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Re: Appstate Endzone Camera
Posted: Tue Oct 15, 2019 8:58 am
by Appstate88
Would love to see a an App State flag on top of the crane and big “JOIN YOSEF CLUB” banner hanging down from the cable for Homecoming game.
Re: Appstate Endzone Camera
Posted: Tue Oct 15, 2019 9:03 am
by AppSt94
Appstate88 wrote: ↑Tue Oct 15, 2019 8:58 am
Would love to see a an App State flag on top of the crane and big “JOIN YOSEF CLUB” banner hanging down from the cable for Homecoming game.
Great ideas. You should email Doug. They could rig the flags to the cranes prior to leaving on Friday.
Re: Appstate Endzone Camera
Posted: Tue Oct 15, 2019 9:14 am
by appchicago
Are they going to have a net up for XPs/field goals? It was plenty of fun to watch folks chase the balls through the construction site back when it was flat dirt with a few holes. It'll be a little tougher with steel beams and construction.
Re: Appstate Endzone Camera
Posted: Tue Oct 15, 2019 9:19 am
by BeauFoster
appchicago wrote: ↑Tue Oct 15, 2019 9:14 am
Are they going to have a net up for XPs/field goals? It was plenty of fun to watch folks chase the balls through the construction site back when it was flat dirt with a few holes. It'll be a little tougher with steel beams and construction.
I'd pay pretty good money to see someone get blindsided by a girder (and not get hurt).
Re: Appstate Endzone Camera
Posted: Tue Oct 15, 2019 9:40 am
by Appstate88
AppSt94 wrote: ↑Tue Oct 15, 2019 9:03 am
Appstate88 wrote: ↑Tue Oct 15, 2019 8:58 am
Would love to see a an App State flag on top of the crane and big “JOIN YOSEF CLUB” banner hanging down from the cable for Homecoming game.
Great ideas. You should email Doug. They could rig the flags to the cranes prior to leaving on Friday.
Ok, Thanks. I’ll send Doug an email.
Re: Appstate Endzone Camera
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2019 10:32 am
by ViewCrew87
Re: Appstate Endzone Camera
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2019 10:53 am
by TheMoody1
The one comment after the article.
scottldavidson1965@gmail.com
"Athletics is a financial black hole. Athletics loses $25 million every year!! This is paid for by students fees and taxpayers. They build unnecessary athletic facilities because they can pass the bill to students and taxpayers. Sadly, Appalachian prioritizes athletics over academics. Just look at what they spend money on. The university spends more than TWICE as much covering the losses of athletics than it spends on the library and student services! Academic centers and institutes are told to be financially self sufficient, but athletics can lose $25 million every year....and the deficit increases every single year! How does the state allow a university to have such backward priorities?"
Re: Appstate Endzone Camera
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2019 11:22 am
by HkyMtneer
Why in the world did the Watauga Democrat use a no longer valid rendering of the endzone complex front-and-center on the front page of today's print edition? That's just plain embarrassing, especially considering the current version has been around for pretty much most (if not all) of 2019. What makes it even more amusing is that the online article places both that rendering, and the most current incarnation, in the attached images back-to-back. Guess no one took a gander at what they were printing before they went to print.
Re: Appstate Endzone Camera
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2019 12:06 pm
by Rekdiver
TheMoody1 wrote: ↑Wed Nov 06, 2019 10:53 am
The one comment after the article.
scottldavidson1965@gmail.com
"Athletics is a financial black hole. Athletics loses $25 million every year!! This is paid for by students fees and taxpayers. They build unnecessary athletic facilities because they can pass the bill to students and taxpayers. Sadly, Appalachian prioritizes athletics over academics. Just look at what they spend money on. The university spends more than TWICE as much covering the losses of athletics than it spends on the library and student services! Academic centers and institutes are told to be financially self sufficient, but athletics can lose $25 million every year....and the deficit increases every single year! How does the state allow a university to have such backward priorities?"
