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re: USA Today Lists 5 Best Stadiums
Posted on 10/8/13 at 10:15 am to VFL1800FPD
Posted on 10/8/13 at 10:15 am to VFL1800FPD
Kyle field is a joke, though. Nothin will change that. You dont even have the best stadium in your state.
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Posted on 10/8/13 at 11:36 am to VFL1800FPD
I think the statement that Kyle will be the greatest stadium for the next generation is overblown for sure but it will be an incredible college stadium.
Jerryworld is the best stadium in sports overall but it isn't a good college venue. It's a glitzy showplace that isn't terribly loud and is really designed for "whales". It's about as luxurious and comfortable as a football stadium could possibly be though.
DKR is a really nice stadium in terms of comforts but the atmosphere sucks arse. It's quiet as a church. They also have an insane amount of advertising everywhere. The jumbotron alone has 10 different ads posted on it simultaneously with the screen in the middle. It would be ok as an NFL stadium though and Texas is basically the pro team of Austin.
Current Kyle has a great atmosphere from most seats but it has ridiculously outdated infrastructure (the East and West 1st Decks are 90 years old and all the infrastructure has to come through them for those sides of the stadium). The sightlines for visitors are horrible and away from the game. It's just got a ton of problems that happen when you just keep adding on to a stadium without a true master plan.
New Kyle fixes all that though and enhances the natural advantages. A&M has the largest student section in the country at 31k and they occupy the entire 2nd and 3rd decks of the East side. The rest will be on the 1st Deck and around the EZ where opponents enter going forward. The amount of creature comforts will be increased many fold and the bat problem will be fixed permanently. It's basically going to be a huge mecca to college football with enough students in prime seating to keep it loud as hell while still having the rest of the stadium vary from comfortable with good sight lines to downright luxurious depending on your budget.
To me though that is just what is required in the SEC. Bama already has a palace. LSU has the best overall environment now and is expanding and renovating. UT has a monster stadium. UGA is over 90k and has a tremendous environment. UF is under 90k but they print money. 80k plus stadiums with loud environments and great atmospheres are the norm for everyone else.
It's just another arms race like facilities. The only edge A&M has is we are the largest and richest school in the biggest state and located an hour from the 4th largest metro in the US and are the closest major program to that metro. That means we should be able to sell out and keep up without much trouble from here on out. That's just life in the SEC though, you can never stay ahead of everyone else for too long since everyone is irrationally exuberant about our football.
Damn I love the SEC.
Jerryworld is the best stadium in sports overall but it isn't a good college venue. It's a glitzy showplace that isn't terribly loud and is really designed for "whales". It's about as luxurious and comfortable as a football stadium could possibly be though.
DKR is a really nice stadium in terms of comforts but the atmosphere sucks arse. It's quiet as a church. They also have an insane amount of advertising everywhere. The jumbotron alone has 10 different ads posted on it simultaneously with the screen in the middle. It would be ok as an NFL stadium though and Texas is basically the pro team of Austin.
Current Kyle has a great atmosphere from most seats but it has ridiculously outdated infrastructure (the East and West 1st Decks are 90 years old and all the infrastructure has to come through them for those sides of the stadium). The sightlines for visitors are horrible and away from the game. It's just got a ton of problems that happen when you just keep adding on to a stadium without a true master plan.
New Kyle fixes all that though and enhances the natural advantages. A&M has the largest student section in the country at 31k and they occupy the entire 2nd and 3rd decks of the East side. The rest will be on the 1st Deck and around the EZ where opponents enter going forward. The amount of creature comforts will be increased many fold and the bat problem will be fixed permanently. It's basically going to be a huge mecca to college football with enough students in prime seating to keep it loud as hell while still having the rest of the stadium vary from comfortable with good sight lines to downright luxurious depending on your budget.
To me though that is just what is required in the SEC. Bama already has a palace. LSU has the best overall environment now and is expanding and renovating. UT has a monster stadium. UGA is over 90k and has a tremendous environment. UF is under 90k but they print money. 80k plus stadiums with loud environments and great atmospheres are the norm for everyone else.
It's just another arms race like facilities. The only edge A&M has is we are the largest and richest school in the biggest state and located an hour from the 4th largest metro in the US and are the closest major program to that metro. That means we should be able to sell out and keep up without much trouble from here on out. That's just life in the SEC though, you can never stay ahead of everyone else for too long since everyone is irrationally exuberant about our football.
Damn I love the SEC.
Posted on 10/8/13 at 2:33 pm to VFL1800FPD
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Nothin will change that. You dont even have the best stadium in your state.
That is the point of the 450 million dollar stadium renovation you aspie.
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