Author Topic: Memorial Stadium in Lawrence blows (Read 170311 times)

420seriouscat69 · « **Reply #50 on:** April 23, 2012, 05:19:05 PM »

Quote from: OregonSmock on April 23, 2012, 05:15:50 PM

Oldest football stadium west of the Mississippi. Meanwhile, K-State fans celebrate a hole in the ground surrounded by sheep pens.

And also surrounded by ppl, unlike KU. I know it's crazy. Imagine thousands standing around your football stadium to tailgate. You guys should look into that sometime.

DQ12 · « **Reply #51 on:** April 23, 2012, 05:19:50 PM »

IT'S NOT "UGLY," IT'S "TRADITIONAL," bad person.

CNS · « **Reply #52 on:** April 23, 2012, 05:20:18 PM »

Quote from: OregonSmock on April 23, 2012, 05:18:51 PM

Memorial Stadium was renovated and updated in 2001. Football complex finished in '08. Next.

Why does it still look so shitty then?

ChiComCat · « **Reply #53 on:** April 23, 2012, 05:22:35 PM »

RENOVATIONS!

OregonSmock · « **Reply #54 on:** April 23, 2012, 05:31:53 PM »

Quote from: ChiCat on April 23, 2012, 05:22:35 PM

RENOVATIONS!

Yeah, that isn't the actual luxury section. It was a mock version to allow people to test it out before they bought season tickets.

Like I've said before, once KU does another renovation to Memorial Stadium and adds the gridiron club, it will be one of the 25 best college stadiums in the country. The on campus setting and the overall location can't be matched by any other stadium in the Big 12. K-State has a generic hole in the ground stadium surrounded by a parking lot, and I know deep down inside that it kills you guys.

OregonSmock · « **Reply #55 on:** April 23, 2012, 05:34:54 PM »

Quote from: fanningksu on April 23, 2012, 05:19:05 PM

Quote from: OregonSmock on April 23, 2012, 05:15:50 PM
Oldest football stadium west of the Mississippi. Meanwhile, K-State fans celebrate a hole in the ground surrounded by sheep pens.

And also surrounded by ppl, unlike KU. I know it's crazy. Imagine thousands standing around your football stadium to tailgate. You guys should look into that sometime.

HUR HUR HUR!!!

ChiComCat · « **Reply #56 on:** April 23, 2012, 05:35:53 PM »

Quote from: OregonSmock on April 23, 2012, 05:31:53 PM

Quote from: ChiCat on April 23, 2012, 05:22:35 PM
RENOVATIONS!

Yeah, that isn't the actual luxury section. It was a mock version to allow people to test it out before they bought season tickets.

Like I've said before, once KU does another renovation to Memorial Stadium and adds the gridiron club, it will be one of the 25 best college stadiums in the country. The on campus setting and the overall location can't be matched by any other stadium in the Big 12. K-State has a generic hole in the ground stadium surrounded by a parking lot, and I know deep down inside that it kills you guys.

Fall 2010 can't get here soon enough

DQ12 · « **Reply #57 on:** April 23, 2012, 05:42:47 PM »

Beems, figure out how to post pictures. Nobody knows what the hell you're referencing.

OregonSmock · « **Reply #58 on:** April 23, 2012, 05:44:32 PM »

Quote from: Dlew12 on April 23, 2012, 05:19:50 PM

IT'S NOT "UGLY," IT'S "TRADITIONAL," bad person.

Go take a picture of K-State's stadium on a cold, rainy day, particularly one from the sheep lot. It will look just as bad, if not worse. This is the west side of Memorial Stadium, similar to what the east side will look like after renovation.

Gooch · « **Reply #59 on:** April 23, 2012, 05:46:10 PM »

Quote from: Dlew12 on April 23, 2012, 05:19:50 PM

Looks like a game day.

OregonSmock · « **Reply #60 on:** April 23, 2012, 05:46:22 PM »

Quote from: ChiCat on April 23, 2012, 05:35:53 PM

Quote from: OregonSmock on April 23, 2012, 05:31:53 PM
Quote from: ChiCat on April 23, 2012, 05:22:35 PM
RENOVATIONS!

Yeah, that isn't the actual luxury section. It was a mock version to allow people to test it out before they bought season tickets.

Like I've said before, once KU does another renovation to Memorial Stadium and adds the gridiron club, it will be one of the 25 best college stadiums in the country. The on campus setting and the overall location can't be matched by any other stadium in the Big 12. K-State has a generic hole in the ground stadium surrounded by a parking lot, and I know deep down inside that it kills you guys.

Fall 2010 can't get here soon enough

I'm sure your guys' new basketball facility will almost be complete by 2013.

Gooch · « **Reply #61 on:** April 23, 2012, 05:48:41 PM »

Quote from: OregonSmock on April 23, 2012, 05:46:22 PM

I'm sure your guys' new basketball facility will almost be complete by 2013.

Nope June 2012

OregonSmock · « **Reply #62 on:** April 23, 2012, 05:49:06 PM »

Hey guys, please keep ignoring the fact that KU and K-State's attendance numbers are virtually identical. Keep making references to empty stadiums, even though KU has just as good of attendance as K-State.

