......::::TOP 25 FCS STADIUMS::::......

[Bostonspider]

But you put say Hofstra stadium above Bridgeforth Stadium. And you did not even have UR stadium as on the list of eligible stadiums. And I cannot accept any stadium list that does not include Princeton Stadium, which is probably the nicest in all of FCS, and was built specifically for FCS level football. What about Fisher Stadium at Lafayette, one of the nicest rebuilt stadiums, and not even in the top 25?

Bridgeforth Stadium


Princeton Stadium


Fisher Stadium

[BlackFalkin]

We've already been over the Ivy situation, ALL their stadiums could make top 25 guy, that also goes for 50% of the swac. JMU AFTER the expansion will be great, however, it will be built for FBS play, so they're out.

Fisher is nice, honorable mention.

[Bostonspider]

You may "have gone over" the Ivy situation, but you have not to anyone's satisfaction explained why a 1998 built Princeton Stadium does not make the top 25 list, we are not talking about something built back in the days of high level D-I Ivy Football. And Bridgeforth at 24K seats after phase 1 and 2 are completed is no more an FBS stadium than Kid Brewer or Wash-Griz. How is Fisher an honorable mentioned compared to Hofstra or Illinois State???

[BlackFalkin]

You may"have gone over" the Ivy situation, but you have not to anyone's satisfaction explained why a 1998 built Princeton Stadium does not make the top 25 list. And Bridgeforth at 24K seats after phase 1 and 2 are completed is no more an FBS stadium than Kid Brewer or Wash-Griz. How is Fisher an honorable mentioned compared to Hofstra or Illinois State???

it's okay, and Im not bad mouthing the stadium and all but lets be honest, its a waste of 23 Million dollars.

[AZGrizFan]

You may"have gone over" the Ivy situation, but you have not to anyone's satisfaction explained why a 1998 built Princeton Stadium does not make the top 25 list. And Bridgeforth at 24K seats after phase 1 and 2 are completed is no more an FBS stadium than Kid Brewer or Wash-Griz. How is Fisher an honorable mentioned compared to Hofstra or Illinois State???

it okay and all but lets be honest, its a waste of 23 Million dollars.

Wow. That IS a waste of $23 million.

[DukeJack]

JMU AFTER the expansion will be great, however, it will be built for FBS play, so they're out.

Where do you get this crap? It's been pointed out time after time we are not moving up with Rose and Bourne in charge. There is no set timetable for Phase II or III. It is being built for a school that has sold out its stadium for years, has a waiting list for season tickets, and can't meet demand.

James Madison's $52 million plan to renovate Bridgeforth Stadium does not mean the school is considering a move to Division I-A football, university officials said Monday.

"Absolutely not," JMU vice president Charlie King said. "We wanted to have, if not the best, one of the best I-AA football facilities in America."

"I think there's a lot of speculation out there and, there has been for some time, that when the stadium was increased in size, we would immediately try to move to I-A football," Bourne said. "We're very comfortable where we are right now. We certainly enjoy competing at this level."

"I think our goal was to show that we were able to optimize are stadium's seating capacity if it was ever needed in the future," Bourne said. "Certainly, this addition will give us the room we need for some time to come. Our goal for our program is to put us at the pinnacle in the championship division of football [I-AA]."

As they prepared their expansion plan, JMU officials did not include any I-A facilities in their visits to other stadiums. Bourne and King both said the model for a stadium expansion plan they studied most closely was that of three-time defending I-AA national champion Appalachian State, the school that booted JMU from the first round of the playoffs this year.

http://www.dailynews-record.com/sports_ ... 406&CHID=3

Renovated Bridgeforth is a FCS, IAA, whatever you like, stadium. Period.

[BlackFalkin]

#1 if you think JMU isnt moving up to FBS, your crazy. 40k stadium in FCS? forget it.
does this look like an FCS stadium? Get real!




#2 lets just say they dont move up, after they expand JMU's stadium... THEN they'll be in the top 5. untill then........

[Bostonspider]

it's okay, and Im not bad mouthing the stadium and all but lets be honest, its a waste of 23 Million dollars.

