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RE: Stadium Renovation and Construction Thread - BraveKnight - 08-19-2021 12:44 PM
RE: Stadium Renovation and Construction Thread - panama - 08-19-2021 01:10 PM
(08-19-2021 12:44 PM)BraveKnight Wrote:
Showing again why I consider UCF to have the top athletic adminstration of all city schools.
RE: Stadium Renovation and Construction Thread - HawaiiMongoose - 08-19-2021 02:05 PM
(08-19-2021 01:10 PM)panama Wrote: Showing again why I consider UCF to have the top athletic adminstration of all city schools.
Good time for UCF to release a bunch of impressive renders of football stadium upgrades, with the Big 12 leftovers soon to be making decisions on conference additions.
RE: Stadium Renovation and Construction Thread - BraveKnight - 08-19-2021 02:21 PM
(08-19-2021 02:05 PM)HawaiiMongoose Wrote:Agreed, it also will help us out financially with more revenue streams and also should help out a lot with recruiting.(08-19-2021 01:10 PM)panama Wrote: Showing again why I consider UCF to have the top athletic adminstration of all city schools.
Good time for UCF to release a bunch of impressive renders of football stadium upgrades, with the Big 12 leftovers soon to be making decisions on conference additions.
RE: Stadium Renovation and Construction Thread - Claw - 08-19-2021 02:22 PM
Quote:When asked about the financials, #UCF AD Terry Mohajir says the football facilities upgrades will likely be in the $50 million range for football, $130M for all sports.
Mohajir says these upgrades will put UCF on par with programs like Alabama, Michigan, Florida, etc.
Good work. Enjoy it.
No way to keep up long term with the income disparity.
RE: Stadium Renovation and Construction Thread - panama - 08-19-2021 02:28 PM
(08-19-2021 02:22 PM)Claw Wrote:Quote:When asked about the financials, #UCF AD Terry Mohajir says the football facilities upgrades will likely be in the $50 million range for football, $130M for all sports.
Mohajir says these upgrades will put UCF on par with programs like Alabama, Michigan, Florida, etc.
Good work. Enjoy it.
No way to keep up long term with the income disparity.
They seem to be doing ok
RE: Stadium Renovation and Construction Thread - Claw - 08-19-2021 02:55 PM
(08-19-2021 02:28 PM)panama Wrote:Yes they do. I am cynical though.(08-19-2021 02:22 PM)Claw Wrote:Quote:When asked about the financials, #UCF AD Terry Mohajir says the football facilities upgrades will likely be in the $50 million range for football, $130M for all sports.
Mohajir says these upgrades will put UCF on par with programs like Alabama, Michigan, Florida, etc.
Good work. Enjoy it.
No way to keep up long term with the income disparity.
They seem to be doing ok
Over my lifetime I have seen Memphis upgrade facilities to best Ole Miss and Miss State several times only to see the constant flow of SEC money erase the advantage time and time again.
RE: Stadium Renovation and Construction Thread - panama - 08-19-2021 03:03 PM
(08-19-2021 02:55 PM)Claw Wrote:(08-19-2021 02:28 PM)panama Wrote:Yes they do. I am cynical though.(08-19-2021 02:22 PM)Claw Wrote:Quote:When asked about the financials, #UCF AD Terry Mohajir says the football facilities upgrades will likely be in the $50 million range for football, $130M for all sports.
Mohajir says these upgrades will put UCF on par with programs like Alabama, Michigan, Florida, etc.
Good work. Enjoy it.
No way to keep up long term with the income disparity.
They seem to be doing ok
Over my lifetime I have seen Memphis upgrade facilities to best Ole Miss and Miss State several times only to see the constant flow of SEC money erase the advantage time and time again.
I would not focus on that statement as much as I would on the fact that UCF is refreshing what is already a more than ok athletic campus.
RE: Stadium Renovation and Construction Thread - BraveKnight - 08-19-2021 04:21 PM
RE: Stadium Renovation and Construction Thread - BraveKnight - 08-19-2021 04:22 PM
Full plan unveiled by UCF
RE: Stadium Renovation and Construction Thread - Renandpat - 08-20-2021 05:03 PM
(08-17-2021 12:03 PM)HawaiiMongoose Wrote: Work on the University of Hawaii's new temporary football stadium is just about wrapped up for now. Capacity has been expanded to 9K for this season and is expected to be increased again to 15K to 18K for next season. The new permanent off-campus stadium that will seat 30K to 35K is scheduled for completion by fall 2024 but at least there's an insurance policy in case of delays.They will not have fans for Fall Sports.
