I think the #1 thing to do with extra money is to improve fan experience on game day. More restrooms, bring in food trucks, improve seating, etc.
Should We Build a Bigger Stadium
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I remember a ballet major who could limbo his tall hat all the way to the ground as the IU drum major, when I attended. He was as good as any HBCU counterpart. The Spring opera one year was Porgy and Bess.
Finding talent and music direction is a matter of choice. It could be done in the current budget. Just make better choices.
no stadium in the country has enough restrooms for everyone to go at the same time.
more is always better, but even with more there will be the same complaints. (and can the existing restrooms not accommodate a few extra urinals and a couple extra stalls each, with relatively minor renovation)?
and the seating is more than fine, with as good of sight lines as anywhere in the country. (at least from the east and west sides, while the NEZ could have been designed a lot better).
the concession thing is a really easy fix, and should cost almost nothing..
with money coming out their ears like Tom Cruise in "American Made", free admission to fball games for IU students already paying a small fortune in tuition, and re-creating a $1 Knot Hole section for kids through HS, should be very easy to do, and would greatly help attendance, thus recruiting, while costing almost nothing reletive to anything else IU could do to help both attendance and recruiting..
and a lot more so, than fancier and fancier weight rooms or locker rooms etc..
or suites for the spoiled few.
Green lot makes more sense than north side of practice fields as that is not that big. Orange lot makes sense and relcate those tailgate spots to the real esate of the razed Mellencamp. Easy for me to say as I no longer park on that side.
There is a plethora of uber talented marching band candidates within a seven iron. Focus, priority and frankly incentives for the musicians.
There is already a giant therapy area and academic center in memorial stadium.
Sure, but it's shared with the volleyball players. Much too distracting.
I'm fine with the size of MS and do not think a larger stadium will bring in more fans. I lived in Indiana most of my life (and still fly up for games every year) and there is one thing the Bloomington Police and IU Campus Police still have not figured out . . . LOGISTICS. For the love of God can someone come up with a way to get 50,000 people in and out of MS in a reasonable amount of time. I realize the I69 debacle is a mess but the lack of organization around the stadium on game day has been an issue my entire life. Get there two hours early for tailgate and plan to stay equally as long after and everything will be great. However, not everyone has the luxury to do this for every game. I have little doubt there are people who stay home on game day simply to avoid the logistical nightmare.
You mean the one way all the way around the stadium square two hours pre game doesn't do it for you?
Noon games are a mess starting at 10 which is why we bite the bullet and get in early unless we take the RV and go down Friday.
I know a lot of people who claim to have boinked some chick on the field at night
it looks on campus maps like there could be enough room north of the Tennis Center, but maybe that would violate building codes if the two buildings (Tennis Ctr & new indoor FB facility) ended up too close to each other?
I know a little about general architecture, and a good deal about architectural drafting/software, but I know next to nothing about structural engineering so I don't know how much of Mellencamp (if any) could be salvaged if a new indoor facility were built where Mellencamp sits today.
We try to consider what might make our guests most comfortable pboile18 and what might replicate that true "at home" experience for them...
The sh-t distribution problem was overlooked and the ball dropped last year as you and your team clearly weren't close to being in deep enough sh-t... (direct all further complaints to RBB89 😉)...
The Bird Sh-t (*its my understanding that we tried to get Geese but their union wouldn't allow them to participate on such short notice, with no nesting areas provided, not enough water nearby, etc..., poor predator alert sight lines..., ad en finitum...🙄*) on the seats was the literally best that could be done on such extremely short notice last year, since nearly all of our local livestock was already enbarn' after 8pm (when it was realized by RBB89's boss that he had dropped the ball and that there clearly wasn't enough sh-t to go around for your p u group...)... *Our livestock are not kept awake round the clock the way you're animals are (eecck!)...); so..., we had no choice but to go with the natural (bird sh-t) solution...* Here's hoping this explanation placates you and the rest of the p u immortals somewhat...
Fortunately..., the birds did come through to a small degree but (and I'm Certain I can speak for all INDIANA fans and players when I say this): we Sincerely do still feel Very..., Very badly that you All didn't receive your fair share of sh-t...
Good news however (!)...: there are rumors of a potential contract being floated with a large swine operation close to the greater Lafayette area to have them truck down several of their nastiest sows and herd them up into temporary enclosures in the p u Visitor Sections just three days prior to Kickoff this November..., but..., don't get your hopes up too high..., because, in any case:
A) all of these sows will returned to the greater Lafayette area prior to game time...; and,
B) how deep can that sh-t actually get in just three days, I mean it'll never cover the top of the p u Visitors Section seats evenly by then...
//As an aside, I'm told 3 days is the max they can be utilized due to the high potential of run-off into the civilized seating sections... Sorry..., we Are trying...//
All I can tell you for certain is that we are literally planning to go the extra mile to most Appropriately accommodate our p u guests on game day... 🍺
***Important note for All p u fans: 🐖-*Be certain to buy enough seats adjacent to your own if you desire to have enough room to "wallow in it". 🐖*- *We do, regrettably, have somewhat confined space issues per customer at the moment... - *
More Good News pboile18 !!! There's an even more well substantiated rumor that a growingly large number of both IU Fans and INDIANA players have "pre-volunteered" their services and are already planning to give you more sh-t on and off the field this November then you've ever seen before..., to the degree that you'll understand completely that you've run into a Serious sh-tstorm and that you'll come away from this upcoming Bucket game feeling that you have truly run into a "world of sh-t"...
