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RE: ECU getting bids for football stadium expansion
(10-01-2015 11:41 AM)CoastalJuan Wrote:  Not sure where everyone's numbers are coming from, but the surveys that were sent out back in May were centered pretty much exclusively around luxury options, and based on the mock-ups, it looked like they would more likely replace seats than build additional ones.

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they're not going to get rid of a large number lower priced chairback seats to build club seats. That just doesn't make any sense. They may do some replacement as you move closer to the new facility in higher rows, but the majority of the club/luxury seats will be new seats.
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(10-02-2015 12:06 PM)PiratePanther189 Wrote:  
(10-01-2015 11:41 AM)CoastalJuan Wrote:  Not sure where everyone's numbers are coming from, but the surveys that were sent out back in May were centered pretty much exclusively around luxury options, and based on the mock-ups, it looked like they would more likely replace seats than build additional ones.

[Image: download?mid=2%5f0%5f0%5f1%5f267413%5fAJ...=yahoomail]

they're not going to get rid of a large number lower priced chairback seats to build club seats. That just doesn't make any sense. They may do some replacement as you move closer to the new facility in higher rows, but the majority of the club/luxury seats will be new seats.

That's exactly the trend nationally though...
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(10-02-2015 02:55 PM)rollgreenwave Wrote:  
(10-02-2015 12:06 PM)PiratePanther189 Wrote:  
(10-01-2015 11:41 AM)CoastalJuan Wrote:  Not sure where everyone's numbers are coming from, but the surveys that were sent out back in May were centered pretty much exclusively around luxury options, and based on the mock-ups, it looked like they would more likely replace seats than build additional ones.

[Image: download?mid=2%5f0%5f0%5f1%5f267413%5fAJ...=yahoomail]

they're not going to get rid of a large number lower priced chairback seats to build club seats. That just doesn't make any sense. They may do some replacement as you move closer to the new facility in higher rows, but the majority of the club/luxury seats will be new seats.

That's exactly the trend nationally though...

That's not what they said they would do though...
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Yeah my understanding was that we would have club level seating as most likely the lowest level of a new multilevel pressbox facility. I thought I even remember hearing that they were going to make it about 6 floors and include new coaches offices, Pirate club and locker rooms as part of the addition. I assume the club level would be similar to the one we have on the other side which would mean it would probably add maybe 2000-3000 seats to the stadium, so it would be a very modest expansion as far as capacity.
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(10-02-2015 03:17 PM)k-vegasbuc Wrote:  Yeah my understanding was that we would have club level seating as most likely the lowest level of a new multilevel pressbox facility. I thought I even remember hearing that they were going to make it about 6 floors and include new coaches offices, Pirate club and locker rooms as part of the addition. I assume the club level would be similar to the one we have on the other side which would mean it would probably add maybe 2000-3000 seats to the stadium, so it would be a very modest expansion as far as capacity.

Was just told the renderings are being pushed back to April 1 and 5 donors will see them before then for feedback. They were supposed to be released this week
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(02-17-2016 12:19 PM)TheBigEastSucks Wrote:  
(10-02-2015 03:17 PM)k-vegasbuc Wrote:  Yeah my understanding was that we would have club level seating as most likely the lowest level of a new multilevel pressbox facility. I thought I even remember hearing that they were going to make it about 6 floors and include new coaches offices, Pirate club and locker rooms as part of the addition. I assume the club level would be similar to the one we have on the other side which would mean it would probably add maybe 2000-3000 seats to the stadium, so it would be a very modest expansion as far as capacity.

Was just told the renderings are being pushed back to April 1 and 5 donors will see them before then for feedback. They were supposed to be released this week

Maybe the thought there is to not steal from the fundraising pot. Wait for people to donate to the PC whatever they were going to give annually and then have an opportunity later to donate to the fundraising campaign. IMO, if people were to see it before April 1...before the fundraising campaign started...being excited many would give extra in their PC donation, then not have much, if anything, to give towards the expansion. Just a wild conspiracy theory.
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Spring Game is April 16th.

