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Post by 919aggie on Jul 8, 2021 14:56:36 GMT -5
Exactly I think we’re hamstrung by our history to a point. We went out and got the cheapest 17,000 seat stadium we could get. No press box, no lights, soda pop can aluminum and second grade paint. No field house and nobody to paint the field! The field still has drainage and grass problems to this day. How long does it take to totally fix or replace the error that was Aggie Stadium and is Truist Stadium (yeah, I said it)? We’ve been band-aiding and erector-setting the place ever since it opened. Either building a new stadium over the top of it bringing it closer to the field and covering the track (won’t happen of course) and building a new track facility elsewhere or grabbing land and building a new football only facility is the answer. With a modern state of the art stadium you can enhance the fam gameday experience and hopefully get more bits in the seats at that premium price we charge. I have fond memories of going to games at SC Steat, Fayetteville State, and Morehouse as a kid but nostalgia can’t wash away the fact those stadiums were subpar compared to the pwc stadiums I’ve visited. There is simply no reason in my mind we should associate sub-par and second class with hbcu anything. Largest school in conference should have beat facilities in conference. There should always be multiple cranes on campus. I have no idea how we get there but I pray we’re on our way. I know the purpose of this thread wasn’t to so much discuss our stadium but I can’t throw stones. If I do it might ricochet off one of their stadiums and knock a critical bolt off ours and cause the whole thing to fall over. You definitely need to be apart of the decision making process! I'm starting to think about Alabama State facilities. SN: Moving the Softball stadium near the Baseball stadium should also happen (If possible).
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Post by saabman on Jul 8, 2021 14:58:06 GMT -5
Exactly I think we’re hamstrung by our history to a point. We went out and got the cheapest 17,000 seat stadium we could get. No press box, no lights, soda pop can aluminum and second grade paint. No field house and nobody to paint the field! The field still has drainage and grass problems to this day. How long does it take to totally fix or replace the error that was Aggie Stadium and is Truist Stadium (yeah, I said it)? We’ve been band-aiding and erector-setting the place ever since it opened. Either building a new stadium over the top of it bringing it closer to the field and covering the track (won’t happen of course) and building a new track facility elsewhere or grabbing land and building a new football only facility is the answer. With a modern state of the art stadium you can enhance the fam gameday experience and hopefully get more bits in the seats at that premium price we charge. I have fond memories of going to games at SC Steat, Fayetteville State, and Morehouse as a kid but nostalgia can’t wash away the fact those stadiums were subpar compared to the pwc stadiums I’ve visited. There is simply no reason in my mind we should associate sub-par and second class with hbcu anything. Largest school in conference should have beat facilities in conference. There should always be multiple cranes on campus. I have no idea how we get there but I pray we’re on our way. I know the purpose of this thread wasn’t to so much discuss our stadium but I can’t throw stones. If I do it might ricochet off one of their stadiums and knock a critical bolt off ours and cause the whole thing to fall over. I agree…when should not add on to truist stadium…save the $20M and out toward a new football only stadium I see Truist as Track and Field only stadium.
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Post by aggie2039 on Jul 8, 2021 15:06:16 GMT -5
I agree…when should not add on to truist stadium…save the $20M and out toward a new football only stadium I see Truist as Track and Field only stadium. The band could practice there too…2 problems solved with one facility
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Post by DOOMS on Jul 8, 2021 15:29:30 GMT -5
If we did a new facility properly, the band room would be a part of it and they could and should practice at the stadium. It’s not like the band performs during track meets.
When that in state kid is trying to choose between us and Houston and sees the band practicing on the field where the field events are supposed to be, he might pause.
If you can take him from the track and field dedicated facility across the footbridge over 29 which is decorated with championship banners and Aggie history facts, and show him the band practicing in their own facility attached to the football stadium and say “by the way, do you like music?” then he probably will only pause to ask for a pen to sign on the spot.
