Gies Memorial Stadium

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Orange_Blue
Fighter of the Nightman said:
^ 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?
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On Jeremy Warner's podcast, he mentioned it would take several hundred million dollars to renovate the stadium and DIA has decided to spend on roster/coaching upgrades (ironically, my thought was what you would say about that!). I was thinking that seemed really high, but a quick google search showed the Northwestern Stadium cost $870 mil for the 35k seat stadium.
 
#177      
BZuppke
Orange_Blue said:
On Jeremy Warner's podcast, he mentioned it would take several hundred million dollars to renovate the stadium and DIA has decided to spend on roster/coaching upgrades (ironically, my thought was what you would say about that!). I was thinking that seemed really high, but a quick google search showed the Northwestern Stadium cost $870 mil for the 35k seat stadium.
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So what do you do long term? It will need upgrades for safety eventually and costs aren’t going down.
 
#178      
altgeld88
kmunt09 said:
Ironic he just posted this video yesterday…Memorial Stadium talk at 15:10, with a funny little bit on the wasted space at 16:00 😆

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Thanks; enjoyed that. It's nice to see an opposing fan truly appreciate the absolute gem that is GMS.

Also nice to see someone who shares my view that Michigan Stadium is just a huge, uninspiring bowl. The hideous Frankenstein monster that is Beaver Stadium is an order of magnitude better than The Big House.
 
#179      
Fighter of the Nightman
Orange_Blue said:
On Jeremy Warner's podcast, he mentioned it would take several hundred million dollars to renovate the stadium and DIA has decided to spend on roster/coaching upgrades (ironically, my thought was what you would say about that!). I was thinking that seemed really high, but a quick google search showed the Northwestern Stadium cost $870 mil for the 35k seat stadium.
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I get that we need to focus on other things, I just wish they would articulate a vision. If Josh said the goal is the renovation floated in 2016 but we can’t make any progress with the SEZ until $X million dollars are secured … fine! But IF there isn’t some long term vision for the SEZ, then some of this $100 million should go toward relatively inexpensive fixes like filling in the stands so they go closer to the field.

In other words, the “do nothing to the Horseshoe until we can REALLY renovate it” only makes sense if there is some long term plan to renovate it. And when I hear the DIA talk about it, they seem 110% fine with the SEZ as is, which would be really disappointing if true.
 
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