re: Tulane to announce new on campus stadium next month

Nice.. I just hope they do not go cheap like they did for the baseball stadium

they don't make stadiums with overhanging upper decks anymore so Princeton's stadium would not work

SMU, Akron, and maybe even FAU's stadium would be good to follow

Princeton's stadium was built in the late 1990s. Why do you say overhanging decks aren't used anymore? How many college stadiums have been built since Princeton's stadium?

Also, you mentioned SMU's stadium as a model. While it looks nice, they essentially built giant bleachers in the shape of a stadium and then hid them behind an exterior brick facade. There is hardly any concrete in the structure of their stadium, and to the discerning eye it has a very cheap appearance.



All the shiny upper part is horseshoe-shaped giant set of metal bleachers. The loudest part of their games comes when everyone leaves in the third quarter and you hear the sound of feet hitting hollow aluminum bleachers.

Edit: you can also see here that Ford Stadium has a fairly large footprint, which takes a similar design out of the running:

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Princeton's stadium was built in the late 1990s. Why do you say overhanging decks aren't used anymore? How many college stadiums have been built since Princeton's stadium?

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I had no clue that their stadium was that current. Also, I was on my phone earlier so I couldn't see the pic clearly but ther upper deck isn't overhanging like I thought.

That design could work sans the exterior facade.

The Ballpark in Arlington is the only modern stadium I can think of that has an overhanging upper deck.

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Kaare lives in the CBD in the lone house that stands in all the parking lots near Girod and Loyola. The place is covered in WIST shite last I checked and he tailgates in front of it for Saints games, so he's not exactly hiding it.

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He has said recently that he just moved uptown. I think he still owns the place you are talking about and is renting it to some people he knows. Just an FYI on what I have gathered from listening to him on the way home everyday.

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If Tulane is building a new stadium on campus, then I submit Wake Forest's BB&T Stadium as a model:











The stadium was originally built in the 1960s and in sub-standard condition until the school began a multi-phase renovation project that included bricking the entire stadium, imploding one grandstand and a fieldhouse, building a new fieldhouse, reconstructing a grass berm, installing a new field, installing new lighting, installing new concessions and amenities, implementing new landscaping, and building Deacon Tower (new grandstand, suites, club seats and boxes, press box).

The place is now one of the finest and smallest stadiums in FBS football with a capacity of 31K. Notice how the grandstands are curled and right up to the sidelines. Every seat in the house is fantastic. The new Deacon Tower part cost $48M; new field cost $1.5M; other renovations are believed to have cost around $20M. Total pricetag: around $70M.

I'd rather a very tight, enclosed stadium like Princeton's. The WF stadium, though nice, seems like it takes up a lot of space.

Is this stadium going to be announced in December?