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  • #55194
    StateFans
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    This is a long way from that awful furnace in which I sat in 100+ degree heat in 1998.

    12 Pictures of McLane Stadium

    Fact: we’re putting a $235 million stadium on the Brazos River that 44 million people are going to see a year that’s gonna represent Baylor University for generations to come. We’re one of the only schools in America to have a stadium on a river and on a major highway. Lot of people have beautiful stadiums, but you gotta drive to ’em. This one’s in your face. That’s a fact. — Art Briles

    #55270
    ancsu87
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    It is a great stadium but was surprised it only held 45,000 basis the cost and talk.

    #55271
    tjfoose1
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    I heard packalum44 is pissed off at our mediocrity because we settled for a stadium without a river.

    #55276
    LRM
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    In the past two decades only two teams (Oregon, Virginia Tech) have emerged as sustained national powers (am I overlooking anyone?)

    Baylor has been making its case to become the next one.

    #55282
    Wulfpack
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    In the past two decades only two teams (Oregon, Virginia Tech) have emerged as sustained national powers (am I overlooking anyone?)

    Perhaps Louisville? Stanford? Michigan State? Iowa?

    I wouldn’t put Virginia Tech in the “national power” classification like I would Oregon. Beamer has built a very strong program, surely. But not national championship caliber. That’s why I lump in those other programs I mention.

    #55290
    LRM
    Keymaster

    You’d consider Louisville, Iowa, Michigan State and Stanford over Virginia Tech?

    I stand firmly by my statement: Oregon and VT.

    The key is sustained. Virginia Tech (under Beamer) has won 3 Big East and 4 ACC titles and played for a national title (1999). They have more ACC titles since joining than FSU in that same time. They’ve played for as many national titles in the past 20 years as Oregon.

    Meanwhile, Michigan State and Iowa each have only two conference titles in the past 20 years. Louisville hasn’t been apart of a BCS conference for 10 years and won a Big East title at 7-6 (and lost to State in Charlotte). Stanford has 9 losing seasons in the past 20 years (State only has 7). None of these are powers over VT.

    #55297
    Texpack
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    The cost of McLane Stadium is pretty high when you consider that UH built TDECU Stadium for 120 Million and it holds 40,000. Both of these have an expansion plan already designed into the original stadiums, so unless the foo foo factor makes Uncle Drayton’s place really stand out, I’m not seeing why the cost difference was so high.

    #55286
    Daniel_Simpson_Day
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    “I wouldn’t put Virginia Tech in the “national power” classification like I would Oregon”
    I think it’s splitting hairs to not call VPI a national power. They’ve had back–to-back subpar performances by “national power” standards, but in the past 20 years they have thirteen 10+ win seasons. I’m not going to do the research, but in the past 25 years I bet the list of teams with a stretch like that is pretty limited. Oregon has nine 10+ win seasons in that same period; 6 in the past 6 years.
    Now, VPI may have peaked and we may be witnessing the preface to their program’s nose dive, but I still consider them a national power.

    #55294
    Daniel_Simpson_Day
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    I think it’s splitting hairs to not call VPI a national power. They’ve had back–to-back subpar performances by “national power” standards, but in the past 20 years they have thirteen 10+ win seasons. I’m not going to do the research, but in the past 25 years I bet the list of teams with a stretch like that is pretty limited. Oregon has nine 10+ win seasons in that same period; 6 in the past 6 years.
    Now, VPI may have peaked and we may be witnessing the beginning of their decline, but I still consider them a national power.

    #55295
    Daniel_Simpson_Day
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    It’s easy to forget how good VPI has been for the past 20 years because of their recent mediocrity. In the past 20 years VPI has thirteen 10+ win seasons. That is astounding to me for a ‘lil ole land grant school in Blacksburg, Va. In that same period, Oregon has nine (six straight in the past six years).

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