Hey, we aren't last!

http://www.stadiumjourney.com/news/12-30...e-rankings

Suck it, Tulsa.

Nice berms? How can Rynearson not be the worst? Did the reviewer notice that the place is 10% filled on gameday?

Wow, those are controversial. I have been at all of the stadiums below:

I have been at say Navy's stadium and I don't consider it in the top half of NCAA.

I don't like Maryland's stadium at all (but they have a great basketball arena. Nice! Nice!! Nice!!!). Virginia's is good but not great.

I consider Akron's stadium one of the best small capacity stadiums in the country.

Not a big fan of BG's stadium. CMU's is okay, nice but not special. Some people really like the Glass Bowl, but I have never been fond of it.

ODU's game has an excellent game day atmosphere for a non-G5 school. I really liked the stadium.

(01-04-2016 11:38 PM)emu steve Wrote:  Wow, those are controversial. I have been at all of the stadiums below:

I have been at say Navy's stadium and I don't consider it in the top half of NCAA.

I don't like Maryland's stadium at all (but they have a great basketball arena. Nice! Nice!! Nice!!!). Virginia's is good but not great.

I consider Akron's stadium one of the best small capacity stadiums in the country.

Not a big fan of BG's stadium. CMU's is okay, nice but not special. Some people really like the Glass Bowl, but I have never been fond of it.

ODU's game has an excellent game day atmosphere for a non-G5 school. I really liked the stadium.

Give BG another look. It is a nice facility. The Glass Bowl is the most unique in the MAC and Waldo is the class of the MAC...CMU has a nice game day atmosphere because the town folks have pride in their local team (unlike....) and you are correct, Akron is a great facility. Rynearson and Buffalo are probably the worst.

(01-05-2016 09:53 AM)Bob Wickersham Wrote:  

(01-04-2016 11:38 PM)emu steve Wrote:  Wow, those are controversial. I have been at all of the stadiums below:

I have been at say Navy's stadium and I don't consider it in the top half of NCAA.

I don't like Maryland's stadium at all (but they have a great basketball arena. Nice! Nice!! Nice!!!). Virginia's is good but not great.

I consider Akron's stadium one of the best small capacity stadiums in the country.

Not a big fan of BG's stadium. CMU's is okay, nice but not special. Some people really like the Glass Bowl, but I have never been fond of it.

ODU's game has an excellent game day atmosphere for a non-G5 school. I really liked the stadium.

Give BG another look. It is a nice facility. The Glass Bowl is the most unique in the MAC and Waldo is the class of the MAC...CMU has a nice game day atmosphere because the town folks have pride in their local team (unlike....) and you are correct, Akron is a great facility. Rynearson and Buffalo are probably the worst.

The Ypsi area has pride in their local team. Unfortunately their local team plays in Ann Arbor. Way too many EMU alums are UM fans that don't know the first thing about their own schools team. Every time I see one of them putting their "Go Blue" sh!t on Facebook I have to bite my tongue. Even worse when they start knocking down MSU.

(01-05-2016 09:53 AM)Bob Wickersham Wrote:  

(01-04-2016 11:38 PM)emu steve Wrote:  Wow, those are controversial. I have been at all of the stadiums below:

I have been at say Navy's stadium and I don't consider it in the top half of NCAA.

I don't like Maryland's stadium at all (but they have a great basketball arena. Nice! Nice!! Nice!!!). Virginia's is good but not great.

I consider Akron's stadium one of the best small capacity stadiums in the country.

Not a big fan of BG's stadium. CMU's is okay, nice but not special. Some people really like the Glass Bowl, but I have never been fond of it.

ODU's game has an excellent game day atmosphere for a non-G5 school. I really liked the stadium.

Give BG another look. It is a nice facility. The Glass Bowl is the most unique in the MAC and Waldo is the class of the MAC...CMU has a nice game day atmosphere because the town folks have pride in their local team (unlike....) and you are correct, Akron is a great facility. Rynearson and Buffalo are probably the worst.

I'll repeat what I've been saying: We NEED to wait and see what the plans for Rynearson are and the timeline.

I'm not too concerned about TODAY because what we see today will not be what we see in say a couple years...

Once plans are unveiled then we'll be able to comment on what our stadium facilities will look like...

EMU has an opportunity to really improve the look of Rynearson...

despite all of the naysayers, every time EMU has done something big in the last 20 years it has been good. Convo, Halle Library, Student Center, etc. Those are all first rate buildings. Even the president's house.

This is what 10 - 12K looks like. Not bad!! (see attachment below).

EMU needs to replace the lights, replace (!!!!) the scoreboard, replace the press box and replace the football building in the north end zone.

Lights aren't an aesthetics issue, but the press box, scoreboard (!!) and football building are.

EMU needs to redesign the north end zone...

The south end zone looks pretty good to me with the Convo (esp. during dusk with the lights on), and the grassy area.

Guys, this isn't like rebuilding downtown Detroit or Flint. It is mostly a new football building and integrate the scoreboard with it (I believe CMU has a good design). The press box is 'stand alone' project, i.e., it is separate from the north end zone work. They can be done separately or at the same time.

Here is CMU's stadium showing their beautiful 2-tier press box, etc...

http://www.cmuchippewas.com/facilities/f...ities.html

The Wal-Mart Wolverine thing at EMU is mind boggling to me. U-M students/alums would not piss on us EMU grads/students if we were on fire. The most arrogant group of people I have ever had the non pleasure of meeting. A U-M girl wouldn't give the time of day to Brad Pitt if he was an EMU alum.

(01-04-2016 10:40 PM)Bob Wickersham Wrote:  Nice berms? How can Rynearson not be the worst? Did the reviewer notice that the place is 10% filled on gameday?

In all fairness, Bob, the effective capacity is now say 23K, not 30K.

The first couple games this year drew say 6 or 7K.

I'm not going to do a drum roll over 25 - 35% crowd but it isn't a complete disaster either.

Fifty percent is a decent turnout for most MAC schools.

I've seen (have) photographs of the Army game English's first season. Crowd was around 12K, I believe, and the home side, esp, looked nice.

10K on the home side and say 2K on the other side looks fine. Since almost all seating is bench, folks can have say 24 - 30" (instead of 18 or 19", like that school west of U.S. 23) so a crowd of 8K might look more like 10K.