New DKR Aerial

[LonghorninAustin]

I was at the Spring game and was blown away by the stadium. If you haven't seen it in person, you don't know how great it looks. It is ******* awesome!

 

[drborange]

I like it , but one thing that I just noticed is that the field is not centered with the west side lower stands. The north end is just past the end of the end zone , but the south end is about one whole section past the end zone.

I wonder if they will balance that out if (when) they build the permanent SEZ?

 

[Texas Taps]

How soon we forget. The East and West side used to extend well beyond the NEZ just as it does the SEZ

 

[Pancho Negro]

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[EPThorn]

Thanks BoarderHorn, not living in Austin i can only view the stadium thru this board.
That pic is a much better angle and does the stadium justice. Thanks for restoring my faith in the expansion.

Although i still think is does resemble OU stadium a great deal, including the exterior.
Where they designed by the same company?

 

[danny1010]

With the NEZ, we'll be on par with SEC schools. A few of them still might be larger, but DKR will have them beat on quality and amenities. Anyone that's been to Death Valley or Neyland know that they're definitely not known for their quality construction. Plus, DKR has the obvious ability to trump them... and pretty much everyone else for that matter... on both size and quality with our next expansion.

 

[UTuba]

Maybe an engineer would know this better, but I don't think it'd be practical to just do the lower section in the SEZ like in Mr. Picc's pic without just doing it all. It seems like having to dig the foundation (and possible underground levels) wouldn't work with the fieldhouse and godtron. When they did the NEZ, it was massive. And yeah, I know that's what she said.

 

[Owlhorn]

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[JuniorHorn11]

You have to see it in person. My dad came to town today and he hadn't seen it since the end of last season. He was absolutely blown away. The expansion looks massive from the SEZ.

 

[Austin_Horn]

I can't emphasize enough how loud it will be - at the spring game there was nowhere for the sound to go but right into the North Face....which threw it right back to Godzillitron

 

[swc.lives.on]

I took my mom (UT '56) to the spring game. You don't get any feel for how massive the NEZ is from photos. It is overpowering in person.

Someone needs to hit the "mirror" command on their AutoCAD and run of the bluelines for the SEZ now, and tell Hensel-Phelps to keep going . . .

 

[Stuck_At_Work]

See it in person and it will blow your mind. Trust me. The NEZ rises from the earth with such authority... that it makes the old end zone look like a playground bleacher.

 

[Texcess]

For those asking about the SEZ, here is a link a poster provided some time back. Note the capacity for the DKR-TMS for the 2009 season will be 102,370.

(Thanks TBC, me too.)

SEZ Expansion - 2009

 

[TexanByChoice]

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[RayDog]

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