Future Stadium Expansion

[JWE37]

I love my home sweet home just the way it is. Upgrades in electronics and restrooms/concessions would be cool, but leave the structure as it is!

p.s. TO HELL WITH GEORGIA

 

[Yellow Fever]

I've never liked the idea of "horseshoe" stadiums. Mostly a personal preference, but still, I think that if we do expand the stadium someday, it should be fully enclosed. That's the easiest way to get extra seating in. Plus, I love the fact that we have two raucous student sections in both the North and South endzones.

I also think this is a good thing, the more distractions for the other teams kicker the better!

I also would like to note that I was very pleased with my visit to BDS and sitting in the Nest was not a bad way at all to witness PJ's Option!

 

[Rodzilla]

...adding ribbon boards, new sound system which is needed badly, state of the art video screen that will trump the old one.

Awesome!

 

[MacDaddy2]

Dem, any way we can change the seating configuration so it doesn't sound like an away game? The visitors band must point right at the microphones.

 

[TechinItEasy]

Dem, any way we can change the seating configuration so it doesn't sound like an away game? The visitors band must point right at the microphones.

This seems to happen at a lot of places...I've noticed it several times this year when i was watching other games on tv.

 

[ramblinwise1]

We'd be F***ing crazy to talk about expanding the stadium again. We need to sell out all the home games before this is even seriously considered. The other upgrades are fine if the cash flow allows. Better to focus on making the experience better and get more Tech fans in the existing seats than talk about adding more seats....

 

[Whatsthegoodword]

The stadium, etc, as proposed by an earlier font in this thread might cost 1 Billion dollars today. It'd be 800 million easy.

Oh, and that's if we had the available land to build it... I don't think ATL will let us close Techwood... :laugher:

 

[floridajacket]

The stadium, etc, as proposed by an earlier font in this thread might cost 1 Billion dollars today. It'd be 800 million easy.

Oh, and that's if we had the available land to build it... I don't think ATL will let us close Techwood... :laugher:

The sad thing is he must have put a ton of work into that graphic he made.

On an unrelated note, is there any update on the closing of Peters parking deck? When they turn that into the lake it was supposed to be, it will be an absolutely awesome place to tailgate.

 

[georgia_tech_swagger]

15 minutes in Gimp during yet another boring meeting. Copy and paste + layering is your friend.

And that stadium WOULD fit into the current block the stadium is in. Notice that the field is moved southwest. You pick up room from the large area the Wardlaw building (and the immediate adjoining land) take up, as well as the room to be found behind the current west stands.

All I'm saying is that BDS would be epic (think Wrigley Field of college football) if it had a classy brick exterior ... if it was symmetric ... and if it was truly closed in. Some stadiums which I admired and thought of when I threw together my drawing:

Stanford Stadium (50,000 ... $90 million)

Yes... that's 90 mil for the ENTIRE NEW STADIUM.

Autzen Stadium (54,000 ... too old for price relevancy)

... famed for its noise. Wonder if that has anything to do with being completely bowled in.

Kenan Stadium (60,000 ... too old for price relevancy)

Scott Stadium (60,000 ... too old for price relevancy)

BDS comes closest to Kyle Field (Texas A&M) in its current monsterous endzone and lack of symmetry:

Cost of the north endzone, the south endzone, and the renovated east stands was 75 million. Raise your hand if you don't think that was an egregious waste of money based upon what was delivered? How did BDS expansion go from the original diagram (completely bowled in, with stands huddled up to the Wardlaw building on both sides ... a completely integrated north endzone that wasn't unsightly... etc) ... to the current result??

Stanford built an ENTIRE stadium for 90 mil. Tech didn't get half of one for 2/3 of that money.

(Have I mentioned that this is my pet peeve subject yet? :P )

 

[GTKyle]

improve the sound system. play the band through the speakers at half-time. you can't even hear them from the student section.

 

[gthog61]

Well, I agree with everybody else who said we need to get our finances in order/consistently sell out awhile before we expand anything (think mortgage crisis and overleveraging).

That will give CPJ enough time to be successful so maybe we could build the new "Paul Johnson Upper Deck at Bobby Dodd Stadium at Historic Grant Field".