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<blockquote data-quote="Champaign Toast" data-source="post: 2007608" data-attributes="member: 748015"><p>Great comments, including the comparison to a very cool European soccer stadium. I love the topic of the south end zone and Memorial Stadium renovations in general. Our stadium is iconic, historic, out of date, beautiful, quarky, and awkward at all once. I have mixed feeling about the north end zone design, and am also really bothered by the distance between field of play and the first row of seats in the south end zone. You'll probably remember they used to place portable bleachers on the turf behind the south end zone, which was truly awkward.</p><p></p><p>Your second image of Memorial Stadium looks so natural and simple. I too have wondered in the past why they wouldn't execute such a basic fix. I suppose the answer lies somewhere in the realm of "since we don't need an increase in seating capacity, if we're going to do work there, let's go all in on revenue generators and value to the progam with special seating options, better concession opportunities, team store, perhaps a recruiting area, non-flammable equipment storage areas (LOL), etc."</p><p></p><p>A number of design renderings have been suggested over the years, plenty of them quite good. For the sake of symmetry, I could even see something with right angles to match the north end zone, rather than a rounded stand. Something tall enough to affect an imposing feel upon players, Coliseum-like. Borussia Dortmund's stadium is such an example of four tall stands boxing in the field. In the corners, I would envision party decks.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Champaign Toast, post: 2007608, member: 748015"] Great comments, including the comparison to a very cool European soccer stadium. I love the topic of the south end zone and Memorial Stadium renovations in general. Our stadium is iconic, historic, out of date, beautiful, quarky, and awkward at all once. I have mixed feeling about the north end zone design, and am also really bothered by the distance between field of play and the first row of seats in the south end zone. You'll probably remember they used to place portable bleachers on the turf behind the south end zone, which was truly awkward. Your second image of Memorial Stadium looks so natural and simple. I too have wondered in the past why they wouldn't execute such a basic fix. I suppose the answer lies somewhere in the realm of "since we don't need an increase in seating capacity, if we're going to do work there, let's go all in on revenue generators and value to the progam with special seating options, better concession opportunities, team store, perhaps a recruiting area, non-flammable equipment storage areas (LOL), etc." A number of design renderings have been suggested over the years, plenty of them quite good. For the sake of symmetry, I could even see something with right angles to match the north end zone, rather than a rounded stand. Something tall enough to affect an imposing feel upon players, Coliseum-like. Borussia Dortmund's stadium is such an example of four tall stands boxing in the field. In the corners, I would envision party decks. [/QUOTE]
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