New Construction Pics - Football Stadium
Didn't see this posted...
Nothing earth shattering - though I forgot the field turf was scheduled to be replaced. Can't wait for September.
Thank you for the thought but they have already been posted.
Well, this repeat thread gives me a chance to post this:
The guy I'm sleeping with modeled the updated stadium in google sketchup.
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=7154400ebb6f5466a873…
One problem with sketchup is that it doesn't work for below-grade stuff, so the Big House is way too shallow. But it does capture the new look.
So you are gay, right? Not that there's anything wrong with that but it seems you made it a point to say so. Unless of course you are a woman but there aren't many of them around these parts.
Let's go with the latter.
http://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/new-stadium-construction-photos-are
As they say:
1. Click on MgoBoard.
2. Search for topic in search box (upper right).
3. Lather
4. Rinse
5. Repeat
the more pathetic our parking facilities look. That's got to be Brandon's biggest "facilities" priority.
Insert MgoParking-structure paint picture here that dwarfs Ann Arbor.
But of course, "tailgating" is a significant part of the game day experience.
I've got nothing but high praise for what Bill Martin accomplished. Unfortunately, what he didn't do, or didn't have the opportunity to do, is more and better parking. It'll take vision, planning and excution in the case of Michigan. But let's face it. Yost parking sucks. Baseball parking is weak. Basketball parking is going to be a big problem in the future, as the Player Development Center wipes out a lot of the surrounding parking.
And football is more or less an organized catastrophe -- we're taking an already-inadequate number of Blue Lot spaces, and reserving them for Suite Patrons. (Great -- a sterile bunch of locked cars right next to the Stadium, with their owners inside, "tailgating" in their catered suites.) More Blue Lot-aspiring donors are being turned away, as we have fewer spaces (Crisler consturction), more demand, and a whole new category of reserved placeholders.
It could be worse; Wisconsin has nothing but a tiny lot for emergency and service vehicles. MSU and OSU have the advantage of being surrounded not by a residential neighborhood, but rather by University campus that can be entirely repurposed for game-days. But Michigan really has to do something better for parking; obviously not everybody can be accomodated with a spot in the Blue Lot. But there has to be a better way, that better parking in that larger area could servenot only the Stadium, but also Yost, Ray L.Fisher, and perhaps even softball, Canham, and other facilities.
Park in some students' lawn. Pay with a case of Natty. Everyone's happy, everyone wins.
the question is where? The place is surrounded. A parking structure would be hideously ugly. And now I'm out of ideas.
Lawns, as mentioned, is the best we've got.
Then again, a lot of stadiums are ugly. (Penn State, Illinois, etc.) Ours is a thing of beauty and elegance. Just because a thing is a stadium doesn't make it beautiful, or ugly. And just because a thing is a parking structure doesn't mean it has to be hideous. Indeed, just because a thing is "the Michigan football building" and is named Schembechler Hall doesn't mean it will necessarily be beautiful, because it certainly isn't.
I'm no fan of parking structures. Of course, I am not a big fan of the add-on to Crisler, either, at least not on a land-use basis.
I'm not predicting what any particular parking solution might be; nor am I demanding any particular new parking structures. I'm just saying that's what Dave Brandon's task will be, in his tenure of overseeing the Athletic Campus.
Can't wait until the UConn game, I will be there in person to see how amazing it looks like all done.