Finishing Snyder Stadium

[Havs]

That new training facility in the North Endzone is impressive, and the revenue from the west side suites is a great source of income. People ripping K-State's stadium are focusing on all the wrong facets of a successful facility improvement.

Also, college sports is no longer about bigger stadiums, its about better stadiums. With ticket prices going up, and more fans deciding to stay home; quality of fan experience, over quantity of fans, is now the priority.

 

[surly]

Haverhill is our A.D.'s Trojan horse. :twitcy:

 

[Havs]

Haverhill is our A.D.'s Trojan horse. :twitcy:

Facilities are the one thing your athletic director has done right... Leti, Bruce, etc., has made him try to leave Manhattan for the last two years.

 

[SplitIdentity]

Pff. Like Kinnick is a work of art.

It is. So shut up.

 

[CYCLNST8]

It is. So shut up.

Holy delayed reaction, Batman.

 

[iowa_wildcat]

http://www.bringonthecats.com/2016/6/13/11920376/updated-look-at-bill-snyder-family-stadium

The finished north end zone area.

 

[CYCLNST8]

Looks good, purple Kansas. Really dig the limestone. I'd love to knock down Jacobson and fully enclose our stadium.

 

[Gorm]

Looks good, purple Kansas. Really dig the limestone. I'd love to knock down Jacobson and fully enclose our stadium.

I would say the press box is probably the next, and final piece of the stadium. I doubt we ever need the capacity that enclosing the North End Zone would provide.

 

[CYCLNST8]

I would say the press box is probably the next, and final piece of the stadium. I doubt we ever need the capacity that enclosing the North End Zone would provide.

Cyclone fans pack the stadium every year for an often less-than-mediocre product. Imagine if we strung together a couple 8-10 win seasons.

I agree an updated press box should come next, though.

 

[BigJCy]

[video=youtube;ok2vjoz0jZY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok2vjoz0jZY[/video]

 

[cyrocksmypants]

Looks good, purple Kansas. Really dig the limestone. I'd love to knock down Jacobson and fully enclose our stadium.

Meh. I like the uniqueness the Jacobson Building brings. Knock it down and fill in the end zone and JTS suddenly looks like 95% of the stadiums out there.

 

[19clone91]

Man these K State fans keep shoveling money into a stadium that will be empty in 2 years when the next coach learns how impossibly talented and lucky Bill Snyder was. K State will return to ISU / KU ranks very soon and we shall see how their fans react.

Also, who the heck is doing those renderings, they are terrible. Apparently there is no guardrail between the fans and the field.

 

[surly]

Man these K State fans keep shoveling money into a stadium that will be empty in 2 years when the next coach learns how impossibly talented and lucky Bill Snyder was. K State will return to ISU / KU ranks very soon and we shall see how their fans react.

Also, who the heck is doing those renderings, they are terrible. Apparently there is no guardrail between the fans and the field.

Brent Venables will do just fine following the Wizard at K-State. And I've noticed lucky people are generally highly skilled in their profession.

The architect is Populous, which many consider the best in its field. http://populous.com/

 

[CYCLNST8]

Meh. I like the uniqueness the Jacobson Building brings. Knock it down and fill in the end zone and JTS suddenly looks like 95% of the stadiums out there.

The paper airplane?

Yeah, it'd suck to have a venue that looks like a big football stadium.

 

[cyrocksmypants]

The paper airplane?

Yeah, it'd suck to have a venue that looks like a big football stadium.

Kind of, yeah. We're already one of the biggest capacity stadiums in the conference. What's the problem?

 

[surly]

New turf installed this week. Badly needed upgrade. The old turf was placed in 2011.

 

[JP4CY]

New turf installed this week. Badly needed upgrade. The old turf was placed in 2011.

Hopefully the new turf isn’t allergic to flags.

 

[dualthreat]

Is Bill Snyder the reason everyone embraces "K-State"? Everywhere down there it's written as K-State. Been that way as long as I can remember (mid-90's). No one ever says Kansas State.

 

[surly]

Is Bill Snyder the reason everyone embraces "K-State"? Everywhere down there it's written as K-State. Been that way as long as I can remember (mid-90's). No one ever says Kansas State.

Actually, Bill prefers Kansas State. John Currie brought back the traditional "K-State" for branding purposes. On former Kansas State basketball uniforms too often came this look. Mitch Richmond and Steve Henson went to K-State not Ku.

 

[Cyclones_R_GR8]

I prefer the look of real grass.