(12-17-2017 01:13 PM)indianasniff Wrote: (12-16-2017 04:54 AM)emu steve Wrote: (12-15-2017 08:46 PM)Miami (Oh) Yeah ! Wrote: http://emuchampionshipbuilding.com/
Nice work EMU. Looks great. Time for Kent to step up now. Eastern now has a 1st class basketball arena and soon to be football stadium set-up. If EMU can pull this off, then there is no reason Kent cant.
Fans, especially EMU fans, need to realize this is Phase I.
What ground will be broken for in January is part of the entire project. The entire project is 45M. What will be started next month is part (20M) of the project.
It will be the 'football building' WITH a very nice video board on its face.
I believe the indoor track, etc. etc. is phase II.
That said, to most MAC FB fans, that is most of us, this is the most important part. Getting a nice building and video board up in that end zone.
I believe that the track will need to be removed so that the football building can extend into where the track is now. Might be wrong, but I also think the football field might be moved southward some (10 - 20 yards????).
So does that mean you will get rid of the awful grey field too
I need to clarify based on information I deem credible (starting to sound like a news man).
The football field will NOT be moved. It is possible to build the "new Phase I building' without tearing down the existing football building OR moving the track.
The new building will be in the NW corner of Rynearson and will not extend onto the playing field. Changes will happen when the new IPF is built. That will require the demolition of the existing football building.
The only changes to the playing field will be as part of Phase II.
Then the track will be moved and the football field outside the lines can be all green, as shown in the video.
Quite frankly, the visual (aesthetic) changes in Phase I won't be great: The new building will be barely visible in the NW corner of Rynearson. The one visual change will be a standalone video board in that end zone.
The hard part will be a new video board (standalone) and how to make it work with the exiting football building and then with the new IPF.
If it were me, I'd wait until 2019 on the video board. After the new building is built, I'd demolish the existing football building and place the video board there. The new IPF would be right behind it, when built.