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If you're going to the game, looks like tickets were distributed.  Check your email and there's a link to the Bowl Game Portal for access to the tickets.

If you're going to the game, looks like tickets were distributed.  Check your email and there's a link to the Bowl Game Portal for access to the tickets.

Selfishly I was hoping they'd just swap SMU for Army, that way we'd have both Army and Navy at home in 2024.  I guess maybe they want to split up the service academies a bit???

57 minutes ago, Friscobull said:

You are conflating two different sports? Name an old football stadium that you would prefer over the newer ones?  Soldier field had more character as you say before they renovated the first time into the blue and yellow seats.  However the bench seats were wood and some of the sight lines were awful, each renovation has made the attendance more enjoyable.  Three Rivers, Busch Stadium, Riverfront, Fulton County, the Coliseum all were replaced with nicer Stadiums, more Amenities and better sight lines, older is simply not better when it comes to football stadiums. 

Green Bay would probably be the closest NFL stadium to Wrigley/Fenway status, and from what I gather Lambeau isn't far off from college stadiums like Notre Dame, Ohio State, Michigan, etc.

1 hour ago, Mike Stuben said:

Have a USF licensee plate on your car - the one issued by the state of Florida (1 point) max of 1 point

1 hour ago, Rocky Style said:

What about dastardly states that don't allow this option?  Do we need a beach rental condo to achieve this?

Maybe include decals on cars as part of the license plate section?

36 minutes ago, Rocky Style said:

Does that make us the away team?  Can we finally go with the green pants / gold helmet combo?

I also presume we are the away team.  Looking at some past years, the Boca Bowl sometimes pulls color v. color matchups.  It's possible we could see orange v green, but I like you prefer gold/white/green.

2 hours ago, Rocky Style said:

On Wikipedia - Looks like they dug into the ground to put the lower level in.  Anyway the whole thing looks nice to me.

No support beams needed when you have dirt?

Exactly, up north you can dig a bowl and get support.  No such luck in Florida.

8 hours ago, Bull Matrix said:

Ok. Everything is booked. Staying at Hyatt Place Downtown Boca Raton wed & Thursday nights. Hopefully the stadium is not too far. Go Bulls!!

You're good, 3 miles from the stadium.

32 minutes ago, bullstampede9922 said:

At the firm I work at, that wouldn't have been allowed out the door, although it's a walkway with an arch...kind of difficult to dress that up anymore.  Probably threw something together quickly to get an image out for the BOT meeting.

 

Especially if the donation from USF FCU came recently.

Myself plus 2 will be at the game.  Driving down day of game and staying overnight at the Hilton Suites Boca

18 minutes ago, 00Bull said:

I’m not putting much weight on the renderings considering they were called conceptual and the design company that produced them (which presumably was having trouble delivering at cost) was just replaced. My cynical take is the renderings served as a convenient carrot they could dangle to over shadow the actual news: the 1 year delay. 
 

But in general, I’d expect USF to be getting the shaft in cost and quality considering we are building at the possibly worst time for construction in modern history. 

No, Populous is still involved.  they are the design phase.  Barton Mallow were the ones who were terminated.  Barton Mallow was essentially a contractor to manage the design and construction including Populous.  Now that Barton Mallow is not involved, the university will act as the point person, allowing Populous to handle design and a new bid for the construction phase is expected in the near future.

I know that whole situation from last week when Barton was terminated was confusing, but a friend explained it to me as USF wanted to have direct control and connection to design and construction, but with Barton there as a middle man it could make things challenging.

The renderings from this week were preliminary and stated as such.  April 2024 should provide a better idea of what the final design may look like.

3 hours ago, jjlovecub said:

Curious how many tickets we have sold for this game. Has anyone heard?

Deadline for bowl ticket requests was December 8th with distribution the week of the 11th.  I would think we might have more details after the weekend.

14 minutes ago, 79 Bull said:

Is USF doing anything to get that student energy to Boca.  Free tickets, free transportation, whatever?  It would be money well spent IMHO.

I did see student tickets on the portal when I got my tickets the other day.  I don't know if they're free or discounted since you needed to use your student login to access.

