FIUpantherMOM wrote:I am glad that you like your stadium more than ours. That's the way it is supposed to be. However, we are only in our fifth year of football. Would you prefer that we have Doak-Campbell or The Big House on campus? Rome wasn't built in a day, and a major college football venue is not built in five years.
Well, that's interesting right there. Fifth year of
football? What an amazing story, to be I-A after just five years of football. I didn't realize your program was quite that new.
I guess the stadium hasn't caught up with the program, yet -- and I mean that as a compliment, because you guys seem like you are doing things right.
To have nearly beaten South Florida and Middle Tennessee in your first year of football at this level? That's great. I am sincerely nervous about Saturday's game.
We are building a new stadium at the end of the season, but perhaps we should have the architects contact you to be certain that we are getting an acceptable facility.
I'd like that. In fact, I'd consult for free. All they have to do is fly me down between December and March.
Just so you understand where I'm coming from, here are the stadiums of a couple of other programs that recently moved up to I-A in our neck of the woods:
Joan C. Edwards Stadium (Marshall moved up and joined the MAC from 1997-2003):
Buffalo's stadium (Buffalo moved up and joined the MAC in 1998) (which is very nice, despite the huge, huge flaw of that track):
Also, if Youngstown State were to ever move to I-A, this is what they would bring:
But perhaps this is cultural. Ohio, West Virginia and upstate New York are not exactly thriving or growing. I suppose in a place like south Florida, people are used to the idea of building major universities from scratch and the look of half-finished buildings all ove the place.
Speaking for myself, I find it very striking to look at.
We had your kind of growth spurt at Bowling Green once, and our stadium was part of it, but that was a couple of generations ago.
