Jacksonville State 80 million stadium upgrade w/built in student housing

[HerdBot]

https://thebamabuzz.com/jacksonville-state-university-approves-80-million-renovation-to-stadium/

If you want students to go to games, have them live at the stadium!

They blew an opportunity to put balconies facing the field

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[Professor Chaos]

Imagine if Nebraska had done this in 1960??? Those dorms would have 2 decks on top of them by now and would've been sold to Warren Buffet for eleventy-kajillion dollars.

EDIT: I'd also imagine this would be a "creative" way to use state dollars earmarked for student housing to renovate your football stadium.

[HerdBot]

Imagine if Nebraska had done this in 1960??? Those dorms would have 2 decks on top of them by now and would've been sold to Warren Buffet for eleventy-kajillion dollars.

EDIT: I'd also imagine this would be a "creative" way to use state dollars earmarked for student housing to renovate your football stadium.

How do we do that with the dome lol

Put like a 7 story dorm attached to the dome and then build a convention center underneath it or a big donor room worh all the amenities lol They could have a skyway going to the SHAC

Although this would be a great idea for this
http://www.bisonville.com/forum/showthread.php?42425-Another-one-of-my-crazy-ideas

[KSBisonFan]

So when the students leave at halftime, where do they go? Home?

[EC8CH]

Brings new meaning to the phrase, "this is our house"

[NDSU92]

At first I didn’t think the kids would like the lack of privacy. Then I remembered that JSU’s “20,000” attendance numbers are just made up and they really only have like 3500 butts in seats.

Might help season ticket sales if parents can figure out which room is their kids’ and they can keep an eye on them 6-7 Saturdays in the fall.

Honestly I love the idea, but where is their concourse there? There’s no bathrooms, concessions, etc.

[HerdBot]

At first I didn’t think the kids would like the lack of privacy. Then I remembered that JSU’s “20,000” attendance numbers are just made up and they really only have like 3500 butts in seats.

Might help season ticket sales if parents can figure out which room is their kids’ and they can keep an eye on them 6-7 Saturdays in the fall.

Honestly I love the idea, but where is their concourse there? There’s no bathrooms, concessions, etc.

Heres my new and improved version for Bison Title Town Park

Build a new soccer stadium where the Rugby Field sits. Build student housing into the stands. Dacotah Field works but it has a D2 vibe

Use the field as part of the title town complex and build a compex around it. It could have an outdoor / indoor plaza to use for football tailgating, baseball, softball, soccer and outdoor track

Build an 40k sq foot indoor tailgating wonderland building with a Bison Museum, restaurant and include fun amenities like an indoor ferris wheel (scheels), mini golf, basketball court, pool hall, volleyball and other sports themed games

Outdoor amenities include an ice skating rink, sliding hill, food truck court , beach volleyball, basketball courts, kids playground and a pool.

Then lease the land to a hotel that will have built in traffic for Fargodomee concerts, football games, Red Hawks baseball, Bison Baseball, Basketball, softball and track & field. It will all be within walking distance

The Thunder Alley is cool for kids but this would offer a year round facility that is next level. It would actually attract fans for non revenue sports

Get NDSU, the Park District, private donors and private businesses to partner. We could even have the park district rent out the field to youth sports. How cool could youth camps be?

[The_Sicatoka]

Interesting concept. It must be the in vogue cool-kid thing to do (https://cdn.forumcomm.com/dims4/default/e1d4d60/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1586x771+0+48/resize/1440x700!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffcc-cue-exports-brightspot.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com%2Fgrandforksherald%2Fbinary%2FMemo rialRender1_binary_6926487.png).

[tony]

Interesting concept. It must be the in vogue cool-kid thing to do (https://cdn.forumcomm.com/dims4/default/e1d4d60/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1586x771+0+48/resize/1440x700!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffcc-cue-exports-brightspot.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com%2Fgrandforksherald%2Fbinary%2FMemo rialRender1_binary_6926487.png).

How many Northland Community and Technical College students will you be able to fit into that Expressway Inn knockoff? :) Gotta admire that UND has planned the appropriate amount of seating capacity though.

North Dakota would only go for that if you replaced the dorm rooms with prison cells - possibly to incarcerate people who read unapproved books, dance, or dance while reading unapproved books.

[Hammerhead]

At first I didn’t think the kids would like the lack of privacy. Then I remembered that JSU’s “20,000” attendance numbers are just made up and they really only have like 3500 butts in seats.

Might help season ticket sales if parents can figure out which room is their kids’ and they can keep an eye on them 6-7 Saturdays in the fall.

Honestly I love the idea, but where is their concourse there? There’s no bathrooms, concessions, etc.

It looks like the concessions are all at one end. Maybe they let you wander into the dorms for the restrooms.

[Herd]

Jacksonville State, can you say . . . "Rooftop Dorm Party Deck!!!" Missing a huge opportunity for a massive party deck on the top of those Dorms.

[BISONBRI53]

Jacksonville State, can you say . . . "Rooftop Dorm Party Deck!!!" Missing a huge opportunity for a massive party deck on the top of those Dorms.

Careful!!! Gabe will start adding bungie chord stations and express escalators to that party deck!

[HerdBot]

Interesting concept. It must be the in vogue cool-kid thing to do (https://cdn.forumcomm.com/dims4/default/e1d4d60/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1586x771+0+48/resize/1440x700!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffcc-cue-exports-brightspot.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com%2Fgrandforksherald%2Fbinary%2FMemo rialRender1_binary_6926487.png).

Its actually a good idea although it's not by the stadium. They could have the entire Moorhead JV team stay during camps so you can fill your roster

[TAILG8R]

Its actually a good idea although it's not by the stadium. They could have the entire Moorhead JV team stay during camps so you can fill your roster

Personally I love the track around the field, really sets the tone for the level of the program.