(02-19-2022 05:13 PM)Unionman76 Wrote:  

(02-19-2022 03:57 PM)Atlanta Wrote:  

(02-19-2022 03:23 PM)Unionman76 Wrote:  

(02-19-2022 02:51 PM)Atlanta Wrote:  

(02-19-2022 11:03 AM)tigerfan39 Wrote:  The mayor has offered the stadium to the university. I'm guessing what we will hear from the AD in the coming months is the direction the university will take. A firm has submitted recommendations from a study done back in November, but that has not been shared.

The problem with renovating an old stadium is its still an old stadium but with some new features. Recurring maintenance will still reflect an old stadium. An a renovation that would provide any significant improvements would be a nice down-payment on a new stadium with better accommodations & lower maintenance costs. Just the sort of thing Nashville is realizing now even though their current stadium is much newer than the LB. So the university will get saddled with the increasing upkeep expenditures to keep the LB viable. Probably not a good bargain for the university or for the city if either attempt to maintain the LB long term.

sez every stadium in the sec

SEC has money to burn. SEC stadiums are On Campus providing few other alternatives. TX A&M renovated to the tune of $300M+. Not much of a comparison or equivalent to our circumstances.

i have been to 4 sec stadiums in the last few years
and they are all **** holes

(ut, missouri, ole miss, miss state)

i did not sit in the sky boxes or press boxes (that is where they invest)

Ok? Point is these stadiums are ON CAMPUS, where the school is located. The school isn't moving, so they renovate/update (& they have the $$). UGA, UTK, OM, AL, AR, MSU, TXAM, etc have all done this, some more recent than others. And if you have invested in the program you see where the renovation $$ have been spent - on the areas used by those who invest in the program. Even the LB has been "updated" (I use that term generously & relatively) by adding chairbacks for those who spend more on the program. Sure at OM, UTK, UGA you can still find the troughs in the old men's rooms, antiquated concessions but not in the areas where the big investers. sit. But again that is not our issue. We play in a rented, off-campus stadium that the owner (city of Memphis) has no motivation or $$ to renovate.