An article about a month ago said they hoped to share the plans for HRS renovations “within a month”. Looking forward to it

(10-01-2022 08:34 PM)Ourland Wrote:  They installed televisions in the flight decks

And each has a private mini-fridge.

(10-01-2022 09:19 PM)cr11owl Wrote:  An article about a month ago said they hoped to share the plans for HRS renovations “within a month”. Looking forward to it

Where did you read that? I hope so.

(10-01-2022 11:23 PM)Grungy Wrote:  

(10-01-2022 08:34 PM)Ourland Wrote:  They installed televisions in the flight decks

And each has a private mini-fridge.

Very nice. One group in the flight deck was celebrating a 50th birthday. Living it up and having a great time.

Meanwhile at Northwestern https://twitter.com/dannyecker/status/15...T2s5GRGbsA

(10-02-2022 09:59 AM)Tiki Owl Wrote:  Meanwhile at Northwestern https://twitter.com/dannyecker/status/15...T2s5GRGbsA

It’s going to be shared use, providing the city a venue for concerts, event hosting, etc. I don’t see the Houston-area business community being as willing to chip in like Evanston’s did - Houston has no lack of venues, many of them indoor and air-conditioned.

What is the cost for the flight decks for the season? Are the fridges for you to bring your own drinks? Can always pm me.

(10-02-2022 12:03 PM)seniorowl Wrote:  What is the cost for the flight decks for the season? Are the fridges for you to bring your own drinks? Can always pm me.

I heard $8000.

Wow

(10-02-2022 12:00 AM)Ourland Wrote:  

(10-01-2022 09:19 PM)cr11owl Wrote:  An article about a month ago said they hoped to share the plans for HRS renovations “within a month”. Looking forward to it

Where did you read that? I hope so.

Thresher article I believe

(10-02-2022 12:02 AM)Ourland Wrote:  

(10-01-2022 11:23 PM)Grungy Wrote:  

(10-01-2022 08:34 PM)Ourland Wrote:  They installed televisions in the flight decks

And each has a private mini-fridge.

Very nice. One group in the flight deck was celebrating a 50th birthday. Living it up and having a great time.

The birthday boy or girl would have been born 11 years into our 45-year bowl drought that ended in 2006…

… and the same year as this post number :)

(Rice made it back to .500 that year, finishing 5-5-1)

Then, 1973 would have been the 10-year anniversary of the 6-4 team that declined a Sun Bowl invitation.

Rice went 5-6 in 1973, the tenth year in a row of winning 5 or fewer.

(10-02-2022 09:13 PM)owl at the moon Wrote:  Then, 1973 would have been the 10-year anniversary of the 6-4 team that declined a Sun Bowl invitation.
Rice went 5-6 in 1973, the tenth year in a row of winning 5 or fewer.

The 10th of 28 such years, finally broken when Fred went 6-5 in 1992.

it occurred to me in light of past discussions in this thread about stadium improvements helping improve the team: how much did the recent improvements to HRS contribute this season's relative success? Happy fans more enthusiasm, more energy for the cheering, more momentum? If we added an upper deck sports bar, could we get to a NY6 bowl?

(10-17-2022 01:41 PM)GoodOwl Wrote:  If we added an upper deck sports bar, could we get to a NY6 bowl?

Probably could get more students to the games.

The Stadium loooks a little better; the team not so much.

My email last night included a message form Joe Karlgaard, with a survey about Rice Stadium and the game-day experience.

The photos included in the survey are entertaining.
The first few are aerial shots.

This is the first with a crowd, and a big crowd too.
My first guess was a joint halftime appearance of The MOB and The Red Band.
Why don't I remember this?
We did a show with UH a few years ago, but that was in TDECU.
Further examination - there are empty seats for a band and a drill team on the west side.
This is a high school game.

KT = Katy Taylor (Mustangs)

The tiny version used in the survey:



The original version from the source:



The detailed part of the survey is asking about premium seating options, and starts with a view of the access-challenged Stadium Club, taken before the 2022 improvements like the brick, cleaning, removal of tarps.
But we're supposed to be focusing on the seats in the foreground.



Next is a proposed "1912 Founder Suite", with images from DKRTMS



and...



and...



Purple... hmmm... Ahhh - did they edit out the name on the TV screen?



No! TCU used identical designs, but these images are from Manhattan - Kansas State.



The first proposed Mini Suite image is from the Boston Celtics



The second Mini Suite image is from the Pittsburgh Steelers



The first proposed Loge Box image is from Texas Tech's Jones AT&T Stadium



The second is from Kentucky's Kroger Field expansion in 2015



They also tout loge box seating with a shared table top, very similar to our new Flight Deck seating.
Why not use our own stadium as an example?

The first two images they use are from Atlanta





The third is from Baylor



Next is a Lower Level Club.
We saw something like this in the Coliseum, when we played USC.
Does this go in around the tunnel, or eliminate it?
The first rendering is from Utah.



Next is an example from the Kansas Jayhawks Touchdown Club, which is new, and sold out, and filled with CGI fans.



Third is from Mizzou...



Next is an Upper Level Club, and there is no identifying info with the image



It claims to be a 15-minute survey, and includes questions/choices about pricing for the premium seating packages mentioned above, as well as other game-day experience items.

Couldn’t stop laughing going through the survey.

Where are the renderings and plans we were promised? They're still trying to figure out what to build, and how it will look? The press box is archaic and inaccessible. Surely they aren't even contemplating keeping it. Tear it down. It has no place in a modernized stadium.

(11-10-2022 12:40 PM)Grungy Wrote:  Next is an Upper Level Club, and there is no identifying info with the image

Google Lens found that this image is of the "EY Coaches Club" at MetLife Stadium ... the East Rutherford, NJ, homefield for the NFL's NY Jets & NY Giants.

https://www.metlifestadium.com/stadium/h...aches-club

("EY" is the new corporate moniker for Ernst & Young ... https://www.forbes.com/companies/ernst-young)