STADIUM: Construction Updates

[BestDaneSinceHamlet]

That's be a great point to bring up to whomever knows. There was a little bit of that discussion on the Any Given Saturday thread (must reading for any of you who follow FCS).

[danefan]

I doubt they'll shoot it from the visitors side. The cameras platforms and electronics are all on the home side.

 

They may have a sideline camera on the visitors side.

[UA'08]

will Albany ever do something like this? is nike our official outfitter?

 

http://www.nikeblog.com/2013/07/12/new-georgia-state-football-uniforms-unveiled/?fb_source=pubv1

[BestDaneSinceHamlet]

I mentioned this in my logo rant on another thread but Lacrosse just got a totally new look from Nike.

[UAalum72]

A lot of dirt/gravel moved on the visitors' side today, also on the far end of the home side.

 

Brian Rudolph sent an email today saying the non-Gold seating assignments have been made, you can check yours by signing on to your account and checking your pending order.

[Eli]

will Albany ever do something like this? is nike our official outfitter?

 

http://www.nikeblog....fb_source=pubv1

 

We definitely need new uniforms. Frankly, I HATE our jerseys. The basketball ones are nice, but football is just straight up ugly.

Edited July 13, 2013 by Ilko

[danefan]

Boooooo......broken webcam again.

[B9j2j6s]

Just for fun I attempted to calculate the amount of season ticket sales so far.

 

Section (# of Seats) and totals

108 (238) 5

107 (248) 78

106 (224)

105 (205)

104 (224)

103 (248) 65

102 (238) 0

207 (332) 2

206 (309) 11

205 (320) 120

204 (320) 112

203 (289) 26

202 (332) 0

 

Lower Deck as 7/15 (148)

Upper Deck as of 7/15 (270)

Total (418)

418 Total that I could see/not including gold seating

Est season tickets 900 so far based on

 

http://www.bizjournals.com/albany/blog/2013/06/ticket-sales-soar-for-new-ualbany.html?ana=RSS&s=article_search&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+bizj_national+%28Bizjournals+National+Feed%29

 

Est gold seat 482 out of 653 74% sold

[danefan]

President said at the football golf outing on Saturday that the goal is to have 10,000+ at the first game. The fully expect to sell standing room only tickets.

[uofalbany]

Now, that will be a scene.. the excitement is building.

[UAalum72]

Boooooo......broken webcam again.

Especially because .... the VISITORS' SEATS ARE GOING UP!!!

 

Also more digging in the south end zone

 

Looks a lot less cluttered behind the grandstand, and they may be painting all the steelwork purple.

 

 

[danefan]

What a day to go break the camera....

 

Those visitors seats look singificantly more "permanent" than I would have expected. I thought they'd have just dropped off some pre-fab bleachers.

 

Glad they didn't.

 

 

Thanks for the pics.

[danefan]

Oh and someone needs to cut the berm.

[haggyland]

Boooooo......broken webcam again.

 

Last night I had a conversation with the electrician that installed the webcam (don't ask how I manage to put myself into these situations), and he said he would look at it to see if it tripped its GFI.

 

He also noted that the camera itself has an interesting makeup, as inside the housing sits a camera like one of us would use at the game (with a telephoto lens), as opposed to some more complex set-up and electronics.

 

Let's hope the fix is easy and they get it up and running today.

[UAalum72]

Still not fixed, but they've added a link to the Danezone with Rick Coe giving a tour to about six guests, showing the view from the gold seats, inside the suites, etc.

 

Was probably done last week, as the visitors' side isn't built, but he predicted it (and the gold seats) would be within a week to ten days. Said the visitors side would hold 2,100. Additional broadcast lights will be installed on the press box roof.