Gies Memorial Stadium
KBLEE
- Montgomery, IL
Gap Inc. is a retail portfolio of Gap, Old Navy, Banana Republic, and Athleta. Sell the naming rights, put in some "premium seating" and make it a destination to come to The Gap.
Illwinsagain
- Cary, IL
Could use their old jingle, "Fall into the Gap".
Illini in Italy
- Illini HQ, Florida Panhandle
Battle89
- Cary-Grove, the better Trojan team
Shief
- Champaign Area
Is it sad that the pixels give me the chills?
Dan
Admin
Looks like there's video boards facing streetside.
(My photo)
Ribbon board above the north end zone in the background.
(My photo)
Latest webcam-
https://www.wcia.com/memorial-stadium-cam/
(My photo)
Ribbon board above the north end zone in the background.
(My photo)
Latest webcam-
https://www.wcia.com/memorial-stadium-cam/
This is actually a good sign.. it might be working...
This shows why those trees in front have to come down - looks like you're standing closer to State Farm Center than Memorial Stadium in these photos!
Or maybe some Halo split screen.
It's literally like 10 posts up. On this page.
Shief
- Champaign Area
Any idea how wide Assembly Hall/SFC is? The new scoreboard looks to be at least 60% of AH/SFC's width.
With that big of a scoreboard, the gaps to the towers make it look like something is missing. Maybe we - Whitman with Gies, Shad, etc. - need to look into @Fighter of the Nightman's recommendation to have SEZ upper deck boxes and to fill in the lower bowl notch to make things feel more complete.
Fighter of the Nightman
- Chicago, IL
^ The grand and imposing architecture of the east and west sides just makes this visual problem worse. If there weren't two tall, beautiful, double-deck structures on the left and right of that photo, the Horseshoe would just look like sort of a smaller part of the stands ... but in reality, it looks so tiny and inherently incomplete in comparison.
We've beaten this horse to death, but I just don't get it. The DIA seems intent on (A) not doing anything overly transformative to the Horseshoe and (B) refusing to spend a dime on it unless it was going to be transformative ... so we are just stuck with the Horseshoe indefinitely as we continue to throw millions at things like a bigger scoreboard and more ribbon boards? Lol, sorry, but how does a $100 million donation specifically earmarked to improve the stadium not even touch the one part of the stadium that objectively needs fixed?
We've beaten this horse to death, but I just don't get it. The DIA seems intent on (A) not doing anything overly transformative to the Horseshoe and (B) refusing to spend a dime on it unless it was going to be transformative ... so we are just stuck with the Horseshoe indefinitely as we continue to throw millions at things like a bigger scoreboard and more ribbon boards? Lol, sorry, but how does a $100 million donation specifically earmarked to improve the stadium not even touch the one part of the stadium that objectively needs fixed?