A beautiful, on-campus, 14,000 seat fully modernized stadium is a waste of $23 Million? Have you seen the Varsity Football House they added as part of the renovation??

http://www.goleopards.com/view.gal?id=10759

I am thinking you are more and more cuckoo the more that you post about stadiums... And you still never said why Princeton Stadium, not all the ivy stadiums but just Princeton, does not deserve to be on this list?

[danefan]

Most of the $23 million went into the field house. Not the stadium. The fieldhouse is an FBS field house.

[Mountaineer]

This thread.

[BlackFalkin]

And you still never said why Princeton Stadium, not all the ivy stadiums but just Princeton, does not deserve to be on this list?

True or False; Princeton's football team, is a TRUE FCS team.

MOST agree, princeton isnt a TRUE FCS team, (no playoffs, no FCS championship game) which, in turn, means their stadium isnt a TRUE FCS stadium. Face it.

[Franks Tanks]

We've already been over the Ivy situation, ALL their stadiums could make top 25 guy, that also goes for 50% of the swac. JMU AFTER the expansion will be great, however, it will be built for FBS play, so they're out.

Fisher is nice, honorable mention.

You're an idiot. FIsher is nicer than most of the stadiums on your list.

Lehigh and Lafayette's stadiums are different, but overall similar as each have advantages and dis-advantages. If one is on the list the other needs to be as well. You have Holy Cross on the list and everybody in the PL would agree that Fisher and Goodman and nicer than Fitton field.

[BlackFalkin]

You're an idiot. FIsher is nicer than most of the stadiums on your list.

Lehigh and Lafayette's stadiums are different, but overall similar as each have advantages and dis-advantages. If one is on the list the other needs to be as well. You have Holy Cross on the list and everybody in the PL would agree that Fisher and Goodman and nicer than Fitton field.

Lafayette's Ficher stadium, is a 13k stadium with no endzone seating WOW! Its cool lookin' but it aint great. face facts & stop living in a fairy tale world... aka, majic land... aka, your an idiot!

Fitton field, 23k 3/4 enclosed. To be honest, Fisher is nicer than some of those stadiums.. but Newer doesnt mean Better.

[Franks Tanks]

it okay and all but lets be honest, its a waste of 23 Million dollars.

Wow. That IS a waste of $23 million.

WTF do you know.




The stadium is a refurbished on campus facility originally bulit in 1926.

It has resurfaced concrete, a state of the art playing surface, a nice press box, a huge scoreboard with a video screen, and perhaps the best FCS field house this side of the Ivies. It has a locker room with flat screen TV's and big wood lockers, state of the art training room and weight room. Meeting and film facilities that are also the best of everything. Montana is bigger, but it has nothing better than Fisher.

[DukeJack]

This is last I'm saying about this. JMU has NO plans to jump, I am not saying this as a fan, but quoting our administration. Bridgeforth will continue to be an FCS stadium, regardless of what your interpretations are. GTF over it.

To do that, they proposed that the grandstand beneath the current press box be demolished and rebuilt in the same, two-deck fashion as the other one. After that, an additional upper deck would be built beyond the end zone seats beneath the current scoreboard, and that side of the field would be enclosed to create a 40,000-seat stadium.

Bourne, however, said that plan was for the distant future and probably wouldn't be completed until "after we're all gone."

http://www.dnronline.com/details.php?AID=14381&CHID=3

Bourne reiterated the expansion is designed to meet current and future fan interest and keep JMU at the head of the I-AA pack, not as a step toward moving up to the I-A level.

"This is not being done to move to FBS football," Bourne said. "It's being done to compete at the absolute highest levels of the FCS right now."

http://www.dnronline.com/details.php?AID=39997&CHID=3

[Franks Tanks]

You're an idiot. FIsher is nicer than most of the stadiums on your list.

Lehigh and Lafayette's stadiums are different, but overall similar as each have advantages and dis-advantages. If one is on the list the other needs to be as well. You have Holy Cross on the list and everybody in the PL would agree that Fisher and Goodman and nicer than Fitton field.

