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They are doing that first...and a recruit is not going to know that it looks like Southern Miss or WVU, they will either say it looks cool or it doesn't.

Southern Miss looks a lot better, and I hope we do that.

As for your general stance that we are entitled because we are debating the merits of stadium designs on a message board, are you delusional? Message board exist because of mutual interest, sometimes of great detail. Without these discussions, less page views, less advertising revenue, and Cyclone Fanatic does not exist.

If Iowa State does a "Southern Miss-style" expansion, it'll be on the north side in the form of an addition, expansion or replacement of the Jacobson building. The South Endzone will be a large number of general seats to increase capacity, not a wall of suites with no general seating, as seen at Southern Miss and the WVU north endzone.
 

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People complaining about stadium expansion? The only thing I would like to add to the conversation, I dont care what it costs, I would personally pay for my own row, but PLEASE replace the cardinal and gold bleacher seats.
 

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People complaining about stadium expansion? The only thing I would like to add to the conversation, I dont care what it costs, I would personally pay for my own row, but PLEASE replace the cardinal and gold bleacher seats.

You prefer black and gold bleacher seats - got it. We'll send you a bill shortly.
 

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People complaining about stadium expansion? The only thing I would like to add to the conversation, I dont care what it costs, I would personally pay for my own row, but PLEASE replace the cardinal and gold bleacher seats.

I thought those were pink and Mt Dew yellow?
 

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People complaining about stadium expansion? The only thing I would like to add to the conversation, I dont care what it costs, I would personally pay for my own row, but PLEASE replace the cardinal and gold bleacher seats.

I was thinking about this at the spring game. They look terrible, and I imagine would only cost 100k or so to replace.
 

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Yeah, she's the classic "ugly hot chick." Definitely would, tho. Especially after that performance.

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Wait- what were we talking about?
 

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I was thinking about this at the spring game. They look terrible, and I imagine would only cost 100k or so to replace.

I imagine it would be SIGNIFICANTLY higher than that - materials alone. 100K wouldn't cover the labor.

I got $250 bucks scrap for the aluminum siding on my house. Probably enough metal to make a couple bleachers.

They could stand to be painted though - I agree with that.
 

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I was thinking about this at the spring game. They look terrible, and I imagine would only cost 100k or so to replace.

I think they have gotten worse in the offseason as I noticed this too at the spring game. Going to have this nice SEZ and then have this eyesore of old bleachers in pink and light yellow.
 

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If anything, they need to put new seat number stickers on the seats. Couldn't read most of them up in section O in the past 3 years.
 

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Are the bleachers painted? Obviously have color (what little hasn't faded away), but could it be another process that colored the aluminum? I can't imagine that just painting would be that easy... I've had lots of issues getting just a little paint to stick to metal on the motorcycle (chrome buttons that sanded and painted black), and my bike is outside far less than the bleachers at JTS.
 

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Are the bleachers painted? Obviously have color (what little hasn't faded away), but could it be another process that colored the aluminum? I can't imagine that just painting would be that easy... I've had lots of issues getting just a little paint to stick to metal on the motorcycle (chrome buttons that sanded and painted black), and my bike is outside far less than the bleachers at JTS.
I used to powder coat and that stuff never fades.
 

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Are the bleachers painted? Obviously have color (what little hasn't faded away), but could it be another process that colored the aluminum? I can't imagine that just painting would be that easy... I've had lots of issues getting just a little paint to stick to metal on the motorcycle (chrome buttons that sanded and painted black), and my bike is outside far less than the bleachers at JTS.

They could use a special aluminum paint. Problem solved.

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People complaining about stadium expansion? The only thing I would like to add to the conversation, I dont care what it costs, I would personally pay for my own row, but PLEASE replace the cardinal and gold bleacher seats.
I had a job one summer of re-painting those seats with some kind of epoxy paint -- they looked amazing afterward but that was years ago -- my guess is that is what will get done
 

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I had a job one summer of re-painting those seats with some kind of epoxy paint -- they looked amazing afterward but that was years ago -- my guess is that is what will get done

Did you work for the university or a third party?
 

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There are only fans in the seats for what .0005% of the time in the year yet recruiting is a year around job.

Obviously that is not the issue. The issue is showing a prospect the stadium in April and trying to impress them.

They're due for some new paint. No big deal.

I agree. You guys are taking my little jab way too seriously.
 

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The bleachers have had "weak" color as long as I can remember. Does anyone remember them when they had better color?