More than a century later, Dr. Boatwright's vision is becoming reality, with the help of a descendent.
The University of Richmond in September will open Robins Stadium, a $25 million on-campus football facility being built by Hourigan Construction. The senior superintendent of the project is Bob Boatwright, whose family tree includes the man who was Richmond's esteemed president 1895-1946.
Robins Stadium, with a seating capacity of 8,700, is on Boatwright Drive, and UR's library also is named after Boatwright, evidence of Frederic W. Boatwright's impact on the school. Richmond College relocated from downtown to its current location in 1914. Boatwright guided the move and recommended the "Collegiate Gothic" architectural style.
T-Dog wrote:At least we can avoid those stupid tollbooths now.
Your going to need some bleachers though. 8,700 is too small.
We never hit a tollbooth on the way to the game last year... our taxi driver did on the way back, but he didn't know where he was going in the first place.
10,000 probably would have been a better capacity considering they averaged 9,000+ last year. But if they fill it consistently I can see endzone expansion.
It makes the ticket a "hot ticket" though and more people want to go.
bluehenbillk wrote:It will be new, but man, it's smaller looking that I even thought. Parsons Field on one cycle of roids maybe.
Its funny, when it first started going up, I thought the opposite - that it was bigger than I thought it would be. I think a good comparison as far as size of the structure is Elon.
bluehenbillk wrote:It will be new, but man, it's smaller looking that I even thought. Parsons Field on one cycle of roids maybe.
Its funny, when it first started going up, I thought the opposite - that it was bigger than I thought it would be. I think a good comparison as far as size of the structure is Elon.
Andy said what I was thinking. How does it compare to Zable?
ur2K wrote:
Its funny, when it first started going up, I thought the opposite - that it was bigger than I thought it would be. I think a good comparison as far as size of the structure is Elon.
Andy said what I was thinking. How does it compare to Zable?
I think the only real commonality with Zable is the intimacy of the place and use of brick. Unlike Zable, the home side will be a bigger than the visitor side (i get the impression at Zable that both sides are pretty similar in size). We'll also have 'towers' with luxury boxes on one side and a press box on the other.
Someone on our board mentioned the other day that student seating may be on bleachers in the end zone - but I haven't seen anything official to confirm this.
Not that my opinion matters one bit but this is shaping up to be a nightmare game day experience for anyone not living on the UR campus. The stadium is built way too small for a program of UR's stature and access to and from is going to be a royal pain in butt. Hope I'm wrong. I may be one of the few who will actually miss UR Stadium. It was old but it got the job done.
That said, there's no question that Robins will look first class. UR's campus is amazing.
Dukie95 wrote:Wow..that visitor section looks to seat about...uh...12
I sure hope for their first game I am one of the 12 on the visitors side. This will be the third time in four years we have played the Spiders, it's our time to finally win one.
BlackFalkin wrote:For the love of Jeff, if your building a stadium from scratch... why leave the track?
It has always been designed as a multi-sport facility. I think it's practical for the UR campus. No need to trash a bunch of other trees on a beautiful campus when you can build a new football/soccer/lacrosse/track stadium in one place.
I know a lot of people really trash the tracks around stadiums and they're obviously not ideal, but in this case, I think there's a really good argument for it.
BlackFalkin wrote:For the love of Jeff, if your building a stadium from scratch... why leave the track?
Space restrictions. Nowhere else to put the track.
Are you kidding me? 10,000 people arent coming to see Jimmy JoJo run the 400... Put that track on the opposite side of town! Who cares, with that space they could have added 2,000 more seats.
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danefan wrote:
Space restrictions. Nowhere else to put the track.
Are you kidding me? 10,000 people arent coming to see Jimmy JoJo run the 400... Put that track on the opposite side of town! Who cares, with that space they could have added 2,000 more seats.
The neighboring community is why it is only 8700 seats. Same size as the basketball arena.
"Elaine, you're from Baltimore, right?"
"Yes, well, Towson actually."
BlackFalkin wrote:
Are you kidding me? 10,000 people arent coming to see Jimmy JoJo run the 400... Put that track on the opposite side of town! Who cares, with that space they could have added 2,000 more seats.
The neighboring community is why it is only 8700 seats. Same size as the basketball arena.
Thats the dumbest shiit I've ever heard.
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andy7171 wrote:
The neighboring community is why it is only 8700 seats. Same size as the basketball arena.
Thats the dumbest shiit I've ever heard.
Why? Keeping the locals happy shouldn't be a concern of a university that's going to rely on them for attendance? What's so dumb about keeping that in mind?
BlackFalkin wrote:
Thats the dumbest shiit I've ever heard.
Why? Keeping the locals happy shouldn't be a concern of a university that's going to rely on them for attendance? What's so dumb about keeping that in mind?
Towson's neighboring community got the new arena delayed and moved to the other side of the existing one. They constantly b!tch about things. Very annoying. If they didn't want to live in a college town, why'd they buy a house that borders a large univeristy?
"Elaine, you're from Baltimore, right?"
"Yes, well, Towson actually."