Here's the entire complex with Waikiki's towers in the background:
The new turf and newly added sideline and end zone stands:
The new VIP boxes:
And finally, the first of two big-screen scoreboards that will be installed (the other will come from Aloha Stadium but probably won't be moved until next season):
Not bad considering that all of the work was planned and executed in nine months.
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https://hawaiiathletics.com/news/2021/8/20/general-fans-not-allowed-at-uh-athletic-events.aspx
RE: Stadium Renovation and Construction Thread - HawaiiMongoose - 08-20-2021 05:30 PM
(08-20-2021 05:03 PM)Renandpat Wrote: They will not have fans for Fall Sports.
https://hawaiiathletics.com/news/2021/8/20/general-fans-not-allowed-at-uh-athletic-events.aspx
We will not have fans for season-opening events over the next two weeks. The situation will be reassessed thereafter.
There’s a huge Covid surge in Hawaii right now. Our statewide hospitalized count went from 23 at the end of June to 352 yesterday. All of the ICU beds at Honolulu’s two largest hospitals are full. And over 90% of the patients are from the 30% of the population that’s unvaccinated.
UH was hoping to avoid this by restricting attendance at athletic events to vaccinated fans, but since the delta variant can still infect and be spread by the vaccinated the mayor of Honolulu (a former UH football player) felt he had to pull the plug. It pisses me off but I understand the logic. Until the unvaccinated get their shots all of us will suffer.
RE: Stadium Renovation and Construction Thread - HawaiiMongoose - 08-22-2021 03:25 PM
To wrap things up for now, and put the facility in context, below is a pic of the expanded 9,000-seat Ching Field at the center of UH's athletic complex.
Surrounding Ching Field are (from the top, clockwise) the Duke Kahanamoku Aquatics Complex (swimming, diving, women's water polo), the 10,000-seat Stan Sheriff Center (men's and women's basketball, men's and women's volleyball), the basketball and volleyball practice gyms (renovated in 2019), the tennis complex, the 1,200-seat Rainbow Wahine Softball Stadium (renovated in 2017), the 800-seat sand volleyball competition courts, the soccer practice field (team plays in a 4,500-seat off-campus stadium), and baseball's 4,300-seat Les Murakami Stadium (renovated in 2008 and again in 2019). The student dorms are adjacent to and overlook the complex, out of sight in the lower left direction.
Overall it's a real nice setup, but obviously tight space-wise. While it'll be fun to have football played at Ching for the next few years, and further expansion to 15,000 seats looks feasible, putting a full-sized FBS-caliber stadium in the same footprint would be difficult and costly. So while a lot of UH fans are talking about the team "staying home" permanently, the university administration still maintains that the long-range plan is to play home football games in the state's planned 35,000-seat Aloha Stadium replacement (about 9 miles away) when completed.
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RE: Stadium Renovation and Construction Thread - HawaiiMongoose - 09-05-2021 08:47 PM
In the midst of the realignment frenzy, I didn't want to let it to pass notice that UH played its first game last night in its new temporary on-campus stadium. Unfortunately no fans were allowed to attend due to Honolulu's Covid outbreak. It was a beautiful evening and UH defeated Portland State 49-35.
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The renovation was completed in 141 days. Anyone who cares to wade through all the gory details can scroll through this:
https://spark.adobe.com/page/aQK9mHsxIgcCM/
RE: Stadium Renovation and Construction Thread - BullsFanInTX - 09-05-2021 09:13 PM
(09-05-2021 08:47 PM)HawaiiMongoose Wrote: In the midst of the realignment frenzy, I didn't want to let it to pass notice that UH played its first game last night in its new temporary on-campus stadium. Unfortunately no fans were allowed to attend due to Honolulu's Covid outbreak. It was a beautiful evening and UH defeated Portland State 49-35.
The renovation was completed in 141 days. Anyone who cares to wade through all the gory details can scroll through this:
https://spark.adobe.com/page/aQK9mHsxIgcCM/
Why? Is the outbreak any worse than anywhere else in the country? Everyone else allowed fans. Not to get political, but according to the CDC, this thing spreads much less outdoors.
