, and he was right. $2,900 per seat per year to sit in the fricking end zone?!? If I had that $$$, I'd be in section 209. Leave it alone.

3. South stands. Wally taught me a lesson. Build a first deck of cheap seats with a couple of rows of suites behind it. On top of that build a massive 2nd deck of club seating with an air conditioned club behind it, and have restaurant seating for pre and post game socializing, etc. I guess you won't make as much per seat as you do in the zone club, but there is obviously a big market for club seating, so max it out. Even if you could demand $1,500 per seat per year, it's a lot of $$$.

Also, remove sections 100 and 149. They're such bad seats they're disgraceful.

4. West stands. I don't have a clue what to do here. These seats are already absurdly expensive (decks 1 and 2), and I would hate to see loyal old timers priced out of "their seats." I can't imagine how they make the money that they do on the 3rd deck. I'd rather be up high and on the side than low and in the end zone, but the 3rd deck is just absurdly high. I leave this up to all of you.

5. Exterior. I think that we can all agree that Kyle is pretty much arse ugly from the outside. I'm not a big facade guy, so I will only offer one small opinion. When I was in school (class of '94) we still had the horseshoe. That was the only attractive exterior of the stadium. I would love to see them try to tie into that history, and incorporate columns like these (pic from 1930) into the finished product.



Whatever we do, I do want to see the basic "tackle box" design remain. In the end, I'd like Kyle Field to still look like Kyle Field when we're done. They did a very good job of this with the renovation of Olsen Field.

Fire away.