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http://www.goasu.com/page/176/

4/10/2007 1:23:35 PM

I've always enjoyed going to football games there but I hate tracks around a football field.

4/10/2007 1:25:42 PM

That press box looks like ours...i wonder if that is the new "thing" in stadium renovations

4/10/2007 1:26:28 PM

too bad most people have never even heard of it

even with the last few years.

Hell, I went to undergrad about an hour and a half from there and never heard of it

4/10/2007 1:26:53 PM

they are def. going to stay as a Div 1AA powerhouse. These stadium improvements have just launched them ahead of Dook's stadium.

4/10/2007 1:28:34 PM

two national championships have a way of spurring improvements

4/10/2007 1:30:02 PM

my deck is a better venue for football than wallace-wade

4/10/2007 1:30:09 PM

the architect's renderings make that place look like a small version of Wake's stadium

4/10/2007 1:31:57 PM

^^ HAHHah

4/10/2007 1:36:14 PM

I've heard rumors that App St is trying to move towards Div 1-A. Is there any truth to this, and if so, what is holding them back? Just curious about what goes into moving up a division...

4/10/2007 1:41:22 PM

can't say that don't deserve it

4/10/2007 1:41:46 PM

I hope those are just rumors because it would be a very BAD move for App State across the board. They are better off being a national power in football (Div 1 AA) then to forever have the Mid Major monicker attached to them...

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4/10/2007 1:42:07 PM

my dick is a better venue for football than wallace-wade

4/10/2007 1:42:39 PM

i dont understand the need for such a large, fancy press box for them. From what I know with my sister going there, they overcrowd the stadium and temporary bleachers are brought in sometimes. Why not expand the seating before adding the fancy/expensive press box?

oh and a track around your football field will always make it seem more like a high school stadium

4/10/2007 1:44:27 PM

That's my graduate school.

My hometown is about an hour away from Boone.

4/10/2007 1:45:09 PM

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"I hope those are just rumors because it would be a very BAD move for App State across the board. They are better off being a national power in football (Div 1 AA) then to forever have the Mid Major monicker attached to them..."

"mid major" is associated w/basketball. The football term is "non-bcs"

4/10/2007 1:46:20 PM

i agree about the press box...in fact, I was a little upset that we (NCSU) went for such a large press box instead of expanding our stadium more than we did. I remember hearing something about our options being:

a) build huge press box and a smaller north endzone

or

b) Build a smaller press box and a bigger north endzone

4/10/2007 1:46:57 PM

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""mid major" is associated w/basketball. The football term is "non-bcs""

and both equally suck

4/10/2007 1:48:05 PM

still looks like shit

4/10/2007 2:00:13 PM

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"i dont understand the need for such a large, fancy press box for them. From what I know with my sister going there, they overcrowd the stadium and temporary bleachers are brought in sometimes. Why not expand the seating before adding the fancy/expensive press box?"

I think you're underestimating the revenue earning potential of a ton of high-end luxury suites.

4/10/2007 2:18:02 PM

to bad they had to get rid of already limited parking in boone to expand the stadium back a few years ago.

4/10/2007 2:23:47 PM

haha, state beat them this year and we sucked royal dick

4/10/2007 2:24:56 PM

one step closer to D1

4/10/2007 2:48:31 PM

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"oh and a track around your football field will always make it seem more like a high school stadium"

Ohio State ftw

4/10/2007 3:04:12 PM

Ohio State has long since removed the track from Ohio Stadium. It was removed around 1999/2000. So around 7 or 8 years ago. Years after the track and field programs moved out of their and Ohio Stadium was up for renovations and expansion, the track was removed. The field was lowered 14.5 feet and more seats at the bottom were added.


Here's a trivia question for you all. Which stadium was the first to add seats by building downward (i.e. remove the track, and lower the field), rather than the much more common way of expansion by building upward?

[Edited on April 10, 2007 at 3:22 PM. Reason : ]

4/10/2007 3:20:08 PM

man, people will come from as far as blowing rock to see the games now!

j/k

^Michigan?

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4/10/2007 3:20:33 PM

nope.

4/10/2007 3:36:29 PM

how much would that suck if you had lifetime rights or something to some front row seats and they go and expand down taking you off the front row

4/10/2007 3:36:36 PM

^^^^ Not LSU or any of the Florida schools -- down there if you dig 5 feet, you hit water.

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4/10/2007 3:39:07 PM

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"Here's a trivia question for you all. Which stadium was the first to add seats by building downward (i.e. remove the track, and lower the field), rather than the much more common way of expansion by building upward? "

Carter-Finley?

4/10/2007 3:41:25 PM

The press box is bigger than the stadium!

4/10/2007 3:42:07 PM

Bobby Dodd?

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4/10/2007 3:42:24 PM

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"Ohio State has long since removed the track from Ohio Stadium. It was removed around 1999/2000. So around 7 or 8 years ago. "

It was still there went I went to see us play them in 2003. I remember the OSU players made a point to catch NC State players who ran off field, to keep them from hitting the track and falling.

at first, I was like "wtf are they doing grabbing our players???" but the the OSU fans told me why they did it...

