Parking is a valid question. You have those two parking garages, yes, but that'll hold, what, 2000 cars at best? And between those two apartment villages back there, it will be eaten up (I still don't see where the eastern apartment village people are going to park… it would have made more sense to put the stadium/arena between the two parking garages back there…

So what will likely happen is that, come gameday, you'll have to park on the long stretch of parking lot north of the stadium. And that's if you get there early. If you don't, you'll likely have to park somewhere else on campus and walk the Halo (the long sidewalk that encircles campus) to get there. I imagine that on days when it's soldout, like opening day (hopefully), you might even have to park on Spanish River or by P.F. Chang's and walk over… that's what people have to do when we have the July 4th celebration.

That is one sweet pic! That's for sharing that Owlcountry…where did u find it?

Concerning the parking, I for one wouldn't mind parking somewhere else on campus and walking to the stadium, especially if we can tailgate before the game. I can imagine it now, band playing outside the fountain, carnival feel to the place…man i can't wait!. Up at FSU, they tailgate all over campus…find a piece of grass and it's yours (just not Landis green). I would love to have that feel at FAU on gameday.

-Go Owls!

Are those seats orange? I want RED.

SeminOWL2006 said

Are those seats orange? I want RED.

they'll be red or blue… although FIU has blue seats so I hope we go with red.

owlcountry

Where did you find that picture? Are there more views of it in this photorealistic type quality?

SeminOWL2006 said

owlcountry

Where did you find that picture? Are there more views of it in this photorealistic type quality?

I'm sorry I didn't answer before… must have overlooked it.
I found it on the PDF for the Stadium Appendix; they must have just added it recently.
There's just one more from the other angle.

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http://www.fau.edu/facilities/uavp/programs-folder/FAU_STADIUM_PROGRAM_APPENDIX_for_Sign_2.14.08.pdf

Two big parking garages next to it and parking all around, I think parking should be fine, especially with games on a Saturday, more kids on campus, and people can walk from across the campus straight down the breezeway.

Those views are nice (I checked out the PDF).  Kind of weird that they show so many shade trees on campus….everyone knows we prefer no shade providing palms!

SeminOWL2006 said

Two big parking garages next to it and parking all around, I think parking should be fine, especially with games on a Saturday, more kids on campus, and people can walk from across the campus straight down the breezeway.

I wouldn't count on those parking garages. I think they're going to only hold 2000 cars altogether and the residents of both apartment complexes are very likely going to eat those up with their own cars (unless the people in the right-side apartments park somewhere else but I haven't seen any parking garage for them so…).

What it's likely going to happen is that… say a game is at 4 pm… the people who come between 7-12 are going to eat up all the spots in the long parking lot north of the stadium as well as the spots to the left and the right of the alumni center/receation center.

(Where do you guys plan on tailgating? In the plaza in front of the stadium or in the long parking lot?)

Then you'll have people parking down by the Burrow and the library parking garage who then will walk the Halo to get to the stadium. From there it fans out over campus to the SO parking garage, Student Union lot, etc.

On huge gamedays, like if we sellout against Michigan State or host FSU in the future, don't be surprised if you have to park as far down as Spanish River or over by P.F. Chang's to walk over. Personally, I'd love to see that and I think it'll be really, really interesting in the future when the stadium expands (especially if it gets packed) and the campus only has room for less than half of that to park on-campus.

You're going to see people parking all over outside of campus (Casa Del Rio, Spanish River Library, etc) and walking to the game. You can imagine what Boca is going to say when Glades is stalled because you have thousands of people streaming across the street to go to the game…

That will be amazing, can't wait til it happens!

Great pics of the new staduim, but is it just me or did the artist change Spanish River Blvd. to a mountain range?