saw it last night at the fall scrimmage over the stadium and it is pretty cool!

http://www.gobulldogs.com/sports/m-footb...15aac.html

Blimps are so stupid and outda-

*looks at picture in link*

I guess that is why they are at all the major sporting events.....

Certainly this pushes Fresno State to the forefront of future realignment scenarios, regardless of the conference.

It's stupid, ugly and silly and if AState weren't so close to the approach path of the airport we could have one too and I'd be really happy.

(08-14-2015 01:40 PM)Kaplony Wrote:  Certainly this pushes Fresno State to the forefront of future realignment scenarios, regardless of the conference.

UConn should have one of their own soon.

You can tell some of you are jonesing for college football, you all being cranky. I like the blimp.

When I saw the thread title I thought they hired Charlie Weis.

UNC would do this but they are afraid the blimp would hover over Wallace Wade Stadium by mistake.

There is no way that NIU could have anything like that. Way too windy out here.

Nice!

(08-14-2015 02:03 PM)SuperFlyBCat Wrote:  You can tell some of you are jonesing for college football, you all being cranky. I like the blimp.

Bearcats and Bulldogs need to schedule more in football. We had that one small H/H series and us Bulldogs fans and Bearcats fans seem to get along very well.

(08-14-2015 02:08 PM)NIU007 Wrote:  When I saw the thread title I thought they hired Charlie Weis.

Or Chris Christy....

(08-14-2015 02:16 PM)HuskieJohn Wrote:  There is no way that NIU could have anything like that. Way too windy out here.

Well if you Huskie fans weren't such blowhards....


JK

My cousins wife is NIU alum and I lived in ChicagoLand (Gary, IN area) in the 70's and 80's...so I like NIU a lot.....and....you kicked our ass in the bowl we played a few years ago, so.....RESPEEECT!

(08-14-2015 01:51 PM)ken d Wrote:  

(08-14-2015 01:40 PM)Kaplony Wrote:  Certainly this pushes Fresno State to the forefront of future realignment scenarios, regardless of the conference.

UConn should have one of their own soon.

UConn likely gets two.

(08-15-2015 09:12 AM)fresnofanatic Wrote:  

(08-14-2015 02:16 PM)HuskieJohn Wrote:  There is no way that NIU could have anything like that. Way too windy out here.

Well if you Huskie fans weren't such blowhards....


JK

My cousins wife is NIU alum and I lived in ChicagoLand (Gary, IN area) in the 70's and 80's...so I like NIU a lot.....and....you kicked our ass in the bowl we played a few years ago, so.....RESPEEECT!

Ha ha.

Fresno is cool, they always seem to be pretty good, and that's over a very long period.

How much does something like this cost to purchase and what is its annual estimate cost to operate? I actually kinda like the idea from a promotional standpoint, but it would have to be make sense from an economic stand point. If its costs a million and 500K a year to run, it might be cheaper to buy other forms of promotional media. If it has light up LED screens on the sides it might be able to generate corporate money at night to offset its costs while still building an awareness of Fresno St. Like I said, I like the idea, though Im not sure it would work for Houston because TDECU stadium is fairly close to Hobby Airport. However, if it could get ok'd by the FAA, and the costs are reasonable, it might be far more efficient than bill board ads in a big spread out city like Houston.

What I like about it is this is a reflection of our new AD, past asst AD at Oregon. I like that he is making bold moves. He has been on the job for less than a year and already something like this, new upgraded stadium HD screen and a stadium modification plan he expects to execute over the next couple of years.

He is not letting our program sit still. Oh and by the way, we have pretty decent facilities a nearly 16,000 seat basketball arena, stadiums for both our baseball/softball programs, new aquatics center, 41k plus football stadium, etc. We could fit into most P5 conferences with our facilities.

I must say I'm jealous.

(08-15-2015 12:21 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  How much does something like this cost to purchase and what is its annual estimate cost to operate? I actually kinda like the idea from a promotional standpoint, but it would have to be make sense from an economic stand point. If its costs a million and 500K a year to run, it might be cheaper to buy other forms of promotional media. If it has light up LED screens on the sides it might be able to generate corporate money at night to offset its costs while still building an awareness of Fresno St. Like I said, I like the idea, though Im not sure it would work for Houston because TDECU stadium is fairly close to Hobby Airport. However, if it could get ok'd by the FAA, and the costs are reasonable, it might be far more efficient than bill board ads in a big spread out city like Houston.

You're right. Buying one makes no sense. That's why Fresno is just leasing it for their their home games.