design element, "grand entrance" type thing where you are able to walk up the stairs to the concourse and see everything including our tiny scoreboard. similar in concept to cowboys stadium. kinda executed poorly though.
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design element, "grand entrance" type thing where you are able to walk up the stairs to the concourse and see everything including our tiny scoreboard. similar in concept to cowboys stadium. kinda executed poorly though.
It's a real nice stadium, and jealous of them trying to do the boat gating idea from Washington. Still looks like a toilet from above, and it'll be interesting to see if the tarp returns in the next few years.
Considering the stadium is about the size of the tarp-less parts of the old one I wouldn't bet on it.
I can't imagine what the fan support would look like at ISU if we had some success like Baylor has had.
ISU would show up bigger in terms of local butts in seats, no question. However BU does really well considering the following numbers:
Undergrad Enrollment: 12,500
Alumni living in McLennan County or an adjacent County: 25,800 (That is around 25% of Baylor's alumni in-state.)
Combined number of local likely attendees with a deep connection to the school: 38,327
So 38,327 for what was a 50,000 seat stadium and is now a 45,000 seat stadium.
ISU by the same measure:
Undergrads:25,500
Alumni in Story County or adjacent county: 45,700
Combined local likely attendees: 71,200
That is 16,000 more than Jack Trice Stadium can hold right now and 10k more than it will after the South EZ expansion.
When half the alumni of your school that live in-state (91,000) live within 1 county of ISU it's going to show strong turnout. That is simply a LOT of people that would have a strong connection to the program and don't have to travel far to show it. You would expect to get a lot of these people to show up.
So Baylor will rely much more than ISU does on out of town alumni or casual fans with no historical connection to the program to fill the venue.
So ISU would likely draw more people to the stadium but due to demographics and geography it isn't a knock on BU. Simply mobilizing more people who either aren't historically tied to the school or have to travel long distances isn't going to happen as easily. ISU does a great job with support and gameday culture but having that many alumni nearby is a big advantage.
The school that should be embarrassed is KU who has 146,000 combined undergrads or nearby alumni and can't fill their stadium other than their 2007 season with 3x the number of people needed to fill it nearby.
Other schools combined undergrads and nearby alumni totals:
KU- 146,00 (50,000 stadium capacity)
KSU- 39,700 (50,000 stadium capacity)
Mizzou- 48,000 (60,000 stadium capacity)
A&M- 63,000 (90,000 stadium capacity)
TCU- 33,500 (45,000 stadium capacity)
WVU- 40,588 (63,000 stadium capacity)
GT- 49,292 (55,000 stadium capacity)
Rice- 18,396 (47,000 stadium capacity)
SMU- 46,000 (32,000 stadium capacity)
Houston- 182,700 (40,000 stadium capacity)
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The South Endzone project at Jack Trice looks like a band-aid on a scab compared to a lot of other stadium projects. Pretty jealous of Baylor's new digs.
Other than the stadium capacity info on those two the rest should be pretty accurate. Enrollment and alumni counts don't fluctuate much.
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It's new. It's OK. The only stadium I'm jealous of, though, is Minnesota's new digs. Sharp!
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If I was a betting man I'd say the Vikings gave them a little under-the-table money to make sure it looked damn good for them the next few years. U of M athletics is gonna be rolling in dough from that stadium collapse.
Too bad most Minnesotans couldn't really care less about the gophers. Source: Minnesotan.
Looks great. Starting with playing a large role in the summer of 2010, Baylor has really stepped up their game which is great for the conference. From a non-ISU perspective it is too bad they do not have a larger natural fanbase, as it limits their ability to completely replace A$M. You guys may not have a lot of fans, but a small fanbase with an owner-investor mindset rather than customer (bandwagon) can get as much done.
Did they actually pay someone for that drone flyover? That is the worst flying I have ever seen. I hope that was just them trying to save money so they decided to buy a drone themselves and just filmed their shakedown flight.
It was part of the original announcements that the Vikes were going to foot the bill for some stadium upgrades. IIRC they at least paid for additional seats to be added and a heated field.
I guess I'm not terribly impressed with the exterior facade, feels a little 70/80's to me with the vertical columns. Inside of the stadium looks great but I would be dissapointed as a fan to have a brand new stadium that already looks dated.
