BSFS Expansion Thread

[EMAW4life-JHL]

Is it just me or does that stadium look waaaaaaaaaaaaay too big for Baylor?

Judging by the goal posts, no. 

agreed. that seats 60000 at most.
which is probably way to mouch for baylor.

[PowercatPat]

Is it just me or does that stadium look waaaaaaaaaaaaay too big for Baylor?

It looks huge. They wouldn't even be able to fill half of it on a regular basis.

[Boakai]

Is it just me or does that stadium look waaaaaaaaaaaaay too big for Baylor?

too nice for Waco anyway.

[tdaver]

Went to the game yesterday, also went in 03 and 07.  The transformation of pickens stadium is ridiculous.  It went from open-ended and mid-majory to screaming elite, big time football as you walk up.  BSFS has a long way to go to even get into the same league.  Hopefully the west side expansion will get us moving in the right direction, but there's plenty more to do.  Have to close in the NEZ either with seats or expanded Vanier.  Need to clean up the SEZ by adding permament concessions/restrooms, getting rid of tent city and somehow hiding Bramlage.  Then the exterior of the east side needs a facelift to match whatever we get on the west side.  We know all this stuff already, but seeing boone pickens in person really makes BSFS kind of embarrasing for me.

Two things I didn't like about the stadium shouldn't be an issue for BSFS because of its hole in the ground design.  The area under the stands between the concourse and seating was basically just sidewalks and gravel.  Surely they could have spruced that up a bit to match the rest of the stadium.  Second thing is site lines.  The seating is so close to the field (great for noise I'm sure) that you can't see action on the sideline.  I don't think the stands are as steep as BSFS either, which just makes it worse.

Long story short... rendering please and get the gold shovels out ASAP!

[KCFDcat]

any news on this? 

[SkinnyBenny]

Here's one reason the NEZ needs a bigger video board.  During the second and fourth OTs of the aTm game, the Aggies got the ball first and headed toward the north end zone.  We needed to be loud as crap, but because there's a tiny-ass video board above Vanier, most of the 8,000-ish people sitting in the south end zone were all turned around and facing away from the action so they could watch it on the big video board .  Our D needs your voices, people, get angry, get loud, go ksu wild wild cats.

 

Not saying the video board over Vanier has to be the same size as the one on Bramlage, but to not update and at least double the size of the one we have there right now would be pretty bushleague. 

We're , we gotta act like it.   

[cas4ksu]

Let's build a dome.

[SkinnyBenny]

Let's build a dome.

     

[Panjandrum]

any news on this? 

The number I heard last night was $80 million.

[SkinnyBenny]

Hmm...  That's more than $50 million, right?  What does that mean in regards to our dome?

[Panjandrum]

Hmm...  That's more than $50 million, right?  What does that mean in regards to our dome?

I don't know, but that's approximately what Iowa spent to totally revamp Kinnick a few years back.

[SkinnyBenny]

I don't think this has been addressed in this thread yet, and   if it has, but for those of you who have insider-y info on this stuff:

Are they gonna do anything about the lights when they do the renovations?  I mean, they could probably use an update.  Sure they work fine, but the 4x2 light pole action at BSFS looks a little Bishop Stadium-y, and I think that's one reason (of many) that other teams make fun of our stadium for being high school-y.  













(And sorry for getting everybody's hopes up that there would be some sweet new info with the bump of this thread.)

[WildcatNkilt]

I don't think this has been addressed in this thread yet, and   if it has, but for those of you who have insider-y info on this stuff:

Are they gonna do anything about the lights when they do the renovations?  I mean, they could probably use an update.  Sure they work fine, but the 4x2 light pole action at BSFS looks a little Bishop Stadium-y, and I think that's one reason (of many) that other teams make fun of our stadium for being high school-y.  













(And sorry for getting everybody's hopes up that there would be some sweet new info with the bump of this thread.)

Last I heard they were going to have new lights on top of the new press box.  They will have to do something because the depth of the new box comes out to where the current lights are located.

[Harry Dunne]

I don't think this has been addressed in this thread yet, and   if it has, but for those of you who have insider-y info on this stuff:

Are they gonna do anything about the lights when they do the renovations?  I mean, they could probably use an update.  Sure they work fine, but the 4x2 light pole action at BSFS looks a little Bishop Stadium-y, and I think that's one reason (of many) that other teams make fun of our stadium for being high school-y.  













(And sorry for getting everybody's hopes up that there would be some sweet new info with the bump of this thread .)

[HeinBallz]

do they still have to bring in temporary lights for games in HD?

[MobDeep]

Any insidery info on when this project will officially be announced?

["storm"nut]

do they still have to bring in temporary lights for games in HD?

No, fixed that with new HD Light bulbs after that season that they brought in the extra lights.

[MakeItRain]

I don't think this has been addressed in this thread yet, and   if it has, but for those of you who have insider-y info on this stuff:

Are they gonna do anything about the lights when they do the renovations?  I mean, they could probably use an update.  Sure they work fine, but the 4x2 light pole action at BSFS looks a little Bishop Stadium-y, and I think that's one reason (of many) that other teams make fun of our stadium for being high school-y.  













(And sorry for getting everybody's hopes up that there would be some sweet new info with the bump of this thread.)

We're complaining about lights now?

[SkinnyBenny]

Chill the eff out, it's a valid question.  We're trying to make our stadium look like a real stadium. 

[WildcatNkilt]

Any insidery info on when this project will officially be announced?

Schultzy continues to tell donors that the project will start after football season.  I'm hoping for a surprise announcement.

[SkinnyBenny]

Would be a cream dream if it came right after a bigtime bowl V. and Dr. Pepper and he started it with, "...Well we gotta have somewhere to put all these trophies, so..."

[EMAW4life-JHL]

Would be a cream dream if it came right after a bigtime bowl V. and Dr. Pepper and he started it with, "...Well we gotta have somewhere to put all these trophies, so..."

would scream like a little bitch if this happened

[KITNfury]

I hope they start knocking down the old one this Sunday, and renders are released after I click "post".

[Gooch]

Pics or stay the eff out of this thread.

[DQ12]

Did i mention I saw some actual K-State letterheaded plans for the 5 or so phases (not the ones on pg 53) of this thing at the Baylor game?  Because I did. 

The only thing that stuck out to me (beyond the pressbox) was that the endgame was to extend the concourse in front of vanier to connect both sides.  I don't remember much, but it was pretty impressive.