Not an option, just like a practical wish list for the future.We had to cancel the wrestling facility due to the upcoming cost of paying players and some think replacing seats and the press box are even options?
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I'm sorry, but I don't know why lowering the stadium capacity, when the football program is in a position that we all dreamed for 10, 20, 30, 40 years ago just for the sake of aesthetics when the stadium is empty, should be on anyone's wish list.
Someone should design a filter like all the women on social media use to fool themselves that they look like a model.
Put all that fake lipstick and high cheekbones on Jack Trice Stadium. You know the filter could add fancy seats, in fancy colors. It could put a giant Skybox on it. Add another deck, a fancy North Endzone, Hot tubs where the band sits.
Boom no one will know we dont have all those things, just like no one knows the ladies dont look like their overly smooth faced pictures.
Put all that fake lipstick and high cheekbones on Jack Trice Stadium. You know the filter could add fancy seats, in fancy colors. It could put a giant Skybox on it. Add another deck, a fancy North Endzone, Hot tubs where the band sits.
Boom no one will know we dont have all those things, just like no one knows the ladies dont look like their overly smooth faced pictures.
Reducing capacity by putting in chairback seating isn't about improving empty stadium aesthetics, it is about improving comfort and experience of attending a game. I would pay more for that creature comfort and would be more likely to attend in person for a real seat. It could drive revenue.
Painting or replacing benches wouldn't impact capacity, while the benefit would primarily be appearance and I agree something like this is largely pointless and shouldn't be a priority.
I never understood the obsession with the bleachers. Sure it'd be nice but most every game we're pretty full so no one ever sees them. And if a recruit doesn't come here because of the seating in the stadium then I don't think we wanted them lol.
Why do you presume to know more about the need for more suites than Pollard does? I'm not even debating your argument that suites have one of the highest ROI of any investment. But if there is no demand, then theoretical ROI is irrelevant.
I don't know more than Pollard, why do you even suggest that? Suites bring more money into the program, its that simple. As for the demand, again, people were saying the same thing about bowling in the south end zone.
Going forward the program is going to need money more than ever, enlarging the press box would allow that to occur. In business, you have to spend money to make money down the road, its really that simple.
Speaking of improvements. I think the new speakers sounded awesome on Saturday. Maybe a little loud at times, but overall, the sound is much crisper. Is it true that next year, JTS will be receiving new video board displays on both sides of the stadium? Does anyone know if the ribbon board is being replaced? I have seen some discussion but haven't seen renderings of what it will look like.
I feel like there’s a couple votes for hot tubs. Done!
Just…not on top of the SEZ Club.
Yes, new video boards next year. They will be the same structures, but span the whole length.
This isn't really true. We were filling up capacity fairly regularly before building the SEZ, and there was (and still is) also a market for more premium (but not suite-level) space. We've seen no indication there's a shortage of suite space.
Again though, once you get to talking adding more suites on the west side, you're looking at a much more expensive project overall. You can't just pop in a new press box. You'd have to reconfigure the entire west concourse to have room for supports. And premium seating way up and back where the press box is may not be in as much demand anyway.
Realistically if you had a necessity for more premium space, you're wrapping it into a much larger (and much more expensive) project that would likely mean a wholesale redo of the upper west side. In an ideal world this would mean tearing down the upper deck and existing suites, and then building a structure with more than one level of premium options, and then moving the 'upper deck' general seating above that. This would also add an upper concourse which would offer more space for concessions\restrooms which the stadium really does not have enough capacity for currently)
Of course, given this would likely cost in the range of hundreds of millions of dollars, and given we can't even get the much less expensive hilton improvements off the ground, its almost pointless to be talking about any of this unless a major donor is out there ready to write a big check. Given the astronomical costs, the payback period would be almost infinite.
On top of this, the more realistic (and cheaper) option for more suites, if there was demand for it, would be to put them on the east side at the top of the lower section, like on the west side.
Yeah, I could see that. Though there may be more demand for it to be more like the JT Club than suites, and the SE corner may be more difficult with the student section there. But that would definitely seem like something that would be done before the west side.
How about we fix the NEZ videoboard? I would hope that's under warranty since half the pieces have been faded since inception. Saw somebody fixing them during the game, which seems like literally the only inconvenient time to do it.
I'm not sure how you've made it this far and haven't heard that they're being replaced before next season. Sound system and Hilton video board this season, Jack Trice video board next season.
