OT: Beaver stadium future possibly in jeopardy.
August 14th, 2015 at 2:04 PM ^
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August 14th, 2015 at 2:18 PM ^
So many beautiful stadiums have been built or renovated in the past decade or so, but my favorite is University of Cincinatti's Nippert stadium. If you haven't been, it's tucked right in near the center of campus, nestled in amongst buildings and pedestrian paths. The renovation will probably be complete this month.
Of course this design would be disasterous in Happy Valley (tailgating would sprawl across the campus) but it is super fun to wander in to a football game directly from the quads. Another really nice stadium renovation is at UC Berkeley. It was a financial disaster, but it is quite nice.
Good for PSU, long overdue.
August 14th, 2015 at 2:43 PM ^
Fuck PSU and their pedophile enabling cult of personality.
August 14th, 2015 at 4:03 PM ^
FWIW, tangential sidenote (not sure if you or others live near Cincinnati) ---- just announced earlier this week that a USL team will be starting up in Cincinnati & playing home games at Nippert.
The soccer field fill fit without additional renovations. I think this team good do very well from a support POV.
August 14th, 2015 at 5:36 PM ^
My favorite thing about Nippert is getting onto the field. I had a couple snowball fights on the field visiting friends there when we were all in school.
100% pure Colombian awesome.
August 14th, 2015 at 6:33 PM ^
just don't be that one idiot goes too far and gets himself arrested, of course.
August 14th, 2015 at 7:07 PM ^
I was at that game! Two days after my 21st birthday watching the last game of the Wannstedt era. Dion Lewis rushed for about six miles in a snowstorm bad enough that they were shoveling yard lines during media timeouts.
August 14th, 2015 at 8:23 PM ^
A lot of people don't like Nippert, but i think it's really cool the way it's situated on campus.
I hope for their sake they don't ever go the Pitt route and demolish their on-campus stadium and play their games off-campus at the Bengals stadium.
Off-campus stadiums are the death of college football. Even UCLA struggles with this and they play in the Rose Bowl fergodsake.
August 14th, 2015 at 2:59 PM ^
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August 14th, 2015 at 4:53 PM ^
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August 14th, 2015 at 4:54 PM ^
At least PSU's additions were functional - they wanted to quickly add seating without regard to how it looks from any vantage, but it's not the worst stadium in the B1G.
MSU, IMHO, has no excuses - it's the ugliest concrete mess with a block of brick facia jammed into the side. I've wondered why Spartan Stadium/Breslin can be allowed to remain ugly in the middle of an otherwise attractive campus.
August 15th, 2015 at 1:19 AM ^
August 14th, 2015 at 6:50 PM ^
Tear it down and start again.
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August 14th, 2015 at 8:50 PM ^
Some of the older parts of Nebraska's stadium are terrifying when the fans do their jump around. I remember the Michigan fans looking at each other and asking the quality of their structural engineering program because the way the stadium was undulating.