Anything and everything about Liberty Flames football. Your comments on games, recruiting and the direction of the program as we move into new era.

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By Sivart
Registration Days Posts
#289321
How is this suppose to hold 30,000 people?
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While this expansion is only suppose to hold 25,000?
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Because Bridgeforth Stadium is looking much larger then Williams Stadium... I don't know but it just looks that way...
By Stevev
Registration Days Posts
#289326
Good question. The pictures of both facilities are rather deceiving. Ours looks smaller and their's looks bigger. I am more confused by the cost of the improvements. Ours is supposed to total $22 Million while I heard there's is up to around $62 million. It seems like JMU's has a more elaborate luxury suite setup but other than that I am not sure why the big difference in cost.
By thepostman
#289340
2 things..ours is looked at from further away and our "away" side has more seats i believe with its expansion
By Keenan
Registration Days Posts
#289392
The dark red seating in front of the press box will be for....??? Flames Club members/level? Suite holders? Anyone know?
By SuperJon
Registration Days Posts
#289399
Keenan wrote:
SuperJon wrote:That's club level.
Thanks SJ! One minute response? Really? FF is better than KGB! :batman
Ha, just got home from the women's game. Was checking up on everything.
Keenan wrote:I'm sure all pricing and member levels TBA?
I've heard some numbers but a) I don't remember them and b) I don't know if they're set in stone.
By Keenan
Registration Days Posts
#289400
SuperJon wrote:
Keenan wrote:
SuperJon wrote:That's club level.
Thanks SJ! One minute response? Really? FF is better than KGB! :batman
Ha, just got home from the women's game. Was checking up on everything.
Keenan wrote:I'm sure all pricing and member levels TBA?
I've heard some numbers but a) I don't remember them and b) I don't know if they're set in stone.
Just curious what a ballpark figure might be if you could find out. Not going to hold you to it, but wondering if/what I might be able to do next season.
By SuperJon
Registration Days Posts
#289478
Nothing has been announced, but the main thing I'm hearing is that you're going to be at the Director's Level ($2500) to be able to purchase tickets for that level. The ticket prices haven't been set, but the current blue seats are $100 for season tickets so you can probably expect it to be a little more than that.
By LUconn
Registration Days Posts
#289487
I'm no insider but I think Phase I is the home side ONLY.
By SuperJon
Registration Days Posts
#289489
BuryYourDuke wrote:Will there be any significant concessions expansion on the student side?
Kinda like LUconn mentioned, in Phase 2 there will be.
By soccer7
Registration Days Posts
#289493
I am excited about the stadium expansion and I know that it will be very nice. I hope that it is going to be as nice as JMU's expansion. If you have not checked out the video for the expansion and the club level area you should take a look.
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By LUnpretty11
Registration Days Posts
#289549
I think another reason theirs looks so much bigger is because they are having to build from ground level up including a deck above the first level. Our stadium is building (like the Vines) from below ground level to right about ground level, which makes ours look not as impressive.
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By Liberty4Life
Registration Days Posts
#289564
The big disconnect is the Baptist side second level. That's supposed to add an extra 6,000 seats+, which is equivalent to another Baptist side being added on top. It just doesn't look like that.
By LUconn
Registration Days Posts
#289576
I think we're going to all just accept that it's a drawing and not an actual picture. I've mentioned before that the visitor locker room is too tall and too close to the field to put bleachers over them without the angle being ridiculously steep. And this picture shows it incredibly shallow. Also, the FOC in that picture looks smaller than Hancock.
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By Rooster Cogburn
Registration Days Posts
#289597
Liberty4Life wrote:The big disconnect is the Baptist side second level. That's supposed to add an extra 6,000 seats+, which is equivalent to another Baptist side being added on top. It just doesn't look like that.

I thought it was 4K there and the rest in the end caps
By SuperJon
Registration Days Posts
#289600
Rooster Cogburn wrote:
Liberty4Life wrote:The big disconnect is the Baptist side second level. That's supposed to add an extra 6,000 seats+, which is equivalent to another Baptist side being added on top. It just doesn't look like that.

I thought it was 4K there and the rest in the end caps
Ding ding ding.
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By Liberty4Life
Registration Days Posts
#289695
SuperJon wrote:
Rooster Cogburn wrote:
Liberty4Life wrote:The big disconnect is the Baptist side second level. That's supposed to add an extra 6,000 seats+, which is equivalent to another Baptist side being added on top. It just doesn't look like that.

I thought it was 4K there and the rest in the end caps
Ding ding ding.
What's an end cap?
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By jcmanson
Registration Days Posts
#289696
Liberty4Life wrote:What's an end cap?
There's going to be one section of seats added to each of the four "corners" of the current stands.
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By Sivart
Registration Days Posts
#289697
Isn't that the ends of the current stands? I'm kind of bummed about them expanding the Baptist side first... They can fill, overfill the student side, but at times it looks like they have trouble filling all the baptist side..I don't see how expanding uberexpensive seats is gonna put butts in the seats... Nothing looks worse then an empty stadium, big or small... But thats just my opinion... We'll see 10 Months if this all works out for the best...
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By vicfirth1989
Registration Days Posts
#289761
One of the reasons why JMU's expansion cost so much is that they are taring down thier season ticket holders side and rebuilding the seats. They arn't adding to their existing stadium. They are starting fresh.
I am from H-burg and went to the VMI JMU game and they had the plans announced.
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By Liberty4Life
Registration Days Posts
#290010
Liberty4Life wrote:Oh, okay. Makes sense.

Hey, can someone post a decent-res photo of our Football Ops Center for me?
Seriously though, no one?
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