STADIUM: Construction Updates

[UAalum72]

Fall schedules coming out: Men's soccer home openers are 9/7 vs. Lehigh and 9/13 vs. Bucknell, before the football opener at The Bob. Women's soccer schedule not out yet.

 

BTW men's soccer plays Syracuse at home on 10/22.

 

Field hockey has home matches against Stanford, Rutgers, Virginia, and Princeton - the first time Albany has hosted a defending national champion. Siena back on the FH schedule.

[danefan]

Good to get a dry run on the stadium before the Rhode Island game.

 

We all know how well the new Danzne worked last year. They've got a state of the art media board to work now.

[bob87]

Fall schedules coming out: Men's soccer home openers are 9/7 vs. Lehigh and 9/13 vs. Bucknell, before the football opener at The Bob. Women's soccer schedule not out yet.

 

BTW men's soccer plays Syracuse at home on 10/22.

 

Field hockey has home matches against Stanford, Rutgers, Virginia, and Princeton - the first time Albany has hosted a defending national champion. Siena back on the FH schedule.

 

The field hockey schedule has UA vs Yale on 9/14 at 1PM and Rutgers vs LCC at 3:30 PM that day at Albany.

The 1PM makes sense to have a another game hours before the football home opening game.

The 3:30 pm is a little odd. I mean it would be nice to have a beatdown of LCC in anything on any day and they certainly don't have enough men to field a football team so a field hockey beatdown will have to do that day. But Rutgers dong the beatdown

[UAalum72]

It looks like they ripped out the old bleachers on the PE steps. Did I see that correctly?

No, the planks are still bolted down.

 

A lot of concrete poured for the sidewalks today.

[UAlbany09]

Fall schedules coming out: Men's soccer home openers are 9/7 vs. Lehigh and 9/13 vs. Bucknell, before the football opener at The Bob. Women's soccer schedule not out yet.

 

BTW men's soccer plays Syracuse at home on 10/22.

 

Field hockey has home matches against Stanford, Rutgers, Virginia, and Princeton - the first time Albany has hosted a defending national champion. Siena back on the FH schedule.

 

Will the field have soccer lines on it for football games?

[UAalum72]

Fall schedules coming out: Men's soccer home openers are 9/7 vs. Lehigh and 9/13 vs. Bucknell, before the football opener at The Bob. Women's soccer schedule not out yet.

 

BTW men's soccer plays Syracuse at home on 10/22.

 

Field hockey has home matches against Stanford, Rutgers, Virginia, and Princeton - the first time Albany has hosted a defending national champion. Siena back on the FH schedule.

 

Will the field have soccer lines on it for football games?

Haven't heard anything different from when you asked this last April

what is this about the soccer team also playing in the stadium? Does this mean there's going to be a thousand lines on the field? Don't get me wrong, I am a huge soccer fan but I hate seeing a ton of lines from different sports on turf. It looks bush league. - UAlbany09

 

Unless the football fans were going to come up with the big bucks the only way you could prove the need was by making it a multi purpose facility.

 

From what I've heard the soccer teams are more comfortable playing on natural grass - so who knows maybe there won't be permanent soccer lines on the playing surface.

 

We were lucky that we didn't have to include the track facilitites inside the arena.

 

It's amazing, why do I feel that when tickets prices go up we'll hear complaints, from alot of people who say they want UA to be Big Time?????.

 

Only the lines that are outside the football field of play will be stitched into the field turf - all other soccer lines will be painted on as needed before a soccer match and be removed afterwards.

[danefan]

A lot of activity down near the scoreboard today. A truck with a large item being delivered. No clue what it is though.

[danefan]

Looks like large pieces of steal and by the location they're dropping them, I assume they are scoreboard related

[Brutus]

Looks like large pieces of steal and by the location they're dropping them, I assume they are scoreboard related

 

"Steel" and yes.

[danefan]

Looks like large pieces of steal and by the location they're dropping them, I assume they are scoreboard related

 

"Steel" and yes.

 

I hope no one steals the steel. ;-)

 

Thanks

[madDOG]

Is that dust or fog on the field??

[alum73]

Dust from the thunderstorm approaching.

[danefan]

Scoreboard steel going up this morning!

 

Appears huge!

[Clickclack]

Scoreboard steel going up this morning!

 

Appears huge!

 

Wow...seriously...maybe that will be lowered some...if not man that is a monster!

[danefan]

Scoreboard steel going up this morning!

 

Appears huge!

 

Wow...seriously...maybe that will be lowered some...if not man that is a monster!

 

The one beam is mounted so it appears it will be that tall afterall.

 

Wow.