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Re: ITT We Laugh At Other Pud Teams' Pud Stadiums/Arenas
« Reply #2100 on: September 09, 2020, 09:52:59 AM »
IIRC, that stadium was $5 billion to build, aka 2.5x Jerry World?
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Re: ITT We Laugh At Other Pud Teams' Pud Stadiums/Arenas
« Reply #2101 on: September 09, 2020, 09:55:59 AM »
IIRC, that stadium was $5 billion to build, aka 2.5x Jerry World?

$5 billion and it didn't even get them a Shamrock Zone, LMFAO.

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Re: ITT We Laugh At Other Pud Teams' Pud Stadiums/Arenas
« Reply #2102 on: September 09, 2020, 02:10:34 PM »
those of us who watch "hard knocks" have already seen a sneak preview of this location


Cheesy Mustache QB might make an appearance.

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Re: ITT We Laugh At Other Pud Teams' Pud Stadiums/Arenas
« Reply #2103 on: September 09, 2020, 07:02:58 PM »
There's a damn two hour show on this stadium on Science Channel right now.

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Re: ITT We Laugh At Other Pud Teams' Pud Stadiums/Arenas
« Reply #2104 on: September 09, 2020, 08:20:54 PM »
Kstate ArchE bro has had an incred IG account the last year or so related to that stade

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Re: ITT We Laugh At Other Pud Teams' Pud Stadiums/Arenas
« Reply #2105 on: September 10, 2020, 07:43:32 AM »
Those of us who have the Internet and know how to use it have had a sneak peak on these new stadiums for months.


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Re: ITT We Laugh At Other Pud Teams' Pud Stadiums/Arenas
« Reply #2106 on: September 10, 2020, 10:20:31 AM »



Maryland’s xfinity Center is 100% chair backs which is interesting

I was somewhat surprised when I moved to Kansas and discovered both colleges don't have 100% chairback arenas. Reed Arena (awful venue) at A&M is all chairbacks too.

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« Reply #2107 on: September 10, 2020, 11:06:50 AM »



Maryland’s xfinity Center is 100% chair backs which is interesting

I was somewhat surprised when I moved to Kansas and discovered both colleges don't have 100% chairback arenas. Reed Arena (awful venue) at A&M is all chairbacks too.

The OOD and the piss barn aren't all seaters for two reasons.
1. The seating bowls haven't been renovated since new ADA rules.
2. Going all seats will reduce capacity, pre pandemic it would be foolish for either building to reduce capacity. K-State reduced capacity a decade ago, but added revenue because the reduction in capacity was to add premium seating.

K-State will be making extensive renovations to the ood seating bowl within the next 5 years, we'll see if they take the benches out then. I don't know if ADA compliance will force them to. Koch Arena became an all seater when they renovated.

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Re: ITT We Laugh At Other Pud Teams' Pud Stadiums/Arenas
« Reply #2108 on: September 10, 2020, 11:45:13 AM »
OOD needs to work on blue hair access.  State is losing a ton of season ticket holders due to age as they try to get up and down the steps. 

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Re: ITT We Laugh At Other Pud Teams' Pud Stadiums/Arenas
« Reply #2109 on: September 10, 2020, 11:56:07 AM »
There's a lot of love and hate for Williams Arena. Its probably 70% chairback now. I went to a game there in early 2019 and I really enjoyed it. It just sounded old, which is neat compared to the "newer" 70s/80s arenas we're used to in college basketball. Some people just hate it tho.






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Re: ITT We Laugh At Other Pud Teams' Pud Stadiums/Arenas
« Reply #2110 on: September 10, 2020, 11:58:38 AM »
Helm's Banners  :excited:

Those seats are way too far away in that last photo

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« Reply #2111 on: September 10, 2020, 12:03:43 PM »
I think the forced perspective of the panorama makes it look like it's really far away, my  :th_twocents:
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Re: ITT We Laugh At Other Pud Teams' Pud Stadiums/Arenas
« Reply #2112 on: September 10, 2020, 02:27:42 PM »
Gene said that if they ever do all the renovations envisioned for Bramlage it will include  floor level or near floor level entry into the seating areas. 


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Re: ITT We Laugh At Other Pud Teams' Pud Stadiums/Arenas
« Reply #2113 on: September 10, 2020, 05:57:09 PM »
Hopefully they piggyback oscar's success with renovations that cut capacity quite a bit, cause once Bruceketball is gone, attendance is going to drop significantly.

