Lynah renovations

[billhoward]

So are there bulldozers out on the south side of Lynah digging up the ground already? It was supposed to start today (3/13/06) on the outside ... since the team has some need of the inside of the rink still for the next couple weeks.

Carl McKee says the expansion is at street level and the players walk up and down a flight of steps (with deep treads, one hopes).

[Giffy]

Press Box, seats in section C, and penalty boxes are all gone.  No digging yet on the south side yet, but it is fenced off and has construction equipment around.

[Rosey]

Boy, they weren't kidding about starting right after the last home game.

Oh, wait: this is an endowed construction project.  Suddenly it all makes sense.  Sukath, his eyes uncovered!

Can someone stop by and take pictures occasionally for those of us interested in seeing progress?  Too bad the Hotel School's live webcam can't see through Barton.

Cheers,
Kyle

[Trotsky]

[quote krose]Too bad the Hotel School's live webcam can't see through Barton.
[/quote]

No, but a webcam is a great idea, and perhaps the AD could be convinced it would help the fundraising drive.  I can't be the only person so dorky that I'd run it as my background.  Am I?

Um... seriously... am I?  I'm starting to scare myself.

[billhoward]

I'd click on the Webcame once in a while to see what was going on, but I'd never admit to making it the wallpaper. That's depraved. Of course, Andy Warhol made an eight hour movie of an office building showing lights going on and off. But that was art.

Plus, you'd swear it was frozen most of the time, because all you see is two guys seating in row 8 with Dunkin Donuts coffee cups, and no motion.

[Will]

[quote billhoward]Plus, you'd swear it was frozen most of the time, because all you see is two guys seating in row 8 with Dunkin Donuts coffee cups, and no motion.[/quote]
If they had Dunkin' Donuts coffee cups, that truly would be remarkable.

[jy3]

[quote Will][quote billhoward]Plus, you'd swear it was frozen most of the time, because all you see is two guys seating in row 8 with Dunkin Donuts coffee cups, and no motion.[/quote]
If they had Dunkin' Donuts coffee cups, that truly would be remarkable.[/quote]
the cups are only 40 minutes away

[nyc94]

The more I think about this the more I think they should have sucked it up and paid to dig a deep foundation and put the locker rooms at ice level.

[canuck89]

YES!  I have no idea why this plan was ok'd.

[Rosey]

[quote canuck89]YES!  I have no idea why this plan was ok'd.[/quote]
I'm guessing Schafer thought it was ok.

Yost evidently has the same issue, and it doesn't seem to affect their recruiting.  As an amateur player, I find walking up and down stairs (especially up, but ESPECIALLY down) irritating; but compared to college players, I am a completely unconditioned, scrawny, whiny little weakling who complains about everything anyway.

Besides, they will probably get much better stairs than I encounter: probably with low risers, deep treads, and the resulting gradual gradient.  At that point, it probably doesn't matter, even from a safety perspective.

[Or maybe they're getting a freight elevator.  That would work, too, except when we hear Arthur during the second intermission announce that "Due to mechanical difficulties, the team is stuck in the locker room elevator and will not be able to complete the game.  Therefore, AD has added Dave, the dancing bears, Mike Teeter, and myself to the roster effective immediately.  In goal, from China, will be that sheet of plastic with the four corner cutouts."]

Kyle

[RichH]

[quote krose]
maybe they're getting a freight elevator.[/quote]

A fireman's pole to come down, and a skate-proof trampoline to go up.

Alternatively, a happy-fun slide that shoots them right onto the ice.

[Dpperk29]

that announcement would be followed by the mass suicide of most of the faithful.

[nyc94]

I guess I keep coming back to the attractiveness of the design and the fact that since Bartels was completed in 1990 they have slapped on the Friedman weight room and now the Lynah addition.  Can anyone at Cornell see down the road further than five or six years and anticipate future needs?  Maybe when they built Bartels they could have expanded Lynah in that direction.

[Liz '05]

[quote RichH][quote krose]
maybe they're getting a freight elevator.[/quote]

A fireman's pole to come down, and a skate-proof trampoline to go up.

Alternatively, a happy-fun slide that shoots them right onto the ice.[/quote]

:-D

[KeithK]

[quote nyc94]I guess I keep coming back to the attractiveness of the design and the fact that since Bartels was completed in 1990 they have slapped on the Friedman weight room and now the Lynah addition.  Can anyone at Cornell see down the road further than five or six years and anticipate future needs?  Maybe when they built Bartels they could have expanded Lynah in that direction.[/quote]Personally I  really couldn't care less what the place looks like from the outside.  It could look like the biggest dump in the world as long as they keep the inside pretty similar to what we have now.

As for expanding when Bartels was built, can anyone who was around then comment about the attendance in the mid eighties?  Expansion has only been an issue because the team has consistently sold every ticket for 10 years.  It certainly wasn't an issue in the late McCutcheon years.  Since the Alberding plans were drawn up in the 80's, attendance then would be the relevant factor.  Considering some of the weaker years in the 80's I wouldn't be surprised if the barn wasn't full every night every year, but I'll leave it to Greg or Jeff or someone to fill me in.