|
Post by vhalum92 on Jan 20, 2021 17:06:13 GMT -8
Great Question... there should be and that is the correct side of the field. My take on the renderings... I'm in 100% support of getting this done. What I like... The glass and wood finishes A lot of covered seating I sit on the East side so I think I'd stay and get to look at the new side What I don't like.... Can't we match the other side so it looks like a "fit"? I don't like the exterior stairwells, again... see the other side for another way to solve this. I don't like how there is no structure between the field and those gates near the statue of the football player. It just seems like a stadium should have an 'enclosed' feel and not a wide open hole in the corner that leads to the parking lot. I think they can do better. We only get one crack at this in a generation... so lets do it right. I'm also curious as to what they are going to charge for those seats. Will it be the same as the East Side? Go BEAVS!
|
|
|
Post by Werebeaver on Jan 20, 2021 17:14:11 GMT -8
Nice to hear all the enthusiasm for the proposed, and long overdue, addition.
|
|
|
Post by vhalum92 on Jan 20, 2021 17:14:43 GMT -8
Make it look like this... and close the corner section just like the East side.
|
|
|
Post by qbeaver on Jan 20, 2021 18:45:09 GMT -8
Great Question... there should be and that is the correct side of the field. My take on the renderings... I'm in 100% support of getting this done. What I like... The glass and wood finishes A lot of covered seating I sit on the East side so I think I'd stay and get to look at the new side What I don't like.... Can't we match the other side so it looks like a "fit"? I don't like the exterior stairwells, again... see the other side for another way to solve this. I don't like how there is no structure between the field and those gates near the statue of the football player. It just seems like a stadium should have an 'enclosed' feel and not a wide open hole in the corner that leads to the parking lot. I think they can do better. We only get one crack at this in a generation... so lets do it right. I'm also curious as to what they are going to charge for those seats. Will it be the same as the East Side? Go BEAVS! I would say cost would be an issue with copying the East side. We won't have part of the club or loge area on the West side(one or the other) like we have on the East side because of the cost I have heard. I too want it a bit more enclosed for a more cozy feel. Hoping we have plenty of concessions and restrooms having more options of food too. I suggested to a friend to have his buddy talk to Scott Barnes about getting his local BBQ in the stadium(Cascade BBQ) in the stadium. Not all stadiums have both sides match. Uo,Texas A &M,and many others aren't symmetrical. It isn't a priority to me personally. I do like how vertical the West side is,making the stadium very loud when mostly full. Assuming the capacity is around 40k.
|
|
|
Post by bucktoothvarmit on Jan 20, 2021 18:57:05 GMT -8
The renderings don't show a field level entrance to a locker room. I wonder if the earthen berm removal under the west side was just "a bridge too far" The visitors locker room could possibly be situated in the NW corner though.
The lower level seats look to be on the same footprint as what exists today.
Go Beavs!!
|
|
|
Post by schissler on Jan 20, 2021 20:23:52 GMT -8
Great Question... there should be and that is the correct side of the field. My take on the renderings... I'm in 100% support of getting this done. What I like... The glass and wood finishes A lot of covered seating I sit on the East side so I think I'd stay and get to look at the new side What I don't like.... Can't we match the other side so it looks like a "fit"? I don't like the exterior stairwells, again... see the other side for another way to solve this. I don't like how there is no structure between the field and those gates near the statue of the football player. It just seems like a stadium should have an 'enclosed' feel and not a wide open hole in the corner that leads to the parking lot. I think they can do better. We only get one crack at this in a generation... so lets do it right. I'm also curious as to what they are going to charge for those seats. Will it be the same as the East Side? Go BEAVS!
|
|
|
Post by schissler on Jan 20, 2021 20:33:57 GMT -8
I agree that the west side design needs to be more cohesive with the east side. If I had my druthers, we'd replicate the east side on the west side, minus the club and with the press box where the suites are; I believe that was the original plan and that's why the south end zone seats were built as they are - to accommodate an identical west side.
But, failing that, you can still make it feel like something other than a lot of mismatched pieces if you pay some attention to the design. You don't necessarily need to duplicate the east side in the number of levels, etc., but at least the footprint should be similar - angle the seats from the 5-yard line to beyond the end lines to the same point and at the same degree as on the east side so if you're inside the stadium it looks similar, there's some symmetry to the layout. And, if you're not going to fill in the southwest corner now, design things so that could be filled in later - either with seats or some sort of building looking out into the stadium interior.
