Thanks to everyone who has posted pictures! Everytime I drive by it I can't help but stare. It's amazing. That last picture fitch put up is awesome

So impressive!

Thanks for posting the pics!

how do you get to your seats in the upper deck of the south zone? the numerous flights of stairs I've seen in pics or are there ramps? tia

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how do you get to your seats in the upper deck of the south zone? the numerous flights of stairs I've seen in pics or are there ramps? tia

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Start working out now and bring an oxygen tank

the ramps, the stairs are emergency egress

Is that gravel that they are spreading out right now?

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The old canon will still be involved in every activity that it presently is with the exception of firing after touchdowns.

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Why can't they still fire it after touchdowns if it can be heard while outside the stadium at a safe distance?

That overhang on the student side will be awesome. Noise will roll off of it right down on the field. Plus at a night game the lights from that thing will look like a spaceship coming in for a landing. I can't wait till they get the west side done for next year.


Better watch out for sip. They will be coming around wanting to sniff *******s.

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That will be the New canons job. But yeah that was my first thought too initially
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Why can't they still fire it after touchdowns if it can be heard while outside the stadium at a safe distance?

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The Spirit of '02 is not loud enough outside the stadium to be hard inside adequately.

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Fitch was much better at articulating my biggest impression of seeing it in person: IT IS HUGE! (ya I know that's what she said)

It will be very intimidating and I believe once the cranes and man-lifts are all gone, you will really get a scale of how big it is (hard to tell on cams but those lifts they are using are much larger than normal so they kind of scale the structure down)

And I agree with Fitch's point about the statue, it will be big but everything around it will be bigger.

Can't wait for the season to start!!

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+1 until you see it in person you really can't appreciate how big this structure is. The over hang is massive and intimidating. And the supports on the SEZ are much much bigger than pics show.

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Most likely yes. It's tough to tell just what size the material is but I'd expect something along those lines to move water that leaves the soil above quickly into the drains and away from the field. No way of knowing for sure, but I wouldn't be surprised to see a filter fabric of some kind used above that to keep sand and topsoil from working into the coarser mix below which would effectively plug up the gravel drains.

Fitch, or anyone,

I saw back on page 40, you said that it looks like the design has changed and that you wouldn't expect brick covering the SEZ. And others have referenced it since then. Can I ask why y'all think that? It is probably explained somewhere else and I am all Germans, but I didn't see it. Every one keeps saying we are on time and budget, so why would we think there won't be brick back there now?

I agree it won't look bad if there is none, but it would look better if we tied it all together with brick. The original plans showed minimal brick back there anyway, so I was just wondering why y'all think that.

I think that the initial rendering was just a draft of plans that had yet to be finalized, released only for marketing purposes because the kylefield.com website had to be built. Plans initially leaked back this up.

The SEZ as it exists now doesn't match the rendering, and having seen it in person and critically looked at the steel, I can't see any anchor points for attaching brick paneling.

The main difference between the SEZ as built and as rendered is the diagonal supports that support the highest level of the SEZ were anchored at a lower point on the structure, which meant that there would be no horizontal surfaces on the backside on which to mount brick.

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The issue at play, as it has been described on previous threads, is two fold:

1) There is no place to put the canon because the stadium walls now sit much closer to the field of play. On top of a tower doesn't work because the walls are 10' tall and feature concession areas in addition to standing room only areas for overflow capacity. It's not a viable alternate location, even if (as some have suggested) they cut out a portion of the brick and pointed it outwards.

2) The stadium was redesigned to trap and contain sound as fully as possible. The percussion caused from firing the canon in an enclosed stadium with canopies exceeds safe decibel levels. End of story. There is also a rumor that the large amount of new glass inside the stadium could not be insured if the canon were detonated inside repetitively, but I'll repeat that's just hearsay.

The old canon will still be involved in every activity that it presently is with the exception of firing after touchdowns. It will still be a part of march in, will still be pulled by PMC, and will be used to kick off other campus events. The new Howitzer is loud enough to be fully heard inside the stadium even with it being secured outside the stadium. IMO this is the best compromise to come out of the situation as the alternative was to either quit firing a canon or else significantly reduce the firing load and basically make it a pop gun.

We're getting an upgrade without sacrificing what we have

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I'm sorry, but this is absolutely not true. They can change the amount of powder in each shell to control how loud they want it to be. We did this when we brought the Spirit of '02 to Jerry World. For the life of me I can't figure out the real reason for why they are doing this.

There is no place to put it.

How about that.

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Just how was the Cav planning to get it up and down the ramps? After march in mind you, when the stadium and the ramps are filling up with fans?

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For the life of me I can't figure out the real reason for why they are doing this.

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It's really pretty damn simple. There's no room for it. They built an end zone seating structure where it used to sit. Unless you seriously thought they'd build freight elevators with the capacity to lift artillery into the new end zone, you shouldn't be surprised by this at all.

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For the life of me I can't figure out the real reason for why they are doing this.

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It's really pretty damn simple. There's no room for it. They built an end zone seating structure where it used to sit. Unless you seriously thought they'd build freight elevators with the capacity to lift artillery into the new end zone, you shouldn't be surprised by this at all.

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The lighted "Home of the 12th Man" looks fantastic.

Cooter Brown is my designated driver.

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It's really pretty damn simple. There's no room for it. They built an end zone seating structure where it used to sit. Unless you seriously thought they'd build freight elevators with the capacity to lift artillery into the new end zone, you shouldn't be surprised by this at all.

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RELOAD!

I think I see 3 flag poles now!

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It's really pretty damn simple. There's no room for it. They built an end zone seating structure where it used to sit. Unless you seriously thought they'd build freight elevators with the capacity to lift artillery into the new end zone, you shouldn't be surprised by this at all.

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Then shouldn't that be the reason they give? If they can't get it into the stadium, then just tell people that right?

Thanks for the pic, bkag9824.

"They" haven't given any reason. In fact I haven't even seen an official release.

I'm just relaying the info I've gleaned from other sources with some photos of what to expect.

Ok, well thanks Fitch, that makes more sense. I just wanted to debunk that myth that it was because our cannon was too loud.

I could have missed this but why are they installing the louvers? Something behind there that needs air?

Even if it's symmetrical, it's not the prettiest thing to look at.

Looks like they're trying to hide the lateral bracing. I don't blame them. Or there some mechanical stuff that needs hiding but maintain airflow. We've done this on several projects to hide stuff.

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So does anyone know if they are going to paint the pressbox and everything white?


Like everyting above the brick?
Will they wait until the end of next year to do everything or will they just leave it as is?

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That looks gray/metallic to me, not white. My guess is they won't paint it and they never intended to.

Any ideas if the visitor's locker room is still under the student section? Which tunnel will they use to come out?

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That looks gray/metallic to me, not white. My guess is they won't paint it and they never intended to.

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yea, I was looking at the West side pictures. my bad

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until you see it in person you really can't appreciate how big this structure is.

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I've seen it many times in person and it looks just like the drawings to me. I guess if you aren't experienced in looking at drawings you may not have gotten a grasp for how large this stadium is. To me, it looks just like the drawings.

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