Davis Wade

[ShotgunDawg]

Via Sixpack

As a university, we need to put our thinking caps on & be more creative with the inside of the stadium than this.

It's amazing to me that the same group of people that thought of everything & were creative with the new Dudy Noble, were also a part of this design.

We can do SO MUCH BETTER THAN THIS!!!

Where is the 360 concourse?
Why no balconies for the hotel rooms?
What can't this building connect both sides of the stadium & bowl in the South Endzone?
Why can't we put in chair backs in other parts of the stadium, & make this building part of the stadium with seats at the bottom to bowl in the stadium?
Why no roof top bar?
Why lawn space between the building & the endzone?

Hopefully these designs were just floated so that people could give feedback in mass.

[BeardoMSU]

We can do SO MUCH BETTER THAN THIS!!!

I agree that there are some obvious tweaks that can be made, but this rendering is BAD ****ING ASS. How you aren't blown away is astonishing to me...

[ShotgunDawg]

I agree that there are some obvious tweaks that can be made, but this rendering is BAD ****ING ASS. How you aren't blown away is astonishing to me...

I think it's a great start. Making this the final product though would be a massive missed opportunity

Heck, just throw two berms up against those white walls in the stadium for overflow seating, & it's immediately better.

The berms could bowl in the stadium without adding anymore seats.

My biggest thing is that we were so creative & trend setting at Dudy Noble & I just can't imagine why we wouldn't attempt to do something unique & trend setting here.

[BeardoMSU]

I think it's a great start. Making this the final product though would be a massive missed opportunity

It is a great start, and to be fair, both the Dude and the Davis Wade's endzone projects went through a few changes before finalization, so I'm sure this will be the same.

[BHildreth3]

Looks awesome, but the graphic designer in me says that the MState logo is way too small. Bump it up 25% please.

[Tbonewannabe]

It definitely needs some type of rooftop bar kind of thing similar to the Leftfield Lofts.

There looks like some kind of open space in the endzone with an awning? Combined that with the open courtyard, is this where people staying will watch the game? This could get very crowded if you don't park yourself at the railings.

I think it also needs balconies so people could just watch from there and basically makes it similar to a skybox. What kind of issues happen when you get drunk people banging with the windows open and it is on TV? Interesting problem to have I guess.

I also think it needs some type of connection to the stadium. It looks kind of weird but so does the M Club now. I would like to correct that issue if possible.

I agree with what someone said that the back of the jumbotron needs something other than open metal beams.

[MStateDawg]

I looks like a hotel built next to the stadium. I doesn't look like a stadium that has a hotel in it.

[smootness]

I think it's a great start. Making this the final product though would be a massive missed opportunity

Heck, just throw two berms up against those white walls in the stadium for overflow seating, & it's immediately better.

The berms could bowl in the stadium without adding anymore seats.

My biggest thing is that we were so creative & trend setting at Dudy Noble & I just can't imagine why we wouldn't attempt to do something unique & trend setting here.

At Dudy Noble, we basically tore down and rebuilt. You can't do that at Davis Wade, it would be an insane cost. And just adding a bowl to the bottom of the hotel would likely look pretty rough.

I like this.

[ShotgunDawg]

At Dudy Noble, we basically tore down and rebuilt. You can't do that at Davis Wade, it would be an insane cost. And just adding a bowl to the bottom of the hotel would likely look pretty rough.

I like this.

I really disagree. Respect your opinion though. We have a blank slate here to do something unique. Let's do it.

We have the ONLY stadium in the SEC with an exposed endzone. Every single other stadium in the SEC is bowled in. It makes us look high schoolish & it's something we need to fix.

[smootness]

I really disagree. Respect your opinion though. We have a blank slate here to do something unique. Let's do it.

We have the ONLY stadium in the SEC with an exposed endzone. Every single other stadium in the SEC is bowled in. It makes us look high schoolish & it's something we need to fix.

I'm ok with being unique, and we really don't have demand right now to justify it. If we're going to bowl it all in, then we need to make it a major job, completely take out the upper deck and re-do that.

But Darrell Royal isn't bowled in, Ohio Stadium is only sort of bowled in. Anybody who thinks that rendering looks high-schoolish is on crack.

[Jack Lambert]

I got a email they worked on the restrooms on the East Side but they need to do a serious renovation to the lower East Side of the stadium. Now I am hoping to move to the West side and if so that would not matter to me. As far as this goes I am excited anytime they improve the stadium and that looks way better then the current building but I am also a little disappointed it is not being bowled in. Buy tickets! Don't care how pissed you are or how old you are. Buy tickets if you can and sell them or give them to someone else if you don't want to go.

[ShotgunDawg]

I'm ok with being unique, and we really don't have demand right now to justify it. If we're going to bowl it all in, then we need to make it a major job, completely take out the upper deck and re-do that.

But Darrell Royal isn't bowled in, Ohio Stadium is only sort of bowled in. Anybody who thinks that rendering looks high-schoolish is on crack.

There are tons of ways to bowl in the stadium without adding many if any seats. Just takes creativity.

[ShotgunDawg]

I'd also like to see an MSU HOF & Athletic Museum in this building that people coud visit by entering from the Junction

[drummerdawg]

I really disagree. Respect your opinion though. We have a blank slate here to do something unique. Let's do it.

We have the ONLY stadium in the SEC with an exposed endzone. Every single other stadium in the SEC is bowled in. It makes us look high schoolish & it's something we need to fix.

Vandy bowled theirs in?

[ShotgunDawg]

Guy on Sixpack nailed it by combining our design with Troy's. This is more down the road I'd like to see things go.

[ShotgunDawg]

Vandy bowled theirs in?

[smootness]

That genuinely looks worse to me than if there were no seats behind that endzone, and it isn't bowled in. And I don't see the rendering you posted above as an improvement on this one.

Adding 25 seats just to say we bowled it in isn't worth it.

[Doggie_Style]

A rooftop bar and pool would make this kick-ass!

[bulldawg28]

I think it's a great start. Making this the final product though would be a massive missed opportunity

Heck, just throw two berms up against those white walls in the stadium for overflow seating, & it's immediately better.

The berms could bowl in the stadium without adding anymore seats.

My biggest thing is that we were so creative & trend setting at Dudy Noble & I just can't imagine why we wouldn't attempt to do something unique & trend setting here.

100% in agreement. Any new building or renovation should set us apart. We should take the momentum given and be that university that does it differently.

[gtowndawg]

As far as the concept of putting in a hotel down there, I love it. I actually like the original rendering. I'm sure it will go thru several revisions but it's a great start and very unique.