Some interesting insider talk on an OCS

[Cow Pie]

 

Okay, when I squint I can see it. Now that I really look at it, can a stadium fit there??

 

It's almost EXACTLY the same size as the Carrier Dome. I'm guessing that might have been the model. With as much rain as Tampa gets, a domed stadium makes sense.

 

Here's an image I made a couple of years back on this topic.

 

The blue bar is 100 yards, and the inner red dashes represent the entire field area

 

 

I heard from a architecture student a while ago that the actual stadium design on this map is based on the old Texas Stadium design in which it is a convertable dome that retracts. The only difference is that it is a smaller version of the old Texas Stadium of course. I think he said it would seat 45K max.

 

He said that Alumni drive would be ripped up a redirected to go between both stadiums, and that the Sun Dome parking lot would be the site of the new stadium, and that USF would build a series of giant parking garages around the new stadium area to help off-set parking generated by the new stadium, and the loss of the Sun Dome parking lot. I remember him saying that a garage would be built in parking lots 36, 29A and 29B.

 

Of course I heard this about 2 years ago and if I remember correctly he said that the Sun Dome would be demolished and that the new football stadium would be used for both football and basketball.

 

Now that USF has decided to keep the Sun Dome I don't know if they would still be interested in doing a domed stadium hybrid. Frankly it would be much cheaper to build a classic horse shoe stadium, and it would take up less room as well.

Edited May 28, 2013 by Bubba Bull