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Penn State kicking around the idea of replacing Beaver Stadium

"So too will Penn State’s financial situation, one where the athletic department reported a $4.8 million surplus for the 2014-15 school year with the help of a $10 million loan — the second installment of a $30 million loan from the university."

Having a surplus because of a loan is a different way to present your financial situation.
 
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PA as a State is in financial distress. Their infrastructure is having a Replacing a 100k+ capacity stadium that would cost at least $500,000,000, no probably $700,000,000, ha ha ha. Yeah I'd be for renovations too.

This is crazy talk.

This can't be serious. It had to be a slow news day or a recycled article from the columnist.
 
3xWVUenginEER said:
This can't be serious. It had to be a slow news day or a recycled article from the columnist.
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How can you say this can't be serious when the Athletic Director is talking about it and PSU has retained a firm that is going to develop a plan that will be used to help determine the best way forward?

Are you saying the PSU AD is not serious in her comments? Or are you saying you personally can't take serious the possibility of a new stadium?

And .... a pending decision to renovate versus new construction is current news in Central PA and all over the state and beyond. PSU has THE largest dues paying alumni group in the world. A LOT of people are VERY interested in this.
 
JohnnyDrama388 said:
That program willl be nationally irrelevant for 20+ years.
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Sadly it will not be irrelevant for that long. Like it or not PSU is a national brand and they will return to relevancy sooner or later. If they could have kept Bill O'Brien it would have happened a lot sooner.
 
If they keep worshiping a coach who hid child rape, they will never sniff prominence again. The public will always view them as a disgusting cult.

Plus their new coach is a TERRIBLE one at that. Yeah he can recruit well....but an awful coach.
 
HurdyGurdyEer said:
Are you saying the PSU AD is not serious in her comments? Or are you saying you personally can't take serious the possibility of a new stadium?
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I'm saying neither the State of PA or PSU or PSU athletics or any combination of the three is in that good of shape to build a new stadium that will seat 100k+ like the one they have now so I cant take Any of this serious.

They'll renovate beaver stadium.

These college stadiums are like white elephants. They get used 6 or 7 times a year currently so nobody is building new ones cause you can never pay for them now.

This is why the pro stadiums (Jerry World, Georgia Dome, Fed Ex Field, Bank of America Stadium, etc, etc) are hosting neutral site games to maximize their revenue. Most college venues play football 6-7 times a year and that's it. It's all they're used for. They're like white elephants.
 
3xWVUenginEER said:
I'm saying neither the State of PA or PSU or PSU athletics or any combination of the three is in that good of shape to build a new stadium that will seat 100k+ like the one they have now so I cant take Any of this serious.

They'll renovate beaver stadium.

These college stadiums are like white elephants. They get used 6 or 7 times a year currently so nobody is building new ones cause you can never pay for them now.

This is why the pro stadiums (Jerry World, Georgia Dome, Fed Ex Field, Bank of America Stadium, etc, etc) are hosting neutral site games to maximize their revenue. Most college venues play football 6-7 times a year and that's it. It's all they're used for. They're like white elephants.
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OK. Your response has nothing to do with whether or not the issue of expansion vs. renovation is a serious topic at PSU and it certainly does nothing to bolster your initial opinion that this is a recycled news story.

You can hold to the opinion that it's crazy for them to do anything other than renovate. But that in no way means that this is an exaggerated and/or recycled story. As a matter of fact it is a current issue.
 
LowFatMilk said:
In other news.... .....their 2016 football recruiting class is currently ranked #8 by Rivals.
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And they have the largest dues paying alumni organization in the world.

It's perfectly OK to be disgusted by what happened at PSU and how it wasn't handled. But that doesn't mean there aren't a lot of good people at PSU. And it certainly does not mean that Penn State is not big enough and strong enough to recover and move on. Penn State is so much more than its football program. It will be fine and the football program will bounce back.
 
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It's exaggerated in the same way politicians talk about "creating jobs, lowering taxes, and balancing the budget!" which gets reported every election cycle for about every candidate instead of the paper just sayin 'yeah this one is Full Of $#!+ just like the rest of them!'

These athletic directors are like politicians, full of it. It's all BS. There is no way that PSU will build a new stadium. For a newspaper to report 'a new stadium is being considered and evaluated' is insulting to anyone with an ounce of common sense. It takes about 5 seconds to say "a new stadium costs $500 million minimum and football revenue isn't $75 million annually and we are losing $$$$$$ as a Athletic Dept, so HELL NO WE AINT BUILDING A NEW ONE. Let's hope we can afford to renovate the one we got!"

It's like Doc Holiday saying he wants to expand the stadium where Marshall pays with an upper deck to get 55-60k people in there. Yeah that will happen. RIIIIGHT. Cause the need and $$$$$ is both there.

Don't be that naive. It is exaggerated. It has been promised and done before to no avail so it is recycled too.
 
http://grantland.com/the-triangle/2015-college-football-penn-state-james-franklin/

Something came to my admittedly-feeble mind after reading the linked Grantland piece about the malaise that currently dominates Happy Valley football. Author Michael Weinreb makes mention of the possibility of replacing Beaver Stadium with something which could theoretically be called Paterno Field.

Which finally drove home to me the possibility that a new stadium in State College......while concurrently eliminating the "drab erector set" which Beaver Stadium happens to be....might actually be viewed as the means by which to divorce the University symbolically from the Sandusky era.

Not sure if that will work.....and the middle 9 figures is a lot to spend for symbolism...... but it does make some sense to me if they can come up with a plan to make it happen.
 
It's an erector set in a cow pasture. 20 Mexicans could knock it down and have the new one up in under two weeks.
 
LowFatMilk said:
In other news.... .....their 2016 football recruiting class is currently ranked #8 by Rivals.
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some of our fans were calling for the end of their football program, yet, at the same time, begging for some of their transfers, from this "tainted" program.
 
Beaver Stadium is in dire need of renovations.Restrooms,concessions areas and seating is terrible.My opinion is they'll renovate,not build a new one.Probably seat 90,000-95,0000 which will make tickets more in demand.Beaver Stadium now sits between Medlar Field (5,550 seats for baseball) and the 15,000 seat Bryce Jordan Center.Its not in the middle of a cow field.bwdik
 
vulcan80 said:
Beaver Stadium is in dire need of renovations.Restrooms,concessions areas and seating is terrible.My opinion is they'll renovate,not build a new one.Probably seat 90,000-95,0000 which will make tickets more in demand.Beaver Stadium now sits between Medlar Field (5,550 seats for baseball) and the 15,000 seat Bryce Jordan Center.Its not in the middle of a cow field.bwdik
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Perhaps it would therefore be more accurate to say the entire Penn State campus (and not just Beaver Stadium) is in the middle of a cow pasture :wink:
 
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