Big changes coming for the pre-game festivities

GoGATech said:
Not in a construction zone.
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Funny, we cut down a large oak tree and built a sorority house and a fraternity house closer to YJA and still managed to have YJA despite the sorority house being built 8 feet away.
 
JJacket said:
Funny, we cut down a large oak tree and built a sorority house and a fraternity house closer to YJA and still managed to have YJA despite the sorority house being built 8 feet away.
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That was a house. We're talking about the whole corner of the stadium, likely with scaffolding set up all around it at the point where the team normally enters the stadium. They won't be entering there or using it during renovation so they'll have to enter the stadium elsewhere anyway.
 
GoGATech said:
That was a house. We're talking about the whole corner of the stadium, likely with scaffolding set up all around it at the point where the team normally enters the stadium. They won't be entering there or using it during renovation so they'll have to enter the stadium elsewhere anyway.
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You are using logic. You should know by now that way too many people don't believe logic.
 
LongforDodd said:
Flooding wouldn't surprise anyone. PP is the bottom of a large "watershed" and stormwater pipes run under it as I think similarly run under Grant Field. They all run north towards Peachtree Creek. Remember in about 1993 when a sinkhole opened up early one morning in the parking lot that is at the hotel at 14 St and the connector? Same storm sewer system, I believe.
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They had to deal with the flow of water before they built Peters and The Flats. Not sure how they did it, maybe by large storm drains or maybe an underground culvert. I think the creek likely flowed from a spring nearby. There was a major spring near the old Ponce de Leon ballpark and there were several others around. I also assume that is the namesake of Spring Street. Just a fun thing to discuss, but it may limit the use of the land Peters sits on as the old stream bed runs south to north right under BDS and Peters.
 
JJacket said:
Funny, we cut down a large oak tree and built a sorority house and a fraternity house closer to YJA and still managed to have YJA despite the sorority house being built 8 feet away.
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Was that a private construction? Or was it officially affiliated with Tech? The Edge project is a way bigger project, and Tech would be liable for the general public on gamedays. Limiting the crowds on Callaway plaza makes sense.
 
GoGATech said:
That was a house. We're talking about the whole corner of the stadium, likely with scaffolding set up all around it at the point where the team normally enters the stadium. They won't be entering there or using it during renovation so they'll have to enter the stadium elsewhere anyway.
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Yea, and there will be people actually SITTING in section 119, right next to the construction. There will be a pathway from the LN to the LE, right next to the construction. Our head coach's office is right next to the stadium. Hell though, move it to the tard side of Atlanta.
 
Vespinae said:
Was that a private construction? Or was it officially affiliated with Tech? The Edge project is a way bigger project, and Tech would be liable for the general public on gamedays. Limiting the crowds on Callaway plaza makes sense.
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Oh horseshit. We didn't move the damn thing when we built the entire north end
 
JJacket said:
Yea, and there will be people actually SITTING in section 119, right next to the construction. There will be a pathway from the LN to the LE, right next to the construction. Our head coach's office is right next to the stadium. Hell though, move it to the tard side of Atlanta.
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Didn't some construction stuff show up in his office already in a recent video and a bunch of people made comments that it looked bad?
 
I think that it is an interesting experiment to try especially since something will have to be done anyway with the construction.

I suspect though that the people that tailgate in and around Peters and the sorority / fraternity houses / dorms which constitute the majority of the YJA crowd are not going to make the trip over to the South side of the stadium. There is no good way of getting from the North end of the stadium to the South end.

If they can draw in a substantial Marta crowd that does not have a tailgate spot, this could be a good attraction for them if they make it nice. Might draw more people to games. Of course a lot of Marta people that are going to eat before the game stop at The Varsity.
 
1) If this is just for YJA, then I could see it working. I have my doubts but it could work. Main issue is enough fans there to make it look like a crowd. Do that and it will be fine.

2) I don’t see how you change the Full Band March down the hill and make it work anywhere else. Am I misunderstanding that part?
 
JJacket said:
You asking someone who is bant about being bant? You realize being bant means he can't answer, right?
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i realize that he will eventually be able to answer. though it was rhetorical anyway.
 
Walton said:
1) If this is just for YJA, then I could see it working. I have my doubts but it could work. Main issue is enough fans there to make it look like a crowd. Do that and it will be fine.

2) I don’t see how you change the Full Band March down the hill and make it work anywhere else. Am I misunderstanding that part?
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The band will likely march down Cherry St and part of N Ave instead of down the hill.
 
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