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Post by Aggie Monster on Jul 8, 2021 15:50:14 GMT -5
Man, Dooms...............You my man......But you trippin! I get it. Its all hypothetical, but do you think we going to build a new football only facility in a different spot and we just finished the press box and got plans for the building behind the U? Nope not happening. The stadium has entered forever upgrade mode. The seats will be redone some day and they will figure out a way to add seats during game day without destroying the track and that will be it. That thang aint moving.
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Post by captaggie on Jul 8, 2021 15:51:24 GMT -5
Do we have an Athletics Advisory Board?
I'm nominating Dooms.
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Post by oldschool on Jul 8, 2021 18:05:16 GMT -5
I appreciate the optimism of some of our alumni but the reality is we ain't gonna ever build a new football only stadium . We can't keep the grass green in the stadium now and yall talking about building a brand new 30,000 seat stadium on land that we do not currently own , yall trippin . We don't have the type of alumni who can come in and drop 20 to 30 million dollar donations .
Compare us with our new members at High Point University ,they wanted a Pharmacy school and one couple dropped 20 million and they got it done ,the new Arena/Hotel complex probably took maybe 4 or 5 donors and bam it's done ,their coach Tubby Smith and his wife contributed 1 million . We just don't have enough alumni with deep pockets to do the type of stuff that you guys are dreaming about ,I wish we did .I mean I wish that I could write a check for the new Athletic building at the stadium ,while Trues writes another check for a new band room ,and Thrilla can take care of the renovation of the baseball stadium .
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Post by Maxell on Jul 8, 2021 18:15:32 GMT -5
Never say never. A whole lot of stuff happened this year that I never thought would happen.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2021 18:31:58 GMT -5
As for the Big South’s largest stadium, we could and should leave it as a T&F facility. We literally have one of the top T&F coaches in the nation. He’s more than earned a facility that large for solely T&F use. And that includes the field house. I said it in another thread but it’s making more and more sense to me; we need to expand across 29 and place a 30,000 seat steel, concrete, and brick football only facility with a field house, expansive luxury suites dedicated to various Triad area big money corporations and individuals, an attached band practice/storage area, and an indoor practice facility. Widen 29 and build several walkways and bridges across 29 with plenty of A&T bragging along the whole section of 29 that passes through future campus. Buy up everything from Market to whatever the surrounding streets are and we have enough land for another parking garage, intramural fields, dorms, a lake, a tv station, whatever. Might be a $100 million or more, but it would be priceless over time. When a potential student drives down or up 29 and is all of a sudden greeted with Aggiefest Alley, game over. What part of 29? The residential area or commercial? It's commercial off of Bessemer and US-29.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2021 18:35:22 GMT -5
Never say never. A whole lot of stuff happened this year that I never thought would happen. And plenty Aggies came into some $$$ during the pandemic.
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Post by 919aggie on Jul 8, 2021 19:12:33 GMT -5
Off topic...If we renovated Corbett, would it just end up being similar to Norfolk State's arena?
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Post by oleschoolaggie on Jul 8, 2021 20:18:38 GMT -5
Off topic...If we renovated Corbett, would it just end up being similar to Norfolk State's arena? View Attachmentnope, they're two totally different arenas. hard to tell just by looking at pictures, but in person they're not very similar. nsu's echols arena is more "spacious" than corbett but it has a very "wide gap" on one side of the arena that i don't like. whereas, corbett is more "compact" (which i prefer) than echols and there's no "wide gap" in corbett. corbett is more "intimidating" than echols because its more "compact" so the crowd noise is funneled directly down to the court from "all 4 sides". don't get me wrong, i like echols and the upgrades nsu has made. but i really like corbett better (except for our upper level bleachers) because corbett is a more "intimidating" environment and the fans are right on top of you...
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Post by DOOMS on Jul 8, 2021 21:16:21 GMT -5
When I was in school we couldn’t grow grass on the campus, I stayed in the same dorm my father stayed in almost 40 years prior with barely any upgrades, and half the campus had a neighborhood in it. We were told it would take a lifetime to obtain the land and make it part of the campus. That wasn’t the case.
