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An earlier post asks, What is the best college football stadium? Just wondering...your thoughts (opinion) of the least favorite or worst stadium?

Idaho States Holt Arena

wildkyle wrote:Idaho States Holt Arena

+1

Not even a question:

UNIVERSITY FIELD AT UALBANY.

It may be one of the worst high school stadia in the country; well, slight exaggeration.



Those "stands"...are wooden benches attached to the Phys Ed builidng steps. (main tenant is our Volleyball team).

The visiting stands...are rusted out bleachers...no bullshit.

Wofford's Gibbs Stadium is small, ho-hum, and mundane, but was made a lot better by an awesome new video board. I guess that great board keeps our stadium from being one of the worst in FCS.

Others I have been to that aren't too swift:

Charleston Southern
Presbyterian
Gardner-Webb

Delaware State
Villanova
New Hampshire

How could anyone forget Georgetown's Multi Sport field?

JSU02 wrote:How could anyone forget Georgetown's Multi Sport field?

Especially given the potential.

JSU02 wrote:How could anyone forget Georgetown's Multi Sport field?

Yeah, that place is doodoo. But at least it's got a shit-ton of bars/restaurants within walking distance. I actually enjoy going to lacrosse games there just for that reason.

Georgetown's "Stadium" isn't as bad as pictures make it out to be. Yeah, it bad compared to a lot of schools, but it's certainly not worst. It's actually a charming little place, and when it's packed, it's gotta a very festive atmosphere to it.

My vote is for Jacksonville's Milne Field:

∞∞∞ wrote:Georgetown's "Stadium" isn't as bad as pictures make it out to be. Yeah, it bad compared to a lot of schools, but it's certainly not worst. It's actually a charming little place, and when it's packed, it's gotta a very festive atmosphere to it.

My vote is for Jacksonville's Milne Field:

∞∞∞ wrote:Georgetown's "Stadium" isn't as bad as pictures make it out to be. Yeah, it bad compared to a lot of schools, but it's certainly not worst. It's actually a charming little place, and when it's packed, it's gotta a very festive atmosphere to it.

My vote is for Jacksonville's Milne Field:

Are you effing serious? They play college football there?? Serious, the local NAIA school (Black Hills State) has a nicer stadium than that. Hell, most of the local small-town high schools have a nicer stadium.

Montana's Dornblaser Field was pretty bad back in the day (it's undergone improvement since then and not hosts track and field events). Before Wa-Griz was built, rumor has it that the coaches didn't even let recruits see Dornblaser for fear that it would scare them off.

To be fair, that picture was taken before Jacksonville's "renovations" since I couldn't find any. But I did some more research and found newer pics. Apparently they added FieldTurf and a new scoreboard. However, notice that Jacksonville doesn't have any stands. Instead, they just plopped some metal benches on the hills and called it a day. The press box is a shack.

I was going to nominate Long Beach Veterans Memorial Stadium, which hosted the now-defunct LBSU program and currently the LBCC team. It's so bad that the IWFL's California Quake has moved to a HS in Downey. Stands on one side only, and sunburns galore during day games.

But after seeing that Jacksonville field, that gets my vote. Ugh!!!

At this point, I think we have to wonder what the definition of a "stadium" is. Not sure that patch of land counts.

I can't believe they play D-I football there.

∞∞∞ wrote:To be fair, that picture was taken before Jacksonville's "renovations" since I couldn't find any. But I did some more research and found newer pics. Apparently they added FieldTurf and a new scoreboard. However, notice that Jacksonville doesn't have any stands. Instead, they just plopped some metal benches on the hills and called it a day. The press box is a shack.

Wow, the press box really is a trailer
Funny how the school in the big Jacksonville has such a paltry stadium while the school in the tiny Jacksonville has the nice one.

nova's is pretty bad. It's a track stadium, and an old one at that. Cramped seating, the stands aren't very steep, and there's a decided lack of enough bathrooms in that place, let alone the high school-type concession stands they have. Luckily, it's rarely half-filled, because once you get more than 8k people in there the place is just a dump because of those things.

∞∞∞ wrote:Georgetown's "Stadium" isn't as bad as pictures make it out to be. Yeah, it bad compared to a lot of schools, but it's certainly not worst. It's actually a charming little place, and when it's packed, it's gotta a very festive atmosphere to it.

My vote is for Jacksonville's Milne Field:

Has my vote so far, gonna take a lot to beat(be worse than?) this one.

GrizFanStuckInUtah wrote:

∞∞∞ wrote:Georgetown's "Stadium" isn't as bad as pictures make it out to be. Yeah, it bad compared to a lot of schools, but it's certainly not worst. It's actually a charming little place, and when it's packed, it's gotta a very festive atmosphere to it.

My vote is for Jacksonville's Milne Field:

Has my vote so far, gonna take a lot to beat(be worse than?) this one.

My family has a patch of field along a muddy river that could probably make a better 'stadium' than that.

Of course, judging by the level of commitment shown in that picture, the school probably wouldn't want to pay enough to displace the beet field currently there.

to be honest i am just Happy Indiana State's Memorial Stadium isn't involved in this conversation LOL...Our stadium is terrible as most would say, it's nowhere near the degree of terribleness that these other schools have shown but it's pretty bad, we are improving it as of late tho with video boards, new locker rooms, actually having visiting locker rooms now lol...it's a great improvement...

∞∞∞ wrote:It's actually a charming little place, and when it's packed, it's gotta a very festive atmosphere to it.

I've been there three times and none of the times did I find anything "festive" about it. It really felt like a low level HS game.

∞∞∞ wrote:To be fair, that picture was taken before Jacksonville's "renovations" since I couldn't find any. But I did some more research and found newer pics. Apparently they added FieldTurf and a new scoreboard. However, notice that Jacksonville doesn't have any stands. Instead, they just plopped some metal benches on the hills and called it a day. The press box is a shack.

And people wonder why FCS schools look to move up.

ASU has played Jacksonville twice, and both games you can tell those kids know how to play. Jacksonville is non-schooly, but Division I football has to be better than that crap.

Nice rack. I mean track.

Old Dominion should also be on the list. Looks like it's right out of the 40's.

89Hen wrote:

∞∞∞ wrote:It's actually a charming little place, and when it's packed, it's gotta a very festive atmosphere to it.

I've been there three times and none of the times did I find anything "festive" about it. It really felt like a low level HS game.

I watched this year's Delaware lax game on TV down there and the trim in the stands was pretty sweet. That's festive enough for me.