I can't wait to get gone

Is SnowedTiger not making the trip from NoCal? Interesting

I will be there wearing my new $5 WalMart cap which is very close to PMS 280. Our plane takes off about 1:00 PM Friday. Our hotel is on East Colorado Blvd / Route 66 in Pasadena. Same street that the Rose Parade goes down.

I will be there.

(09-03-2014 11:34 AM)Mick Light Wrote:  Is SnowedTiger not making the trip from NoCal? Interesting

Snow posts in every thread but this one.

(09-03-2014 01:55 PM)TJT Wrote:  

(09-03-2014 11:34 AM)Mick Light Wrote:  Is SnowedTiger not making the trip from NoCal? Interesting

Snow posts in every thread but this one.

Yah/ she must be snowed in.

I will be there in spirit. Tiger gear on and a beer in hand.

(09-03-2014 12:29 PM)Gray Avenger Wrote:  I will be there wearing my new $5 WalMart cap which is very close to PMS 280. Our plane takes off about 1:00 PM Friday. Our hotel is on East Colorado Blvd / Route 66 in Pasadena. Same street that the Rose Parade goes down.

road game - i wear gray. even got a swell new gray cap to break in this week.

2 more flying into Burbank Friday a.m.

(09-02-2014 03:43 PM)Atlanta Wrote:  

(09-02-2014 03:13 PM)TylerTiger Wrote:  

(09-02-2014 02:53 PM)Atlanta Wrote:  

(09-02-2014 01:34 PM)TylerTiger Wrote:  

(09-02-2014 01:06 PM)Atlanta Wrote:  If our university was in the SEC or BXII like UCLA is in the PAC12, the OCS issue might also be a less of an issue. And with previous SEC consideration in the 60s-70s, the lack of OC facilities was a stated issue. Of course the Liberty Bowl doesn't doesn't have the prestige of the Rose Bowl either although fan viewing seems better in the Liberty Bowl. Also, UCLA isn't fighting for program recognition like the Memphis program. And since we are talking about the SEC or BXII as desired destinations for our university, I do not think there is a school in either conference without an OCS.

Technically, Williams-Brice Stadium here in Columbia, SC is off-campus. They've now included it when you look at the campus maps on their website. It's about as far as the Liberty Bowl is from the University of Memphis campus. In fact, they're both 2 miles away from campus. Williams-Brice, surprisingly renovated an area around it very similar to Tiger Lane (and it's also located on the SC Fairgrounds).

Distances may be similar but nothing else in comparison between our university's proximity to the Liberty Bowl & its environs in Memphis vs USC & Williams-Brice environs in Columbia SC. When I was there several years for a Clemson -USC game, I couldn't even tell when I left the USC campus & where the city began. Not that way in Memphis...

I guess I've lived here long enough and to me there's a pretty big contrast. Once I'm down on Assembly St here in Cola and cross the train tracks where the old Capital City Stadium is (soon to be used to be) it's a completely different environment from the campus. The street on the other side of Williams-Brice has been incorporated a little better to make it feel more on-campus, but not a whole lot IMO.

Even if I agreed with you, I think it would still serve as an example for UofM to try and stretch itself out to make it feel like the Fairgrounds are incorporated to the campus like you feel Williams-Brice and SC Fairgrounds are. Even the new baseball stadium for USC is technically off-campus. But I think the bigger environment that changes it moreso is the fact that USC is downtown, so it can hide it's actual campus in that environment whereas UofM can't.

I agree that the Liberty Bowl and UofM campus environment is not the same way USC is in Columbia, but it doesn't mean that it can't be made that way, and incorporated that way. Just a little imagination and investment, dontcha think?

City of Memphis has done nothing to enhance the environs of the Liberty Bowl, aka Memphis Memorial Stadium in 50 yrs. If anything there is less to attract visitors now to the Memphis fairgrounds area than in the whole period since the stadium was built. I have no faith in the city doing anything to promote university interests. So if we're talking about investment, I'd spend the money for an OC stadium just east of Highland, making Highland the major entrance to the campus. This would cause the city & private investors to enhance the Highland-Normal districts with hotels, restaurants, entertainment & shopping appealing to fans & students. This would coincide with & support the university's stated goals of more on-campus students, more on-campus & near-campus housing & result in more alumni, supporters & fans coming weekly to the campus, which leads directly to more alumni financial support.

This is simply untrue.

You have heard of or seen Tiger Lane? The Holiday Inn on Campus?

Maybe you think the fairgrounds renovation with Tiger Lane and the Kroc Center were nothing...but most do not.

Between campus and the stadium is a very old growth neighborhood...including the Pink Palace. They will be there. Perhaps you could argue for Southern renovations from campus but the idea that nothing has been done is one of the more incorrect statements ever made on this site.

I'm flying out tonight and back on the red eye Monday morning. Bringing a friend that lives in the area. He got us tickets in Sec. 18.

Go Tigers!