It is set to begin any day. Hopefully everything will go well this time.

http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2018/...lit_1.html

(01-23-2018 09:57 AM)kevinwmsn Wrote:  It is set to begin any day. Hopefully everything will go well this time.

http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2018/...lit_1.html

Get some 2X 4's and wooden stakes. Brace it up. Might help. Hope you have a grad assistant to bring in errant football's. Seriously it looks like it wouldn't take much to enclose it.

The same contractor responsible for the "inadequate bracing" got the nod to give it another whirl? I just don't get it?

(01-23-2018 02:03 PM)airtroop Wrote:  The same contractor responsible for the "inadequate bracing" got the nod to give it another whirl? I just don't get it?

General contractor is the same; not sure the sub-contractor is the same.

(01-23-2018 12:42 PM)OsageJ Wrote:  

(01-23-2018 09:57 AM)kevinwmsn Wrote:  It is set to begin any day. Hopefully everything will go well this time.

http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2018/...lit_1.html

Get some 2X 4's and wooden stakes. Brace it up. Might help. Hope you have a grad assistant to bring in errant football's. Seriously it looks like it wouldn't take much to enclose it.

Without that full enclosure 'd be concerned with heavy wind gusts getting in and up/under that exposed roof and creating a huge amount of lift...

(01-23-2018 03:39 PM)alpha_eagle Wrote:  

(01-23-2018 12:42 PM)OsageJ Wrote:  

(01-23-2018 09:57 AM)kevinwmsn Wrote:  It is set to begin any day. Hopefully everything will go well this time.

http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2018/...lit_1.html

Get some 2X 4's and wooden stakes. Brace it up. Might help. Hope you have a grad assistant to bring in errant football's. Seriously it looks like it wouldn't take much to enclose it.

Without that full enclosure 'd be concerned with heavy wind gusts getting in and up/under that exposed roof and creating a huge amount of lift...

It's not like mobile is a prime location for hurricanes.

(01-23-2018 09:57 AM)kevinwmsn Wrote:  It is set to begin any day. Hopefully everything will go well this time.

http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2018/...lit_1.html

I actually started last week, despite what the al.com article says.

https://247sports.com/college/south-alab...-113975376

(01-23-2018 04:15 PM)AtlantaJag Wrote:  I actually started last week

What tools will you be using?

(01-23-2018 04:28 PM)TroyFootball05 Wrote:  

(01-23-2018 04:15 PM)AtlantaJag Wrote:  I actually started last week

What tools will you be using?

Adequate cross-bracing.

(01-23-2018 06:00 PM)USAJag2011 Wrote:  

(01-23-2018 04:28 PM)TroyFootball05 Wrote:  

(01-23-2018 04:15 PM)AtlantaJag Wrote:  I actually started last week

What tools will you be using?

Adequate cross-bracing.

And properly prepared footings

I do worry about the winds coming underneath and taking off with it. I am for enclosing it.

(01-24-2018 09:30 AM)kevinwmsn Wrote:  I do worry about the winds coming underneath and taking off with it. I am for enclosing it.

So it is open? I hoped it was roll up doors.

That field is going to be pigeon/bird poop central.

Ours is enclosed with roll up doors. USA fans should come by and take a look.

(01-23-2018 09:57 AM)kevinwmsn Wrote:  It is set to begin any day. Hopefully everything will go well this time.

http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2018/...lit_1.html

This is really a test run. If they’re successful in getting the JTC (official name of the open air facility) completed without a glitch, they might just construct an OCS.

(01-24-2018 11:44 AM)OsageJ Wrote:  Ours is enclosed with roll up doors. USA fans should come by and take a look.

You folks up there in the north need doors to protect your athletes from blizzards and tornadoes. Here in the Deep South, not so much.

(01-24-2018 09:30 AM)kevinwmsn Wrote:  I do worry about the winds coming underneath and taking off with it. I am for enclosing it.

No worries. The new design has a top that works like a venetian blind. It is motorized to open when the wind pressure is too high so that no damage from the wind pressure occurs. It has the added benefit of letting sun light in during cold weather when winter sports use it for practice.