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North and south video boards were awarded to Panasonic, we've gone with Daktronics in the past.The sound system upgrade is now up for bid. I'd link it but there's not really anything you can look at other than a list of what they're wanting to put in, and I'm not a sound guy so I have no idea what any of it means. A lot of times they don't let you look at the plans anymore on the plan room website.

https://ourindiana.exposure.co/iu-excellence-academy-renderings Just a better way to view all of the renderings, as the IU website's photo gallery feature can often be difficult to work with and view in a high quality. One cool thing about the terrace level is that there will be 2 concession stands: one normal stand, and another one under an overhang in kind of an open grill type set up. And restrooms of course. I believe there will be two elevators and two sets of steps to get up there.

The north board will be smaller, but both will show the same thing. No different than a basketball game. South will be 40x90 and north will be 20x60 (look at Louisville's for a sense of how big that is).

Yep they aren't moving it. Sorry. Although now that there's going to be a video screen in both end zones, I don't really see how there's an issue.

If those screengrabs show up poorly, you can access all the architectural and engineering plans here: https://eplanroom.reprographix.com/cgi-bin/planroom/plans/index.cgi?project_id=IND9942017&userid=demo&process=th2ki.6i.qxiY&site=

For those of you like myself who sometimes need to use the ADA seating, they are expanding the seating at field level on both the east and west sides, and also adding four seating platforms: two on each side near the entrance ramps (so about halfway up). So a few seats will be removed to make way for this. This is in addition to the ADA seating in the north end zone.

The revamped Woodlawn Avenue will extend further north next summer (2018):

Pretty cool aerial view. You can also see the progress of marching hundred hall across the street from Assembly Hall.

Credit to awaHoosier over at TheHoosier for these: North end zone scoreboard removal/ new video board about to go up: The last remnants of the chain-link fence will soon be gone as that will be where the concourses connect. The nearest portion of the photo is where the loading dock will be, which will thankfully now be much more hidden: https://postimg.io/image/mqgc6gat9/ https://postimg.org/image/k5npkp2rj/

Looks like they are starting to remove the north scoreboard:

The main reason we even went to a bowl last year was because of Allen's defense. Our scoring offense was 88th, and our red zone offense was in the 120s. If we have even a functioning offense, we will win at least six. The team looked better prepared in the bowl game than I've seen them look in a while. There is far too much talent to only win 4 games.

Of course. Well said!

Back on topic...The nutrition aspect and the new dining area is a big thing in recruiting right now. The current Hoosier Room is buried underneath the west stands, so this new one will be a big plus for all the athletes: "As part of the Excellence Academy, the Tobias Nutrition Center will be home to one of the premier nutrition facilities and dining spaces in all of college athletics. The nearly 10,000 square foot space will provide a place to fuel the nearly 650 students who participate in IU's 24 varsity sports. The main dining area will have seating available for 300 people with various table sizes and includes large windows to allow for natural light and magnificent views into Memorial Stadium. Large televisions will be also scattered throughout the area. Lunch and dinner will be served five days a week with a daily breakfast oasis for students. Service will be in a food station concept with stations including Italian, grill, homestyle, subs and wraps, large salad, fruit and soup bar. Menu items will be prepared fresh on site by dining staff at each of these stations. The breakfast oasis will be a morning fueling station for students with a variety of options to start the day. Two large beverage stations will be installed including a water bottle filling station as new electronic menu boards will display what is available each day." More info: https://spark.adobe.com/page/ph5K71uFOqyS9/ This family also donated to have a new donor hospitality area made at court level at Assembly Hall.

The guy is either a troll, as he continues to ignore the main points that everyone is making, or he seriously just does not understand football. I'm really not sure which is true, because he's completely wrong on basic aspects of our team like our offense, so who knows.

Cool. It's progress though, as we are now winning enough games to get to bowls, and competing with the upper echelon teams as well. OSU and UM no longer steamroll us, and we gave a nine win, ranked Utah team a heck of a game. We were leading well into in the fourth quarter. No one said we want to be stuck on six wins forever, but if you can't see how much the program has progressed, you seriously just don't understand football. Thanks again for hijacking my thread.

