Its happening (stadium renovations)

[cdain3 3454]

Looks like they're getting ready to pour cement for the field-level patio.

Cement poured

[Todd Gack 431]

4 minutes ago, cdain3 said:

Cement poured

*concrete

cement:concrete   flour:cake

[Shaggy3.0 1695]

On 7/27/2020 at 11:18 PM, NeverMarryAStripper said:

What’s wrong with a nice uterus?

-- signed, South Austin's mom

fify

[NeverMarryAStripper 21781]

52 minutes ago, Todd Gack said:

*concrete

cement:concrete   flour:cake

But is it baked?

[texifornia 56522]

1 hour ago, cdain3 said:

Cement poured

That goofy fucking Longhorn head is actually kind of growing on me. DKR tends to get knocked for being a bit generic, this feels kookily college football.

[Goodman 3273]

On 7/27/2020 at 9:44 AM, Pasken said:

Yea, the thing to remember about the arena is it has a capital view corridor so they had to bury a good portion of it so it barely fits.

 

It's going to be a beaut.

2 minutes ago, texifornia said:

That goofy fucking Longhorn head is actually kind of growing on me. DKR tends to get knocked for being a bit generic, this feels kookily college football.

Fill it up with fans and no one cares, it's going to be gorgeous and finally look like a stadium we deserve.

[cdain3 3454]

*concrete
cement:concrete   flour:cake

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[Ace000087 18]

1 hour ago, Todd Gack said:

*concrete

cement:concrete   flour:cake

That looks awesome... 

[Todd Gack 431]

1 hour ago, cdain3 said:

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"...I double dare you, motherfucker." 

Gotta have that comma, thems the rules.

[cdain3 3454]

"...I double dare you, motherfucker." 
Gotta have that comma, thems the rules.

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[Scholz 11933]

3 hours ago, NeverMarryAStripper said:

But is it baked?

[Somnio 751]

5 hours ago, texifornia said:

That goofy fucking Longhorn head is actually kind of growing on me. DKR tends to get knocked for being a bit generic, this feels kookily college football.

It's looking better than I imagined*

 

 

*But it not being centered between the goalposts is fucking with my OCD baaaad!

[cdain3 3454]

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[cdain3 3454]

[Pato del Muerto 52342]

51 minutes ago, Somnio said:

It's looking better than I imagined*

 

 

*But it not being centered between the goalposts is fucking with my OCD baaaad!

I don’t think the camera is centered. Doesn’t solve your problem but hopefully it actually is centered. 

[texifornia 56522]

19 minutes ago, cdain3 said:

 

That's a properly imposing endzone now

[Somnio 751]

20 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

I don’t think the camera is centered. Doesn’t solve your problem but hopefully it actually is centered. 

I hope you are correct!

[cdain3 3454]

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[Steel Shank 9415]

I’d like to lay some pipe in the new SEZ.

[Cairn Horn88 8176]

6 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:

I don’t think the camera is centered. Doesn’t solve your problem but hopefully it actually is centered. 

I got out my slide rule and it's within tolerance.

[hornfromdallas 334]

1 hour ago, cdain3 said:

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bruh recruits r already loving this in the gc 

some of them r even mentioning  how lit it would be if led lights & music like this was played during the entrance 

 

[Pato del Muerto 52342]

Cool thing is this will be ready by the next game. Probably earlier now that there won’t be a peaky 2020 to work around. 
mlb is proving that out right now. 

[TrashMaster G 17388]

18 hours ago, Somnio said:

*But it not being centered between the goalposts is fucking with my OCD baaaad!

I hate you.

[high side 3 way 54]

Looks great and all, but what's with the gap(s)?

[NeverMarryAStripper 21781]

16 hours ago, cdain3 said:

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Fuck the haters, I like it.  Bevo needs to enter the stadium from the Bevo head too.

[Shaggy3.0 1695]

5 minutes ago, NeverMarryAStripper said:

Fuck the haters, I like it.  Bevo needs to enter the stadium from the Bevo head too.

Hmmm.  Recursive Bevo.  I like the way you think.

 

[texifornia 56522]

2 hours ago, high side 3 way said:

Looks great and all, but what's with the gap(s)?

You mean the longhorn head or what?

[jTower 225]

Wooden railings up

[Vito Andolini 9109]

2 hours ago, texifornia said:

You mean the longhorn head or what?

Ummm, he’s referring to “The Gap,” the architectural version of orange pants, capes, Childs should starts, idoit, Sam Bradford seems like he kinda sucks, etc. But instead of one tiny, inexplicable gap, we will now have two giant ones.

[Armybrat 40741]

Actually three now.

[Vito Andolini 9109]

Yep, Brat, I didn’t do a good job with my tallyin’.

[Deej 76568]

When it's finished, they should christen it with a concert. 

 

[cdain3 3454]

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Left side seats done.

