Warm up the "have a game in Ahearn every year" crowd.

[Belvis Noland]

do you really think bramlage sucks?  i don't.  ultimately it's the students and the crowd that makes a great basketball arena and ours has been pretty damn well recognized the past few years.  do i think ours looks like a strip mall from the 80's?  yeah but i think, to dax's point, that's just cosmetic and has already been altered to some extent with the BTF going in along with the stage 543 of the westside football expansion.

I'm talking about the cosmetics, not the atmosphere.  Students and fans are generally great.  facility/venue is garbage.  Same is true for BSFS.  Great fans.  Good atmopshere.  The stadium itself, however, leaves a lot to be desired.  West Side expansion will greatly improve the facility.  I hope we undertake an equally agressive overhaul of Bramlage as well. 

 

[8manpick]

I hope we undertake an equally agressive overhaul of Bramlage as well. 

Maybe after John "Football School" Currie leaves.

[Belvis Noland]

Maybe after John "Football School" Currie leaves.

maybe.  but he also ginned up 20mil for the BBTF.  So, there is some precedent.

I just want expanded concourses, northside BSFS overlook, some lounges for Ahearn donors, and some mother f'n limestone.     

[8manpick]

I just want expanded concourses, northside BSFS overlook, some lounges for Ahearn donors, and some mother f'n limestone.     

 

[SkinnyBenny]

I want there to not be hockey arena dimensions in our basketball arena. That weird gulf between the baskets and the end zone bleachers make me lol.

[Paul Moscow]

I want there to not be hockey arena dimensions in our basketball arena. That weird gulf between the baskets and the end zone bleachers make me lol.

The stairways that stop 1/3 down always made me lol.

[MakeItRain]

I want there to not be hockey arena dimensions in our basketball arena. That weird gulf between the baskets and the end zone bleachers make me lol.

Bramlage does not have hockey arena dimensions.  I can't think of a single arena built in the last 30 years with less floor space than Bramlage.  It would be horrifically stupid to have an arena with less floor space.

[8manpick]

It would be horrifically stupid to have an arena with less floor space.

Because it would suck to have the fans right on top of the court?  Because there wouldn't be enough room for the press?

[Belvis Noland]

Bramlage does not have hockey arena dimensions.  I can't think of a single arena built in the last 30 years with less floor space than Bramlage.  It would be horrifically stupid to have an arena with less floor space.

Plenty of arenas have similar floor space, but bring the fans to the baselines via retractable bleachers.  Mizzou Arena and Gallagher Iba were both built in the past 30 and AFH and Hilton Coliseum also have retractable bleachers.  Ahearn had retractable bleachers behind the baskets, too.

 

[Dr Rick Daris]

Maybe after John "Football School" Currie leaves.

maybe.  but he also ginned up 20mil for the BBTF.  So, there is some precedent.

I just want expanded concourses, northside BSFS overlook, some lounges for Ahearn donors, and some mother f'n limestone.     

expanded concourses sound stupid. everything else you mentioned sounds great.

[Belvis Noland]

Maybe after John "Football School" Currie leaves.

maybe.  but he also ginned up 20mil for the BBTF.  So, there is some precedent.

I just want expanded concourses, northside BSFS overlook, some lounges for Ahearn donors, and some mother f'n limestone.     

expanded concourses sound stupid. everything else you mentioned sounds great.

Yeah, don't know why I said expanded concourse.  But, definitely renovated concourses with limestone, uplighting, graphics and non shitty concessions.  Terrazzo floors would be money too.

[MakeItRain]

Bramlage does not have hockey arena dimensions.  I can't think of a single arena built in the last 30 years with less floor space than Bramlage.  It would be horrifically stupid to have an arena with less floor space.

Plenty of arenas have similar floor space, but bring the fans to the baselines via retractable bleachers.  Mizzou Arena and Gallagher Iba were both built in the past 30 and AFH and Hilton Coliseum also have retractable bleachers.  Ahearn had retractable bleachers behind the baskets, too.

 

I completely agree with you, the floor space isn't the issue its that we don't utilize that space.  We shouldn't either.  Without lowering the floor those would be awful seats that would only be used if the students moved to the baselines.  The site lines there would be awful and would be empty more often than not.  The flexibility of having that extra floor space is nice. Not sure why we don't use Bramlage for concerts and the such like we used to. 

Also for the record when OSU renovated GIA the location of the seats in the lower bowl were not moved closer, they just put in new bleachers

[jtksu]

I could donate to this.

I could whack off to this.     

[ELL3]

I could donate to this.

I could whack off to this.     

I could donate to this.

I could whack off to this.     


JFC beautiful, might change my mind on Currie if he gets this done

[SkinnyBenny]

Now do one with Briggs ads everywhere.