(04-09-2014 05:58 PM)arkstfan Wrote:  

(04-09-2014 05:32 PM)GSU Eagles Wrote:  

(04-09-2014 05:17 PM)panama Wrote:  

(04-09-2014 04:52 PM)GSU Eagles Wrote:  It would seem awful expensive to maintain such a large facility. Then if any modifications were made to decrease the size, that would probably be very expensive as well. I wouldn't be surprised if Becker is just showing some interest to appease the masses where he can at least say he looked into it. I would think it would be difficult for Becker to undertake such a massive project when there has been very little alumni support/interest in the football program. The alternative is writing a rent check in a brand new billion dollar state of the art stadium. That seems like a much more practical option.

How is it any different than maintaining any on campus stadium? Plus like I said, he would not open Pandora's box and mention the football team if there was not an interest. What follows is negotiation.

I just want thank Georgia Southern for making this possible

If you are ucf with 40k fans footing the bill then Turner might be an option, but the demand just isn't there at this point for GaSt to justify such a massive stadium and the maintenance costs that come with it. You should be doing cartwheels you will get to play in a new billion dollar stadium. Sure it is way too big and makes the crowd look smaller than it is, but the same would happen at turner with the empty huge upper decks.

Just my opinion looking at it from Becker's perspective. I just don't see it happening. For what it's worth, Ga Southern couldn't afford the cost to maintain it if a similar option was available.

Turner seats a shade under 50k. I would expect either demolition and start over or a demolition of much of it. Because of the baseball refit, not sure how much of it is worth keeping.

The real kicker is how much land is available beyond what is needed for a football stadium in the 25k to 35k seat range. Development of that could potentially fund the demo and build or a good piece of it.

Demolition of the whole thing including suites? And rebuild from scratch? LOL. I doubt that. All they did was take down 1/3 of the seating and upper deck to reduce to from 85k to 50k. Can absolutely be re-refitted again for football with an open end towards the downtown skyline.The big win here is the stadium already exists.