[Bobby_Batronic 1994]

Please tell me that they’ll be able to turn the new LED stadium lights off and let that longhorn cutout pulse burnt orange as part of the pre game build up. 

[Ignatius 4002]

On 7/26/2020 at 9:33 PM, Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand said:

Tangential (?) related, and of course, pics don't capture the scale, but the excavation taking place for the Moody Center is pretty impressive. There's a good drop from street level on the Dedman side, but the amount of earth moved shearing off a hillside towards Red River is a damn cliff.

Someone get that fucking earthmover off of my tailgate spot....

[stork642 4498]

6 hours ago, Bobby_Batronic said:

Please tell me that they’ll be able to turn the new LED stadium lights off and let that longhorn cutout pulse burnt orange as part of the pre game build up. 

Shhhhhh.  Don’t give it all away just yet.  Damn. 

[Deej 76568]

Waiting for the aggy lawsuit. "KKL threw her ovaries down in our endzone first."

[texifornia 56522]

Oh that's looking niiice

 

[jTower 225]

23 minutes ago, texifornia said:

Oh that's looking niiice

 

Nice.  Bonus getting the progress on the Moody in the background.  It may not mirror the NEZ, but it sure looks better than the renderings so far.

[Pato del Muerto 52342]

Nope. It’s just wrong. Wrong scale, wrong style. Nicer than what was there for sure, but still looks “unfinished.”  I imagine a field view would yield a better perspective. 

[Somnio 751]

I don't think many would be happy unless they had matched the NEZ, which indeed would have looked better.

However, I believe the capacity of the stadium would have been around 115,000 if they would have gone that route.  That is just too damn big of a stadium.  How often would it sellout?  How many empty seats would there be for South Florida or Tulsa?

[Bobby_Batronic 1994]

 Not really. That 115 number assumes that you build out the lower deck as seating. That could have been done as lockerooms, scoreboard, terraces etc while maintaining the approximate bowl shape and continuity of suites and upper deck above. 

This was a get something done now project. 

Edited August 3, 2020 by Bobby_Batronic

[Pato del Muerto 52342]

1 hour ago, Somnio said:

I don't think many would be happy unless they had matched the NEZ, which indeed would have looked better.

However, I believe the capacity of the stadium would have been around 115,000 if they would have gone that route.  That is just too damn big of a stadium.  How often would it sellout?  How many empty seats would there be for South Florida or Tulsa?

I was hoping they would wrap the upper deck, but what was below the deck could have been a stack of clubs and suites or something. Maybe even just how it is but with the upper deck wrapping around the SE corner. Maybe that would look like shit or isn’t really possible with the footprint they had to work with, but I’ll never know because in typical Texas fashion they made all the decisions behind the scenes and announced the plan like it was the best and only choice. 

Edited August 3, 2020 by Pato del Muerto

[jTower 225]

2 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Nope. It’s just wrong. Wrong scale, wrong style. Nicer than what was there for sure, but still looks “unfinished.”  I imagine a field view would yield a better perspective. 

Agree. It’s not just right, but so far better than the artists’ version and that’s the best perspective we have seen so far. I’m looking toward to a full overhead. 
 

interesting that the shape matches the diagram in the the campus planning document. I thought the orange crescent was an approximation, but it is going to be pretty close to the map. They could have matched the NEZ bowl and used all seats rather than bleachers. The seats that do have on NEZ are great. Maybe someday they will take that pitch all the way around the bowl and it will all match. 

[texifornia 56522]

2 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Nope. It’s just wrong. Wrong scale, wrong style. Nicer than what was there for sure, but still looks “unfinished.”  I imagine a field view would yield a better perspective. 

The gigascoreboard is pretty looming from the field, I think it's a solid look from that angle.

 

[NeverMarryAStripper 21781]

It’s all a moot point anyway. This season will be cancelled and before the 2021 season rolls around the big 12 players will be demanding the same percentage of the revenue that the NFL players get. The next longhorn team that plays in that stadium will be a completely non scholarship team being coached by a guy making about what a history professor makes playing in front of about 5,000 fans. My daughter and I will be two of them though.

[thepop 4409]

Field view looks really good 

[JoseMedinaDeJesus 207]

7 hours ago, NeverMarryAStripper said:

It’s all a moot point anyway. This season will be cancelled and before the 2021 season rolls around the big 12 players will be demanding the same percentage of the revenue that the NFL players get. The next longhorn team that plays in that stadium will be a completely non scholarship team being coached by a guy making about what a history professor makes playing in front of about 5,000 fans. My daughter and I will be two of them though.

I usually enjoy dystopian works.  This one is a piece of shit.

[HOOK'EMHOOAH 1606]

9 hours ago, texifornia said:

The gigascoreboard is pretty looming from the field, I think it's a solid look from that angle.

 

From that angle, it looks like it still has a ways to go to complete the installation...

[BevoSwag 272]

Here's hoping they mute the music and run scores of other games nonstop.