We're all going to be parking our asses on gold from now on. Thank Larry Scott...
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Facilities Upgrades!
- Thread starter Shldr2Shldr
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We're all going to be parking our asses on gold from now on. Thank Larry Scott...
MrFrumpylane
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Looks like BuffFan went FullTini.
That is what insurance is for.
Wow, talk about a party pooper! Focus on the positives!
Some of the bridges over Boulder creek area actually designed to break away in case of a large flood, so that they do not become a temporary dam and cause worse flooding downstream.
Cool story bro.
Cool story bro.
Are you being serious?
Deleted member 807
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Yeah. Move the visitor section to the new NE bleachers with the bad site lines.
Give the Buffs fans a chance at watching Ralphie finish her run and heckle the visitors coming out of the locker room.
We will have to make sure to put nice ridged bleachers for extra seating "comfort" for the visitors.
good point...i'm guessing nobody has even considered that yet...back to the drawing board.
Franklin is rarely full to capacity on game days. Wont be a problem.
CVilleBuff
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Just out of curiosity, I did some rough counting: (included venues such as the Rose Bowl and LA Coliseum, but not venues currently shared with an NFL team such as Heinz Field and Lincoln Financial) Folsom at its current capacity of 53,750 is ~45th largest college football stadium in the country. Officially, Oregon is right in front of us (53,800) - I know they average around 59k - and Indiana is right behind us (52,900). At 60k, we'd move up to ~38th right behind Oklahoma State (60,218) and right ahead of Arizona (57,803). At 65k, we'd be ~28th right behind Virginia Tech (66,233) and right ahead of BYU (63,725).
There are a whole host of programs that have done renovations in recent years to bring their stadiums up from capacities around 45 and 50k up to around 60k or more. Roughly over the past decade this includes: Oklahoma State, Texas Tech, Arizona, Ole Miss, Virginia, Virginia Tech, North Carolina, North Carolina State, Kentucky, Arkansas. We've certainly heard a bunch about the various major renovations and other upgrades that our conference foes are doing/have recently completed as well: Arizona, Cal, Washington, Stanford, Washington State etc.
There are a whole host of programs that have done renovations in recent years to bring their stadiums up from capacities around 45 and 50k up to around 60k or more. Roughly over the past decade this includes: Oklahoma State, Texas Tech, Arizona, Ole Miss, Virginia, Virginia Tech, North Carolina, North Carolina State, Kentucky, Arkansas. We've certainly heard a bunch about the various major renovations and other upgrades that our conference foes are doing/have recently completed as well: Arizona, Cal, Washington, Stanford, Washington State etc.
Yep! Balch has got to go away or seriously renovated. It's almost an eyesore.
Del
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Looks fantastic! I'm sure Balch will come sometime after this is done. By the time its finished in 2014/2015, the money from the Pac-12 should really start to be flowing. I think you really have to do this first A) to improve the product on the field which in turn sells tickets and B) because there is supposed to be a track going around the new practice field so then the track and CC teams will have an inside area to work out in while Balch is being demolished/renovated.
If that new facility provides all the assets the football team needs, they could clear out of Dal Ward and probably have enough room for all of the remaining non-revenue producing sports to get in there. Not sure if that is the plan or not, but there has been talk about the weight and offices not being big enough by current standards for the football team.
If that mockup is completely to scale:
1) It won't infringe hardly at all on Franklin Field
2) It will add quite a bit more seats than I originally thought by wrapping the second level around and even extending the first level just a touch towards Dal Ward
3) It will not add club seats
Do a google map search yourself and very carefully compare the existing to the model.
1) It won't infringe hardly at all on Franklin Field
2) It will add quite a bit more seats than I originally thought by wrapping the second level around and even extending the first level just a touch towards Dal Ward
3) It will not add club seats
Do a google map search yourself and very carefully compare the existing to the model.
Biggest hot box ever! Imagine 420 day.
Del
Well-Known Member
Put it on Craigslist and sell it to UNC or some other smaller program needing an indoor facility. "Slightly Used Practice Bubble $1million USD OBO"
Deleted member 807
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The indoor facility might actually add to the gold lot tailgating experience....if the school allows the party to spill over into the building.
At a minimum, the restrooms would be open for tailgating. Optimally, the field itself could be turned into a hospitality area on game day.
For $7M being spent, maybe there is budget thrown in for a monster videoboard inside for people using the indoor facility as a beer garden.
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dude you are a genius. move the tent up to franklin and make it a beer garden. So what if we lose a few more parking spots, you can easily fit 5k in that tent all buying $7 beers. Then when everyone pukes, just take a hose a wash off the sides.
I would rather have them there than in the nice permanent practice facility.
I'd rather have them in the practice facility. Setting up a beer garden, complete with big screen TV's, inside the practice facility is pure genius. Charge a little more for parking at Franklin Field and include free admission to the beer garden as a perk. If you're not in the Gold lot, then it costs $10 or something like that to get into the facility.
Pow.
Pow.
Get off my lawn! I don't want the unwashed masses in my tailgate area. Charge more for the gold lot? It's already around $1500/yr that is if they were actually for sale. I like theidea of using the bathrooms in the new facility though.
There's something not quite right with that statement.
The biggest problem with the Gold Lot is that it's not available for every game. Late season games always seem to have a snow issue to contend with and those folks end up down by the Engineering Center. Sucks, because then the folks who usually park there have to find somewhere else to go, or it just gets really, really crowded.
The additional 500 spaces will be nice, though. Not for tailgating so much, but at least for the folks who usually park in the gold lot who get displaced 1-2 times a year.
The additional 500 spaces will be nice, though. Not for tailgating so much, but at least for the folks who usually park in the gold lot who get displaced 1-2 times a year.
Yeah its bad enough that you are there. Give them one burrito and they want the whole enchilada.