No wonder Minnesota had a top recruiting class!

ianoconnor · 02-07-2008, 05:06 PM

That locker room is AWESOME.

isuno1fan · 02-07-2008, 05:10 PM

Will they be playing in the stadium this fall or is is slated for '09?

cycloneryan · 02-07-2008, 05:13 PM

That blew me away. I don't know if it was the stadium itself or the video of it but that was so amazingly impressive.

jtd9046 · 02-07-2008, 05:38 PM

Originally Posted by isuno1fan

Will they be playing in the stadium this fall or is is slated for '09?

'09 .........

Cyclone711 · 02-07-2008, 10:37 PM

Originally Posted by jtd9046

'09 .........

yeah I'm having a hard time waiting too.... especially with JTS renovation, new twins ballpark, and new gopher stadium happening all at the same time.... and I'm horrible with waiting.

wartknight · 02-07-2008, 10:50 PM

It looks great on the video, but its going to look horrible when its 2/3 full of bumblebees at the end of November.
At least there's no revolving doors for them to try and take goalposts out of.

CyclonesRule · 02-07-2008, 10:53 PM

When you are going to be spending that much on a new stadium, whats a few more TV's. I think they could add a few more.

MontyBurns · 02-07-2008, 10:59 PM

Originally Posted by wartknight

It looks great on the video, but its going to look horrible when its 2/3 full of bumblebees at the end of November.
At least there's no revolving doors for them to try and take goalposts out of.

The new Minnesota stadium will be the second smallest stadium in the Big Ten; much smaller than the current Metrodome. And it has a significant percentage of the seats committed to corporate boxes. For the bumblebees, that means about 25,000 fewer tickets than used to be available for games at Minnesota. Sucks to be them I guess.

jdoggivjc · 02-08-2008, 09:57 AM

Originally Posted by Clonefan94

Speaking of the Metrodome though, is it really that outdated? I remember hearing a lot of clammerings a few years ago from the Vikings and how it just isn't up to league standards. It kind of surprises me. It's not that old really. Isn't Arrowhead in KC older? I always figured it was just the full time dome thing that no one liked. Of all things, baseball should not be played in a dome unless it's raining or late in the year. I went to a Twins game up there a few years ago and absolutely hated it. I think it was about 75 or 80 degrees and sunny outside and here I was sitting inside watching baseball. I just had that "I'm in my living room feeling."

From what I remember hearing the Metrodome is basically similar (although not exact) to the "donut" stadiums popular in the 1960s and 70s (think Atlanta-Fulton Co stadium, Vets Stadium in Philadelphia, Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati, Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh, and (old) Busch Stadium in St. Louis, and I'm sure there are others) just with a bubble roof thrown on top of it and configured slightly differently on the inside. They all were designed to hold both baseball and football, so it was seen as a fiscally responsible to be able to have two pro teams share one stadium. Unfortunately, because the playing fields for both are so radically different, and you had to build the stadium to accommodate both, not only were the sightlines miserable, but it made the stadiums almost impossible to upgrade. I mean, think about it - none of those stadiums lasted more than 40 years - first with Atlanta-Fulton coming down in 1996 upon completion of Turner Field (whatever it was actually named during the Olympics) and most recently this year when St. Louis opened the new Busch Stadium. As fiscally smart as it might have been to build a stadium in the 1960s and 70s that two teams can share, the two sports just aren't compatible with each other to share a stadium, and each of those cities that built one of those "donut" stadiums are paying for it now by having to build two extremely expensive stadiums at the same time.

jdoggivjc · 02-08-2008, 10:07 AM

Little piece of trivia for you that I just found on Wikipedia - the team that Minnesota will open TCF Park in 2009 is ironically the same opponent that ISU opened Jack Trice Stadium with back in 1975.

That team would be Air Force.

Cyclone711 · 02-08-2008, 09:41 PM

Originally Posted by jdoggivjc

Little piece of trivia for you that I just found on Wikipedia - the team that Minnesota will open TCF Park in 2009 is ironically the same opponent that ISU opened Jack Trice Stadium with back in 1975.

That team would be Air Force.

Air Force if I remember correctly.

Wesley · 02-08-2008, 09:56 PM

Not impessed. Too utilitarian on the outside. Chintzy scoreboard. Not enough parking. The locker room was okay but the metal chairs were not awe inspiring. The carpet selection was so yesterday. The logos were pretentious. The video was adequate. The HD TVs were not overwhelming. Lacked really big HD projectors. The weight room was boring and inefficient. No PS2, 360s. The office furniture looked basic. Looks like a cheapola $250M stadium. Video People did not look real. No big water fountains or dedication statues of heroes like Brewster. Lack of good bars. No amusement park next door. No simming pool for the fans. No roof. Not as good as Jerry Jones House or Boone Pickens Memorial. (Yes, just kidding.)

ripvdub · 02-08-2008, 10:06 PM

cant wait to see Iowa go up there and lose in the bitter cold of November. To bad it wont be til 2010.

balken · 02-08-2008, 10:10 PM

Originally Posted by Wesley

Not impessed... The HD TVs were not overwhelming...

Exactly. Do they realize that by the time that place opens up those TVs will be completely obsolete?

Ficklone02 · 02-08-2008, 10:27 PM

Too bad Glen Mason never got the benefits of this new stadium.....the success he had probably partially led to this new structure, and I don't think he ever got the credit he deserved. One of his last seasons there he had 10 wins....thats a pretty big deal to win that many in Minny.