Was having a cup of coffee at the Peet’s off west covell and ran into a Jim Sochor plaque inside!

Hopefully I get back from my hike up in the capay valley in time to watch the whole game… either way the point still stands!! Go Ags!!

Why dont we just ask the mondavi people pretty please for 200 million dollars

wait the crowd is amazing!!!

Something like Vandy just did?

See I still would echo the idea that a stadium like this but with one side of pure boxes instead of a ton of extra seating on the press box side is a better money maker and would allow for more realistic capacities. I hope what we go with is a plan more like that than just two big huge sides of seating

I agree whole heartedly. The bowl is awesome because even if you built boxes/some extra seating shaped to the bowl on the other side you would just be able to take advantage/use the already existing bowl to keep sound in, make it feel more enclosed and real "stadium" like instead of having just 2 high school grandstands that eventually would have seating at each end.

Much rather have what seems to be the most likely reno plans than something like what we could be having (ie ball states design with one grass berm)

Seems like the original stadium design was the current setup with steel raised sections (from this LDA project)



https://humanecology.ucdavis.edu/sites/g/files/dgvnsk161/files/inline-files/HHarkins.pdf

I would much rather we have one side be boxes and the other side be about half as much seating if we expanded (and spread out wider than taller)

Well thats my bad lol, ive been so bogged down my classwork I missed that. Point still stands, pretty arena!

Am I creating revisionist history or was aggie stadium supposed to be 25k (or 15k? i cant remember) to start and then they scaled it back with the economy and steel prices?

I agree with the long game that Davis seems to play, but jeez I really am curious how this MW all sports but football works cause half of the students I talk to think we are gonna be playing Air Force in football next year... we cant escape the 2 league splits haha.

Dude that Idaho arena is so pretty. Like my goodness....

I have never heard plough make some many off hand comments about something than the mercer no contest/eligibility issue. Just a frickin pain in the butt.

See I agree BUT I think if the team ever wants to move up and play in the MW they should obviously prioritize box and high-revnue seating and add some extra seating as I would assume higher interest (I’m talking get the stadium to like 18 or 20k or something in non-box seats).

I think a Davis stadium that size would be a much better idea than a sac 40k stadium with no conference plans :lol:

watched some stuff from Williams and dude is a baller my goodness

this is a great preview. I friggin love these posts!! Gets me so fired up for every game :)

Perhaps this week is not the week of an announcement..

Great analysis !

Going to have to/hoping that the mountain west next year brings some energy with new members that are more name recognizable/better competition next year, but I think once big west play starts attendance should boost.
Slightly unrelated to basketball but the PR confusion of our basketball team and every other sport being in the mountain west and not playing a single mountain west team playing our football team and explaining that we are still in the big sky will be interesting to manage. I feel like it’s so hard to explain the big west/big sky situation we are in already and people understand the big west doesn’t have football….

Yeah the marketing was lacking in my opinion…. Didn’t see any buildup/hype around campus for the opening game or this first d1 matchup really. Maybe a few posts on social media? The rain also may have kept some folks at home (considering like 900 tickets were sold). Granted, I think most students still don’t know who NDSU is…especially basketball fans.