I am digging this thread back from the dead. Does anyone know how Champion Plaza is looking? I saw plans, but hard to get updated pics of how it is looking.
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I am digging this thread back from the dead. Does anyone know how Champion Plaza is looking? I saw plans, but hard to get updated pics of how it is looking.
We'll see Saturday LA Tech Athletics Announces Ribbon-Cutting, Statue Unveiling for Sarah and A.L. Williams Champions Plaza - LA Tech Athletics (latechsports.com)Quote:
Originally Posted by champion110
Thanks!Quote:
Originally Posted by sportdawg
God bless 'em! doing this in 105F heat.Quote:
Originally Posted by sportdawg
Ugly, miniscule building
topped by a gigantic videoboard
The exterior is forgettable
Prevents the stadium from being bowled in
What does this get us again?
Yuck
Remind me why we need the stadium bowled in. Not to accommodate overflow attendance that's for sure. Yeah, a bowled stadium looks nice...but what does that get us again?Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawgonit
Hey! It's a big improvement over our current academic center for the athletesQuote:
Originally Posted by Dawgonit
To not look like a glorified high school stadiumQuote:
Originally Posted by dawg80
To look more like a bigtime college program we want to be
To have a better looking stadium.
So fans can walk from one side of the stadium to the other.
To have a better gameday atmosphere during the game.
Also accommodating overflow attendance is an interesting thought. If we remove those metal wings and replace them with the bowled in part of the stadium, the capacity would be about the same AND the stadium would look better. That's not even taking into account other methods of capacity change like expanding chairback seating, which I think should happen.
Having a bowled in stadium and having a space for the building's purpose do not have to be mutually exclusive. They can bowl in the bottom half of the stadium and still have that building and videoboard above it all. That's if they want that building there. Does it really need to be there?
So tell me again, what are we getting out of this building being right there? Why does it need to be right there? It looks like the University of New Orleans' University Center plopped in front of our endzone.
https://www.uno.edu/sites/default/fi...gn-front_1.jpg
Do the lady bulldog basketball players get to use it?Quote:
Originally Posted by thewyldman
I’m not sure what this gets current students, coaches, or student-athletes. Stroking the ego of donors and past stars, sure. But I see no opportunity to attract athletes or coaches. Everything we do should attract players, coaches, and fans to athletics. Seems like 3 strikes to me. And I love AL Williams and think he deserves all the praise in the world.
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Originally Posted by sportdawg
That is just awful. Ugly is not a strong enough word for it.
It matches all the other new crap we have on campus built with China Virus money.Quote:
Originally Posted by faninmonroe