Want to talk about priorities scott davidson? Go ask the State legislature how much they pay teachers and professors........Ask UNC how much they spent defending the academic fraud....etcetera
Re: Appstate Endzone Camera
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2019 12:15 pm
by ASU84
Rekdiver wrote: ↑Wed Nov 06, 2019 12:06 pm
TheMoody1 wrote: ↑Wed Nov 06, 2019 10:53 am
The one comment after the article.
scottldavidson1965@gmail.com
"Athletics is a financial black hole. Athletics loses $25 million every year!! This is paid for by students fees and taxpayers. They build unnecessary athletic facilities because they can pass the bill to students and taxpayers. Sadly, Appalachian prioritizes athletics over academics. Just look at what they spend money on. The university spends more than TWICE as much covering the losses of athletics than it spends on the library and student services! Academic centers and institutes are told to be financially self sufficient, but athletics can lose $25 million every year....and the deficit increases every single year! How does the state allow a university to have such backward priorities?"
Want to talk about priorities scott davidson? Go ask the State legislature how much they pay teachers and professors........Ask UNC how much they spent defending the academic fraud....etcetera
Not only that Scott but go ask the "powers that be" why Appalachian State University gets shafted with apportionments from the State every single year???
Re: Appstate Endzone Camera
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2019 1:55 pm
by brocktune90
With all of the publicity the football team and Appalachian have received this year, I would be interesting to think of athletics as a marketing expenditure and boil it down to a cost per mille figure.
Re: Appstate Endzone Camera
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2019 4:47 pm
by APPdiesel
I'd love to see an economic analysis of dollars generated by the exposure this year. There are analytics that say Dabo Swinney @ $9 million and Nick Saban @ $8.7 million are underpaid based on the value their program brings to their communities.
Re: Appstate Endzone Camera
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2019 6:08 pm
by Yosef10
I’m just glad to see we’re getting a new turf.
Re: Appstate Endzone Camera
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2019 6:40 pm
by Saint3333
It is a shame our private fundraising isn’t more successful.
Re: Appstate Endzone Camera
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2019 9:53 pm
by ApexASU
The need to spend so much $$$ on expansion may be subjective but the loss of the mountain beauty from KBS is irreplaceable.
Re: Appstate Endzone Camera
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2019 11:01 pm
by HighPointApp
ApexASU wrote: ↑Wed Nov 06, 2019 9:53 pm
The need to spend so much $$$ on expansion may be subjective but the loss of the mountain beauty from KBS is irreplaceable.
Huh????
Re: Appstate Endzone Camera
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2019 11:28 pm
by General Moore
HighPointApp wrote: ↑Wed Nov 06, 2019 11:01 pm
ApexASU wrote: ↑Wed Nov 06, 2019 9:53 pm
The need to spend so much $$$ on expansion may be subjective but the loss of the mountain beauty from KBS is irreplaceable.
Huh????
Hmmm. I've been in Boone since 82'. The stadium has certainly gotten larger since then but I'm not sure that it has done anything to impair any view of any sort.... it is actually a much better looking place than it was thirty something years ago. Other than losing a parking lot (Stadium Lot) the footprint of the stadium is right where its it's always been, tucked back in against a small north face hill and very unimpending.
Pretty unique spot really.
Re: Appstate Endzone Camera
Posted: Thu Nov 07, 2019 7:51 am
by /\PP ST/\TE GRAD 09
Was it ever mentioned as to why the NEZ building is so far back from the field? I know once they add the club seats that will move things a little closer, but still feel like they'll have a lot of space.
Re: Appstate Endzone Camera
Posted: Thu Nov 07, 2019 8:41 am
by Yosef10
I thought it was a little further back than it should be but after looking at the renderings further and comparing it to other stadiums with end zone facilities, i think it will actually be closer than most of the comparisons ie ECU than I’ve seen.
Re: Appstate Endzone Camera
Posted: Thu Nov 07, 2019 9:32 am
by NewApp
ApexASU wrote: ↑Wed Nov 06, 2019 9:53 pm
The need to spend so much $$$ on expansion may be subjective but the loss of the mountain beauty from KBS is irreplaceable.
Totally agree, Apex.