Full Speed Ahead

coit said:
Y’all are crazy with your pipe dreams of more comfortable seats. Every stadium setup I’ve been in for the past few decades is packed in way too tight. I’m 6 feet tall and my legs are jammed into the seat in front of me.

I like the bench seating because you can spread out when no one shows up, which is always going to be the case at GT. Attendance sucked at the Duke game because no one wanted to be at an 8 PM game.
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No one wanted to be at a Duke game. It had nothing to do with 8pm.
 
Outside of the GA game upper north was more full than I've seen the past 3 years. Students filled the North and South EZ and many were in UN with parents for parents weekend. Upper East and West were light as usual.
 
gtg970g said:
Outside of the GA game upper north was more full than I've seen the past 3 years. Students filled the North and South EZ and many were in UN with parents for parents weekend. Upper East and West were light as usual.
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They had a special event with the local cheerleading teams or something. That’s why UN was so full.
 
coit said:
They had a special event with the local cheerleading teams or something. That’s why UN was so full.
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That was part of it but most around me were students with parents.

We need more group sales. BSA, local schools, marching bands, cheerleader, etc. Not sure our front office operations are at the level they need to be to work such things.
 
Scouting report on UNC’s seats.

They’re the newer, thinner/flimsier kind, but they’re reasonably roomy and comfortable. Everybody gets two armrests. No cup holders, which is a minor negative.

The seats attach to a rail mounted on the vertical part of the concrete “steps” of the stadium, not on the horizontal part, so there’s reasonable room under the seats.

Space is a little tight (my knees were touching the seat in front of me), but better than their old “bleachers with backs” arrangement. Since the seats fold up, you can stand up to let people pass.

I wouldn’t mind it too much if that’s what we go with.

JRjr
 
vapspwi said:
Scouting report on UNC’s seats.

They’re the newer, thinner/flimsier kind, but they’re reasonably roomy and comfortable. Everybody gets two armrests. No cup holders, which is a minor negative.

The seats attach to a rail mounted on the vertical part of the concrete “steps” of the stadium, not on the horizontal part, so there’s reasonable room under the seats.

Space is a little tight (my knees were touching the seat in front of me), but better than their old “bleachers with backs” arrangement. Since the seats fold up, you can stand up to let people pass.

I wouldn’t mind it too much if that’s what we go with.

JRjr
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No
 
Should we sue??

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So VPI has just bolted plastic-frame stinger seats onto the bleachers across most of their stadium. I hope Tech doesn’t cheap out like that.

JRjr
 
GTFLETCH said:
atlanta.urbanize.city

Georgia Tech stadium overhaul with huge screen, speakeasy in works

$500M fundraising campaign for football, basketball, volleyball facilities more than halfway to goal
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Nothing has told me I'm getting old more concretely than when I see things like this and ask, "Why in the world do we need an even bigger screen?"

Well, that and thinking that there's no need to blare music so loud that it's tough to have a conversation 30 minutes before the game when nothing is happening.
 
andrew said:
Nothing has told me I'm getting old more concretely than when I see things like this and ask, "Why in the world do we need an even bigger screen?"

Well, that and thinking that there's no need to blare music so loud that it's tough to have a conversation 30 minutes before the game when nothing is happening.
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The volume didn’t seem as bad for Miami; maybe someone listened. Or maybe I was atop the Upper West so the speakers didn’t directly attack me.
Bad at basketball games too.
 
The Champ said:
The volume didn’t seem as bad for Miami; maybe someone listened. Or maybe I was atop the Upper West so the speakers didn’t directly attack me.
Bad at basketball games too.
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It actually wasn't as bad as I expected from reading what people said on here; for the game it was completely fine.
 
At some point, the arms race isn’t worth it, especially for all the crap like the clubs that aren’t about actually watching the game.

Chairbacks make pretty good sense. More/better screens are OK, but we don’t do a great job with what we already have.

But spending hundreds of millions of bucks on making the stadium a “destination” independent of sitting in a seat watching a football game seems like a fool’s errand.

JRjr
 
GTFLETCH said:
atlanta.urbanize.city

Georgia Tech stadium overhaul with huge screen, speakeasy in works

$500M fundraising campaign for football, basketball, volleyball facilities more than halfway to goal
atlanta.urbanize.city atlanta.urbanize.city
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Ideas for the secret entrance to the speakeasy:

  • Giant letters spelling T E C H along the wall, you have to pull out the T and "steal" it to enter.
  • Several tombstones in a row of various satirized UGAs. Place a penny on the Sideways memorial to gain entry.
  • You must successfully change the oil of the life-sized Rambling Replica Model A to enter.
 
Also, it's my understanding that there is an abandoned micro apartment in the Brittain Dining Hall tower that was once used by the head cook. Seems like a no-brainer to deck that out as the "ultimate tailgate" location and rent it out to high rollers. (Yes, I'm serious.)
 
gtleviathan said:
Also, it's my understanding that there is an abandoned micro apartment in the Brittain Dining Hall tower that was once used by the head cook. Seems like a no-brainer to deck that out as the "ultimate tailgate" location and rent it out to high rollers. (Yes, I'm serious.)
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only if catering with 1979 edition Brittain fried chicken

I roomed with a black guy my first year and he made a whole rap song about it. visionary
 
RoanokeJacket said:
only if catering with 1979 edition Brittain fried chicken

I roomed with a black guy my first year and he made a whole rap song about it. visionary
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So, it was good?

Philly cheesesteaks were the only near-edible choice when I was there in the mid-'90s.
 
gtleviathan said:
So, it was good?

Philly cheesesteaks were the only near-edible choice when I was there in the mid-'90s.
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. In the mid 2000s they were slinging fresh cooked, greasy double cheeseburgers. "Cheese double cheese."

Looking back I'm sure they were awful quality, but I have to say they were exactly what a college student needed after a long CRC session.
 
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