RE: Stadium Renovation and Construction Thread - BullsFanInTX - 09-05-2021 09:16 PM
(08-22-2021 03:25 PM)HawaiiMongoose Wrote: To wrap things up for now, and put the facility in context, below is a pic of the expanded 9,000-seat Ching Field at the center of UH's athletic complex.
Surrounding Ching Field are (from the top, clockwise) the Duke Kahanamoku Aquatics Complex (swimming, diving, women's water polo), the 10,000-seat Stan Sheriff Center (men's and women's basketball, men's and women's volleyball), the basketball and volleyball practice gyms (renovated in 2019), the tennis complex, the 1,200-seat Rainbow Wahine Softball Stadium (renovated in 2017), the 800-seat sand volleyball competition courts, the soccer practice field (team plays in a 4,500-seat off-campus stadium), and baseball's 4,300-seat Les Murakami Stadium (renovated in 2008 and again in 2019). The student dorms are adjacent to and overlook the complex, out of sight in the lower left direction.
Overall it's a real nice setup, but obviously tight space-wise. While it'll be fun to have football played at Ching for the next few years, and further expansion to 15,000 seats looks feasible, putting a full-sized FBS-caliber stadium in the same footprint would be difficult and costly. So while a lot of UH fans are talking about the team "staying home" permanently, the university administration still maintains that the long-range plan is to play home football games in the state's planned 35,000-seat Aloha Stadium replacement (about 9 miles away) when completed.
You could easily get a 30K stadium in there by getting rid of the track and building on the whole footprint. Look at Tulane's stadium, for example, on how to fit a stadium into a small footprint.
RE: Stadium Renovation and Construction Thread - HawaiiMongoose - 09-05-2021 11:31 PM
(09-05-2021 09:13 PM)BullsFanInTX Wrote: Why? Is the outbreak any worse than anywhere else in the country? Everyone else allowed fans. Not to get political, but according to the CDC, this thing spreads much less outdoors.
I understand why folks are curious about this. Here’s the explanation I posted yesterday on the MWC board in response to a similar question:
There’s been a huge Covid outbreak here over the past eight weeks. In early July we were averaging only 50 new cases per day, had over half of the population vaccinated and were opening everything back up. Then the delta variant arrived and our new case counts exploded to over 100 and then over 500 and then over 1,000. There were 888 today, 865 yesterday and 1,068 the day before.
As a result our hospitals are swamped with unvaccinated Covid patients. We ran out of ICU beds today… every single ICU bed in the State of Hawaii is now occupied. There’s an impending shortage of medical oxygen. Despite 72% of the population having at least one vaccination shot and 63% being fully vaccinated, the virus is running rampant through the community. Restrictions are being imposed on everyone because even though the vaccinated folks aren’t getting seriously ill, breakthrough infections are helping spread the disease among the unvaccinated who are.
Hawaii isn’t like everywhere else. We have to play this extra-conservatively because we’re 2,600 miles away from the continent. We have less hospital capacity per capita than most of the country because our population is historically the nation’s healthiest. And when our hospitals are full we don’t have the option of shipping sick people to another state. They just have to wait their turns in tents outside the emergency rooms and hope they don’t die there.
I hate to say it but if we can’t blunt this latest wave of Covid soon we won’t just be denying fans access to games. We’ll be locking down the Islands, canceling games and telling opponents to stay home. I hope like hell it doesn’t come to that, but the stubborn minority of people here who are still refusing vaccination are overwhelming our health care system and we’re running out of alternatives.
RE: Stadium Renovation and Construction Thread - AztecEmpire - 09-21-2021 01:36 PM
Another update video
Things are happening fast now as they've already moved to precast concrete installation since this video.
Precast Concrete Upper deck[/code]
RE: Stadium Renovation and Construction Thread - No Bull - 09-21-2021 07:42 PM
(09-21-2021 01:36 PM)AztecEmpire Wrote: Another update video
Things are happening fast now as they've already moved to precast concrete installation since this video.
Precast Concrete Upper deck[/code]
Looks good. Is there any chance this could be expanded for an NFL team in the future?
RE: Stadium Renovation and Construction Thread - Aztec Since 88 - 09-21-2021 10:13 PM
Yes the new Aztec Stadium is expandable.. I believe they can expand it up to 55K.