EWU To Move Ahead With Second Phase of Roos Field Renovations

[EWURanger]

I think they''re just doing it to appease the rich boosters by turning the old press boxes into suites. If it will keep them happy, cool I guess.

I dunno. There’s definitely that side of it, especially when you look at the plans for the west side of the stadium. But the project also brings things that the stadium is in desperate need of, like additional rest rooms and concessions. My main gripe has always been the state of the east side of the stadium.

 

[E-Wu Tang Clan]

I was thinking they put press box in on visitor side...so when on tv it looks wayyyyy better....then build it such that a later time.. part of "The Plan" will build it so you can easily take those shiity bleachers out and replace them with less shittier seats down the road when I'll prolly be dead. Let's Gooooooooo!!!!!!! Hey Dopa what's your thoughts?

I hope so. I can't believe any say administrators in their right mind would make those high school stand permanent.

 

[Obzerver]

Well I remember in 2000 in my living room with Paul Wulff and Tim Rosenbach and out comes the 3 ring binder (white in color). Had clear slide in pages with color pictures. As an art major...hey, it got me a job... appreciated whoever was using the magic markers and photocopied pictures but it did have the press box and suites and believe a couple of bathrooms in parking lot. Can't remember what else but was impressed. We did get the press box in 2004. Let's party!!!

 

[LDopaPDX]

I was thinking they put press box in on visitor side...so when on tv it looks wayyyyy better....then build it such that a later time.. part of "The Plan" will build it so you can easily take those shiity bleachers out and replace them with less shittier seats down the road when I'll prolly be dead. Let's Gooooooooo!!!!!!! Hey Dopa what's your thoughts?

You know this is my pet peeve topic. I think the new grandstands are integrated into the press box facility. I wouldn’t expect greatness. In reality, just building an erector set bleacher more akin to the one in the end zone except longer would be a good starting point. Those look like a much higher quality stand than the ones on the sideline.

Frankly, anything is better than what we have today. This should’ve always been done in phases. The worst setback we ever faced was the all-or-nothing approach to the old Gateway Project admin had when we were winning a lot of games. The unfeasibility of that deflected any momentum to get a more reasonable project accomplished.

 

[Obzerver]

Yes those visitors bleachers have been an issue for many/all of us for years and years. I will believe it when I see as far as getting rid of those butt-ugly bleachers. I watched game and forgot to look at the much talked about track improvements they spent good money on. Had i noticed the big improvements on the track (that EWU spent good money on) I'm positive I would have been righteously impressed.

 

[Eagledawg]

The current east side aluminum bleachers have 15 rows while the picture put out by the university only shows 10 rows. My hunch is they will just roll those aluminum stands out during construction and when the new press box is completed they just roll them right back in place. Once that new press box is built that pretty much ends the debate of upgrading the east side stands. With a home opener attendance of 4,389 it hard to advocate for any kind of seating expansion. Central Washington's home opener last year had 4,377 and had 5,001 for a game against West Texas A&M.

 

[Obzerver]

Personally once the press box is up and if you can't see them from Washington Street I could care less what they put in that spot. That's for students and visitors right? If we aren't gonna vie for BSC championships and go to playoffs most every year the capacity of 8,500 or whatever the number is..is fine with me. Ten rows of roll in seats AOK. Would I be happier if the 10 rows of seats looked really cool...yes. I'm so beat down on the subject that New Press Box is good so on tv I don't have to see that side of the field...bonus! And when potential students and potential student athletes tour campus it wont come across as a sub par Division One University.

 

[E-Wu Tang Clan]

The current east side aluminum bleachers have 15 rows while the picture put out by the university only shows 10 rows. My hunch is they will just roll those aluminum stands out during construction and when the new press box is completed they just roll them right back in place. Once that new press box is built that pretty much ends the debate of upgrading the east side stands. With a home opener attendance of 4,389 it hard to advocate for any kind of seating expansion. Central Washington's home opener last year had 4,377 and had 5,001 for a game against West Texas A&M.

That's not a great point. Games before school starts are always low attendance. Using that argument why upgrade at all. No cap. We're letting Best slowly destroy the program and any excitement it had around it why even bother. I don't know if he is on these forums but I saw a EWU fan on reddit comment. "The problem with the titanic wasn't that it wasn't big enough." Its like we're adding another wing to the sinking ship.

You should build out a stadium for the highest attendance games, not the lowest. We have Montana State and Montana coming this year, those will probably be huge games. Ostensibly you would plan for more attendance in the future as the school becomes bigger and the program does better.

They could build the press box building far enough back so the stands can be upgraded in the future.