Schoellkopf / new West Stands

[billhoward]

Imagine what a successor to West Stands would be like combining offices, weight rooms, and stands.

I believe the old West Stands seated 7,000. The new stands don't need that many seats. It would be nice to have some of the seats - 2,000 perhaps? - under a roof or awning to improve the fan experience on rainy or snowy gamedays. Cold you can deal with; rain is harder.

Perhaps the press box moves closer to the field and includes skyboxes for boosters or fan groups or corporate events. Maybe that's part of the offices under the stands. Go to Ivy football games especially at HYP and you'll see impressive tailgates sponsored by brokerage firms.

Please make the stands - lowest row of seats - start at least a half-dozen feet off field level so your view isn't affected by people on the sidelines or any canopied scorer tables or player enclosures. It was disappointing that the Berman Field stands are so low. Berman feels low-rent compared to, say, Princeton's Class of 1952 field for lax / soccer. Its 4000 capacity is about right, just about filled for a major event such as Princeton-Cornell lax when both teams are nationally ranked. It's also surrounded by evergreens, making it feel like an enclosed facility.

[Cop at Lynah]

I believe the plan is to shift the field surface closer to the cresent side of the stadium, thus giving more space for whatever long term plan they have for the west side.

[Ken711]

I believe the plan is to shift the field surface closer to the cresent side of the stadium, thus giving more space for whatever long term plan they have for the west side.

That's a good point.

[Trotsky]

Just plant trees.  I have always loved the end zone view of the trees leading down into the Cascadilla Creek gorge.  Wrap that all the way around the west side of the  stadium; it will be unique and bucolic, and one small step away from the increasing cluttering and uglification of the campus.

[Ken711]

Just plant trees.  I have always loved the end zone view of the trees leading down into the Cascadilla Creek gorge.  Wrap that all the way around the west side of the  stadium; it will be unique and bucolic, and one small step away from the increasing cluttering and uglification of the campus.

I don't think they can afford not to develop the shrinking land/space available to support 36 athletic teams.

[Trotsky]

Just plant trees.  I have always loved the end zone view of the trees leading down into the Cascadilla Creek gorge.  Wrap that all the way around the west side of the  stadium; it will be unique and bucolic, and one small step away from the increasing cluttering and uglification of the campus.

I don't think they can afford not to develop the shrinking land/space available to support 36 athletic teams.

Drop football; that'll pay for the trees.  The background will be beautiful for our next lax national championship.

Ship the whole Eng school to Roosevelt Island and raze that whole part of the campus.

And some Aggie please fix the goddamn Dutch elms.

[Ken711]

Just plant trees.  I have always loved the end zone view of the trees leading down into the Cascadilla Creek gorge.  Wrap that all the way around the west side of the  stadium; it will be unique and bucolic, and one small step away from the increasing cluttering and uglification of the campus.

I don't think they can afford not to develop the shrinking land/space available to support 36 athletic teams.

Drop football; that'll pay for the trees.  The background will be beautiful for our next lax national championship.

Ship the whole Eng school to Roosevelt Island and raze that whole part of the campus.

And some Aggie please fix the goddamn Dutch elms.

Good one...:-D

[Jim Hyla]

Just plant trees.  I have always loved the end zone view of the trees leading down into the Cascadilla Creek gorge.  Wrap that all the way around the west side of the  stadium; it will be unique and bucolic, and one small step away from the increasing cluttering and uglification of the campus.

I don't think they can afford not to develop the shrinking land/space available to support 36 athletic teams.

Drop football; that'll pay for the trees.  The background will be beautiful for our next lax national championship.

Ship the whole Eng school to Roosevelt Island and raze that whole part of the campus.

And some Aggie please fix the goddamn Dutch elms.

Certainly don't care about football.

Many of us wouldn't have attended CU, if Engr was not on campus. Hell, school diversity was one of the main reasons some of us didn't go to Clarkson or RPI. I might have followed my brother to Lehigh and now be following wrestling.:-/

They are coming up with good elm trees, not that any of us will ever get to see those beautiful canopies again.:`-(

[Killer]

Indeed, there may be some hope on the elms:

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/03/06/researchers-hope-find-disease-resistant-elm-trees/qSO4dHj5N3SvtfJUsQc83N/story.html

[billhoward]

Indeed, there may be some hope on the elms:
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/03/06/researchers-hope-find-disease-resistant-elm-trees/qSO4dHj5N3SvtfJUsQc83N/story.html

The road (Washington Road) from Route 1 into Princeton campus has a spectacular run of elms that somehow have escaped the blight. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulmus_americana_%27Princeton%27

[mike1960]

Just plant trees.  I have always loved the end zone view of the trees leading down into the Cascadilla Creek gorge.  Wrap that all the way around the west side of the  stadium; it will be unique and bucolic, and one small step away from the increasing cluttering and uglification of the campus.

A photo. Nothing beautiful about that side of the field. It actually looks slightly dystopian.

https://x.com/cornell_mbb/status/1837879569266647110

[Swampy]

Just plant trees.  I have always loved the end zone view of the trees leading down into the Cascadilla Creek gorge.  Wrap that all the way around the west side of the  stadium; it will be unique and bucolic, and one small step away from the increasing cluttering and uglification of the campus.

A photo. Nothing beautiful about that side of the field. It actually looks slightly dystopian.

https://x.com/cornell_mbb/status/1837879569266647110

"Slightly"?

[jtwcornell91]

Just plant trees.  I have always loved the end zone view of the trees leading down into the Cascadilla Creek gorge.  Wrap that all the way around the west side of the  stadium; it will be unique and bucolic, and one small step away from the increasing cluttering and uglification of the campus.

A photo. Nothing beautiful about that side of the field. It actually looks slightly dystopian.

https://x.com/cornell_mbb/status/1837879569266647110

Speaking of dystopian, is there a picture that can be seen without logging into Muskovia?

[rss77]

Last I heard they were looking at putting up bleachers on that side because the Cornell team bench will be on that side of the field.

[Al DeFlorio]

Last I heard they were looking at putting up bleachers on that side because the Cornell team bench will be on that side of the field.

Done before...to avoid looking into the sun.  Looks dumb to have the main stadium behind the visiting team's bench.