It's the stadium where Eagles fans threw snowballs at Santa

Fun fact, you can "sit" inside Franklin Field on Google Streetview. I assume you can do that at many stadiums but I've only tried it at Franklin Field.

Better a school spends money on new educational facilities than Astana ft I'm imo.

The sporatic orange seats that you see spread throughout most of the stadium are rented seat backs. The metal bleachers don't have seat backs. As a fundraiser, they rent out seat backs that fans can use for their assigned seats. At midfield on the lower level on the west side of the field (press box side) near wear the upper leval overhangs the lower, those are permenant orange plastic seats for season ticket holders. The upperdeck is very steep. In the early 1990's when the southend upperdeck corners were added, they were also hoping to do the same to the northend upper deck, with future hopes of enclosing the upper deck at both ends. However, the initial funds only allowed the southend corners to be built, then it was rumored that new regulations were enacted that prohibited future construction of the northend corners and to have the upper deck endzone completed due to the steepness of the areas. Therefore the southend seating, which started at field level rises about halfway up to the level of the upper deck, but it is not as steep to meet the new regulations. There used to be some archectual drawings showing the upper deck fully enclosed and looked like a large bowl and was really cool looking. But with the indoor practice field and new building at the northend of the field, the upper deck will never be completed as first drawn up.

​@@TahoebroncoIt would be cool if you could get from one side to the other more easily. I'm not sure you can cut thru the end zone area during a game.

Rediscombobulationaryist activity may occur if they did that

@@billl1127no you can’t my dad and I were in one of the weird angled north end zone seats this year. It’s was fun to go of course but an awkward seat. If I had wanted food it would have been annoying to get to.

Don’t forget when we used to have the track around it.

Kibbi Can!

There was no tougher place to play for the away team than Cole Field House. I loved that place. I was there for its last years as Terps home court and had an office in there when I worked at the student union.

The reason they upgraded the way they did in 2011 is because at the time they only had the money from donors to do one side of the stadium.

You're school? You own it?

@@mizer9510yes he does actually

@@mizer9510everyone own a school in California.

It would be smarter for them to stay the biggest fish in a little pond. If they jump up to FBS, they'll never make a bowl game.

Yeah I don’t think they would ever make that jump. It might end up costing a lot of money and prestige. NDSU is well respected and even when I lived in SEC country I heard the same. They would never compete in a Power 5 conference. Maybe G5 but I don’t see the benefit of doing that. I’d love to go to a game there sometime it would be a ton of fun.

Gray was the idea of Chris Creighton. Looks better in person. Looking to get rid of the track.

Gray was the idea of Chris Creighton. Looks better in person. Looking to get rid of the track.

I wonder if my school, Tarleton St, would be on the list. It has like 24k seats

When Chris Creighton came in he wanted to change the culture. The overall theme he made was to resemble that of a factory, especially given that EMU is about a half hour from Detroit. All the coaches wear mechanic-style shirts, the team comes out from glass garage doors before games, and there's a giant wrench that someone must carry all game. When they needed new turf, the coach said "lets make it gray" to go further into the factory theme. The stadium is now dubbed, "the factory". You can argue it's gimmicky, but it's worked. Completely turned around the trajectory of the program and turned the perennial worst program in FBS into a respectable program

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