4/10/2007 3:44:55 PM

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"I've heard rumors that App St is trying to move towards Div 1-A. Is there any truth to this, and if so, what is holding them back? Just curious about what goes into moving up a division..."

i'm no expert, but i think it's based mainly on attendance. i know you can lose your I-A status if you're average attendance over 3 years drops below 10,000, or something.

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"in fact, I was a little upset that we (NCSU) went for such a large press box instead of expanding our stadium more than we did."

we only truly fill it up for like 3 games/year, more seats are hardly necessary at this point in time.

4/10/2007 3:45:06 PM

^10k is a very generous figure

4/10/2007 3:48:21 PM

Well I do know that Ohio Stadium still has some kind of red surface that resembles a track, but that may just be what was left when they took it out. Rather than completely dig it out, they just left it.


Here's a hint to the trivia question. When the Idaho Vandals made the move up to Division I-A they called this stadium home for five years, until the NCAA changed the Division I-A average attendance requirement.

4/10/2007 3:53:50 PM

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"I've heard rumors that App St is trying to move towards Div 1-A. Is there any truth to this, and if so, what is holding them back? Just curious about what goes into moving up a division..."

in addition to attendance like ^^^ said, there are other factors for going to 1-A that ASU and/or Boone don't meet. They were considering the move up to 1-A a couple years ago, even before they were a "national powerhouse".
I think the school has to have access to at least 2 four-lane highways leading into the town, or an interstate going through or near the town. Boone doesn't meet that requirement. Highway 421 was just widened to 4 lane all the way from Boone to Winston-Salem where it meets I-40 in 2003 or so. And the other highway, 321, is still two lane most of the way from Lenoir all the way through Blowing Rock. It's not scheduled to be fully 4-lane until at least 2014 or 2015, and probably later with construction delays.

4/10/2007 3:56:43 PM

They still don't have shit on Georgia Southern.

4/10/2007 4:00:04 PM

^I hope you are joking. They whip GASO's ass in football all the time and now do it in basketball as well. Quit crying because your dad is dead. And how about someone suspend this obvious alias.

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"I've heard rumors that App St is trying to move towards Div 1-A. Is there any truth to this, and if so, what is holding them back? Just curious about what goes into moving up a division..."

ASU does not have the money or the resources to go D-1. They are not even looking at it. I would like to know where and how these rumors got started. I have inside sources at ASU and they are fine with their level right now.

4/10/2007 4:26:39 PM

Both my parents and many of my friends went to App and I can tell you they will fill it and build more. The way they are growing, more than sports wise, they could be the second fiddle school in NC in 10-20 years.

4/10/2007 4:31:35 PM

^ that's b/c they're HOT HOT HOT.

4/10/2007 4:37:18 PM

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"can't say that don't deserve it"

in a way you can... they got beat by us and we were absolutly terrible. they've got a bit a ways to go

4/10/2007 4:43:20 PM

Brass Monkey- Boise St.??

4/10/2007 4:43:31 PM

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"Both my parents and many of my friends went to App and I can tell you they will fill it and build more. The way they are growing, more than sports wise, they could be the second fiddle school in NC in 10-20 years."

A 1AA school will never be one of the top sports schools in the state. And for basketball, they have to compete with Charlotte, Davidson and UNC-W as well as the ACC schools. There's no big advantage there.

And for being "second fiddle" academically, they'd have to outdo State, UNC, Duke, Wake, Davidson (at least four of those five, just to be in 2nd place)...also not buying it.

They had pretty good basketball and football teams this year for the level they compete at. Let's not blow this out of proportion.

4/10/2007 4:49:23 PM

nope not BSU.

4/10/2007 4:51:08 PM

App State owes all their football success to Burt Reynolds.....after all, he was the one who started all this by mentioning them on The Longest Yard

4/10/2007 4:54:41 PM

That was Adam Sandler in his remake of The Longest Yard, even though Burt Reynolds was in that version too.

[Edited on April 10, 2007 at 5:00 PM. Reason : ]

4/10/2007 4:59:35 PM

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"Here's a hint to the trivia question. When the Idaho Vandals made the move up to Division I-A they called this stadium home for five years, until the NCAA changed the Division I-A average attendance requirement."

Idaho plays in a dome, Kibbie. I have a friend who played there in Moscow.

4/10/2007 5:07:42 PM

Yeah they play in the Kibbie Dome now, but during the five years after they moved up to Division I-A they played in another stadium to keep their average attendance up above the minimum requirements that the NCAA had, until they changed the requirements.


Here's another hint. This stadium replaced the Rogers Field, which had caught fire on April 4, 1970. Rogers Field had wooden stands and was burnt down by an arsonist that was never found. There were many suspects and some even thought it was a conspiracy so that the school could replace the outdated facility.

[Edited on April 10, 2007 at 5:18 PM. Reason : ]

4/10/2007 5:11:39 PM

Washington State? Pullman is close to Idaho, right?

4/10/2007 5:15:40 PM