TOP 10 STADIUM EXPANSIONS

[BlackFalkin]

...:::List includes upcoming expansions only:::...


#10 Portland State-PGE Park











#9 Jacksonville State-Paul Snow Stadium









#8 Richmond-First Market Stadium








#7 Liberty-Williams Stadium









#6 UC Davis-Aggie Stadium








#5 Southern Illinois-Suluki Way









#4 Georgia Southern-Paulson Stadium











#3 Montana State-Bobcat Stadium









#2 Texas State-Bobcat Stadium





















#1 James Madison-Brideforth Stadium

[guinzone]

You guys love to rip on YSU for the gigantic home-team side and the small visitor's team side, but my God look at JMU's. As sweet as it looks, they should work a bit more on that one side if they are going to pimp out the others.

[Monarch Nation]

That was JMU's Phase I. The plans (Phase II and III) call for evening the sides and endzomes. It will really look nice when it is finished.

[DukeJack]

You guys love to rip on YSU for the gigantic home-team side and the small visitor's team side, but my God look at JMU's. As sweet as it looks, they should work a bit more on that one side if they are going to pimp out the others.

Um, you realize that "small" side is the same size it currently is now, with seating for about 6800 people? Like Monarch Nation said, this is just the first phase. Phase II is scheduled to begin the year after Phase I is complete, but not if we do not regularly sell out and the money can't be raised.

[BlackFalkin]

i really think TSU & JMU are both gonna move up.

[JMUpurplehazed]

I think JMU moves up (I hate the term move up here which insinuates "to something better" which is not the case) albeit not in a hurry...no school spends $62M on top of the $12M already in the endzone building without plans...

JMU and several other FCS programs are in FCS no-mans land; beyond cost containment football and dead center of revenue containment football...it's a goodd place to be, but not for a long time

[BDKJMU]

You guys love to rip on YSU for the gigantic home-team side and the small visitor's team side, but my God look at JMU's. As sweet as it looks, they should work a bit more on that one side if they are going to pimp out the others.

Um, you realize that "small" side is the same size it currently is now, with seating for about 6800 people? Like Monarch Nation said, this is just the first phase. Phase II is scheduled to begin the year after Phase I is complete, but not if we do not regularly sell out and the money can't be raised.

I thought Phase I was demolishing & rebuilding lower deck, adding 2nd deck, bowling in endzone, press box & luxury suites.

Phase II would happen sometime in the future if JU decided to move up. I didn't think it was scheduled to start in 2012 (after Phase I is scheduled to be complete in 2011).

[BDKJMU]

This is the one on Club Seating:


2k a yr for the right to buy a seat+:
-$500 a seat with 4 yr agreement before end of 2010
-$550 a seat with 4 yr agreement after end of 2010
-$625 a seat for year by year

So if I want to get 2 seats for 4 years I've got to commit 12k before the end of 2010. A little too rich for my blood.

[Bostonspider]

The latest pictures out of JMU look awfully sweet..

[slycat]

Is JMU thinking Big East?

[DukeJack]

No, we're thinking that we stay FCS as long as Bourne and Rose are in charge of athletics and the school. There's plenty of quotes from those two in the thread where BlackFalkin ranks the top 25 stadiums saying we are not moving, you can check them if you want. They have said we would move "immediately" if an invite from the ACC ever came, but they're balanced and I can't believe they would actually offer us.

And as sweet as these look, it's only going to seat about 24k.

[slycat]

No, we're thinking that we stay FCS as long as Bourne and Rose are in charge of athletics and the school. There's plenty of quotes from those two in the thread where BlackFalkin ranks the top 25 stadiums saying we are not moving, you can check them if you want. They have said we would move "immediately" if an invite from the ACC ever came, but they're balanced and I can't believe they would actually offer us.

And as sweet as these look, it's only going to seat about 24k.

Thats what I thought I had read but its hard to believe when you see those pics. Thats going to create an awesome atmosphere. Whats the timetable?

[DukeJack]

Thats what I thought I had read but its hard to believe when you see those pics. Thats going to create an awesome atmosphere. Whats the timetable?

I know, and our fans have gradually accepted we'll stay IAA for a while, just some others who can't. Destruction of our current home side will begin immediately after our last home game this year against Towson, so late November, and the lower deck will be finished in time for next season. After that one, the upper deck will be built and the endzone sections put in for a grand opening in 2011.

[AZGrizFan]

I like Texas State's and then Montana State's....

[BDKJMU]

I think JMU moves up (I hate the term move up here which insinuates "to something better" which is not the case) albeit not in a hurry...no school spends $62M on top of the $12M already in the endzone building without plans...

JMU and several other FCS programs are in FCS no-mans land; beyond cost containment football and dead center of revenue containment football...it's a goodd place to be, but not for a long time

Plecker Center carried about a 10 million price tag when it opened..

[BDKJMU]

The latest pictures out of JMU look awfully sweet..

Few more pics in here:
http://www.moseleyprojects.com/ActivePa ... 2964243393

[89Hen]

This is a weird list. Some are in the works, some are proposed, and some are far fetched. Really need to have at least two lists here IMO.

[andy7171]

Why is Richmond being included on this stadium expansion list? New, yes. But hardly an expansion. Why isn't Delawares new stadium on here?

[89Hen]

Why isn't Delawares new stadium on here?

Probably becasue there aren't even any sketches yet. The only drawing of the new athletic facilities include a big white box where the stadium might go.

[Bostonspider]

Well it is an expansion of sorts. Just not an expansion of their current football stadium. UR is expanding what was First Market Stadium (soccer / lacrosse / track) into Robins Stadium (fully mulitpurpose)

Here is what First Market looked like prior to construction



Construction progress at Robins Stadium

[89Hen]

Well it is an expansion of sorts. Just not an expansion of their current football stadium. UR is expanding what was First Market Stadium (soccer / lacrosse / track) into Robins Stadium (fully mulitpurpose)

Sorts. They tore down the existing structure and will be replacing the field to sprint turf, so not really a renovation as much as they're using the space First Market occupied.

Didn't Steven Wright have a joke about having George Washington's axe with which he chopped down the cherry tree... well the blade had been replaced... and the handle too... but it still occupies the same space.

[Bostonspider]

Sorts. They tore down the existing structure and will be replacing the field to sprint turf, so not really a renovation as much as they're using the space First Market occupied.

I did not know they were replacing the turf as that Field Turf was only installed in 2004.

[AZGrizFan]

Well it is an expansion of sorts. Just not an expansion of their current football stadium. UR is expanding what was First Market Stadium (soccer / lacrosse / track) into Robins Stadium (fully mulitpurpose)

Sorts. They tore down the existing structure and will be replacing the field to sprint turf, so not really a renovation as much as they're using the space First Market occupied.

Didn't Steven Wright have a joke about having George Washington's axe with which he chopped down the cherry tree... well the blade had been replaced... and the handle too... but it still occupies the same space.

I don't care who ya are....that's funny.

[JMUpurplehazed]

[quote="DukeJack"]No, we're thinking that we stay FCS as long as Bourne and Rose are in charge of athletics and the school. There's plenty of quotes from those two in the thread where BlackFalkin ranks the top 25 stadiums saying we are not moving, you can check them if you want. They have said we would move "immediately" if an invite from the ACC ever came, but they're balanced and I can't believe they would actually offer us.

I don't think Bourne would turn away from the Big East...if Bourne is in the way of an appropriate conference, bye bye Bourne...Bridgewater is 10 miles away

[EWURanger]

Dude, Montana State's looks friggin sweet!