4 stadium plans get look
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Wise Owl
Member since 2004
4 stadium plans get look
4 stadium plans get look
I believe they (the BOT and others in command) delayed this so that people (us) would get frustrated enough at not having a stadium that we would accept and welcome anything no matter what type of stadium or how cheap. Let the games begin September 18th and watch them continue. Next year they may decide on which of the 4 new types of stadiums they may try to build.
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Bytor
Member since 2004
4 stadium plans get look
Talon said
The idea on the dome should have never changed. Friends of mine that went to the big three thought that was going to be such a cool venue.
I believe they (the BOT and others in command) delayed this so that people (us) would get frustrated enough at not having a stadium that we would accept and welcome anything no matter what type of stadium or how cheap. Let the games begin September 18th and watch them continue. Next year they may decide on which of the 4 new types of stadiums they may try to build.
No question the Dome would have set us apart from the other Florida schools, given us something no other school in Florida has, imagine that - the visionLESS BoT is now going to give us their version of Lockhart on campus :P Why be original :
I'm sure the UCF stadium will be nice when done, but by the time the Bot decides on ours, it'll be a updated OVERPRICED Lockhart.
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Wise Owl
Member since 2004
4 stadium plans get look
I don't think Angelos and the athletic department will settle for "an updated OVERPRICED Lockhart." It will be much better than Lockhart even if it is only 30,000 seats. I think that based on the above photo of the UCF stadium FAU could make the new stadium a horseshoe and still have 30,000 or more seats. That way it wouldn't just be a miniature UCF stadium. Instead, it would have a design all its own.
Maybe I am being too optimistic on this one.
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Bytor
Member since 2004
4 stadium plans get look
On Sept 17, we better have good news.
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VIP DONOR
Member since 2007
4 stadium plans get look
Lm77 said
I guarantee it will be the smallest, least expensive option. It will be a mini-UCF (33% smaller). We've gone from the state-of-the-art dome to the cut-rate erector set…
Exactly. My first thought was that they'll go with the cheapest one, especially when they're told that the average attendance is less than the smallest venue and the eventual idea is to expand as attendance fills.
We'll get a 30,000-seater. But if it looks as good as UCF's (and I think it looks good) I'd take it with no qualms. But paint the bleachers red and blue, please.
Anyway, the upside is that 45,000 seats is only $8 million more than the 30,000 seater… and while that's a lot of average joes like us… to those in the business of building million dollar facilities (i.e. wellness center) that's really not a big deal.
Now, there are forces out there that are keeping a watchful and condescending eye on FAU. I believe that no matter what we build, whether it's 30k or 50k, people are going to gripe that a university education should be about ACADEMICS and a fourth-tier institution should not be spending this much money on a stadium. And they're right about the first part but we all obviously disagree about the second part.
However, UCF's headstart on us actually works to our favor considering that they too were a no-name, fourth tier commuter school with no football stadium
and then
they started building more housing, amenities like a recreation center, Greek housing, stadium (sound familiar?) etc and now they attract Merit scholars and have ascended into the third tier. (We do have those high-achieving students at FAU, btw… the average incoming freshmen GPA for the Honors College in 2006 was 3.95)
So we can point to UCF and say, "That's what will happen to FAU if we build X,Y, and Z" and, although there are some regional differences, we're both on the same trajectory.
For years FAU considered community colleges to be their competition and didn't focus on the bigger schools. Now FAU's main competition is UCF and to a lesser extent UF and FSU (since the flagships will always draw people based on history, endowments, family ties… like "We're a Gator family"). FAU and UCF are in a war for the middle students, the low A/high B students that don't get into UF/FSU.
The problem is that if we build anything less than a 45,000-seat stadium, people are going to be able to say, "Oh yeah, they have something like that at UCF but it's bigger/better."
And then we don't win any battles over prospective students.
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Wise Owl
Member since 2004
4 stadium plans get look
Bytor I was also venting but it does get old. I also like the horseshoe type stadium with the Jumbo Tron in the open area. Kind of like the Orange Bowl was back a ways.
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Bytor
Member since 2004
4 stadium plans get look
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Wise Owl
Member since 2006
4 stadium plans get look
Bytor said
I'm not sure we even need end-zone seating for the moment.
doin't give the BOT ANYYYY ideas, hahaha
no but i somewhat do agree… it's just a shame that the board will do the bare minimum at the pace in which it takes to build a fortress
i think a horseshoe (opposed to simply no endzone seating at all) is the ideal situation right now, given the bot lacks of motivation and support for any athletics, our budget, our timetable (time is of the essence), and realistic needs
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Wise Owl
Member since 2006
4 stadium plans get look
-the orange bowl IS a horseshoe
-doak campbell started off as a horseshoe
-the swamp started off as a horseshoe
-there is a somewhat popular horseshoe in columbus, oh…. some of you may have heard of it… Ohio State University's stadium? hehe
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Wise Owl
Member since 2006
4 stadium plans get look
Unfortunately, the B.O.T. is probably going to be like most people and go with the cheaper version. The problem is though, when it is time to expand the stadium the cost is going to be significantly higher. In my opinion although 8 million dollars is definitely a lot of cabbage, it is a bargain when you look at what the life of the stadium will be. Furthermore, if we are going to use this stadium as a "recruiting tool" for all students (both athletes and non athletes), we need to build something that shows we are on equal footing with all the other universities out there. Furthermore, 45,000 seats should not be a problem to fill, as long as we build more on campus housing.
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