No new baseball stadium.

[PurpleBlood87]

And at the expense of TCU, remember....

How could any TCU fan forget. One win away from the CWS championship series and the Frogs couldn't deliver.

 

[Froggy Style]

With the relatively large increase in enrollment over the last several years, have we seen any increase at all in mega-donors? It feels like the opposite has happened.

So, you expect the brand new graduates to have a significant impact on our donor amounts?

...and you're basing your hypothesis on feelings?

 

[Froggy Style]

Guessing you haven’t tried to watch a game from the “natural seating” down the right field line.

I'm guessing if you're really worried about sightlines for the game, you spend a few bucks more and buy a normal seat. If you want to hang out, grab a hot dog, and let your kids run around, you set up shop in the outfield or down the line. Point being, not worth whining to the AD about to build a new stadium. We have bigger fish to fry.

 

[Sweat Equity]

I'm guessing if you're really worried about sightlines for the game, you spend a few bucks more and buy a normal seat. If you want to hang out, grab a hot dog, and let your kids run around, you set up shop in the outfield or down the line. Point being, not worth whining to the AD about to build a new stadium. We have bigger fish to fry.

FS. The "new stadium" was a condition and a promise to both Coach S. and our previous Coach S. That is why some of us gripe on here.

 

[BrewingFrog]

FS. The "new stadium" was a condition and a promise to both Coach S. and our previous Coach S. That is why some of us gripe on here.

I know it was a long while back, but I am guessing that the design of The Lup didn't have the idea of later expansion built in. I know that the New ACS was built with future expansion already planned and prepared for, but I saw much of the construction for the "expansion" of the Lup and the amount of excavating and tear-down they had to do made me think that just starting over back then would have been a better idea.

As it is, a tear-down and re-build would take a couple of years. One full season would have to be played somewhere else while the concrete dries.

 

[Froggy Style]

FS. The "new stadium" was a condition and a promise to both Coach S. and our previous Coach S. That is why some of us gripe on here.

Understood. Someone else's promises were obviously made before the reality of the new College Sports world hits and dollars are needed for salaries. My point is it looks more than fine to me. Sprucing up an outside that hardly gets seen is pretty low on the priority list. When I drive by the ballpark, I don't even really see anything other than the field. It's not like the football stadium that is the face of the university.

 

[tetonfrog]

I don't want to sound like a hater, but our baseball program is not underachieving because of our stadium. We are underachieving because of our coaching staff, particularly our offensive strategu of always taking the first pitch. If CKS wants to leave because he isn't getting a new stadium, then I am OK with that and wish him well.

 

[My Buddy Steve]

Understood. Someone else's promises were obviously made before the reality of the new College Sports world hits and dollars are needed for salaries. My point is it looks more than fine to me. Sprucing up an outside that hardly gets seen is pretty low on the priority list. When I drive by the ballpark, I don't even really see anything other than the field. It's not like the football stadium that is the face of the university.

You know what baseball field is horrible? Wrigley. They should tear down that shack and build something shiny. Baseball stadiums are supposed to have some charm imo…. Fix it up and pay the players more. They care a lot more about getting the nil $ then sitting through new construction.

 

[ShreveFrog]

I'm guessing if you're really worried about sightlines for the game, you spend a few bucks more and buy a normal seat.

How about we add more normal seats?

 

[FrogsMcGee]

I'm guessing if you're really worried about sightlines for the game, you spend a few bucks more and buy a normal seat. If you want to hang out, grab a hot dog, and let your kids run around, you set up shop in the outfield or down the line. Point being, not worth whining to the AD about to build a new stadium. We have bigger fish to fry.

“Normal” seats have been on a waitlist for years. IMO we could add 1000 seats and still sell them all. They aren’t all sat in very much, but they are all sold.

 

[PurpleBlood87]

“Normal” seats have been on a waitlist for years. IMO we could add 1000 seats and still sell them all. They aren’t all sat in very much, but they are all sold.

Other than for regionals and super regionals whoever owns the tickets beside mine have never come to a game.

And for some of the post-season games the people who own them sold them online.

 

[frogs9497]

So, you expect the brand new graduates to have a significant impact on our donor amounts?

...and you're basing your hypothesis on feelings?

You missed the “several years” part.

What hypothesis? I was asking the question.

 

[bmoney214]

I'm guessing if you're really worried about sightlines for the game, you spend a few bucks more and buy a normal seat. If you want to hang out, grab a hot dog, and let your kids run around, you set up shop in the outfield or down the line. Point being, not worth whining to the AD about to build a new stadium. We have bigger fish to fry.

You can't buy a normal seat. Reserved seats sell out during season ticket renewals. GA tickets are all that's available on an individual game basis.

 

[Big Frog II]

The way this team is playing this year will not do itself or future teams in favors of getting people to donate to redo the stadium. Fans are getting turned off quickly.

 

[PurpleBlood87]

This is seriously sad. Since 2017?

 

[ShadowFrog]

So, you expect the brand new graduates to have a significant impact on our donor amounts?

...and you're basing your hypothesis on feelings?

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