Here's a pic of the north endzone construction taken at the U2 concert last nite. There's quite a bit now going on north of the existing Schnellenberger building, but I didn't get a photo of that area which was closed off...
Occurred to me that even without fans in that growing monstrosity, it will change the road game experience for fans and players of the opposing teams THIS year. It gives a lot more the feel of a "closed" stadium. Will be interesting how the acoustics/crowd noise are impacted with just the structure and even without fans.
Construction's got a long way to go, and there's a lot more of it on the other side of the Complex. But looking at that photo, it also occurred to me how far U of L athletics stretches a dollar... For half the money that LPT just spent to REDUCE capacity and spiff up its bench seats, U of L is building something state-of-the-art that just a portion of which dwarfed U2 and WITHOUT ten thousand fans hanging from it. And some people have the guts to question how effective investments are in athletics. If only our college administrators could be half that productive with the money they're put in charge of...
Occurred to me that even without fans in that growing monstrosity, it will change the road game experience for fans and players of the opposing teams THIS year. It gives a lot more the feel of a "closed" stadium. Will be interesting how the acoustics/crowd noise are impacted with just the structure and even without fans.
Construction's got a long way to go, and there's a lot more of it on the other side of the Complex. But looking at that photo, it also occurred to me how far U of L athletics stretches a dollar... For half the money that LPT just spent to REDUCE capacity and spiff up its bench seats, U of L is building something state-of-the-art that just a portion of which dwarfed U2 and WITHOUT ten thousand fans hanging from it. And some people have the guts to question how effective investments are in athletics. If only our college administrators could be half that productive with the money they're put in charge of...
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