You can trust that we intend to do our very utmost to provide you and your friends with the most Extremely sh-tty experience possible at this years upcoming Bucket game...
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Shorter: It wasn’t geese.
Man, if it wasn’t geese, what was it? Pterodactyls are extinct. Emus aren’t native to the land. I imagine ostriches would be fitting, but they too are not typically found in Indiana. What on earth descended in droves upon Memorial Stadium on the morning of The Bucket game and deposited their weeks old fecal matter before flying off to — I assume — warmer climes?
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It wasn't goose shit but you do raise a good point. What if you inbreds came and collected the bird shit and spread it on your vacant lot "football field". This might help grow some grass in that shithole stadium of yours.
All 27 of their "fans" that attended the bird shit game were well taken care of by the IU crew.
I'm surprised you're bringing it up since it's been considered but never spoken of in the open until now, that perhaps to preemptively avoid a bout of homesickness you clowns literally brought your sh-t with you...
After all, given the characteristics of the p u fan base it'd be impossible to detect as they gained entry...!!
Talk about "hiding in plain sight"!!!
Diabolical!
Thanks for inadvertently solving this months long mystery...
Highly unlikely. I would sooner believe that emus made the arduous trek from down under. G’day, mate!
That is a lot of steps for emus to climb. I suspect you and your 26 mates whose pick'mups were actually able to make the trip down may have just cleaned your boots up there pregame and blamed it on us!
Keep your barnyard shit home this year!
Small space as you say. IMO if retrofitting MP doesn't make sense then tear it down and rebuild a larger SOTA facility.
Buried in Saban’s comments yesterday at SEC Media Days was his acknowledgment that keeping the fans coming to games was hugely important.
No fans eventually means no money.
No fans eventually means no money.
Love this idea! The problem is twofold:
1) Thurston Howell III was a Harvard alum, not IU.
2) Last I knew he was still a castaway on an unknown desert isle.
A new indoor practice facility/IU Football HOF & HQ can be built immediately east of the stadium with suites and event space overlooking and attached to the stadium. This will provide a full 100 yard indoor facility with all of the requested amenities.
"Here Comes That Rainy Day Feeling Again" played over the PA when something goes against IU is a TERRIBLE idea! Why do you you want to perpetuate the "woe is me" attitude so prevalent among some IU fans around here? For that matter, who under the age off 55 knows the song?
It would be much more appropriate to play something reflecting positivity. If you insist on catering to history (which I'm not against) play a clip of an actor portraying General Yamamoto (can't remember the movie....Midway?) expressing his fear of awakening a sleeping giant.
It would also be directly connected to the stadium, which is vital.
Yeah, I mentioned the Orange lot as a possibility earlier in the thread. Has some advantages. That is a lot of good tailgate parking that would need to be relocated to (IMO) a then razed MP.
LOL, not sure I ever noticed that song played at those many times. A poor choice as you say.
Create excitement with music.
it isn’t rocket surgery.
it isn’t rocket surgery.
They had a good mix of modern music and marching hundred music last year, and between plays there was always something playing. People then complained about the noise...at a damn football game.
There's no winning with some of our fans (not directed at you).
Maybe this has been brought up in the past, but this is what needs to be done with the bleacher issue...and it would make the stadium look 1000X better with crimson colored bleacher backs. Example: Cincinnati Reds left field upper deck bleachers: https://ballparkeguides.com/2019/03/22/cheap-seats-at-great-american-ball-park/
And not only that, maybe the AD could propose a corporation to put their logo on it to help with the funding and revenue from advertisement (not a large ugly blue Kroger logo) but you get my point.
And not only that, maybe the AD could propose a corporation to put their logo on it to help with the funding and revenue from advertisement (not a large ugly blue Kroger logo) but you get my point.
@MyTeamIsOnTheFloor Do you think this option would work in terms of the limited space available from the 1950's design/blueprints? This option makes me wonder if it would be better to replace the entire current bleachers that exist today with new aluminum bleachers with a crimson back (entirely new product altogether). I'm not an aluminum bleacher engineer by any means so I don't know how realistic it would be to construct a crimson bleacher back to the current bleachers in the stadium. Thoughts?
Partially.
I agree it would help “the look” BIG time. White concrete looks empty even when there are 45,000 there. If I had my way, Memorial Stadium would be “candy striped” inside. And every game would be a “candy-stripe-out.”
It helps the “bad back” issue - gives folks something to lean back against. Makes sitting there more comfortable, especially if it includes a place to old a cup or can. But it doesn’t fix the need to either turn sideways or take a wide wide stance (if available) because of the lack of leg room. That requires a new stadium.
PS - everybody’s friend Aruss (RIP) used to work for a company that sold and (I think) installed such backed bleachers. He was a Columbus guy.
Every stadium, regardless of age or design, requires a sideways turn or wide stance to let others pass by. There aren’t exceptions to that in any general seating area.
We can consider it when we sell our stadium out, or get people with tickets to go into the stadium.
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