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Legion Field Suggestion Box - thebernreuter - 12-01-2013 12:45 PM
I'm talking to some people - very informally at this point - about possible improvements to Legion Field for next season, both in terms of upkeep/ maintenance/ cosmetics and gameday operations. I'd like for this thread to serve as a collection of Blazer fan concerns about the gameday experience this year - things that were done well and things that need to be done better for next year. No detail is too silly or too small, and no issue is too obvious or glaring for this discussion.
I'm planning on taking whatever becomes of this thread into some meetings, and hopefully we'll be able to have a better experience for next year. We may even be able to take care of some things in time for recruiting visits over the offseason, so be thinking about that as well. Especially if there are any people out there that have connections to players or families of players or staff. What are some things that could be done to make a better impression on visiting recruits?
Obviously I'm pretty naive here and this whole thing isn't even off the ground yet, so anyone's input would be greatly appreciated and extremely helpful. The only reason I'm pursuing this seriously is because people have been returning my phone calls and seem to be taking me seriously, at least for now.
One thing I've proposed to B'ham Parks and Rec is a volunteer effort wherein Blazer fans help the Legion Field staff get the stadium ready for our games. I told them I would love to donate a ton of my time to helping them out, and that it's possible there are others in the fan base that feel the same way. Is anybody with me? I'll give you guys more details as this thing gets fleshed out.
RE: Legion Field: Year in Review - jcduncan13 - 12-01-2013 01:38 PM
For one, that idiot in the endzone by visitor's side selling frozen lemonade had a Bama tshirt on...I thought that was ridiculous. I attend the university, but you don't wear that crap to a Uab game. I voiced my displeasure at him, but he didn't even respond. Glad he didn't, to be honest. But the workers need to wear uab shirts or something not affiliated with another team.
RE: Legion Field: Year in Review - thebernreuter - 12-01-2013 01:46 PM
Most of the concession people didn't even show up because of the Iron Bowl. I think all of them are volunteers, and attendance for such efforts tends to be low on good days.
Hopefully he was tired of hearing about his shirt by the time you got to him lol.
I would have appreciated his shirt more if he had been selling hot pizza instead of frozen lemonade.
RE: Legion Field: Year in Review - Memphis Blazer - 12-01-2013 01:51 PM
He wasn't the only concession stand worker wearing Bama attire. And several of the fans were wearing other teams shirts as well. I am including the ones who thought they could serve two masters by wearing Red UAB shirts. (Why do those exist)
That said, people should be able to wear what they want. They should know better, but you can't dictate what volunteers wear when you can't get volunteers in the first place.
RE: Legion Field: Year in Review - thebernreuter - 12-01-2013 01:55 PM
(12-01-2013 01:51 PM)Memphis Blazer Wrote: That said, people should be able to wear what they want. They should know better, but you can't dictate what volunteers wear when you can't get volunteers in the first place.
Also we should be focusing on getting to a point wear people don't have to be forced to wear UAB stuff. They should just do it because it's what they wear all the time. That's a tall order, but dream big.
RE: Legion Field: Year in Review - thebernreuter - 12-01-2013 02:02 PM
Someone in charge of something could probably spring for some UAB Gameday Staff t-shirts. That way we'd have the university name, team colors, it would look organized, and the workers would look like they work there.
RE: Legion Field: Year in Review - WesternBlazer - 12-01-2013 02:20 PM
Suggestion:
Replace the barbed/razor-wire topped chainlink fencing that surrounds the stadium with wrought iron. Its amazing how Legion field, from some perspectives, look like a medium security prison.
RE: Legion Field: Year in Review - BAMANBLAZERFAN - 12-01-2013 02:22 PM
The concession problem is somewhat connected to our attendance problems. Those who sign up volunteers to work the concession stands can't predict what quantity of goods or service people to bring to the games. As with church work day volunteering, many more say they will come than actually show up. Also I would imagine that requiring a person working for nothing except his belief in a cause to wear (or NOT wear) certain apparel is not going to be a success. I would doubt that a concessionaire went out to buy a new "BAMA" shirt to wear to Legion Field to peddle a drink or hot dogs at a UAB game.
I suspect the razor wire is meant to keep people OUT not IN. It probably saves money on security since there are copper thieves and scrap iron thieves that might plunder the place requiring a major police presence to protect it 24/7.
RE: Legion Field: Year in Review - Memphis Blazer - 12-01-2013 02:23 PM
Well we have been sentenced to play our games there.