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Re: ITT We Laugh At Other Pud Teams' Pud Stadiums/Arenas
« Reply #2114 on: September 11, 2020, 10:16:20 PM »
So you guys know I like to spend my Friday nights pak'n and pounding the dang stone while learning about teams' old stadiums and arenas of yesteryear. Well CHECK OUT TENNESSEE'S OLD STOKELY ATHLETIC CENTER LOLWUT

Super weird. Extremely quirky. Kinda fun???

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Re: ITT We Laugh At Other Pud Teams' Pud Stadiums/Arenas
« Reply #2115 on: September 14, 2020, 10:12:53 PM »
I think the forced perspective of the panorama makes it look like it's really far away, my  :th_twocents:

Yeah the upper decks actually make all seats pretty close to the floor.

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« Reply #2116 on: September 14, 2020, 10:31:40 PM »
I think the forced perspective of the panorama makes it look like it's really far away, my  :th_twocents:

Yeah the upper decks actually make all seats pretty close to the floor.
Even Ahearn looked pretty cavernous depending on the photo. Prob 14k crammed into the little rough rider in this one.




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Re: ITT We Laugh At Other Pud Teams' Pud Stadiums/Arenas
« Reply #2117 on: September 15, 2020, 08:19:31 AM »
Original Ahearn was a seating and fire code abomination.

The Fire Marshall put the kibosh on 14K in there very quickly.

Also the dirt floor and raised basketball court . . . yeesh.   




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« Reply #2118 on: September 15, 2020, 08:24:07 AM »
Is that why Bramlage has the widest aisles west of the Mississippi? Making up for the years of not being up to code.

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Re: ITT We Laugh At Other Pud Teams' Pud Stadiums/Arenas
« Reply #2119 on: September 16, 2020, 12:22:06 AM »
The aisles are wide because all of the entries are at the top, there is no way to enter or exit a section from the middle of it.

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Re: ITT We Laugh At Other Pud Teams' Pud Stadiums/Arenas
« Reply #2120 on: November 15, 2020, 11:19:19 PM »
Look! I just discovered that Utah's Rice-Eccles Stadium (which I love) used to look COMPLETELY different! Lookit! I guess they smashed a lot of the stadium down and basically rebuilt it in like 1997 or something.

Look at it then! It was so cute! They had like a TLBL upper deck there, AND they threw some metal bleachers (I think) to make an even TLBL'ier upper deck above the permanent end zone bleachers, kinda like what Arkansas does (elite stade ref)! And--AAAAND--they  had that cool weird ramp behind the end zone that Colorado has. Super jealous!


They tore everything except the south end zone bleachers down in 1997 two days after the season ended, and quickly Stanford'd that badboy and had a whole new stadium built before the first game of the 1998 season.

Here's a picture of the newer version. Truly an elite venue. Obviously no The Setting, though.



One thing I really liked about the newer version of their stadium was the standalone section behind their end zone. I assume this is the only part of the stade leftover from the old iteration. Anyway, I like it because it's always seemed very Northern Illinois Husky Stadium'y to me. Its front row is elevated like 12 feet off the ground and it's got this sorta rounded off concrete at the edges that makes it look really keen, imo.





Anyway, that part is now gone. They renovated it and now it looks like some of the more dumb, modernized, stadium-ruining end zones at Texas and UGA. Here's what it looks like now:

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Re: ITT We Laugh At Other Pud Teams' Pud Stadiums/Arenas
« Reply #2121 on: November 15, 2020, 11:32:07 PM »
That grandstand, in the before picture, is pretty sweet. I would have liked to have sat there.

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Re: ITT We Laugh At Other Pud Teams' Pud Stadiums/Arenas
« Reply #2122 on: November 15, 2020, 11:33:09 PM »
Pretty dece
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Re: ITT We Laugh At Other Pud Teams' Pud Stadiums/Arenas
« Reply #2123 on: November 16, 2020, 12:00:47 AM »
Is it just me or is the "UTAH" on the roof shifted to the left? It looks off center and drives me crazy. It's definitely different than the one in the end zone that looks properly centered

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« Reply #2124 on: November 16, 2020, 04:40:33 AM »
It's centered, that's just a weird angle. There are two, I don't know if turrets are the proper architecture term, but that's what I'm going to use, that are on the ends of that building and the word Utah nearly spans the entire roof between the two. BTW that building is getting a remodel and a new roof so if Utah ever plays this year, you'll see new UTAH lettering. That building used to be their basketball arena like a hundred years ago.

SLC and the Utah campus are very cool, unfortunately those places are in the state of Utah.