our stadium...

you are so right...and you nailed the irony...it will not win any architectual awards, yet we are an architectural/engineering school.
 
No, many other places actually are not as old with history. We are the oldest.

Name another stadium with near as much history that you consider "beautiful" in the southeast, or eaven the entire country.....can't be done.

I heartily disagree with you and wouldn't trade BDS@HGF for anything, that's all.
 
I like it, too....like one of those dates you went on where the girl wasn't much of a looker, but you had a blast being with her.
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Neyland? Puh-leez.

Sanford? Cookie-cutter.

Brice-Williams, Bryant-Denny, Death Valley-west (LSU), all soulless symmetrical hulks.

The Swamp at UF and Death Valley at Clemson are "pretty" and unique, but nowhere near the tradition and history of Grant Field.

FSU's stadium is a baby in the middle of a concrete sea.

Kenan and Scott are beautiful. But alas, yet again, no history, no tradition.
 
it is Williams-Bryce for starters. How much history do you know about any of those places? How many of just those you named have you actually been to?

yes, I know..."all of them". While I appreciate your loyalty to anything that is GT, to disregard all the stadiums and history in the SE and say that our stadium is the best is a big stretch.
 
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i like it, its different.
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<font size="2" face="Arial, Verdana, Sans-Serif">I like it too and I am glad that it is different. I just wish it wasn't quite soo different.

I also like the commitment it shows to our FB program from the fans and school. Something that we did not show when we tore down the historic South stands.
 
I have been in Grant Field/Bobby Dodd Stadium when it had a higher capacity than today, when it had a lower capacity, and the newest addition last Saturday.

The thing I liked best were the wins and I had a seat. All the rest will take care of itself. Beam me up Scotty!

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You bunch of whining losers. I'll bet most of you gave nothing to the building fund. Our stadium is beautiful I have been looking forward to this for probably ten years and quite frankly am surpried we ever pulled it off. The very nerve of you jerks to start throwing stones after one game. I guess that now that we are winning and you can't whine about the team anymore, so you'll gripe about the stadium. Get off it!
 
Originally posted by Kennesawkid:
You bunch of whining losers. I'll bet most of you gave nothing to the building fund. Our stadium is beautiful I have been looking forward to this for probably ten years and quite frankly am surpried we ever pulled it off. The very nerve of you jerks to start throwing stones after one game. I guess that now that we are winning and you can't whine about the team anymore, so you'll gripe about the stadium. Get off it!
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<font size="2" face="Arial, Verdana, Sans-Serif">It was the FIRST GAME IN THE NEW STADIUM. That is why we are DISCUSSING it, not because the team won and we had nothing else to talk about. It was some folks first time seeing the stadium and it was the first time anyone saw it in a live game.

What is pathetic is attaching Tech fans who are having a cordial discussion about our new stadium. Someone said it earlier, everything turns into a pissing contest.
 
You bunch of whining losers

You are exactly right Kid.

This is the first time ever that I have heard complaints about Grant Field from supposed Tech people. Its revolting.

Grant Field is a marvel!
 
All college stadiums look pieced together, becuase they all have been. Look at Neyland, The Big House, or the Horseshoe (which isn't even a horse shoe after expansion) they all look patchwork.
 
The main idea that you get from our stadium is unique from any other that I know off. That it has pieces and differences is the point. It IS an old stadium...Heismans teams ran the field there!!! Would the critics like to eliminate the main idea that makes our stadium unique by razing the very historic structures that set it appart from any other place in the world?
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Alot of times aesthetic is not simply balance or simplicity or symetry. While those ideas are useful, they tend to be architectural one liners. Go to the stadium. Look into the old student sections where the pillars are and remember how you had to sway around the posts to see, and the upper east where the front railing panel could be kicked to start up the entire east stands. Remember the old horseshoe that used to be the home of the auburn contingent. And when you read the names of fame, remember the ghosts of the past that ran inside the track to Golden Glory.
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chill out guys, bulldozing BDS@GF would be like replacing Westminster Cathedral with a new church design. Grant Field is the oldest or second oldest Div I-A stadium in the country. If you ever get a chance to go under the West stands at the end you can see the West stands underneath built by the students in the late teens. That is tradition and awesome at that. Bulldoze that? You've got to be kidding.

I live in a house that we have remodeled 2 times. I could have a much nicer, more convenient, more spacious, new house with what I've spent on it over the years, but I don't want to leave because I can still remember the exact spot where my first child took her first steps...
 
This is crazy talk.

One thing I like about our stadium is that there is hardly a bad seat in the house. Our upper deck is so much closer to the field than any other major college stadium I've been in. I know this is largely a function of the fact that BDS only holds 55K, but I like the stadium just the way it is.

Our gameday experience is different from what you will find anywhere, and the stadium is just another aspect of this.
 
&lt;whine&gt;No one is whining here&lt;whine&gt;, we are just stating opinions&lt;whine&gt;, just like you&lt;whine&gt;, it's a damn shame&lt;whine&gt;that we don't agree&lt;whine&gt;, and now&lt;whine&gt;, can I have some cheese to go with my whine&lt;whine&gt;?
 
Good engineers solve problems, don't they? And making GF modern without destroying it was the problem, wasn't it? I think they solved it.
 
It our stadium. Enjoy it. Maybe well get our program to the point where 55,000 seats isn't enough and they want to move the UGA/FSU/CU games to the "Ugly Dome". When that happens, guess what?

We'll look to expand BDS@HGF again. They might say it's not possible, but who knows? Maybe a third deck above upper west.

All we can do is to get 55,000 (away fans and their band excepted) GT fans yelling like escaped lunatics on crack into each game.

Let's dance with the one that brung us.

A.B.
 
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