RE: Legion Field: Year in Review - Memphis Blazer - 12-01-2013 02:23 PM
By the way, this thread is a waste of time. The park board is not going to do anything and UAB has no money to do anything.
RE: Legion Field: Year in Review - thebernreuter - 12-01-2013 02:25 PM
(12-01-2013 02:23 PM)Memphis Blazer Wrote: By the way, this thread is a waste of time. The park board is not going to do anything and UAB has no money to do anything.
Hence the volunteer work idea, which costs nothing.
RE: Legion Field: Year in Review - Memphis Blazer - 12-01-2013 02:26 PM
We should not have to volunteer to do what should be someone else's job that they aren't doing. There are also liability issues that the City will have to deal with regarding volunteers. Won't happen.
RE: Legion Field: Year in Review - TheGORILLA - 12-01-2013 02:26 PM
It is utterly preposterous to even bring up the subject of "The Nemesis of UAB Football", Legion Field.
RE: Legion Field: Year in Review - thebernreuter - 12-01-2013 02:28 PM
(12-01-2013 02:26 PM)Memphis Blazer Wrote: We should not have to volunteer to do what should be someone else's job that they aren't doing. There are also liability issues that the City will have to deal with regarding volunteers. Won't happen.
It could be someone else's job if there were money to pay them for it. I wish everything that needed to be done at Legion Field would just be taken care of, but that isn't happening right now. I want to know why and what can be done about it. Just like people can donate money to the program, they can donate time and elbow grease as well. I don't have thousands of dollars to give to the athletic department, but there are other ways I can give to make up for it. Legion Field is obviously a glaring issue that will be a part of our program for a long time, so if there is any way for willing, determined people with some time to make some stuff happen out there, I want to know about it.
The liability issues don't prevent people from working the games as volunteers.
RE: Legion Field: Year in Review - BAMANBLAZERFAN - 12-01-2013 02:36 PM
(12-01-2013 02:26 PM)TheGORILLA Wrote: It is utterly preposterous to even bring up the subject of "The Nemesis of UAB Football", Legion Field.
If UAB might be in a position to build its own OCS, we would not have this to worry about. We are going to play our home games at Legion Field for the foreseeable future so the question of how to make the inevitable more endurable is a good idea.
The problem is that all suggestions require that someone fund something out of someone's pocket. With reductions in state SETF money for the last 10 years limiting what UAB can do, and the city's problems in raising money for all its citizens want it to do, there are not a lot of PRACTICAL suggestions that can be made for Legion Field.
RE: Legion Field: Year in Review - thebernreuter - 12-01-2013 02:41 PM
I plan on circumventing said funding issues by finding out what we can do for free. If there is no interest, then I guess I'll just be a lonely volunteer.
RE: Legion Field: Year in Review - thebernreuter - 12-01-2013 02:46 PM
(12-01-2013 02:36 PM)BAMANBLAZERFAN Wrote: The problem is that all suggestions require that someone fund something out of someone's pocket. With reductions in state SETF money for the last 10 years limiting what UAB can do, and the city's problems in raising money for all its citizens want it to do, there are not a lot of PRACTICAL suggestions that can be made for Legion Field.
More to that point, it would be fascinating to know how the Legion Field finances work. Do you think it's even revenue-neutral? They've got another bowl game coming up. What impact did last year's success, which was completely unprecedented and far beyond anything they could have projected based on the previous Compass Bowls, have on funding for the venue? Do individual successes/ failures even matter, or does that revenue just disappear into some nebulous cloud of city finances?
RE: Legion Field: Year in Review - FNblazer - 12-01-2013 02:50 PM
I'd like to remove the South end zone so that I can take in panoramic views of the "historic residential areas."
RE: Legion Field: Year in Review - thebernreuter - 12-01-2013 02:56 PM
On the subject of the sketch surroundings, difficulties with our "normal" car almost led me to take my beautiful 1980 Oldsmobile Cutlass to the game this past weekend. Even with it being a day game, what are the odds it would have still been in the parking lot after the game?
RE: Legion Field: Year in Review - LairDweller - 12-01-2013 02:58 PM
(12-01-2013 02:20 PM)WesternBlazer Wrote: Suggestion:
Replace the barbed/razor-wire topped chainlink fencing that surrounds the stadium with wrought iron. Its amazing how Legion field, from some perspectives, look like a medium security prison.
have you priced 6 foot tall wrought iron fencing?
to fence off that whole area, i bet you're easily looking at 6 figures