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A home side like Bloomsburg would be awesome.
In other stadium news, the sky box at Slippery Rock is coming down...literally. The ground under the foundation slid so it's got to be torn down.Comment
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If only the whole ground opened up and swallowed The Evil. :-)Originally posted by Fightingscot82 View PostComment
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That was a really neat feature. I wonder if they'll rebuild it.Originally posted by Fightingscot82 View PostComment
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From what I've heard they will not. Current president has been using an end zone tent and prefers to watch the game from the sideline. However, he's leaving next summer so things may change. Maybe there will be a Brandon Fusco Lodge in the future.Originally posted by IUPbigINDIANS View PostComment
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Speaking of stadiums, the Steelers home will now be called Acrisure Stadium. Cue yinzer outrage.Comment
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Sad thing is there's plenty of room there to do a total demo/rebuild. The gigantic practice lot / frisbee area / metal detector haven behind the home bleachers just sits there unused most of the year. They could demo Miller and turn the field the opposite direction. I hit 9-irons down there a couple days a week in the summer.
Wishful thinking, of course. But, when that pressbox eventually collapses (and falls either forward or backward) ... not going to be a cheap lawsuit to settle. Not to mention, you know, people could die.
Nation's list was pretty spot-on for a quick(ish) fix.
* The chain-link, old, ugly fencing has to go (like 20 years ago).
* The entire home side is a disaster. Blow it up. The restrooms over there are like taking a trip to 1977.
* Fix the wall inside the stadium (along the Field House) before it is beyond repair. If anything, it is a major eyesore.
* The most simple fix: Clean the place up on game day. Get all the track stuff and soccer nets, etc., out of there. It just looks like a jumbled up pile of garbage in the endzones.
* Another relatively inexpensive fix would be to landscape the whole hill area (from the ticket booth area down around the steps). Plant some nice trees, etc.
There's potential there (even with what it is today). But, as you said, the list is so long that they may not know where to start. And, minor detail, somebody has to pay for it.Comment
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What's crazy to think is how easy it is for high schools to update their stadiums - and nobody questions it. Turf needs a $600k replacement? Add it to the budget. At a school like IUP, that $600k is an unworldly expense and if many staff knew how much it cost just to do lifecycle replacement would throw a fit. Meanwhile at many high schools, nobody blinks. Plus the local businesses line up to put their names in the stadiums - often without any sort of tax deduction and probably less eyes on the sponsorships compared to how often college stadiums are used. Anyone who thinks PASSHE schools are havens for financial waste should spend a few hours in athletic facilities then go to the closest 4A or 5A high school and see who is living on pennies.Comment
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Local to Indiana, Apollo-Ridge spent a fortune a couple years ago. And, A-R is an incredibly poor school district. As you mentioned, the town didn't say a peep and supported it.Originally posted by Fightingscot82 View PostComment
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I am part of a group that puts on a golf outing every year supporting Edinboro. Its like pulling teeth getting sponsorships from local businesses. They don't even give us the "sorry we're tapped out on sponsorships this year." Athletics has had the same core group of major sponsors in the last 25 years. The only big changes are PNC isn't the banking partner and Troyer Farms is now part of Utz. The scoreboard is faded and is now outdated. They've struck out for a couple years trying to get a local naming rights deal on the football field to underwrite turf replacement. Meanwhile, at North Allegheny...Originally posted by IUPbigINDIANS View Post
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Originally posted by Fightingscot82 View Post
I am part of a group that puts on a golf outing every year supporting Edinboro. Its like pulling teeth getting sponsorships from local businesses. They don't even give us the "sorry we're tapped out on sponsorships this year." Athletics has had the same core group of major sponsors in the last 25 years. The only big changes are PNC isn't the banking partner and Troyer Farms is now part of Utz. The scoreboard is faded and is now outdated. They've struck out for a couple years trying to get a local naming rights deal on the football field to underwrite turf replacement. Meanwhile, at North Allegheny...
It's odd, however, perhaps many local businesses view our teams as largely 'out of area/state' kids and therefore the loyalty isn't quite the same.
Add to it, North Allegheny vastly outdraws the majority of our programs at the gate.
I always wonder when we get kids from the NA's, Pine-Richlands, etc., when they come on campus visits ... what they think when it hits them their high school stadium is 35x nicer than what their college stadium will be.
It obviously helps that NA, P-R, etc., are in the heart of a booming area.Comment
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Not only are the stadiums horrible but the weight rooms for the majority of the PSAC west are like a 1980 middle school weight room ...not to mention they don't have a true strength coach . They rely on football coaches who don't know **** about how to design a real speed/strength programComment
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I was hoping Wawa would buy the rights to troll Sheetz.Originally posted by Chuck Norris View PostComment
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