Thoughts on enclosing Davis Wade

[CGold4]

I know I’ve seen it discussed on here before, but I believe DWS would look so much better if the south end was enclosed. The bowl look would be awesome in Starkville- without taking out the junction.

With poor attendance to non conference games, what would it take for that to happen?

 

[CochiseCowbell]

You haven't mentioned thick girls, yeti buckets, or shitting on fans proud of the WBB team. This thread will never gain traction.**

 

[karlchilders.sixpack]

Dales, Nor Mole Crickets

Doomed till further notice.

 

[MarkDallas]

The stadium is good for the foreseeable future.

 

[IBleedMaroonDawg]

I know I’ve seen it discussed on here before, but I believe DWS would look so much better if the south end was enclosed. The bowl look would be awesome in Starkville- without taking out the junction.

With poor attendance to non conference games, what would it take for that to happen?

Better attendance, better success on the field... then they would redo the M Club and make some sort of bowl in around that I imagine.

65,000 is pretty good for us right now. When SRO becomes the norm, things will change somewhere.

 

[Jeffreauxdawg]

Add anymore seats and you will need to build some kind of temporary housing structure or rv park. The hotel situation is a problem for anyone wanting to make a weekend of it.

 

[Shamoan]

Chairback the summbitch to provide upgraded seating without adding excessive capacity with a new locker room that isn't division 3 grade.

 

[SirBarksalot]

Is our locker room D3 grade? Or maybe I’m not following?

 

[patdog]

I agree that all chairbacks would be great, but I don't see the financial incentive for the school to spend millions to not add any more capacity (revenue). We're struggling to sell out even for the big games now, and the trends for attendance at all college football aren't good. I don't see it happening unless there's a strong demand for additional premium seating. I think we're at least a decade away from any enclosure of the south end zone.

 

[5049]

We should not be entertaining stadium expansion for a while. Waste of time

 

[mcdawg22]

I agree that all chairbacks would be great, but I don't see the financial incentive for the school to spend millions to not add any more capacity (revenue). We're struggling to sell out even for the big games now, and the trends for attendance at all college football aren't good. I don't see it happening unless there's a strong demand for additional premium seating. I think we're at least a decade away from any enclosure of the south end zone.

Honestly no chairbacks are the reason I don't sit in the stands. I can't stand the bleachers, always squeezing sideways on your number. If I don't have scoreboard tickets when I come up for the weekend I'd rather watch at the bar.

 

[Shamoan]

We have a hand-painted bulldog mural that looks like it was painted by someones aunt that describes herself as "crafty" on a drop ceiling. D3 grade might be generous.

 

[EurekaDog]

I agree with mcdawg22.

It's ridiculous how cramped the bleacher seats are. There are few people over 30yo that can fit in the allotted space. In cold weather, only kids under 10 yo can fit.

 

[CGold4]

We have a hand-painted bulldog mural that looks like it was painted by someones aunt that describes herself as "crafty" on a drop ceiling. D3 grade might be generous.

First time I’ve ever seen this. Even I would make fun of us for this **** alone.

 

[Shamoan]

For reference, here is southern Illinois's (D1) locker room:

 

[mcdawg22]

We have a hand-painted bulldog mural that looks like it was painted by someones aunt that describes herself as "crafty" on a drop ceiling. D3 grade might be generous.

Is it still like that? This is 3 years ago.

 

[Shamoan]

Last thread on this topic, somebody said they saw it this past season I believe. If we would have it in 2015, I bet there wasn't much urgency to remove it. The whole place is dated and has a cave type feel

 

[Palos verdes]

Forget bowling in the stadium for a while.

 

[BossDawg78]

We have a hand-painted bulldog mural that looks like it was painted by someones aunt that describes herself as "crafty" on a drop ceiling. D3 grade might be generous.

Yeah that looks like something you'd see on a dinner plate with a display stand for sale in some obscure craft store....right next to one with Col. Reb painted on it.

 

[MaroonCrusader]

The answer is to do something like Oklahoma State did with their stadium.

 

[Todd4State]

Whether we enclose the stadium or not- we definitely do need to do something with the M-Club room/locker room. It's really outdated and my parents don't go to games because the experience there is pretty bad. There is nowhere for the M-Club members to sit and usually it seems like the ex-o-linemen and basketball players get the front seats in front of the windows where my 60+ year old Mom can't see anything. It's also a weird experience because you can't hear any noise from the crowd because of the windows. You just see people jumping up and down in silence- they do have the radio and TV broadcast on however. According to my parents the food wasn't any good either- but they haven't been to a game in years so that could have changed.

I guess if it were me, I would enclose the stadium to match the North side. The top section would be dedicated for M-Club members and their family members to use and I envision it being a place like a big concourse where they can be inside or go outside to watch the game. The bottom half would be more seats and while yes, that would be an expansion that maybe wouldn't be necessary I don't know that putting something else under there would look that good so I would just rather go with seats. At the same time it would be a fairly minimal expansion because a lot of the seats would be for the M-Club members who are already at the game currently.

As said, the locker room for the football team needs to be upgraded as well.

It will be interesting to see what happens with the attendance. I think our football program could use a reboot- and obviously that will come in the form of Joe Moorhead. Dan had just gotten kind of stale and I think a lot of our fans were tired of some of his negative attributes- like constantly looking for another job and not holding some of his assistants accountable for not recruiting well. We also played two 11 AM games and a game on a major holiday and that probably didn't help attendance all that much either. Let's see what attendance looks like the next two years and that might give us a better idea of whether expansion is a good idea or not. I think our lowest attendance was still in the mid 50K's without looking so we're not that far from selling games out either.

