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I see you guys really show up for your games. Also you have a waiting list for tickets.

At your presser today did they get into any formal discussion about your stadium expanding? If so, what are you looking at doing?

Nothing formal. They did say that it will be looked at and someone is tasked with exploring all the options.

Wish I could say more, but the jump to FBS is a few years sooner than we thought, so things are still in the planning stages.

I do believe w are looking into making a new master plan over the summer, should get more details then.

Please don't do it on the cheap like UCF did. We've bashed UCF since they built that POS. It literally vibrates the cameras when the games are on TV. It's basically a glorified erector set.

Charlotte has a pretty good plan that utilizes .....concrete. Imagine that. JMU also has an interesting concept I think would work at ODU. Biggest issue is the clamshell design obviously. Regardless, I'm thrilled we have a program coming in with a good fanbase. Good luck.

Rich Radford: "I believe the norh end zone will come down and a curved north zone will be added upon the completion of this season, ready for the 2013 season and ready to seat 30,000. Cost? I can't answer that."

That's a great start. And sweet, I'll have a new seat.

I hope we just stick at current capacity until we are ready/able to build a real stadium. I am afraid if we expand to 30k, we are stuck or will be revisiting for a new stadium in 5 years anyway. We aren't bringing in any BCS schools or going BCS ourselves with a 30k capacity.

(05-18-2012 01:43 PM)EverRespect Wrote:  I hope we just stick at current capacity until we are ready/able to build a real stadium. I am afraid if we expand to 30k, we are stuck or will be revisiting for a new stadium in 5 years anyway. We aren't bringing in any BCS schools or going BCS ourselves with a 30k capacity.

You don't think they will be able to build over the clamshells like Northwesterns stadium. Or demo one side at a time and rebuild where the stadium sits. Where would the build a new one? Space is limited around there if I remember correctly.

(05-18-2012 04:18 PM)Old Dominion Navy Wrote:  

(05-18-2012 01:43 PM)EverRespect Wrote:  I hope we just stick at current capacity until we are ready/able to build a real stadium. I am afraid if we expand to 30k, we are stuck or will be revisiting for a new stadium in 5 years anyway. We aren't bringing in any BCS schools or going BCS ourselves with a 30k capacity.

You don't think they will be able to build over the clamshells like Northwesterns stadium. Or demo one side at a time and rebuild where the stadium sits. Where would the build a new one? Space is limited around there if I remember correctly.

Yeah build the endzone, then tear down one side and then tear down the other. Simple enough. I trust you guys will have a plan to get capacity raised before you get in the league.

(05-18-2012 04:18 PM)Old Dominion Navy Wrote:  

(05-18-2012 01:43 PM)EverRespect Wrote:  I hope we just stick at current capacity until we are ready/able to build a real stadium. I am afraid if we expand to 30k, we are stuck or will be revisiting for a new stadium in 5 years anyway. We aren't bringing in any BCS schools or going BCS ourselves with a 30k capacity.

You don't think they will be able to build over the clamshells like Northwesterns stadium. Or demo one side at a time and rebuild where the stadium sits. Where would the build a new one? Space is limited around there if I remember correctly.

I am thinking on the other side of University Village. That is where most of the crime comes from, which would kill 2 birds with one stone. Of course, that would require land acquisition.

I was also at the Tides game tonight and looking at Harbor Park got me thinking. That could bee expanded to be massive. Not sure how that would work though, being ODU doesn't own it.

(05-18-2012 11:33 PM)EverRespect Wrote:  

(05-18-2012 04:18 PM)Old Dominion Navy Wrote:  

(05-18-2012 01:43 PM)EverRespect Wrote:  I hope we just stick at current capacity until we are ready/able to build a real stadium. I am afraid if we expand to 30k, we are stuck or will be revisiting for a new stadium in 5 years anyway. We aren't bringing in any BCS schools or going BCS ourselves with a 30k capacity.

You don't think they will be able to build over the clamshells like Northwesterns stadium. Or demo one side at a time and rebuild where the stadium sits. Where would the build a new one? Space is limited around there if I remember correctly.

I am thinking on the other side of University Village. That is where most of the crime comes from, which would kill 2 birds with one stone. Of course, that would require land acquisition.

I was also at the Tides game tonight and looking at Harbor Park got me thinking. That could bee expanded to be massive. Not sure how that would work though, being ODU doesn't own it.