15 hours ago, CousinRicky said:

Took a quick look at the renderings. With the scoreboard in the NE corner of the stadium will that get washed out with the sun going down directly opposite at the afternoon wears on?

LED technology is much better than it was in the past, so there are ways to compensate for the sunlight shining onto it.  I've seen LED billboards along I75 that have the sun facing them and there's very little distortion.

8 minutes ago, Brad said:

Lacrosse actually gets a whole building out of the deal?   

Zany. 

Maybe?  I thought I heard that during the BoT meeting....maybe its an annex of the TGH Center?

45 minutes ago, belgianbull said:

While I am happy with the initial renderings that's where probably some of my disappointment lies. I thought 340 million could get us something nicer than to what was presented. But that's on me. This is probably something closer to what North Texas, FAU, and Tulane got vs San Diego State and Colorado State.

Still happy though since we finally getting a decent looking stadium, and can't wait until it opens.

I think folks are forgetting that the 350mil estimate included the TGH Center and the Football and Lacrosse buildings too.

12 minutes ago, Rizman said:

Tailgating on campus is going to be a blast.  Lot of places for people to call their spots.  I can see people in the Sun Dome parking lot and others down religious row.  Maybe even people over in the old Beta Hall parking lot area.  To me this is huge and will change the face of USF nationally and within Florida.  Easy for us to get on TV and show our brand and can you imagine College Game Day on a nice cool weekend in October. 

Go Bulls

 

I was having banter with a commenter on Facebook about the parking situation and not having "more parking lots".  I assume this person has never been to other schools on game weekends.  You park and tailgate all over campus.  Yes, of course the closer parking lots will be donor based, but FAU, UCF, and FSU all have free parking lots too....and not just in the garages.  

Looking at the blimp view, I'm not seeing a clear dimension of how large the away (north) stands are?  Of course the home side may seem small, but I'm sure theyre trying to distribute the seating around the field rather than have us in a RayJay situation where the home side is loaded up and the away side is sparsely filled.

2 minutes ago, 79 Bull said:

Debbie downer here.  It looks okay, but I guess I expected a bit more for $300m+.  The seating areas look fine.  Perceived drawbacks from 1 rendering...

Metal supports do look really cheap (and almost unstable but I'm sure only the best structural engineers were involved).

No concourses to mill about and still be able to see the field - unless that rooftop area in the east endzone works for that but they don't show any fake people on it.

Thinking the concession areas are going to look a lot like UCF (wide open with lots of metal poles around). Would prefer a closed in Tulane type look for that.

And assuming a home side season ticket is going to be double what they cost now, expecting a shaded seat for even nooners is not unreasonable.

Also agree with others that it must be able to hold the largest possible pitch for soccer as a rental revenue generator.

Let's be honest, if this single rendering was released by UCF or any of our current conference mates, we would all be saying "looks cheap like the new soccer stadiums going up, we're going to build something way better".

All that being said, let's do this and GO BULLS!

VPMK said the concourse would be open to the field in between the lower and upper sections to have view of the field and the game.

12 minutes ago, beefy620 said:

How 'far' of walk from the sundome lots and others is this approximately? 

Lot 22 to the Sycamore Fields per Gogle Maps is a 16 minute walk currently, so 10-15 minutes is probably a good estimate.

1 minute ago, Friscobull said:

Looks kind of like the UNT stadium they built a few years ago. I would think the student section would be cordoned off from the rest of the stadium.

It was said the concourse would be around the stadium, so i don't believe the student section is separate from the stadium as a whole, especially since the main Champions Way entrance for everyone is on the student section side of the stadium

15 minutes ago, Ghostbuster said:

Well, it's a stadium all right.....

Was really hoping for shade.  Those noon games are killers.

I need a hype man to help out here because all I see are two pics from way far out.  (Did not have chance to listen to the presentation yet).  Aside from "it's ours" what's something to be excited about? Anything cool we're doing with it?

These three pics are all that was given.  Advanced renderings in April 2024.

Natural turf preferred, but said not ruling out synthetic.

Prefab concrete structure.  No frying pan!