Release: SCHEMATIC DESIGNS FOR SOUTH END ZONE PROJECT RELEASED
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Pollard has already said the new SEZ video board will be "very similar" to the NEZ one we already have. So to answer your question Yes!
It would be cosmetic, so probably will not be done because of the cost. But, imagine if the vertical steel understructure beams were faced with concrete panels that matched the rest of JTS's external surfaces. Cosmetic pillars, similar in appearance to those around the exterior of Hilton. Would really add to the appearance, I'd think.
Nevertheless, imho, we're going to wind up with a fine stadium. Other places are building new because those schools have little choice, their buildings were so far outdated. Minnesota's big old Memorial 'U', for example. Our digs will be pretty snazzy. They won't be embarrassing to me; I guess others here feel differently, though.
Remember, when JP first arrived and he issued building concept updates? One of the graphics illustrated glassing in Hilton's exterior vertical supports to create a large concourse under Hilton's roof overhang. Probably too expensive to ever be done, unless it can be justified by expanded interior seating, maybe. To my little mind, Hilton's exterior is the most impressive college basketball arena in the nation. Add the glass, and wow.
Anyone have a link to Hilton with the glass enclosure?
Nevertheless, imho, we're going to wind up with a fine stadium. Other places are building new because those schools have little choice, their buildings were so far outdated. Minnesota's big old Memorial 'U', for example. Our digs will be pretty snazzy. They won't be embarrassing to me; I guess others here feel differently, though.
Remember, when JP first arrived and he issued building concept updates? One of the graphics illustrated glassing in Hilton's exterior vertical supports to create a large concourse under Hilton's roof overhang. Probably too expensive to ever be done, unless it can be justified by expanded interior seating, maybe. To my little mind, Hilton's exterior is the most impressive college basketball arena in the nation. Add the glass, and wow.
Anyone have a link to Hilton with the glass enclosure?
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Google is your friend :smile: http://www.cyclones.com/PhotoAlbum.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=10700&PALBID=7510
Edit: I'm glad you brought the old Hilton renovation up. After looking through the pictures again does anybody else think the new SEZ renderings look a lot alike the renderings for the Hilton renovations? Obviously they will scrap the practice facility but maybe there is still a plan on the long term horizon to renovate Hilton and dig up those old plans for the 2006 project! That would look amazing if they blended Hilton and JTS together like that!
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One cosmetic thing that wouldn't cost much, but I think would really help, would be to wrap the steel supports for the NEZ scoreboard with Iowa State Cyclone themed tarps of some sort.
Maybe it would look cheezy, I'm not sure, but I think we should hide those metal supports somehow.
That would look awful. They already have enough cheesy, overdone graphics plastered to every bit of glass, fencing, and concrete possible. They need to purge some of that with this project, not add more.
I'd underlight the Cyclone logos on the wings of the scoreboard--during night games, they disappear.
Just curious, if the capacity is increased by 4,200, where will the additional parking come from?
Just curious, if the capacity is increased by 4,200, where will the additional parking come from?
I'm guessing you haven't been to any other stadiums? OSU has a great stadium that I think will still stand well above Baylor's. TCU's is nice, but small, similar to Baylor's. UT and OU are still nice stadiums, especially considering their size, but I think that size puts them above BU too. I think KU is dead last, then WVU, then TTU, then KSU, then BU/TCU, then ISU, OU, UT, and OSU at the top. ISU and KSU could be swapped depending on how the renovations go, but Trice holds up very well in the overall atmosphere/appearance rankings.
South end of the intramural fields.
Last I heard it was going to be the south end used for parking and the north end was going to be outfitted with lights and such to allow for intramurals to be played later at night so they didn't need 13 fields for softball from 5-7 and could use 4 or 8 fields from 5-11.
KSU has made some pretty impressive renovations.
I'd put JTS right behind them in the rankings.
1. OU
2. UT
3. KSU
4. ISU
5. OSU
6. BU
7. TCU
8. TTU
9. WVU
10. KU
OSU's stadium cost them a lot of money but I don't think it holds up to JTS's atmosphere.
Outside appearance is essentially the least important possible criteria you could have for a football stadium.
There are dozens of stadiums that look far worse on the outside. Even the storied Auburn stadium looks like crap compared to JTS. I don't think. JTS looks too bad.
Nobody would know because nobody cares anywhere near as much about it as they care about
1. Capacity
2. Noise
3. Atmosphere
4. Scoreboards, press boxes, bells and whistles
5. Aesthetics from the inside of the stadim
The metal skeleton structure supporting the north scoreboard is a similar aesthetic to the roofline of the Bergstrom indoor practice facility and the Jacobson Building. You may not personally like the look, but it's not like it's the only place in the entire complex with an exposed beam design.
So we're sticking with the freeway overpass sign look for the NEZ scoreboard then, right. Ok. Will we be posting road closures, amber alert's, accidents, etc on there too during the games?
Our entire NEZ has been so botched over the years it's just laughable. At least the SEZ will look good.
As far as Big 12 stadiums go though, I'm sorry but JTS is probably the worst one besides KU IMO. Now you can argue about the best "atmosphere's", because that includes everything like parking, tailgating, how many people actually attend the games, etc. ISU is pretty good at that part.
But just looking at the stadium structure itself, JTS is pretty bad. And then we had the opportunity to make a tunnel for the players to walk out of in the northwest corner of the field, but instead we make it come out right behind the freeway sign structure (scoreboard) where nobody can see them come out. It just seems like we botch so many good ideas somehow. I just hope the SEZ isn't messed up somehow.
Have to agree with you on the NEZ. Hope that someday we can bowl it in and fix it so the tunnel will come out onto the field. Even if it is just a lower bowl with concrete GA seating, place for the band, and something to connect the east and west concourses.
I heard this from a friend who spoke with JP himself. Pollard said the ideas surrounding a SEZ video board really came to mind when he was at Texas Tech for the ISU game last fall.
JP said he loved the idea of a large video board bookending a stadium because it contributed to making the stadium feel both larger and more contained that it might otherwise.
So based on that I am thinking and hoping that we will go big with the SEZ videoboard. I'm thinking a similar one to the NEZ that is added on top of the new seats in the SEZ.