Really would be good to unveil renderings during the game. Could be advertised and boost attendance.
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(07-09-2015 03:39 PM)ECUGrad07 Wrote:  Think it's more about pressbox improvement / luxury stuff, and not necessarily adding seats, right?

It will have some seating capacity portions to it....
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Any renderings? Excited to see what it looks like. I really need to get down there for a game sometime soon.
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(02-18-2016 02:36 PM)TforTempleU Wrote:  Any renderings? Excited to see what it looks like. I really need to get down there for a game sometime soon.

To think what ECU could do with top/modern football facilities. What has always separated ECU from the others is our game day atmosphere (tailgating everywhere, team entrance and fans in the stands). Come down and you will see...I'm originally from South Jersey and it shocked me. Rivals SEC.
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(02-18-2016 11:52 PM)PirateTreasureNC Wrote:  http://eastcarolina.247sports.com/Board/...s-43795975

Some follow up...

http://www.reflector.com/sports/ecu/comp...es-3140447

The most interesting aspects of that are:

J Batt, executive director of the Pirate Club, shared some encouraging, perhaps surprising, numbers with the board. The Pirate Club raised a record $7,768,000 in 2015, an 11 percent increase from 2014 and 26 percent hike over the last two years. Batt added that the 10,325 Student Pirate Club members represent an all-time high and noted the opening of Raleigh and Charlotte Pirate Club offices last year helped as well.

Students make up a large percentage of the 16,828 Pirate Club members but Batt said East Carolina has the largest fundraising booster club in the American Athletic Conference “by several thousand” and that they have not been stingy with their donations to the Pirates’ sporting interests.

“We’ve raised significantly more, to the tune of about $3 million, than our closest competitor,” Batt said.

Compher added, “In our conference, SMU, (Central Florida), others, they may have an annual fund but it doesn’t all go to pay student-athlete scholarships. It may go to debt reduction. It may go to upgrading. It may go to a number of different things. Because we don’t get any state assistance, all of ours goes to the scholarship fund.”

The original $2 million obligation East Carolina had after firing football coach Ruffin McNeill will wind up being “well under a million dollars,” Floyd said.
McNeill getting a two-year contract to be the inside linebackers coach at Virginia, and other members of McNeill’s staff getting jobs elsewhere, helped greatly ease the financial burden for the Pirates.

“It takes care of all but possibly the last three months of our obligation (to McNeill and staff),” Floyd said.
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Congrats, ECU! I think your future is very bright.
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Ok, so the folks who don't pay for "inside" info have been told on this board that the southside expansion would add more seats but the focus was quality seating options versus quantity. IIRC, the expected quantity was going to be in the 3-6k range.

Well, one of our recruits (Hussein Howe) tweeted something two days ago that I found interesting.


Hussein Howe Jr.
@6_howe
Expanding our stadium from 50K to 62K I can't wait to play in front of the best fans in America ☠?? #PirateNation #ECU20

Howe's tweet was retweeted by Tommy Clayton (whoever that is) with the following name...

Tommy Clayton
@TommyClaytonECU
bubba rosenbaum

I know an expansion update came out a few days ago and info was released to 247 VIP members. I am not one of those members. Apparently new signees are being told stuff about the expansion and it is going public.

So, my question is...are we really adding 12,000 seats or did Howe misunderstand what he was told? 12,000 sounds more like what the southside AND endzone would have been. The endzone is not on the table per my PC rep.

Oh, one more question...who is bubba rosenbaum?

