(05-11-2013 06:35 PM)HuskieRak Wrote: Wrong. It's a tight fit, even if the box is bigger than the visitors. You ever been up there on a gameday? I was up in the pressbox for three seasons under previous coaching staffs and was good friends with a grad asst. who was in the coaches box. Majority of them had to stand because there wasn't enough space to sit. Everyone hated it. I can't imagine the coaches today are big fans of it.
And I don't give a **** about visiting coaches. They can have a 1x1 box for all I care.
Not wrong. The partition between what was the second and third press booths was taken out to double the size for the NIU coaches and if it was a tight fit, it might have been because someone who wasn't serving a purpose (like you) was also in there.
So in answer to your question "have you ever been up there on gameday?", yes for three decades-plus. And all of us media people were happy with one seat with next to no room behind us. The NIU coaching booth had seven chairs across and four or five stools for GAs (or whoever) to sit on right behind them. The 2013 roster lists 15 staff from Rod Carey through the GAs, aren't half of them on the field during the game? There are better and there are worse set-ups around the MAC, but there is room to work and that's the purpose of what is actually called "a press box," not the "coaching gameday office."
Having been up there to see more games than years you've been alive, you have no idea what kind of job Bud Nangle and Mike Korcek did in shoehorning people in there. They did the best they could to treat home and visiting media equally, pro scouts, etc., and the scoreboard operators, the PA person, then they had to make extra room for the message board, then the replay equipment and officials.
And while you may not give a **** about visiting coaches, that attitude can come back to haunt you if you're playing home and away, plus most conferences have policies about fairness -- you ever aware of coaches not getting to use their headsets because the other team's headsets weren't working? Yeah, there are league rules like that.
And as some on here have speculated, yes, there have been a few administrators from other schools who complained about their accomadations in Huskie Stadium, so it might affect NIU's reputation negatively. Don't forget us media people who went on the road with the Huskies got to see other school's set-ups and can make comparisons.
As for your statement "everyone hated it," did you take a poll? Since you can't imagine the coaches today being big fans, imagine them in half the space as was the case when the place was originally built.
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