Lupton upgrades?

[Dogfrog]

Disagree. Lupton is where homeruns go to die. It's amazing we're able to recruit the bats we do...especially Kron and Luken. We don't need a launching pad but something slightly more hitter-friendly would be ideal and positioning a field on the IM fields would do just that along with being able to build out a really nice stadium with all the bells and whistles instead if continuing to piecemeal Lupton.

Wouldn’t that make it where pitchers go to die?

 

[NewFrogFan]

The school could have capped GA tickets at whatever number they wanted.

And let me amend to say “concourse” in my mind also includes the bathrooms, placement of concession, etc.

The bathroom situation has been a disaster forever. How does a design that has one door on a bathroom get approved, let alone built.

It took close to 3 innings for the only bathroom break on day #1. The concession lines just made sure we ate somewhere else before the game on day #2.

 

[Big Frog II]

It's all concrete on the lower level.

No it isn't. I sit there. We have metal risers and metal stairs. The wall separating the field is concrete, but the rest is metal. Seats are plastic. Believe me, I bake during those 1 PM Sunday games.

 

[The Artist Formerly Known as PhormerPhrog]

The worst thing about the stadium is the fold down seats and the bumpers. Easily a top 10 annoying sound of hearing the chairs slam against the bumpers all game long...especially for the national anthem or 7th inning stretch

 

[The Artist Formerly Known as PhormerPhrog]

Wouldn’t that make it where pitchers go to die?

No. You can have a good amount of foul territory...which we do. You can make the power alleys deep...which we do. But so many balls to left that would be HRs in 90% of stadiums across the country barely make the warning track. There's a way to create a balance.

 

[PurpleBlood87]

Old ballpark in Arlington (now Choctaw) is probably available if we want a turnkey way to increase capacity.
<joking> but probably a decent option if team displaced during a renno

Nope. That is now redesigned for football and rugby.

 

[NewFrogFan]

No. You can have a good amount of foul territory...which we do. You can make the power alleys deep...which we do. But so many balls to left that would be HRs in 90% of stadiums across the country barely make the warning track. There's a way to create a balance.

Several balls hit at Baum Walker stay in Lupton.

 

[Paint It Purple]

Lupton is a palace compared to the real dump we played in prior to it. I do kind of miss the old purple cement wall, however…

Agree. I was being over the top. Lupton is good, but it doesn't match the success of the program, and the day is coming when it won't match the expectations of the caliber of program we hope to maintain.

BTW: I spent 3 years in the dugout at the old TCU DIAMOND, so I know it well. It might surprise folks, but other than DishFaulk and Arkansas (which both were brand new) the rest of the SWC ballparks were much worse than TCU's

 

[Eight]

Agree. I was being over the top. Lupton is good, but it doesn't match the success of the program, and the day is coming when it won't match the expectations of the caliber of program we hope to maintain.

BTW: I spent 3 years in the dugout at the old TCU DIAMOND, so I know it well. It might surprise folks, but other than DishFaulk and Arkansas (which both were brand new) the rest of the SWC ballparks were much worse than TCU's

didn't uta play at a city park at one time?

 

[fanatical frog]

Agree. I was being over the top. Lupton is good, but it doesn't match the success of the program, and the day is coming when it won't match the expectations of the caliber of program we hope to maintain.

Agree. 110%.

 

[FWSTC Hfrog]

Agree. I was being over the top. Lupton is good, but it doesn't match the success of the program, and the day is coming when it won't match the expectations of the caliber of program we hope to maintain.

BTW: I spent 3 years in the dugout at the old TCU DIAMOND, so I know it well. It might surprise folks, but other than DishFaulk and Arkansas (which both were brand new) the rest of the SWC ballparks were much worse than TCU's

Very true about TCU Diamond. Dutton Street Park at Baylor was the worst. Dugouts about the size of a Little League field. It was the site of one of the more memorable brawls (which back then occurred a couple of Fridays a season in the SWC days).

 

[Deep Purple]

Because Lupton is a POS high school stadium on steroids.

Lupton was designed to the same standards as a Double-A Minor League park. And there isn't a HS stadium in Texas that comes close to its combination of seating capacity and amenities.

 

[Deep Purple]

Students would love it out there

Seriously doubt that. A good many enjoy heckling the plate umpire and the opposing pitcher and hitters. Unable to do that from RF.

 

[Double D]

I wish C WHITEWOLF would have been around for this past weekend's SUPER REGIONAL.
He was hilarious when he would sit behing home at the old TCU diamond.

 

[Spike]

didn't uta play at a city park at one time?

That may be SMU that you are thinking of. They played at Riverchon Park. Would love to be have been a fly on the wall to listen to the UT fans gripe about the facilities.

 

[Eight]

That may be SMU that you are thinking of. They played at Riverchon Park. Would love to be have been a fly on the wall to listen to the UT fans gripe about the facilities.

the horns park prior to the disch had a freaking white stone cliff in centerfield with a goat trail an outfielder could use to get to the top

 

[Paul in uhh]

In a perfect world, Coach Saarloos wants a new stadium where the intramurals are right now (with a slightly different N-S-E-W configuration.

Meaning, where the baseball field used to be? Next to the Greek houses along bellaire?

 

[Paul in uhh]

Build a new baseball stadium and make Lupton the new TCU softball park.

Welcome to Steelfrog Stadium!

 

[Spike]

the horns park prior to the disch had a freaking white stone cliff in centerfield with a goat trail an outfielder could use to get to the top

Saw a pic once, was cool as heck.

 

[Paint It Purple]

Very true about TCU Diamond. Dutton Street Park at Baylor was the worst. Dugouts about the size of a Little League field. It was the site of one of the more memorable brawls (which back then occurred a couple of Fridays a season in the SWC days).

When you spit on Gene Burton from the stands, while he's standing in the on deck circle....yeah it's on. He took off running and we caught up with him underneath the bleachers.

Windegger, was like, "WTH" where'd everybody go?