 

[mcdawg22]

Whether we enclose the stadium or not- we definitely do need to do something with the M-Club room/locker room. It's really outdated and my parents don't go to games because the experience there is pretty bad. There is nowhere for the M-Club members to sit and usually it seems like the ex-o-linemen and basketball players get the front seats in front of the windows where my 60+ year old Mom can't see anything. It's also a weird experience because you can't hear any noise from the crowd because of the windows. You just see people jumping up and down in silence- they do have the radio and TV broadcast on however. According to my parents the food wasn't any good either- but they haven't been to a game in years so that could have changed.

I guess if it were me, I would enclose the stadium to match the North side. The top section would be dedicated for M-Club members and their family members to use and I envision it being a place like a big concourse where they can be inside or go outside to watch the game. The bottom half would be more seats and while yes, that would be an expansion that maybe wouldn't be necessary I don't know that putting something else under there would look that good so I would just rather go with seats. At the same time it would be a fairly minimal expansion because a lot of the seats would be for the M-Club members who are already at the game currently.

As said, the locker room for the football team needs to be upgraded as well.

It will be interesting to see what happens with the attendance. I think our football program could use a reboot- and obviously that will come in the form of Joe Moorhead. Dan had just gotten kind of stale and I think a lot of our fans were tired of some of his negative attributes- like constantly looking for another job and not holding some of his assistants accountable for not recruiting well. We also played two 11 AM games and a game on a major holiday and that probably didn't help attendance all that much either. Let's see what attendance looks like the next two years and that might give us a better idea of whether expansion is a good idea or not. I think our lowest attendance was still in the mid 50K's without looking so we're not that far from selling games out either.

One other thing you have to factor is the tax law. People may not be as open to fork over 25K donations without the tax benefit.

 

[IBleedMaroonDawg]

Whether we enclose the stadium or not- we definitely do need to do something with the M-Club room/locker room. It's really outdated and my parents don't go to games because the experience there is pretty bad. There is nowhere for the M-Club members to sit and usually it seems like the ex-o-linemen and basketball players get the front seats in front of the windows where my 60+ year old Mom can't see anything. It's also a weird experience because you can't hear any noise from the crowd because of the windows. You just see people jumping up and down in silence- they do have the radio and TV broadcast on however. According to my parents the food wasn't any good either- but they haven't been to a game in years so that could have changed.

I guess if it were me, I would enclose the stadium to match the North side. The top section would be dedicated for M-Club members and their family members to use and I envision it being a place like a big concourse where they can be inside or go outside to watch the game. The bottom half would be more seats and while yes, that would be an expansion that maybe wouldn't be necessary I don't know that putting something else under there would look that good so I would just rather go with seats. At the same time it would be a fairly minimal expansion because a lot of the seats would be for the M-Club members who are already at the game currently.

As said, the locker room for the football team needs to be upgraded as well.

It will be interesting to see what happens with the attendance. I think our football program could use a reboot- and obviously that will come in the form of Joe Moorhead. Dan had just gotten kind of stale and I think a lot of our fans were tired of some of his negative attributes- like constantly looking for another job and not holding some of his assistants accountable for not recruiting well. We also played two 11 AM games and a game on a major holiday and that probably didn't help attendance all that much either. Let's see what attendance looks like the next two years and that might give us a better idea of whether expansion is a good idea or not. I think our lowest attendance was still in the mid 50K's without looking so we're not that far from selling games out either.

Thanks for making what I was trying to say clearer. Whatever we do there, it needs to be planned around a new M Club and locker room. It would be great to put the architectural minds we have to work on making something unique whenever we get around to doing it. But we have to have a need first.

I do have one question, do we have to do it all at once? Is there a way to redo the locker room and M Club without bowling it in at the same time?

 

[DynastyDawg]

I think we should start taking down some of the upper deck and enclose the bowl. People aren’t paying the money for those upper deck seats, especially for ****** games. We need better seats, not more, and I think that’s what we’ll have to do before you see any true expansion.

 

[notoriousD_O_G]

It's ridiculous how cramped the bleacher seats are. There are few people over 30yo that can fit in the allotted space. In cold weather, only kids under 10 yo can fit.

It's awful. I have to rent the chairbacks just to keep other people's asses from taking up half my seats. Some people that sit on my row legitimately need 2 tickets.

 

[rem101]

I would love to have from 20-20 chairback. Bowl in the M Club and have bleachers in both end zones. Could probably work it to keep capacity close and have more premium seating.

 

[Duke Humphrey]

There are plans to remedy the Locker Room situation

Thanks for making what I was trying to say clearer. Whatever we do there, it needs to be planned around a new M Club and locker room. It would be great to put the architectural minds we have to work on making something unique whenever we get around to doing it. But we have to have a need first.

I do have one question, do we have to do it all at once? Is there a way to redo the locker room and M Club without bowling it in at the same time?

That does not involve a true Bowl. Other factor here is Gameday recruiting room. What we have now is worse than our locker room.

 

[Duke Humphrey]

Isn’t the ultimate grand plan to move the press box up to top of the west side upper deck and convert the current press box area into a new club level/loge seats? This would create new premium seats but eliminate regular seats that are not season tickets

But your point is valid, better seats, not more.

 

[Bulldogg31]

I suggested taking down the top deck on the visitor's side and moving those seats to bowl in the other end zone. I'd much rather sit down low in the end zone that way up top on the 50. Not only is it harder to see, by November it's windy and cold as hell up there.

I'd even pay more for the better seats.

Imagine how loud it would be with 65,000 cowbells in a bowl.

 

[Jeffreauxdawg]

Leave the upper deck and make em $3.00 seats. Put a fence around them and feed em raw meat and gunpowder. Stick the visiting fans in the middle.

How's that for atmosphere?

 

[BulldogBlitz]

Remove half the current seating.