South End Zone

[MaroonFlounder]

Talking about a stadium addition when you're not ever gonna be one of the butts in the seats.

"how it looks on TV".

Because that's the only perspective you'll ever have.

Let's let some people who actually go to games give their 2 cents how about it.

Empty seats look like shit on TV.

Leave the south endzone alone.

[BuckyIsAB****]

Yall say attendance is down but let us win a few in a row to start the year and see how many show up for the UK and LSU games. It will be a packed house. Attendance may be down, and I am guilty of not going to as many myself. I used to make every home game, then I started coaching and its just tough to get back up on Saturdays and to throw in the fact that every single SEC game can be watched from your couch its just not as appealing. Gameday is fun and its better than ever, but I dont blame anyone who decides to stay home and crack open a natty and grill.

Like I've said, that is money we could use somewhere else. A stadium expansion right now isnt a great help to the program. A IPF would be, so would extra parking but thats another story

[Maroonthirteen]

Also I feel like something needs to be done to the west side of the stadium because it's smaller than the east and it would look nice to equalize the sides.

The whole west side needs to be demolished and rebuilt from the ground up. In my opinion

[Todd4State]

Talking about a stadium addition when you're not ever gonna be one of the butts in the seats.

"how it looks on TV".

Because that's the only perspective you'll ever have.

Let's let some people who actually go to games give their 2 cents how about it.

Empty seats look like shit on TV.

Leave the south endzone alone.

I go to games and I don't think the Renaissance fair tents look good and I do think the M-Club Building is outdated. The M-Club Room is even worse on the inside if you have ever been in there for a game. There aren't really any seats so the former athletes have to pile up chairs at the front of the window to watch the game. That's an issue when you have people like my Mom trying to watch a game and Croom's entire offensive line is sitting in front of her and the seats are at the same level or some former basketball player.


I don't know what MSU will do in the future as far as the South end zone but the M-Club members need their own section somewhere that is more comfortable. Like some kind of club seating or maybe a special area in the new hotel with seats where they can go outside and watch the game.

[Todd4State]

Yall say attendance is down but let us win a few in a row to start the year and see how many show up for the UK and LSU games. It will be a packed house. Attendance may be down, and I am guilty of not going to as many myself. I used to make every home game, then I started coaching and its just tough to get back up on Saturdays and to throw in the fact that every single SEC game can be watched from your couch its just not as appealing. Gameday is fun and its better than ever, but I dont blame anyone who decides to stay home and crack open a natty and grill.

Like I've said, that is money we could use somewhere else. A stadium expansion right now isnt a great help to the program. A IPF would be, so would extra parking but thats another story

We may sell out USM (maybe), LSU, and Bama. Having the Egg Bowl on Thanksgiving hurts attendance as well.

[Todd4State]

The whole west side needs to be demolished and rebuilt from the ground up. In my opinion

I don't know about that. They pretty much just renovated everything under the West side and underneath the West side is pretty good honestly. I would install seats. If I had to do anything and was hell bent on trying to make the stadium match up- just renovate the upper deck on the West side. If it looks OK.

[MaroonFlounder]

Like I've said, that is money we could use somewhere else. A stadium expansion right now isnt a great help to the program. A IPF would be

Yes to a true 100-yard Indoor Practice Facility

That can be used year round and make our team BETTER.

Don't spend millions of dollars on a stadium that is used 7 times a freakin year.

[vindastra]

Put a media centre like this



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Media_Centre

[WPDawg]

I like the open end stadium. You can see some of campus from inside and you can see inside of stadium from outside. Bowled in stadiums have no character.

No need to add more seats as average attendance will never grow very much more than it is now. Spend available money on something else.

Not a bad idea to improve M-Club building to provide some stadium type seating to M-Club members within the parameter of the current footprint.

[BuckyIsAB****]

Yes to a true 100-yard Indoor Practice Facility

That can be used year round and make our team BETTER.

Don't spend millions of dollars on a stadium that is used 7 times a freakin year.

We probably have the worst IPF I have been too. It is not good to put it nicely compared to Bama and OM. OM doesnt have much else that is on our level except for their IPF. It connects to their stadium, houses all of their offices and weight room. Its nice but thats about all the stood out to me.

