Looking at the drawings I see one possible design flaw: the lights they show them only on North and South portions at the top and I’m just not sure that’s gonna be enough. And another thing I wish they would close off the North West corner with seating they could probably up the capacity by around 500, but I would guess the final capacity would be around 52,000. They could and should extend the North windows out to connect with the Vanier Complex and make standing room areas within.

This helps solidify KSU as a big time CFB program for reals. Kicks the crap out of the gridiron club down the river. Sort of looks like what TCU’s new renovations will look like from the exterior. That thing is AWESOME. Ought to be able to bounce some sound off of that real well.

ok this is going to be as tall and a little bit longer than the current one, but when I saw the before and after shots the first thing I said was HOLY CRAP this is going to be huge.

It looks nice and all but it is only really increasing the premium seating, i.e. more money for the athletic department, and providing a few more amenities for the commoners. I’d like to see the numbers for restroom and concession expansion, how many are on the main level versus the number for each of the premium levels.

Considering the upper deck on the east site is not sold out often enough, I can understand the desire to increase seats that people will pay extra for since the cheap seats are already overpriced (if they weren’t overpriced they would sell out for all games).

Also I highly doubt the meeting rooms are going to be available to the university, like those in the Student Union and that it would take a dean or the president to actually be able to use one of the meeting rooms.

As for the dining hall in the building. I am very much NOT in favor of this. At Notre Dame, the student athletes live and dine with the rest of the students. Most of the students athletes when I was in school ate at Derby in the training line but they could (and quite a few did) eat with the non-student athletes. The student athlete experience is far from the normal student experience enough as it is.

Overall it looks good but I’m indifferent about it.

Just curious.

Last summer there was concern about IA-State having issued bonds for facility improvements and possibly being left out in conference re-alignment.

I’m guessing that our leadership is not seeing a possibility of our being left out in the future.

Don’t forget, there are additional phases to this. 6 total. Just no renderings for those yet.

VIDEO is pretty cool.

and that said, it looks really cool. Wish you all the best. Honestly.

Talk about changing the looks of a stadium without building a whole new one….wow

Four seats is perfect for the fam.

I couldn’t find anything about it, and to be honest that worries me a little, like this may reduce seating/increase it none or very little.

I will definitely be pulling for you to win.