EDIT: I see that Rosenbaum is a writer for 247. Is Clayton hinting that Howe was leaking VIP info?
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Gotta have 62,000 to play in the Big 12.04-rock
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If true, it could be that those original photos that were leaked are accurate
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(02-25-2016 03:21 PM)PiratePanther189 Wrote:  If true, it could be that those original photos that were leaked are accurate

Maybe. If true, not sure why my PC rep told that piece was not on the table...that it was the architect showing off "what they could do," there was long term planning for how the stadium would eventually be and the endzone drawings just had that in mind. Maybe he was just trying to squash any possible leak so there could be a huge unexpected unveiling. I tend to believe the southside is all we are doing and that Howe just misunderstood much the way many of us did when the preliminary concept drawings were released. I wouldn't have my feelings hurt if somebody proved me wrong though.
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(02-19-2016 12:31 AM)Indiana Bones Wrote:  
(02-18-2016 11:52 PM)PirateTreasureNC Wrote:  http://eastcarolina.247sports.com/Board/...s-43795975

Some follow up...
Batt added that the 10,325 Student Pirate Club members represent an all-time high and noted the opening of Raleigh and Charlotte Pirate Club offices last year helped as well.

Students make up a large percentage of the 16,828 Pirate Club members but Batt said East Carolina has the largest fundraising booster club in the American Athletic Conference “by several thousand” and that they have not been stingy with their donations to the Pirates’ sporting interests.

Just food to digest...
ECU 7422(per UH Cougar Pride guide 2015)
UCONN 4900
CIncy 4500
UCF 4073
Houston 3100
Memphis 2800
SMU 2450
USF 2180
Temp 1619
Tulsa 1400
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(02-25-2016 04:06 PM)tmoney86 Wrote:  
(02-19-2016 12:31 AM)Indiana Bones Wrote:  
(02-18-2016 11:52 PM)PirateTreasureNC Wrote:  http://eastcarolina.247sports.com/Board/...s-43795975

Some follow up...
Batt added that the 10,325 Student Pirate Club members represent an all-time high and noted the opening of Raleigh and Charlotte Pirate Club offices last year helped as well.

Students make up a large percentage of the 16,828 Pirate Club members but Batt said East Carolina has the largest fundraising booster club in the American Athletic Conference “by several thousand” and that they have not been stingy with their donations to the Pirates’ sporting interests.

Just food to digest...
ECU 7422(per UH Cougar Pride guide 2015)
UCONN 4900
CIncy 4500
UCF 4073
Houston 3100
Memphis 2800
SMU 2450
USF 2180
Temp 1619
Tulsa 1400

Houston's 2015 reporting has a higher non-student member total for ECU than what ECU is currently reporting...but it is with 1,000. Truthfully, the only one to trust would be ECU's number for ECU. We'll have to take Houston's word on the other schools if that info hasn't been published by said schools.
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(02-25-2016 02:12 PM)apex_pirate Wrote:  Ok, so the folks who don't pay for "inside" info have been told on this board that the southside expansion would add more seats but the focus was quality seating options versus quantity. IIRC, the expected quantity was going to be in the 3-6k range.

Well, one of our recruits (Hussein Howe) tweeted something two days ago that I found interesting.


Hussein Howe Jr.
@6_howe
Expanding our stadium from 50K to 62K I can't wait to play in front of the best fans in America ☠?? #PirateNation #ECU20

Howe's tweet was retweeted by Tommy Clayton (whoever that is) with the following name...

Tommy Clayton
@TommyClaytonECU
bubba rosenbaum

I know an expansion update came out a few days ago and info was released to 247 VIP members. I am not one of those members. Apparently new signees are being told stuff about the expansion and it is going public.

So, my question is...are we really adding 12,000 seats or did Howe misunderstand what he was told? 12,000 sounds more like what the southside AND endzone would have been. The endzone is not on the table per my PC rep.

Oh, one more question...who is bubba rosenbaum?

EDIT: I see that Rosenbaum is a writer for 247. Is Clayton hinting that Howe was leaking VIP info?

Bubba Rosenbaum was the QB for North Davidson HS (NC) back around 2000. I played against him... good guy.
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