(03-03-2017 09:27 AM)masttg Wrote: (03-03-2017 08:49 AM)emu steve Wrote: (03-03-2017 08:27 AM)masttg Wrote: (03-03-2017 08:08 AM)Luckeyone Wrote: (03-03-2017 05:50 AM)emu steve Wrote: The other downside is what it does to T&F:
Bowen is pretty old and worn, but it has a balcony holding over 1,000 people. Good for a MAC indoor T&F championship.
Rynearson has enough seats, etc. to hold even the Jr. Olympics (which it has done several times).
The new T&F facilities, indoor and outdoor, seemingly will be pretty limited. My guess it would take some work to hold the MAC T&F championships. Where would the seating be for 500 fans or participants?
Hopefully Dr Lyke is concentrating on how to get fans close to the football field to create an exciting atmosphere for football vs displacing 500 fans. The administration that renovated Rynearson accommodated the 500 fans and separated the 15000 football fans.
Let's get it right this time.
Exactly. What is the point of removing the track if the field is no closer to a grandstand?
Simple: The football field must be moved to free up enough space for a much larger football building.
Simple: That is pennywise and pound-foolish. See also: short-sighted.
As to your response see also: terse, flippant, asinine.
I was posting from a phone so I was terse.
As far as the placement of the football field other than moving it south toward the Convo, I have NO idea if they will try moving it 10 - 15 feet toward say the west stands. If so, fans on the east stands will feel like they are in a different zip code.
They could do a few different things:
1). Drop the field, but that adds, not subtracts, new seats to where the track is now.
2). They could move the football building to at least the goal line and reduce seating at the north end by eliminating section the section where students/band are seated. I believe the USC coliseum was reconfigured like that to reduce seating.
3). I would like a new press box to sit where the top say 10 rows of the west stands are between the 35 yard lines. Drop a press box into the stands instead of build on top of it (as it typical). That would reduce the west side capacity some.
All I can say, I hope EMU has very good architects to come up with a 'home run' design on the field. It won't be easy.
I agree 100% when anyone says, removing the track but not moving the field closer to the stands is like smh. Instead of looking a red cinder track we'll look at green Field Turf or whatever the green stuff is. that glass is still half empty.