Heck, just sit me down with a graph pad and a mechanical pencil and I'll have a plan for you by next week ...
|
|
|
Post by schissler on Jan 20, 2021 22:35:50 GMT -8
I agree that the west side design needs to be more cohesive with the east side. If I had my druthers, we'd replicate the east side on the west side, minus the club and with the press box where the suites are; I believe that was the original plan and that's why the south end zone seats were built as they are - to accommodate an identical west side. But, failing that, you can still make it feel like something other than a lot of mismatched pieces if you pay some attention to the design. You don't necessarily need to duplicate the east side in the number of levels, etc., but at least the footprint should be similar - front row the same distance from the sideline, angle the seats from the 5-yard line to beyond the end lines to the same point and at the same degree as on the east side so if you're inside the stadium it looks similar, there's some symmetry to the layout. Make the west sideline as similar visually - seat styles and colors, surfaces, rooflines and structures - to the east sideline as possible. If you can do the same on the west sideline exterior, so much the better, but it's not as pressing an issue. If you don't pay attention to those things, you're going to end up with something resembling what we have now: an east side and south end that look like they're half of one stadium, and a west side and north end that seem to be taken from two other unrelated stadiums. It will really look hodgepodge when a bit of effort could make it truly special. And, if you're not going to fill in the southwest corner now, design things so that could be filled in later - either with seats or some sort of building looking out into the stadium interior. Heck, just sit me down with a graph pad and a mechanical pencil and I'll have a rough plan for you by next week ...
|
|
|
Post by seastape on Jan 20, 2021 23:10:25 GMT -8
As far as the west side matching the east side, I'm flexible as to the interior of the stadium, but I would like the west side's exterior to have the same four brick towers that the east side has.
|
|
|
Post by mbabeav on Jan 21, 2021 10:44:19 GMT -8
Lets just hope that they don't find more bones.....
|
|
|
Post by Henry Skrimshander on Jan 21, 2021 13:20:21 GMT -8
I am no construction expert but I think building the towers and mimicking the east side would make it a two-year project. We don't have that timeline. This will have to be a 9-10 month build. I love that all the upper-level seating will be closer to the field than the current model. And kudos to the university of including the health center in this project to help alleviate some of the funding issues.
A former AD once told me they had no problem making the visitors still dress in Gill, that money was always tight and there was no need to spend it on a visitors LR that would get used 6-7 times a year. Having traveled to almost every other Pac-12 stadium, other ADs apparently feel the same way. Visiting accommodations generally suck.
Plus, moving the student health center to south campus opns up Plageman for academic use, which is nice because of its central location near the engineering cluster.
It would not surprise me to see a few schedule adjustments. No home games past the first week of November this fall, and then maybe flip-flop the 2022-23 home and away series with Boise State so we go there on 9/3/2022. That would give us another two weeks (@ Fresno on 9/10) before a 9/17 opener with Montana State.
Two weeks can be a real lifesaver at the end of a major construction project.
Gonna lose some parking on the west side of Reser. That's a concern for those with C permits, as that lot gets pretty crowded under "normal" (pre/post Covid) conditions, especially when there is a daytime function at LaSells or the alumni center.
|
|
|
Post by wilkyisdashiznit on Jan 21, 2021 14:55:14 GMT -8
Lets just hope that they don't find more bones..... Let's hope that they do!
|
|
|
Post by wilkyisdashiznit on Jan 21, 2021 16:51:27 GMT -8
Maybe some animal bones dating to the early to mid 1860's? Mammoth bones? Like last time? I have been on the bandwagon to change the mascot to the Mammoths.
|
|
|
Post by joeavocado on Jan 21, 2021 17:58:46 GMT -8
I still don't understand why OSU didn't leverage that PR into more fame, Mammoth Burgers at concessions, put it on t-shirts, etc.
If you look at the NW corner, in the new design the wall at the north end of the field level grandstand has been heightened next to the ramp. I'm guessing that provides allowable head room on the other side of that taller wall. Seems logical that visiting teams will exit their sidelines to the left, go up the ramp a short bit and turn left into a new locker room that is in that raised area. This also allows easy access for their equipment truck to pull down the existing ramp to load/unload.
|
|
|
Post by qbeaver on Jan 21, 2021 18:00:35 GMT -8
As far as the west side matching the east side, I'm flexible as to the interior of the stadium, but I would like the west side's exterior to have the same four brick towers that the east side has. That is what takes so much time...making those four columns.
|
|