We didn’t have phones in our rooms, had wide open showers, and hot a$$ radiators in Scott Hall. I was told we’d never get phones in the rooms and don’t even mention cable. I moved off campus in ‘92 cause it was highway robbery staying in that hellhole of a dorm paying room and board. My little cousin was a freshman in fall ‘96 after I graduated in spring ‘96. I went to visit him in Scott. Phone in his room and cable tv.
They said they’d never tear Scott down. Cost too much. I have a piece of that b*tch in my office right now.
That can’t do attitude is gone folk. If you can’t see the stadium for the grass that’s your issue. If the administration decides to go after that land across 29 THEY WILL GET IT DONE. The day of the geechee is gone folks. It’s past time to quit letting High Pernt U expand exponentially, let UNCG grow from a small women’s school to a d-3 school to the damn largest school in the Triad right under our noses, and we just sit there and act like we can’t do anything but watch. That’s bull$h*t folks.
There’s thread after thread on here about people practically throwing money at Ayantee for this and that. What kind of self-defeatist attitude all of a sudden says we can’t do something? If the largest, most prominent, top-ranked public hbcu can’t achieve it, what does that say about all hbcus? We have a damn responsibility to continually improve and expand in my opinion. The only question I have is how far the administration wants to take it. However far they want to take it is exactly how far it will go. That being typed it wouldn’t surprise me if we didn’t have plans for a new stadium sitting in a file cabinet waiting to be shown once we’re through with this current round of fund raising. We’ll go from having the biggest and aluminumest stadium in the Big South to the biggest and bestest of whatever conference we’re in. I believe!
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Post by A&T-roy on Jul 8, 2021 21:56:27 GMT -5
When I was in school we couldn’t grow grass on the campus, I stayed in the same dorm my father stayed in almost 40 years prior with barely any upgrades, and half the campus had a neighborhood in it. We were told it would take a lifetime to obtain the land and make it part of the campus. That wasn’t the case. We didn’t have phones in our rooms, had wide open showers, and hot a$$ radiators in Scott Hall. I was told we’d never get phones in the rooms and don’t even mention cable. I moved off campus in ‘92 cause it was highway robbery staying in that hellhole of a dorm paying room and board. My little cousin was a freshman in fall ‘96 after I graduated in spring ‘96. I went to visit him in Scott. Phone in his room and cable tv. They said they’d never tear Scott down. Cost too much. I have a piece of that b*tch in my office right now. That can’t do attitude is gone folk. If you can’t see the stadium for the grass that’s your issue. If the administration decides to go after that land across 29 THEY WILL GET IT DONE. The day of the geechee is gone folks. It’s past time to quit letting High Pernt U expand exponentially, let UNCG grow from a small women’s school to a d-3 school to the damn largest school in the Triad right under our noses, and we just sit there and act like we can’t do anything but watch. That’s bull$h*t folks. There’s thread after thread on here about people practically throwing money at Ayantee for this and that. What kind of self-defeatist attitude all of a sudden says we can’t do something? If the largest, most prominent, top-ranked public hbcu can’t achieve it, what does that say about all hbcus? We have a damn responsibility to continually improve and expand in my opinion. The only question I have is how far the administration wants to take it. However far they want to take it is exactly how far it will go. That being typed it wouldn’t surprise me if we didn’t have plans for a new stadium sitting in a file cabinet waiting to be shown once we’re through with this current round of fund raising. We’ll go from having the biggest and aluminumest stadium in the Big South to the biggest and bestest of whatever conference we’re in. I believe! Kudos DOOMS!
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Post by bseballaggie on Jul 9, 2021 3:11:57 GMT -5
Bring back the block party, place the DJ in the stadium with those new JBL speakers ( Like DJ’s rolled back in the day )in all four corners, And every home game play youtu.be/mmo3HFa2vjgWith Everybody Screaming Go Aggie Go Aggies GoAggies
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