Lafayette's Ficher stadium, is a 13k stadium with no endzone seating WOW! Its cool lookin' but it aint great. face facts & stop living in a fairy tale world... aka, majic land... aka, your an idiot!

Fitton field, 23k 3/4 enclosed. Btw Newer doesnt mean Better.

Fitton Field has 23k seats that are just aluminum bleachers. Fitton barely has a press box, has no concessions, no video screen, and terrible locker rooms. The experience at Fisher is much better for both players and fans. Wow Fitton has endzone seats that nobody sits in-- big deal. Endzone seats are the worst anyway, you cant see anything.

[AZGrizFan]

Wow. That IS a waste of $23 million.

WTF do you know.




The stadium is a refurbished on campus facility originally bulit in 1926.

It has resurfaced concrete, a state of the art playing surface, a nice press box, a huge scoreboard with a video screen, and perhaps the best FCS field house this side of the Ivies. It has a locker room with flat screen TV's and big wood lockers, state of the art training room and weight room. Meeting and film facilities that are also the best of everything. Montana is bigger, but it has nothing better than Fisher.

All well and good, but it still looks like a glorified high school stadium.

[BlackFalkin]

It has a locker room with flat screen TV's and big wood lockers, state of the art training room and weight room. Meeting and film facilities that are also the best of everything. Montana is bigger, but it has nothing better than Fisher.

yea, yea, all that sounds great, it REALLY does, HOWEVER, the actual stadium.. is pretty cool..... but not the best.

[Bostonspider]

And you still never said why Princeton Stadium, not all the ivy stadiums but just Princeton, does not deserve to be on this list?

True or False; Princeton's football team, is a TRUE FCS team.

MOST agree, princeton isnt a TRUE FCS team, (no playoffs, no FCS championship game) which, in turn, means their stadium isnt a TRUE FCS stadium. Face it.

TRUE FCS?? what is this BS you are spouting?? They play in Division I against all FCS teams. Just because their league chooses not to play in the Playoffs, does not change their classification. They are FCS, they play only FCS teams, and their stadium was built for FCS. Ergo your reasoning stinks, and they play in the BEST FCS stadium around.

[Franks Tanks]

What about it looks like a High School stadium?

Part of the problem is that a good photo of the home stands doesnt exist, but it has virtually every ammenity and holds more people than many stadiums on the list.

You are speaking about somthing you know nothing about--- that happens often I believe.

[Franks Tanks]

It has a locker room with flat screen TV's and big wood lockers, state of the art training room and weight room. Meeting and film facilities that are also the best of everything. Montana is bigger, but it has nothing better than Fisher.

yea, yea, all that sounds great, it REALLY does, HOWEVER, the actual stadium.. is pretty cool..... but not the best.

I didnt say Fisher was the best, I dont believe it to be. Princeton and Harvard are the best.

But it certainly deserves mention on your list.

[BlackFalkin]

TRUE FCS?? what is this BS you are spouting?? They play in Division I against all FCS teams. Just because their league chooses not to play in the Playoffs, does not change their classification. They are FCS, they play only FCS teams, and their stadium was built for FCS. Ergo your reasoning stinks, and they play in the BEST FCS stadium around.

Simply put: no playoffs, no top 25. Now Shut Up

[ODUfanRazor]

This thread.

I was thinking more along the lines of this......

[Franks Tanks]

TRUE FCS?? what is this BS you are spouting?? They play in Division I against all FCS teams. Just because their league chooses not to play in the Playoffs, does not change their classification. They are FCS, they play only FCS teams, and their stadium was built for FCS. Ergo your reasoning stinks, and they play in the BEST FCS stadium around.

Simply put: no playoffs, no top 25. Now Shut Up

Wow-- that makes less sense than just about anything ever said in history of the world. Nice job!

[clenz]

Another thing, look at the stadium lights! there on the INSIDE of the stands? Also, Im pretty sure thats blacktop surrounding the field. Im not trying to make fun of the stadium.... but c'mon guy.

That IS pretty funny....but home to your 2008 FCS National Champions.

Just proof that you don't need a fancy stadium to win games