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DQ12 · « **Reply #63 on:** April 23, 2012, 05:50:50 PM »

Quote from: OregonSmock on April 23, 2012, 05:46:22 PM

I'm sure your guys' new basketball facility will almost be complete by 2013.

lol

OregonSmock · « **Reply #64 on:** April 23, 2012, 05:51:13 PM »

Quote from: Gooch on April 23, 2012, 05:48:41 PM

Quote from: OregonSmock on April 23, 2012, 05:46:22 PM
I'm sure your guys' new basketball facility will almost be complete by 2013.
Nope June 2012

Whoa... congrats on that one. That's big time. It only took what... ten years or so after the initial plans were on the drawing board?

bigwilliestyle1407 · « **Reply #65 on:** April 23, 2012, 05:51:55 PM »

Quote from: OregonSmock on April 23, 2012, 05:49:06 PM

Hey guys, please keep ignoring the fact that KU and K-State's attendance numbers are virtually identical. Keep making references to empty stadiums, even though KU has just as good of attendance as K-State.

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Yeah but isn't K.U all "elite" and stuff ?

Gooch · « **Reply #66 on:** April 23, 2012, 05:52:37 PM »

Quote from: OregonSmock on April 23, 2012, 05:51:13 PM

Quote from: Gooch on April 23, 2012, 05:48:41 PM
Quote from: OregonSmock on April 23, 2012, 05:46:22 PM
I'm sure your guys' new basketball facility will almost be complete by 2013.
Nope June 2012

Whoa... congrats on that one. That's big time. It only took what... ten years or so after the initial plans were on the drawing board?

Actually it took about 10 months.

sonofdaxjones · « **Reply #67 on:** April 23, 2012, 05:52:51 PM »

Quote from: OregonSmock on April 23, 2012, 05:49:06 PM

Hey guys, please keep ignoring the fact that KU and K-State's attendance numbers are virtually identical. Keep making references to empty stadiums, even though KU has just as good of attendance as K-State.

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Operative word is "attendance" . . . phognet talking points always like to play that one, usually forgetting that at ku for those games that increase the season attendance average, thousands of tickets have been given away.

0.42 · « **Reply #68 on:** April 23, 2012, 05:52:59 PM »

Three pages over a rough ridin' Bleacher Report article

Dugout DickStone · « **Reply #69 on:** April 23, 2012, 05:53:57 PM »

Quote from: ChiCat on April 23, 2012, 05:17:50 PM

Quote from: OregonSmock on April 23, 2012, 05:15:50 PM
Oldest football stadium west of the Mississippi. Meanwhile, K-State fans celebrate a hole in the ground surrounded by sheep pens.

Old does not equal tradition. It means shitty and too poor to update

sonofdaxjones · « **Reply #70 on:** April 23, 2012, 05:56:13 PM »

Speaking of parking lots, if and when ku EVER gets that stand alone track (8 years and counting now . . . actually longer) and gets to move the field event area . . . Cheyenne Zulu is going to extend the East Parking lot all the way across the entire East side of Memorial Fall Out Shelter, just as fast as he can.

Dugout DickStone · « **Reply #71 on:** April 23, 2012, 05:57:03 PM »

Quote from: Dlew12 on April 23, 2012, 04:14:56 PM

Quote from: Limestone on April 23, 2012, 03:41:04 PM
Give us one thing Memorial has that BSFS does not. (and the rats that eat the left over burnt popcorn from Allen don't count)
Leg room

Big 12 championship

National prominence

OregonSmock · « **Reply #72 on:** April 23, 2012, 06:02:39 PM »

Quote from: Gooch on April 23, 2012, 05:52:37 PM

Quote from: OregonSmock on April 23, 2012, 05:51:13 PM
Quote from: Gooch on April 23, 2012, 05:48:41 PM
Quote from: OregonSmock on April 23, 2012, 05:46:22 PM
I'm sure your guys' new basketball facility will almost be complete by 2013.
Nope June 2012

Whoa... congrats on that one. That's big time. It only took what... ten years or so after the initial plans were on the drawing board?
Actually it took about 10 months.

LOL. Huggins was begging for it back in '06.

sonofdaxjones · « **Reply #73 on:** April 23, 2012, 06:06:25 PM »

Glen Mason asked for a football complex like Vanier in 1995 (it was actually after the Bowl Season of 1992, but most phognet talking points tend to forget that) . . . had he stayed around THIRTEEN more years, he would have gotten it . . . Mangino re-asked for one in 2002.

OregonSmock · « **Reply #74 on:** April 23, 2012, 06:08:53 PM »

Quote from: sonofdaxjones on April 23, 2012, 06:06:25 PM

Glen Mason asked for a football complex like Vanier in 1995 (it was actually after the Bowl Season of 1992, but most phognet talking points tend to forget that) . . . had he stayed around THIRTEEN more years, he would have gotten it . . . Mangino re-asked for one in 2002.

I'm sure oscar Weber will put the new basketball facility to good use. All of those 2 and 3-star recruits won't know what to do with themselves once they get a glimpse of that place.