Blue_sophie

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.

NittanyFan

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.

M-Dog

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. 

CRISPed in the DIAG

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.

UMxWolverines

August 15th, 2015 at 1:19 AM ^

This. MSU's stadium is poop. How hard would it be for them to add brick to everything to make it match the one side? I know Ohio Stadium is made of concrete too, but at least it has arches and the routunda built into it. Spartan Stadium looks like it was built on the cheapest and most generic plan they could use. And trying to get out of their upper deck is a damn nightmare.

jcgold

August 14th, 2015 at 6:50 PM ^

I went in 2011 and sat in the north end zone. After every Matt McGloin touchdown the whole thing rocked back and forth. It was flat out terrifying.

Tear it down and start again.




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