McGuirk Upgrade

[Quann]

Any hundred millionaires on here got 20 mill to throw at a stadium upgrade?

[InnervisionsUMASS]

The ECHO chamber of the few wants a new stadium or significant additions. So maybe 10 of you. Perhaps times 10 behind the scenes.

LOL

[photoman]

Not sure $20 Million would be enough. And for those who want to build around the "existing structure", not exactly sure what you're talking about. McGuirk is nothing more than two separate (and old) concrete slabs with seats bolted into them. It really needs to come down and be rebuilt from scratch. Highly unlikely, because UMass isn't "All -in" when it comes to football.

[eldonabe]

Not sure $20 Million would be enough. And for those who want to build around the "existing structure", not exactly sure what you're talking about. McGuirk is nothing more than two separate (and old) concrete slabs with seats bolted into them. It really needs to come down and be rebuilt from scratch. Highly unlikely, because UMass isn't "All -in" when it comes to football.

Which is why they are "all-out" when it comes to being in a conference.

[Steve81]

James Madison before

After

[inthescoop]

^Yeah but they actually win games.

[e_parade]

^Yeah but they actually win games.

Didn't they upgrade it a decade before going FBS? Had we done that we would have had a much better stadium during the Don Brown years where we won a shit ton of games.

[Quann]

Not sure $20 Million would be enough. And for those who want to build around the "existing structure", not exactly sure what you're talking about. McGuirk is nothing more than two separate (and old) concrete slabs with seats bolted into them. It really needs to come down and be rebuilt from scratch. Highly unlikely, because UMass isn't "All -in" when it comes to football.

I think $20 million gets it up to being a viable place to watch FBS college football but I could be wrong. Not sure how much adding endzone seating on each side and enclosing the whole thing to make a continuous bowl would cost. I feel like making the underneath area real continuous concourse area around the stadium can't be that expensive. Just move all the consessions from the front of the field to underneath and put in some real bathrooms. I'd say a minimum of 2 sets on each side and 1 set in each endzone.

[Quann]

Lucky for us, we don't even bang out 20K seats so a stadium as big as JMU's is not at all necessary. Hopefully some day we'll need second decks but we are nowhere near that right now.

[stevemaz]

I did my part at the Army Navy game and when i heckled our governor telling her to get her head out of her ass and fund the Minutemen. she looked right at me..LOL

[Quann]

The ECHO chamber of the few wants a new stadium or significant additions. So maybe 10 of you. Perhaps times 10 behind the scenes.

LOL

There's thousands of us wanting it, I see them on Twitter (X) all the time. We just want something better than a glorified high school field, is that too much to ask?

[harbo]

Just curious... Do any of you like watching games from an end zone seat?
I was lucky enough to have a dad who was a buyer for a power company. He would get treated to Jets tickets at Shea Stadium in the upper deck behind the end zone. We were up a ways, but we got to see the plays opening up, just like they we drawn up. Don't know if we would have appreciated seeing the same from lower viewpoints.

[eldonabe]

Just curious... Do any of you like watching games from an end zone seat?
I was lucky enough to have a dad who was a buyer for a power company. He would get treated to Jets tickets at Shea Stadium in the upper deck behind the end zone. We were up a ways, but we got to see the plays opening up, just like they we drawn up. Don't know if we would have appreciated seeing the same from lower viewpoints.

Ends and sides are great for football … corners not so much

[eldonabe]

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/proje ... stadiums/

This is a High School football stadium in Texas. HIGH SCHOOL

[LS71]

^ The key word being ‘Texas’.