(12-08-2012 11:29 AM)Blazerstadium Wrote: Alright guys, I got the picture. I knew this was a sensitive subject, that is why it is titled as such. I have followed this board for a long time and have seen you guys eat your young plenty of times. I was honestly just trying to see what you guys thought, I had seen the Met mentioned a couple of times but didn't see a real answer to the question, still haven't.
I guess ultimately you did answer the question, your lack of desire to address the real question of "If there were a stadium in Hoover would you want to play there instead of LF"???
We'll keep enjoying LF, hopeing Coach McGee turns the program we all believe it can be and hopefully that will bring the attendance numbers up so the BoT can't continue to ignore us.
GO BLAZERS!!!
Come on, man. No one's trying to be difficult, or I'm not, but you're being a bit obtuse. If you take a step back, you'll see that every time the Met has been mentioned here the question has been answered...this thread being no exception.
1) The Met is not even close to serviceable as an FBS football stadium in required technical capacities, and the amount of money required to remedy that would make the project not feasible for UAB or Hoover (especially if, as in your hypothetical, Hoover is already spending to
permanently convert to football dimensions).
2) Your answer on how long you've been attending games is a bit fishy, no disrespect intended. Yes, only the Troy game drew 20k+ in this 3-win season. There was only one game in our 4-win 2011 season that drew 20k+, as well. But in our 4-win 2010 campaign there were 2 games that had 20k+ on hand. Going further back, for comparison, the year after we played in the Hawai'i Bowl we would have had to turn people away at
4 home games if we only had 20k seats. Your mention of only the Reuben game as if that's the high-water mark for our program is, well, suspicious for a "long-time" Blazer fan. Do you anticipate that we will never reach 7 wins again? How about 8? 10? Hosting a Conf Champ game? If we already had one game this season where we would have turned people away, what do you logically think will happen when we see those levels of success?
3) Finally, I'm sorry but there is NO WAY your original post can be construed to actually have been asking what you say was the "real question" of playing in a hypothetical stadium in Hoover vs. LF. That doesn't even make sense. If you didn't specifically mean the Met, then why Hoover? It's hypothetical, so propose it anywhere you wish. Now, I'll attempt to answer that "real" question: No...I would stay at LF if it were still viable. Hoover is even farther from our campus than LF. With a record number of dorm rooms and students residing on-campus, and more on the way, that's about the worst decision possible.
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