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Press box: I haven’t read all of this, I assume we concluded that the press box doesn’t serve the players or fans, or really anything worth supporting and technology has made it obsolete?

If not, I’ll engage.
 

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Tear down the press box, but leave the supports. Install a 'mechanical' ribbon just above the upper deck around the entire perimeter. A 'mechanical' ribbon is a robotized camera placement mechanism. It's a two function system: position the entire set of cameras and manipulate the viewing (e.g. zoom) of each of them. This would provide real-time, 360 degree video or stills from any position in the upper deck. Combined with the adjusted viewing features, it'll be the opportunity to view any angle on any play. Furthermore, it gives the relocated press box unlimited replay options from above.
So, imagine you're on your phone and you want to view the supposed David Montgomery's fumble at the Liberty Bowl (yeh. I know. It was the Liberty Bowl and not Jack Trice, but you get the idea). Now you'd be able to do it 360 degrees, frame-by-frame. Sure, additional cameras at field level would be ideal. Bottom line: use technology to usurp huge construction costs. Also, I'm sure the media would gobble this up.
$ound$ great. I wonder if there are rea$on$ why no $tadium has implemented thi$ idea
 

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$ound$ great. I wonder if there are rea$on$ why no $tadium has implemented thi$ idea
Because I'm an out-of-the-box type of thinker. The technology is readily available right now, but not yet applied in this manner. If Iowa State can be competitive in the autonomous driving solar car, I see no reason to think the university doesn't have the resources to make this happen.
 
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Because I'm an out-of-the-box type of thinker. The technology is readily available right now, but not yet applied in this manner. If Iowa State can be competitive in the autonomous driving solar car, I see no reason to think the university doesn't have the resources to make this happen.
Are you the mastermind of the bugle?
 

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KU just tore down its old football stadium with a large press box. The new stadium does not have a press box that I can see. Adding a press box later with that Jayhawk bird cage or prison fence structure encircling the stadium will also be difficult. Perhaps press boxes are going out of style (?).

 

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45 years ago, Iowa State probably had 40 to 50 press credentials issued to local daily newspapers. I doubt they have very many to newspapers now, most to digital some of whom may or may not need a press box. There used to be a couple of big rooms for color film processing. That went out 25 years ago. Des Moines Register used to have three or four writers at games, plus a couple of photogs. Not any more. There used to be five or six radio stations doing play by play at the Iowa games (back then the Iowa State Student Radio Station KPGY did play by play).
 

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Tear down the press box, but leave the supports. Install a 'mechanical' ribbon just above the upper deck around the entire perimeter. A 'mechanical' ribbon is a robotized camera placement mechanism. It's a two function system: position the entire set of cameras and manipulate the viewing (e.g. zoom) of each of them. This would provide real-time, 360 degree video or stills from any position in the upper deck. Combined with the adjusted viewing features, it'll be the opportunity to view any angle on any play. Furthermore, it gives the relocated press box unlimited replay options from above.
So, imagine you're on your phone and you want to view the supposed David Montgomery's fumble at the Liberty Bowl (yeh. I know. It was the Liberty Bowl and not Jack Trice, but you get the idea). Now you'd be able to do it 360 degrees, frame-by-frame. Sure, additional cameras at field level would be ideal. Bottom line: use technology to usurp huge construction costs. Also, I'm sure the media would gobble this up.
Special cameras are already being mounted and calibrated in every NFL stadium to install Sony's new Hawk-eye technology (no joke) which will likely replace the chain gangs.

No longer will officials be called into the field with the chain to determine whether the ball placement is a first down.

This elimination of NFL chain gangs will probably happen in the 2025 season.
 

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KU just tore down its old football stadium with a large press box. The new stadium does not have a press box that I can see. Adding a press box later with that Jayhawk bird cage or prison fence structure encircling the stadium will also be difficult. Perhaps press boxes are going out of style (?).


It was a big deal when that press box was built.
 

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KU just tore down its old football stadium with a large press box. The new stadium does not have a press box that I can see. Adding a press box later with that Jayhawk bird cage or prison fence structure encircling the stadium will also be difficult. Perhaps press boxes are going out of style (?).


Looking at the renderings. It appears press will be in the corner.
 

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KU just tore down its old football stadium with a large press box. The new stadium does not have a press box that I can see. Adding a press box later with that Jayhawk bird cage or prison fence structure encircling the stadium will also be difficult. Perhaps press boxes are going out of style (?).


Not sure, but it could be part of phase 2. That rendering just shows it after phase 1.
 

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Obviously any knowledgeable fan understands the likelihood of ever getting a true “big boy” press box at JTS is very low. We get it - the financials, priorities, yada, yada, yada. And that (also obviously) isn’t the point. The point is that it looks small-time from the outside. Outsiders look at our stadium and see it as less than. The nation sees a dinky press box and a stadium that has a “gee golly they sure are trying aren’t they!!” feel to it. The Sukup end zone looks cheap. The materials look cheap. Our 1987 erector-set lights look cheap as hell. And goofy as hell. They look like they were purchased at county fair outdoor lighting sale. The Jacobson building - which took an act of GOD to get built - was outdated and far too small almost instantly. The scoreboard contraption on top of it - woof! A lot of us fans are “OK” with it because we’ve never been a true big boy football program. Our press box - yes as obviously stupid as it sounds - is the perfect small/schmedium-time press box for our program. That’s what we’ve produced and that’s how we are viewed from the outside. But hey, it’s WAY better than things used to be, right!?

Our football program is currently doing some great things - and I personally am pumped for this season and the potential to take a step towards the highest levels this season. JTS as an atmosphere on game days has come a long ways and I’m confident it will be really loud and intimidating again this season. But it’s also perfectly OK to acknowledge what it’s not and have silly unattainable fan pipe dreams of what it could be for it to be in par with some of the bigger players in CFB…

Cut the check.
 
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