[Husker] New Stadium Plans Announced

[Mike Jaixen]

Ummm...considering the stadium is going to be
surrounded by about 5,000 parking spots, I think
you're being a little melodramatic.  Think that there
aren't going to be tailgaters there?  Hardly.

As for Pepsi tents, well, Coke is an NCAA partner, so
that's even less likely.  :-)

The NCAA is a corporate entity, and is all about
making money and serving their interests.  Omaha has
to make a choice...either change the CWS to be what
the NCAA wants it to be, or challenge the NCAA to take
it elsewhere.  No matter what Omaha announced today...
even keeping Rosenblatt intact, there were going to be
MAJOR changes around Rosenblatt.  (Namely, bulldozing
dozens of houses for NCAA tents and corporate stuff.)

--- Skylar Dodds <sklarbodds at cox.net> wrote:

> Nick, I'd add to what you're saying that the CWS is
> going to become much
> more corporate.  Instead of tail-gaiters up and down
> the streets and a
> friendly feel you get walking up to the stadium it's
> going to be restaurants
> and pepsi tents.
> 
> You are 100% correct that this IS NOT a fan friendly
> change.  This is
> designed with the sole purpose of getting the NCAA,
> the city, and the CWS
> ----MORE MONEY----.  That comes from corporate
> dollars, not people.
> 
> Not that any citizen will have any say in it, don't
> be fooled by what they
> say.
> 
> I should say, that despite all my bickering about
> how shady this whole thing
> is and how Fahey is dillusional, H.O.K. did design a
> beautiful park and if
> it comes to pass, it will be one of the nicest
> non-MLB stadiums (if not the)
> in the entire country.
> 
> --
> Skylar
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nick Chevance [mailto:nickchevance at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 4:06 PM
> To: Skylar Dodds
> Cc: List Husker
> Subject: Re: [Husker] New Stadium Plans Announced
> 
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 2:53 PM, Skylar Dodds
> <sklarbodds at cox.net> wrote:
> ...Goodbye CWS as we know it.
> 
> Amen, Skylar.
> 
> And that to me is what makes this whole stadium
> business stink.  I'm
> grumbling about this but not because I don't care
> much for baseball
> anymore, or the fact that I've never even been to a
> game at the CWS,
> but that this change will put the CWS on a par with
> other NCAA
> championships - big time and big money.
> 
> It wasn't too long ago that I was able to purchase
> tickets, through a
> lottery system, to basketball regionals in Denver
> and in Albuquerque
> at cost.  No more.  Even knowing a couple of
> Creighton season ticket
> holders will probably not be enough to get tickets
> to the first two
> rounds to be played here in Omaha next month.  Going
> price is already
> skyrocketing to over $1000 per game.  Per game.  And
> the CWS will
> slowly become less for folks who love baseball but
> just happen to not
> be so well off, and more for folks who don't now
> $%^& about baseball,
> but go to the CWS because they can afford it.  Great
> for Omaha and
> business, I guess.  But no matter what anyone says,
> it won't be done
> for the fans, or at least fans with income less than
> a certain level.
> This will certainly change the look and feel of the
> CWS.  It will be
> some time before we can tell if its a change for the
> good or not.


Mike Jaixen
Blog: http://huskermike.blogspot.com


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