C’mon, coach. This isn’t an ad hominem attack. It’s a suggestion. If Penn State wants season ticket holders outside of Centre County, then they had damned well better start looking for ways to make it easier for us to do so.
Most people drive in with Tailgate supplies and go to the game. They leave immediately afterward. Everything is a three hour wait on Fridays and Saturday nights because the "adult places" to go are dwindling. It doesn't take many people dwntwn SC to make it look crowded. Bottom line is a good "capture" rate is not available when 110,000 ascend on the town for a day. By comparison I saw that the Arts fest attracts 125,000 over 4 days.
the last time I went to a game my family and I walked around downtown for a couple hours before going back to tailgate. The lines at family clothes line and other places were out the door. So what I’m saying is the amount of money as a total for 7 home football games has to be more than 87 million from what I physically saw.
From a space stand point, it’s an easy fix that will cause a little bit of a parking headache for 2 years. You knock down Bryce Jordan Center and utilize that space as well as the soccer fields to build a new football stadium, while still using The Beave to play games until the new stadium is done. Basketball can go back to Rec Hall until a new place can be built, which can be done once they raze The Beave. Soccer can be played anywhere, even in The Beave, if necessary, until they get their space back by razing The Beave.
Interesting idea. With a couple issues to resolve. First it is campus/university property. Would likely need legislative approval for any commercial development. Good luck with that.
No worries about Pa. legislature. If you build it, they will come. Question is are there any visionaries out there?
Why knock down Bryce Jordan? Plenty of space right across Porter Road near the baseball field if a new stadium is to be built. It keeps the stadium close, but gives space to move 100k people in and out. Also doesn't disrupt any other sports.
Because from everything I’ve read and heard, BJC is an unworthy crap hole that was not very well thought out for it’s purpose of being a basketball arena. Build something better.
And once the new art museum is built we will need massive facilities to handle those crowds!😉
I've only been in there for a concert, so I can't agree or disagree with that. I was planning on going to the BIG wrestling tournament a couple years ago, but fans weren't allowed cause of Covid.
I think the idea of online college sounds great. But after seeing what happened with a lot of students during the Covid year or year and half, I'm not so sure it will have the impact you think any time soon. Most students aren't motivated enough or confident enough to learn that way effectively. Online classes aren't necessarily any easier - good ones are going to be of comparable difficulty, and maybe even have the same professors, just not in person.
You mean the Barron's Royal Garden and Confectionary? Yep, he's on record that 400,000 will visit. He and Molly's water colors will be a big hit. May have to have replicas displayed for fear of a Royal Heist.
Online will have a dramatic impact. First reason, kids can take several courses online that are in the easy category. And several majors could go 80-90% online. History, social,sciences, literature, education, lots more. Say about a quarter of classes go online. Maybe as much as one half.
Sure, it will have an impact. But I doubt the kids who want and are able to go to University Park (or even better schools, as much as I loved my time at PSU) and can swing it are going to want to go mostly online or go to community college.
But they can take an entire year online and save big bucs. Some will take two years. A few will take it all online. Adds up.
True, but they've had that type of option for a while. There's CLEP, AP and at PSU the World Campus used to be significantly cheaper than in-person options. On-line classes (at the same cost as in-person) are more common now even for full-time, on-campus students, but I don't think it's yet reached the point where schools will shut down. Maybe as technology improves that will change. At this point, the in-person experience is still generally better. If it gets to the point where school is 100 percent online, then the size of Beaver Stadium or cost of construction isn't going to matter. You kind of have to make decisions like the status quo is going to continue, or believe that if it changes you will somehow change with it. If not, just do nothing, because no one has a crystal ball.
I guess you never saw Animal House or Old School - plenty of reasons to go to College or were you talking about an education or some other unimportant reason to go to college.
Just heard a report on the radio that, because of ongoing labor shortages, Fidelity is going to hire 10,000 kids out of high school and start on the Jin training and give them full tuition. Working full time while attending college will mean a lot of that will be online.
On the Jin training, si liar? Probably auto-corrected by your phone. That's probably the quality we can expect from many of these kids and their online degrees.
I wonder how the On the Jin training compares to the On the Rolling Rock and Yuengling Lager training I received at Penn State?
