while not all equal, each position group has their own room for film study

Good. It doesn't have to be much, but there's something about each group having a "home". Some of your best bonding time comes in those rooms

Indeed. Watching your coach rewind the play you screwed up on five times in a row while your buddies heckle is a tie that binds!: good times!

Haha! Equal opportunity roasting in those deals. It is where thick skin is developed

Football dorms attached to the building? Claustrophobic

This could be a realistic long term design too (this is ACU's stadium)

Love this

Wow, very impressive

Nice little stadium. Built with donor funds. Davis currently has club seats and can’t sell out of the existing inventory. What they haven’t realized and need to come to grips with is building suites makes zero economic sense right now. Someone on this board is always complaining about the tent in the end zone. That tent makes money. In fact if they had more tents, better food, and a couple of decent bars in the end zones or corners they would make even more money. Spending 50m on a few poorly placed vanity suites for the Chancellor and UCD Health will be another bad move.

Disagree with your analysis. But everyone is entitled to their opinion.

If we are talking only direct revenue, almost no stadium projects other than rental tents and trailers pencil, even at higher levels. This is an investment with more risk perhaps, but also greater potential for indirect dividends. As to whether the suites are poorly placed, I can’t say, though I will concede perching a building on top of the press box is likely to look weird and I’d probably suggest just removing the current press box and integrate into a new structure for more space.

Yeah i think we need boxes to be equal to other programs at the level we want to be at. I also think we would get people paying to be in them. The banquet room is a good idea for campus stuff as well and the premium seating will get sold. I think they obviously will still work out final plans (maybe just a whole new structure would not be the worst idea) but i think building limited suites, improving concessions and potentially filling out the grass berm near the tent is a good idea for future.

There have to be luxury boxes not to compete with the rest of the Big Sky or MWC but to attract and to offer the best product to current and future corporate partners. That's the primary reason to build those things anyway. Comparing to the MWC, SJSU has crappy, patio-like outdoor "boxes". Hawaii barely has anything. For as large a stadium as the Sun Bowl is, most of the premiums are outdoor with no luxury indoor options at UTEP.

Expanded banquet space is a win for the entire University but especially Athletics. The new design does little, if anything, with regard to substantial additional seating. There will always be space for a deck to be added over the east side, and one of the berms can be converted to permanent seating as well. This is all unnecessary as a member of the Big Sky, and not necessary early in the MWC future.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but currently there are 0 suites in the press box building for people who are willing to donate and pay. Also, I'm assuming the Fire Marshall (or whoever) won't even allow a picnic table on the deck on the ends of the building or a bar top...anything, since I've never seen anything up there. At least let a few people hang out and watch the game standing up there...

Yes exactly. This is the problem I speak of.

I don't understand the huge lines at concessions - were they fixed at big games this year? Is it bc they're run by volunteers? (The BBQ place only had one cashier, a bottleneck.)

For big games why couldn't they put up two 10' x 10' tents that sold simple items - beer, water, chips. If it has to be card only, fine.