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Agree....not as tall would.look great.
I remember back in the late 90s, it was about all.that was "new and shiney" out there.
I don't understand this argument. Unless other schools have 5x the press we have on gamedays why do we need a bigger pressbox?
If it's simply aesthetics I won't disagree, but the way a press box looks is not on the scale if what players care about.
If it's simply aesthetics I won't disagree, but the way a press box looks is not on the scale if what players care about.
Mid American Energy field at Jack Trice Stadium gets better every year. Until there is more need for VIP areas I don’t see it happening. Endzone club uniquely fills that need for us. I would like to go up there at some point though.
This concept shouldn't really be that hard to grasp.
At other schools, nearly all of the suites and club seating are in one place -- the tower. That's why those structures are so big. Those areas are spread out everywhere at ISU, so what's left for the tower is working press/radio/TV, coaches, game operations, and ~9 donor suites.
*West concourse suites (100+ yards)
*East club seating (60 yards)
*Jacobson VIP (~70 yards [35 yds/level])
*Current tower (~105 yards in total [35 yds/level])
Put all of those together in one structure, and you have a 3-level tower running the length of the field. Add in the Sukup End Zone and its seats, and you're looking at 4 full-length levels.
At other schools, nearly all of the suites and club seating are in one place -- the tower. That's why those structures are so big. Those areas are spread out everywhere at ISU, so what's left for the tower is working press/radio/TV, coaches, game operations, and ~9 donor suites.
*West concourse suites (100+ yards)
*East club seating (60 yards)
*Jacobson VIP (~70 yards [35 yds/level])
*Current tower (~105 yards in total [35 yds/level])
Put all of those together in one structure, and you have a 3-level tower running the length of the field. Add in the Sukup End Zone and its seats, and you're looking at 4 full-length levels.
I would settle for just nuking the Natural Grass project behind the west concourse that has no natural grass but looks like a roadside ditch.
I don't know why people can't get this through their head. People want to expand the pressbox merely because their preconceived notions of what a press box should look like in stadiums that are not like Jack Trice.
That being said, I think I do recall a reporter saying years ago ISU's press box is severely undersized and for big games reporters are practically sitting on each other's laps. It seems to me a reasonable accommodation would be to take the 10 suites currently there and add them to the sides of the current press box and reallocate that space to the actual press, IF that is truly a need. This aesthetics BS is embarrassing though--imagine what Jack Trice would look like if you took all the suites between the upper and lower levels and put them on top. It would look more impressive while delivering a much worse product that would probably get less money than the current configuration. But it would look cool, so that is all that matters!
Ah yes, the thing I hear from every recruit is, "I was gonna commit there, but their press box was really lacking."
There's really only a couple of questions to ask on athletic facility improvement:
1. Does it benefit the student athletes
2. Does it make money
The press box fails on both. Buy hot air baloons and float the press over the end zones. Sell ads. Make money
1. Does it benefit the student athletes
2. Does it make money
The press box fails on both. Buy hot air baloons and float the press over the end zones. Sell ads. Make money
I think the plan is to build a pole barn on top of the existing press box.
I want to pay big money but don't want an EndZone seat; I want an elevated, 50-yd line with room for 10 and full service food / bevs. Expand the rinky-dink HighSchool Box with Lux Box seating and big time Presser Credential (but negotiate a deal where they also pay for the accomodations).
Isn’t it better to have a smaller one that gets used a lot than a bigger one that rarely gets filled?
Recruits talk about facilities all the time. They matter. If they didn't we wouldn't have built the SEZ, there was no overwhelming need for it. But it improves the aesthetics of the stadium and adds seats.
The press box looks weird. It's too small. Is it a deal breaker, obviously not. But every other stadium in the conference has a better one.
I'll say it again since you didn't read the whole thread or you're dense...as part of a whole the press box matters.
If players cared solely about their coaching staffs we'd rent an HS stadium to play in.
Forget the press. Pay CAmpbell more.
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Per Pollard’s post, there were a total of four Big 12 teams ranked in the top 30.
Texas came in 8th in the country averaging 93,000 fans per game, Oklahoma was 12th at 86,000 per game and then Iowa State was third in the conference, and 28th in the country, at 58,000 fans per game, while Oklahoma State was 30th at 57,000 fans per game.
Before the SEZ we were capacity at 56,000. Afterwards we have average attendance 2k over old capacity. But you say there was no need for it?
The open end zones are way different than the press box. When the north side gets a mini bowl in with the new NEZ project, the place will as good as just about anything out there. I think if there is need for suites, they will place them on the east by the club seats to be like the west side. Unless somebody ear tags money to pay for a press box upgrade, I don't see it happening.
I can say, with 100% accuracy, that there's nothing I care less about, at JTS, than the press boxes.
The SEZ is outstanding and enhances the stadium. But no, it wasn't needed. That 2k figure is due to interest generated by an improved and improving product. If, God forbid we fall back into terrible 1980's form that SEZ could become quite empty. Also, a ticket price increase among the existing seating could have matched the revenue generated by the SEZ.
The single biggest reason that the SEZ was done was for aesthetics/perception, function came second. We wanted JTS to look like a real P5 stadium. And now it does. Perception matters. Recruits do indeed want to play in big time stadiums and now we have one...third biggest in the Big12.
And no, the press box is not and should not be a priority. But to say it's totally inconsequential is wrong.