You seriously have no idea what you're talking about. Not a clue. You're completely making things up. We had the 88th "best" scoring offense in the country last year. We were ranked 120th in red zone offense. The only reason we went to a bowl was because Allen took our defense from the 120s to the 40s, and he's done that now at two separate schools. I'm in not saying Wilson isn't a good offensive mind, but the offense was really bad last year other than putting up some big plays. And who said anything about running a slower offense? You're completely making that up. DeBord and Allen have talked nonstop all off-season about continuing to run a tempo spread offense and going fast. DeBord's offense at Tennessee during his two years there averaged nearly 500 yards per game and 37 points per game. Tennessee set a school record for points in a season last year. If you watched our spring game, for the most part, we went faster than Wilson's offenses because there was much less staring at the sideline for the play call. I don't really know how much clearer I can make this: we are running a spread tempo offense. No huddle. They got the plays off really, really quickly at the spring game. That's what the coaches what. We also already have 4 commitments for the class of 2018, which includes either 4 three stars or 1-2 four stars and a couple of three stars, depending on the site you look at. Each one has other Power 5 offers. This is the best start we've in recruiting in years, and Allen has only officially been head coach for a few months. And yet again, for some reason you continue to ignore the fact that the facility upgrades are for the entire athletic department. It helps the football program and makes the stadium look better, but also will be used by every single sport. So other than the things I pointed out, you are spot on. And thanks for hijacking my thread.

I already tried to point out to him that 90% of this project is for training facilities for every sport. He ignored it.

Heck like I said in my other post, we can get to seven wins this year simply by beating Virginia, FIU, Georgia Southern, Rutgers, Maryland, Illinois, and Purdue. And if you throw in Michigan State, who we beat this past year, there's eight right there.

First of all, despite our attendance issues, we already sell out the club seating/suites that we have. There is a demand for that. They will sell these too, because people like to schmooze and drink alcohol. So actually, yes we will make money off of this because the club seating is expensive and is a revenue producer. Second, facilities are pretty important, I don't know if you just never read any recruiting articles or what, but it appears you just don't care about that because you continue to ignore the fact that seating is a tiny part of this project compared to the actual training facilities. We are not adding another general seating section, the seats we are adding are specifically for varsity club donors. The terrace just replaces Knothole Park. Third, we literally took Ohio State and Michigan (2OT) to the final play of the game two years ago, and scared the crap out of both of them on the road last year (especially in Ann Arbor, where we were winning at halftime and well into the third-quarter before losing 20-10). This year, we can get to seven wins simply by beating UVA (2-10), FIU, GA Southern, Illinois, Maryland, Rutgers, and Purdue. I tried to be nice earlier, but let's face it, it appears that you are completely talking out of your you know what. Our attendance over the past five or so years has been around 44-45,000 per game. Our capacity is 53,000. So no, the stadium is not half empty, even acknowledging that the announced attendance is tickets sold. All I know is thank God you are not our athletic director, because you have absolutely no long-term vision whatsoever. Football revenue is topped out? Really? No one is suggesting that we need to expand the stadium to 80,000 and try to sell another 40,000 seats per game. Simply getting to 50,000 out of 53,000 would increase our revenue a ton. Your logic on this is completely asinine. How do you suggest fixing a struggling program other than through investing in coaching and facilities? And it has already paid off because the program is already back to getting to bowls and making incremental progress. This is the most competitive they've been in years And for like the third time, the entire thing is being funded through private donations, so who is this hurting? Obviously a lot of people wanted to donate to this and it's their money, so who cares? The university isn't taking funds away from education, and several other sports have gotten or are getting facilities upgrades as well. You suggesting that adding a new seating section does not help anything is completely disingenuous and you know it. No one said it would: the training facilities help attract recruits. You completely ignored 90% of this project and my post to focus on a tiny part of the project. No one said those seats would improve recruiting.

This is several weeks old and there's been a bit of progress since then, but it's a good look at the scope of the project. The area south of the stadium between the actual structure and the road will be regraded and turned into additional green space. The circle drive around the entire stadium will continue, but they are going to spruce up the south end's with more landscaping and brick pavers like on the north end: Another interesting aspect is that you will no longer be able to see the visiting team's equipment truck sitting in the end zone. The road down to the loading dock and visitor's locker room will be hidden and go underneath a little drawbridge type of thing that will act as the entryway to the stadium: Finally, a quick look at the progress on the Marching Hundred's new home. It will be finished in November:

One of the trustees actually asked about this at a board meeting, and the University architect basically said seats could easily be added to the east side, north end, and even south end in the future. Obviously the east side would be easiest. There's plenty of room to grow still. Personally I'm glad they didn't add a bunch of bleachers until we can create more of a demand for tickets. If we get to the point where we are consistently selling out and people are going to be relying more on stub hub, that means we're winning more games, and bringing in more money, and then another expansion wouldn't be that big of a deal. But we aren't there yet. I'm not really as concerned about having the third smallest stadium in the Big Ten as much as packing the place and making it a tough place to play. Look at Oregon...their stadium is the same size as ours. And remember, we famously made Bo complain to the refs in 87 about how loud our crowd was when we beat Michigan, and that was with an open ended stadium.

Yeah it's just a really crappy attitude, which also doesn't even make any sense. Part of improving something is investing in it.