Just took a look at CSU's new stadium upgrades & it is impressive. In the AAC, UH & UC have P5 quality stadiums. ECU already has great capacity and game day atmosphere but with the new expansion & facelift it will rival if not surpass any stadium outside of the P5. It is set to be completed before the 2018 season. It will only add a little more than 1000 in capacity (taking total capacity to about 52,000) but the overall improvements are significant. We already have future home dates scheduled with South Carolina, WVU, VT, NCSU, UNC, BYU, etc. but hopefully a revamped DFS can help us induce even more top level programs to come visit us.





(1) Construction of a southside tower resulting in the creation of 1,000 premium seats through the addition of a new Club Level, Loge Boxes, Standard Suites and Founder’s Suites

(2) Game day experience enhancement via a new Pirate Club Level, Field Level Club and premium parking spaces

(3) A modern press level with additional space for media, including amended radio and television broadcast and production locations

(4) Improvements to the Ward Sports Medicine Building and Scales Field House to provide needed functional space for student-athletes

(5) Development of a hitting facility adjacent to Clark-LeClair Stadium, serving both baseball and softball programs

ECU already has a big stadium, and has for some time. Probably have already hosted a fair share of P5 teams.

That's the point of the thread, not a general facilities thread.

(03-12-2017 11:52 AM)MplsBison Wrote:  ECU already has a big stadium, and has for some time. Probably have already hosted a fair share of P5 teams.

That's the point of the thread, not a general facilities thread.

I think Indiana Bones was trying say that DF is big, but not as modern looking as it could be...Yet. Those changes are coming soon. Like Nippert getting that huge renovation sort of thing. Nippert was always considered a beautiful stadium with views, but needed some modernization.
Cheers!

(03-10-2017 07:14 AM)MinerInWisconsin Wrote:  

(03-09-2017 09:06 PM)Love and Honor Wrote:  Seems like teams like to open up their new stadium or arena with a big name to generate some excitement, like CSU for this game or Miami with Kentucky when Millett Hall opened up in the sixties. If that fails, it teams usually try and buy as easy of a game as possible to sure make the stadium opens up with a win if they can't get a notable opponent.

Except that the CSU stadium opens this coming season and Abilene Christian will be the first home game on Sept 9th.

CSU stadium

"Construction on the new stadium began in the fall of 2015 and is scheduled to be completed on-time in the summer of 2017. The first football game, Colorado State vs. Abilene Christian, is scheduled for Sept. 9, 2017."

Truth be told, it is almost better to have the big name opponent be the "second" game." The first game will draw excitement anyway because it is the first game of the year, AND it is the first game in the new stadium. Plus increases the chance ofr a win. Having the big game as the second game, ensures people will come back.

As noted in the Hawaii exemption rule week 0 games thread, Colorado State just announced that it has moved its game vs Oregon St to week 0 this coming season.

So they'll open the stadium with the Oregon St game, after all.


Everything Corbett said still applies, of course. And now, you're looking at students possibly not being back on campus, too.

Arkansas is tough to schedule. They only have 1 away game out of conference every 2 years.

They have managed to schedule 4 OOC home games in the years when their neutral site game with Texas A&M counts as a home game. So in those years they have 4 away games, 1 neutral site, and 7 home games.