Where should LaTech rebuild baseball stadium

[Dwayne From Minden]

There is plenty of room to get an extra 60 ft, but 60ft down the lines is not needed.

Correct...

[ETxBullDawg]

Leave baseball where it is and snug it up to roadways, much like Frisco stadium we played in last year is set up. B
Baseball can always go vertical if needed to create the proper seating to accommodate growth and post season play.
Move softball to the old Nielsen Caruthers area, would fit very well even without Mitchell being torn down, although it is on the list to be at some point.
Soccer could play on one of the football practice fields or redo/build on the current intramural field.
Parking would be at old softball/soccer which would also help with the campus/student parking situation/problem.

[sportdawg]

I still think we can upgrade the Soccer and combine it with Track, similar to what UNT did. This would give both sports Offices at their facility along with locker rooms.
It cost UNT $13.6 million in 2017. Soccer can play at JAS until it's complete.

[qng001]

Iowa State has a pretty cool set up with soccer, track, softball.

[sportdawg]

That's perfect. You could have shared locker room facilities for all 3 sports - Since Soccer & Softball don't overlap - they could share a locker room. You'd need men's and women's track/cross country. You could have a shared concession facility and coaches offices for all sports. That facility cost them $13 million in 2012

More pics of Iowa State https://rdgusa.com/projects/iowa-sta...sports-complex

The site configuration of the Complex allows events for all programs to be ticketed in one location and shared concessions, restrooms, lockers, and storage spaces maximizes the use of all amenities of the Complex and significantly reduces single-use spaces.

Iowa State has a pretty cool set up with soccer, track, softball.

[The Historian]

I still think we can upgrade the Soccer and combine it with Track, similar to what UNT did. This would give both sports Offices at their facility along with locker rooms.
It cost UNT $13.6 million in 2017. Soccer can play at JAS until it's complete.

SD: Keep in mind UNT built that whole complex from scratch. We would just have to build a new grandstand with an office, training room and athletes lounge for the two sports along with separate locker rooms for each sport and several visitor's locker rooms.

If you used the footprint of the old track stands the cost would run anywhere from $2 million to $5 million depending upon how nice you wanted to make it. UL-Lafayette had the grandstand in place and added the rest a few years ago. Their cost was around $1.5 million.

[Bone_afide_Dawg]

Even among the thoughts shared here it seems that a minimization of this opportunity is the majority opinion... settling for less. I’m afraid thats exactly what the Tech decision makers are going to do. They’re going to shrink these ideas down to the smallest thing they can make happen and then sell it the best they can. What we’ll end up with when it’s all said and done is a hollow feeling of what could’ve been. Sure it’ll all be new and look new and then in 5 years the new will wear off and we’ll all be wanting what could’ve been.

[Champ967]

This worse than awful moment in time has to be capitalized on in the biggest and best way possible.

Even among the thoughts shared here it seems that a minimization of this opportunity is the majority opinion..

So … never waste a crisis?

[inudesu]

Even among the thoughts shared here it seems that a minimization of this opportunity is the majority opinion... settling for less. I’m afraid thats exactly what the Tech decision makers are going to do. They’re going to shrink these ideas down to the smallest thing they can make happen and then sell it the best they can. What we’ll end up with when it’s all said and done is a hollow feeling of what could’ve been. Sure it’ll all be new and look new and then in 5 years the new will wear off and we’ll all be wanting what could’ve been.

Well, either that, or people really and truly like the old location more than they care about expanded seating.

But sure, maybe it's what you said.

[Dawgpix]

If we stay at current beautiful location a model along the layout of the old minor league Smith-Wills stadium, in Jackson, Miss., would help add seating to left and right field. Just make the adjustment of the field to the north, away from Tech Drive. That slope behind the corporate area was an accident waiting to happen.

[The Historian]

Just for reference, this is what the area behind left field looked like back in 2013. Shifting the field would mean reworking this area.

[techman05]

Even among the thoughts shared here it seems that a minimization of this opportunity is the majority opinion... settling for less. I’m afraid thats exactly what the Tech decision makers are going to do. They’re going to shrink these ideas down to the smallest thing they can make happen and then sell it the best they can. What we’ll end up with when it’s all said and done is a hollow feeling of what could’ve been. Sure it’ll all be new and look new and then in 5 years the new will wear off and we’ll all be wanting what could’ve been.

I am really worried that our administration is more than capable of achieving exactly what we expect of them.

[The Historian]

[PawDawg]

Well, either that, or people really and truly like the old location more than they care about expanded seating.

But sure, maybe it's what you said.

Who said we can't expand seating at the old location? We can easily get to 3000 which is all we will ever need.

[PawDawg]

Just for reference, this is what the area behind left field looked like back in 2013. Shifting the field would mean reworking this area.

Not a huge undertaking IMO.