You're comparing building a new 30k seat stadium to renovating a 100 year old 100k seat stadium. So apples and oranges.
Don't inject facts into the discussion
It was ahead of it's time. New stadiums have the open concept. I still laugh at you guys that were more worried about where people were watching the game then the fact that they bought a ticket.
It basically was built on the cheap using a higher percentage of cheap steel vs concrete to save money and to create the open concourse. Pre stressed concrete forms could have been used for the concourse instead of steel if money was not an issue. So after 20 years you have a rust bucket because the roof leaked like a sieve.
Please compare the construction of UCF's stadium and Texas Tech's stadium before making a statement such as the one I bolded.
One million times this.
Objectively there's nothing comparable about our athletic programs, but in the wilderness years here I have enjoyed having them on the schedule yearly. It's not a real rivalry - they have no fans, or if they do they don't travel - but I do look forward to it
Go ahead and laugh all you want, but if you buy a ticket and stay in the parking lot or gather in the concourse we look like chumps when the TV broadcast starts. The impression we've given the viewing public for too many years is that we're not ready for prime time. These games are in many ways UConn's version of a job interview. We’re "interviewing" with conference commissioners, TV networks, media pundits and the public. Any decision maker or opinion crafter tuning into the start of our games will have concluded that we came to the interview in unpolished shoes and baggy jeans. In short, we haven't been making a very good impression.
We would. If you were right. But the thought that a large, raucous crowd is neutralized by the fact that some of them are in a concourse (or on concession lines or in the bathrooms) is just nonsensical. Yormark to Big XII Presidents: "Never mind. I thought that they were a strong candidate but too many paying customers are still on line getting hot dogs at the start of the game. Screw them." Yeah -- not.
When we were selling out, nobody on TV was saying we looked like chumps because there were a bunch of people watching from the concourse. Now that many of those concourse people have found something else to do on Saturdays, I'm not sure how big a problem it was.
Sure, I agree with you a good architect can design a beautiful stadium using more steel than concrete. In that case most of the concrete is of a pre stressed nature done under controlled conditions. The only things done nowadays in a “single pour” are usually the footings. All that being said, when a new stadium is designed the cost is generally determined by the ratio of steel to concrete. The more use of concrete vs steel the higher the cost of construction, the advantage of course in using more concrete than steel is the stadium will last many years before repairs are needed. Take the Roman Colosseum, all very hard concrete and still standing after thousands of years. If Rome had discovered steel, any beams used in its construction would have rusted away centuries ago causing collapse.
You missed the entire point. The building that you are calling a rust bucket is almost entirely concrete
Neither of them?
Don't you ever talk bad about potato salad. There are lines you don't cross.
LOL, If I was sharper; Their fan is not going to show.
Why can't we play at Holy Cross again?
Why would I rather play in Worcester than in Amherst?
Of course, one wouldn't. But it's neutral. I was wondering why it doesn't seem to be an option.
My guess is that if someone calls the Holy Cross athletic department and asks about renting their field, you'd have to wait twenty minutes for them to finish laughing before they told you that you had to be kidding.
Not really. These are (mostly) normal repairs/upgrades that need to be done on any building after 20 years of operation. Technological changes have been through a period of rapid change. My first game at the Rent I had a Blackberry. My friends were amazed at such a magical piece of equipment. It is clearly time for a technological upgrade.
Regardless I think whatever needs to be done it'll happen faster if the school is in charge than if the state is in charge. Moreover, I think UConn stewardship can get more out of the facility (better marketing) than what currently occurs. Athletics aligned staff is more likely to think about it as a venue for operations and already primed to be thinking in an entertainment sort of mind.