@hooky Damn man, those were converted 40 years ago. You must be old like me 😆
Pretty sure there were still some wooden bleacher seats into the 90s, plus I haven't been back for many games in the last 30 years.
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All the wooden seats were removed one summer. Either 1985 or 86. The seat numbering changed. Wooden seats had the aisle between seats 20 and 21. The aluminum seats have 1 and 101 on the aisle, 101 always going away from the 50 yd line.
All the wooden seats were removed one summer. Either 1985 or 86. The seat numbering changed. Wooden seats had the aisle between seats 20 and 21. The aluminum seats have 1 and 101 on the aisle, 101 always going away from the 50 yd line.
Well then...
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Thinking the 50 million should have been voted through 4 months ago so they could have accomplished some improvements this Summer.
Better something, late than never, I suppose.
Wish they would at least spend some $ and put padding on the metal bleachers throughout the stadium! That or let us bring in our own padded cushions! Don’t know why they ban padded seats!?
Would be nice if they put less seats on each bleacher. The amount of oversized people was not factored into original plans. Of course, won't happen given they are selling seats like hotcakes
@hooky the reason I remember is me and another guy were working in the Ticket Office and we visually looked at every seat number on both sides 3 times to be sure what was installed matched the manifest.
Helluva summer...
Don't need more seats, Bloomington is too hard to get to for football-sized crowds, even after they improve the highways. People aren't going to drive in from afar. So that just limits our investment and ability to win in football. Accept it.
Or, so I read on forums over many years. 😉 (Sorry/sarc)
The funding is cool news!
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Besides adding enough seating (personal point of view) to overtake PUke by 3-4k make all other functional renovations/additions high ceiling changes indeed. It needs to be a destination for football and including other outdoor events.
Create a very large new building that cuts in to the West Stands. Mirror the design and architecture of the building in the NEZ, obviously stretching the "turrets" out more, to have a very large building that would house a new state of the art press box, luxury suites, etc...
That would probably actually reduce the seating capacity by a little bit. So either raise the east stands to match the height of the west stands, or build an upper deck at the top of the east stands. Could put a nice new concourse below that.
Not sure if 200 million would cover those things, but that 200 million should end up with a new press box, some more luxury suites, and low to mid 60 thousands seating capacity.
Its too bad they fumbled the SEZ design. That could be so much better utilized. But obviously they had no idea Cignetti would be doing what he's doing.
Good H-T article where Dolson talks about the stadium.
@tammany Paywalled. Clif Notes version?
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The sinks in the Memorial Stadium men’s bathrooms are a joke. There are far too few of them.
New bathrooms and new wifi and sound systems are bare minimum upgrades needed.