I doubt the Tides want to give away their arena to ODU, it seems pretty nice. And I doubt that ODU wants to play football in a baseball stadium, if the Tides were willing to share it.

But putting it on the other side of the village would be an interesting possibility, but it'd require a lot more land acquisition, which is expensive by itself, add in the cost of building an entire new stadium infrastructure, parking, etc, would probably have a final cost of (if my BSing skills are correct) about $200 Million . But, it'd probably be really nice being next to the river...

Maybe in the more distant future?

(05-18-2012 01:43 PM)EverRespect Wrote:  I hope we just stick at current capacity until we are ready/able to build a real stadium. I am afraid if we expand to 30k, we are stuck or will be revisiting for a new stadium in 5 years anyway. We aren't bringing in any BCS schools or going BCS ourselves with a 30k capacity.

I agree. Demolish dem clamshells

I would build one in Virginia Beach, around Princess Anne and S Independence. ODU has a Virginia Beach campus right there, could make it as big as they wanted. Selig has mentioned that around 3/4ths of ODU season ticket holders live in Va Beach.

Could still play 1 game a year at Foreman Field against, the Tribe or JMU and the rest at this off campus site.

(05-19-2012 08:08 PM)ODUR8R Wrote:  I would build one in Virginia Beach, around Princess Anne and S Independence. ODU has a Virginia Beach campus right there, could make it as big as they wanted. Selig has mentioned that around 3/4ths of ODU season ticket holders live in Va Beach.

Could still play 1 game a year at Foreman Field against, the Tribe or JMU and the rest at this off campus site.

That's a bit of a hike for the students or us Peninsula folks. I'm just one man, but it would ruin my experience. I don't even go to concerts at the VB Amphatheatre because if the traffic/travel time. That location isn't even convenient for most of the people that live in VB.

Ya, Just an idea. Probably not the best one, but I do know that Selig has mentioned on numerous occasions that Va Beach residents make up by far the majority of ticket holders in both sports. It would be a nice recruiting chip to have a 50,000 seat arena about 1 mile from Landstown, Salem and Green Run. Those schools are D-1 football factories.

I'm sure VB city council would love to have ODU more involved with the city of Va Beach.

(05-19-2012 08:08 PM)ODUR8R Wrote:  I would build one in Virginia Beach, around Princess Anne and S Independence. ODU has a Virginia Beach campus right there, could make it as big as they wanted. Selig has mentioned that around 3/4ths of ODU season ticket holders live in Va Beach.

Could still play 1 game a year at Foreman Field against, the Tribe or JMU and the rest at this off campus site.

No way you can't move off campus that kills the atmosphere.

(05-19-2012 08:08 PM)ODUR8R Wrote:  I would build one in Virginia Beach, around Princess Anne and S Independence. ODU has a Virginia Beach campus right there, could make it as big as they wanted. Selig has mentioned that around 3/4ths of ODU season ticket holders live in Va Beach.

Could still play 1 game a year at Foreman Field against, the Tribe or JMU and the rest at this off campus site.

No no no. An on campus stadium is a must for an electric stadium. It's unrealistic to expect students living in Norfolk to travel to Virginia Beach every Saturday.

I don't know the answer, I'm not in the camp of expanding Foreman Field. It needs to be a stadium that gets the attention of the type of conferences we want to be affiliated with in 10 years or so. Not just a band-aid.

Another question is how does Hampton Boulevard absorb two to three times the traffic.

The question is, what is the max capacity that Foreman can be expanded? Unless I know the answer, tough to form an opinion. I'd just hate to spend tens of millions to expand to 30k-40k, then need to build a new stadium 5 years later.

If you decide to do away with the clam shell design you could do something similar to what JMU did. Tear down one side and rebuild it before the start of the next season. The following year just do the same thing for the other side.

(05-19-2012 08:08 PM)ODUR8R Wrote:  I would build one in Virginia Beach, around Princess Anne and S Independence. ODU has a Virginia Beach campus right there, could make it as big as they wanted. Selig has mentioned that around 3/4ths of ODU season ticket holders live in Va Beach.

Could still play 1 game a year at Foreman Field against, the Tribe or JMU and the rest at this off campus site.

What is the capacity of the Virginia Beach sports plex? Didn't a minor league football team pack it in last year?

Just a temporary home while we flatten Laberts point and build a 55-60 k with option to expand! Incorporate better student housing and throw in some new academic buildings while we are at it.

Let the state underwrite it, like JMU did. If they can do it for a women's school with small time football, they can do it for us!



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