Release: SCHEMATIC DESIGNS FOR SOUTH END ZONE PROJECT RELEASED

IcSyU

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I'm hoping with the easy access location of the new club section that they will use it as a restaurant/meeting facility the rest of the year. I have a buddy that lives in Tallahassee and the Doak has a restaurant up in it that we've eaten in. I know my company has a meeting for all our associates several times a year around the state and a space overlooking JTS would be much better than a hotel ballroom.
I'd guess there's about zero chance of that. I'm sure for the right price they'd be more than happy to oblige but it isn't something that will be actively marketed if I had to take a guess.
 

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Potentially stupid question, but:

Does anyone think the Vikings & Chiefs would ever consider having a preseason game in Jack Trice? I would definitely go, & I'm a fan of neither.

Flame away.

Its about as probably as the bears playing at EIU for a preseason game.
 

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Maybe this has been covered or maybe I'm reading it wrong. It says the south video board will be 150x36 and similar to the north board, north board is 79.5x36. I am assuming this means the south board will span the entire width? Doesn't appear that way on rendering.
 

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Maybe this has been covered or maybe I'm reading it wrong. It says the south video board will be 150x36 and similar to the north board, north board is 79.5x36. I am assuming this means the south board will span the entire width? Doesn't appear that way on rendering.

Does the 150 X 36 include the I-State Logos on the sides? IMO, both boards are likely pretty close to the same size. And the same format.
 

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Does the 150 X 36 include the I-State Logos on the sides? IMO, both boards are likely pretty close to the same size. And the same format.

Exactly what I was wondering. Typically when talking about the actual board size, the structure size hasn't been included. My guess is that it is being included in this instance. It would be awesome to have a 150x36 board in the south though. I can't get use to looking north.
 

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Visitors seating at Alabama

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Basically parents of visitors are down below but the regular visiting fans are at the tops of the endzone balconies.
 
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RubyClone

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Perhaps it's just me, but I'd rather have a high seat on the edge of the stadium, than a low one.

I sat in N for years and really liked it except on bad weather days - but I don't think even down low always offers that much more protection. My father-in-law has seats in 13, but about half way up - and I hate them. When the action is in front of you, it's great. When it's at the north end, it sucks. Same holds with the games I attended in the visitor section at Kinnick. Sure we were down close to the field, and when the game was right there it was awesome. Otherwise I pretty much watched everything north of the near 20 yard line on the jumbo tron.

I think where our visitor section is works well.
 

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While I understand that, what they went with is what we can afford, and the design will mach the design language we have going on in the area. Aka Jacobson and Bergstrom Complex. If you did something too radical with stone, it would look really out of place with the Jake and the rest of Jack Trice being concrete. You'd need to do a whole new facade and that would be very expensive

The problem is too many Cyclone fans have a champagne taste on a Natty Light (or, perhaps, Busch Light, considering the beer thread) budget.
 

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Visitors seating at Alabama

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Basically parents of visitors are down below but the regular visiting fans are at the tops of the endzone balconies.

This is similar to Iowa. "Parents/family" fans sit down in a few rows right by the field but the majority of the "regular" visitors are sent off to the upper regions of the corner. I really hope we do this too.