[Jarius]

We do need to do something with the South End zone. The hotel idea is genius if we can make it look like part of the stadium and not just some random structure. If not the hotel, we could bowl it in with premium seats, take out existing bleachers in the stadium and replace with chairbacks. That would make the stadium look better without increasing capacity. The south end zone is an eye sore. The North side looks like something Jerry jones built while the South side of the stadium looks like we are stuck in 1999.

And Bucky, I love ya but football should not have to wait its turn. Football is the reason anyone else even gets a turn.

[BuckyIsAB****]

We do need to do something with the South End zone. The hotel idea is genius if we can make it look like part of the stadium and not just some random structure. If not the hotel, we could bowl it in with premium seats, take out existing bleachers in the stadium and replace with chairbacks. That would make the stadium look better without increasing capacity. The south end zone is an eye sore. The North side looks like something Jerry jones built while the South side of the stadium looks like we are stuck in 1999.

And Bucky, I love ya but football should not have to wait its turn. Football is the reason anyone else even gets a turn.

You got me wrong. I didnt say football should wait its turn, Im just saying we could use the money for a stadium expansion for some other things that we need more at the moment. Primarily an indoor practice facility

[Jarius]

You got me wrong. I didnt say football should wait its turn, Im just saying we could use the money for a stadium expansion for some other things that we need more at the moment. Primarily an indoor practice facility

You're correct. I meant to reply to Todd. I agree that we need an indoor facility first.

[AROB44]

I don't feel like we should bowl in the south end zone. We are in an era of declining attendance. With the capacity we have now, it is rarely full, and it's always easy to get tickets.

Now improvements can be made. It doesn't bother me like it evidently does Shotgun, but some changes might be welcome. I just don't think adding a bunch of seats is the answer.

This!! We have the right amount of seats. No need to spend money to add empty seats. That would look worse.

[Maroonthirteen]

I don't know about that. They pretty much just renovated everything under the West side and underneath the West side is pretty good honestly. I would install seats. If I had to do anything and was hell bent on trying to make the stadium match up- just renovate the upper deck on the West side. If it looks OK.

Regardless....The seats are a ways from the field. It has a low angle making rows 1-15 near useless. (You can’t see any action on the west side line.). No premium seating for revenue. Press box old as dirt. Quarter deck concourse is too small to service that area.

demo it as soon as the season is up. Get the new and improved lower risers in before the next season. THen InThe 2nd off season before the season after next, build the upper levels with club level, sky boxes etc etc . ....

[ShotgunDawg]

This!! We have the right amount of seats. No need to spend money to add empty seats. That would look worse.

Have you not read the thread?

No one is vouching for adding many seats. There are other ways.

I'd also add canopies to the upper decks to hold in sound and provide shade.

[MedDawg]

Regardless....The seats are a ways from the field. It has a low angle making rows 1-15 near useless. (You can?t see any action on the west side line.). No premium seating for revenue. Press box old as dirt. Quarter deck concourse is too small to service that area.

demo it as soon as the season is up. Get the new and improved lower risers in before the next season. THen InThe 2nd off season before the season after next, build the upper levels with club level, sky boxes etc etc . ....

I wonder if there is a way to just take out the West upper deck and replace with a full-width upper deck (maybe all chairbacks), a new pressbox, and a new West club level.

[gravedigger]

I think the only person who thinks this is probably you

I don?t think it looks bad except for those golf bleacher things they added.

Those do look like shit.

[StarkvilleGuru]

If we do a stadium modification, we don't need to add seats necessarily. In bowling the South end zone, we could really make it a cool feature--instead of throwing the students there like OM did. My suggestion would be that we have something like the Falcons/Cowboys (obviously a stretch, I'm aware) and make the seating an indoor/outdoor option. You can walk outside and cheer on the dawgs, or sit inside and keep your nuts from sticking to your leg. People might pay for a good option like this, instead of more cheap seats with a shitty view.

[Jarius]

If we do a stadium modification, we don't need to add seats necessarily. In bowling the South end zone, we could really make it a cool feature--instead of throwing the students there like OM did. My suggestion would be that we have something like the Falcons/Cowboys (obviously a stretch, I'm aware) and make the seating an indoor/outdoor option. You can walk outside and cheer on the dawgs, or sit inside and keep your nuts from sticking to your leg. People might pay for a good option like this, instead of more cheap seats with a shitty view.

That is basically the Scoreboard Club, which is amazing and is what I think the best course of action is for the SEZ if we don't build a hotel there.