Re: New SDSU Football Stadium Site Plan
A couple of points to pass along that are related to the new stadium, the first is a bit long-winded but eventually gets into the SDSU/BHS joint usage as it currently is:
The baseball organization in Brookings (Friends of Baseball) is desperately trying to find land for a new Little League complex and is working actively with the city to find the land and get that built as quickly as possible. With the enrollment numbers rising significantly in Brookings over the next few years the amount of space that is allotted for Little League is no where near enough to hold the upcoming enrollment numbers. At present they get essentially 3 hours a day on the four fields near Bob Shelden Field at the corner of 8th Street South and Medary Avenue, twice a week. Anything beyond that is scheduled by the specific team and is dependent on field availability which there isn't much of. That's for approximately 160 players and it pretty much maxes out that complex with no room for growth. Projections in the next few years are putting those numbers well over 200 which is prompting a fast-tracking of a new complex. If they can find enough land (so if anyone knows of some available...)
When that complex comes to be (absolute best-case scenario is summer of 2015 if everything falls in place, which probably won't happen) there are talks about tearing the old Little League complex out and replacing it with the new Brookings High School football stadium which will run parallel to 8th Street South. Bob Shelden Field which is currently a sub-varsity football field from September 1-November 1 and a baseball field from March 15-August 15 will be converted to a full-time baseball field. The city just put a large sum of money in their budget for a new concession/bathroom building at Bob Shelden Field which is currently being built (good riddance to the old building) so they're planning on that facility as a whole being there for awhile.
Brookings desperately wants to be back on their own campus for football games. Coughlin-Alumni has been a great host since 2000 but admittedly there is no atmosphere for high school games. The crowd is too spread out and it feels empty even when there are 4,000 people at the game.
All this stuff is just rumors at this point so take them with a grain of salt...
That new complex would take care of those that don't like BHS playing on SDSU's field. On a side note, argue all you want, but with the weather the way it was, SDSU/SIU would have done the exact same amount of damage in warm-ups that Brookings/Harrisburg did to it the night before during the entire game. That field would've been awful no matter what since it's a poor excuse for a grass field to begin with.
Related to Daktronics, awhile back I'd heard that Daktronics won't do much for "demo" products in Brookings because it does them no good to advertise in a town where their products are built, and to that I see their point. They do cut them some breaks but it's not as much as one would think with them being in the same town. But it definitely is frustrating with them being across town yet not doing as much for the city they share as a lot think they should.
A couple of points to pass along that are related to the new stadium, the first is a bit long-winded but eventually gets into the SDSU/BHS joint usage as it currently is:
The baseball organization in Brookings (Friends of Baseball) is desperately trying to find land for a new Little League complex and is working actively with the city to find the land and get that built as quickly as possible. With the enrollment numbers rising significantly in Brookings over the next few years the amount of space that is allotted for Little League is no where near enough to hold the upcoming enrollment numbers. At present they get essentially 3 hours a day on the four fields near Bob Shelden Field at the corner of 8th Street South and Medary Avenue, twice a week. Anything beyond that is scheduled by the specific team and is dependent on field availability which there isn't much of. That's for approximately 160 players and it pretty much maxes out that complex with no room for growth. Projections in the next few years are putting those numbers well over 200 which is prompting a fast-tracking of a new complex. If they can find enough land (so if anyone knows of some available...)
When that complex comes to be (absolute best-case scenario is summer of 2015 if everything falls in place, which probably won't happen) there are talks about tearing the old Little League complex out and replacing it with the new Brookings High School football stadium which will run parallel to 8th Street South. Bob Shelden Field which is currently a sub-varsity football field from September 1-November 1 and a baseball field from March 15-August 15 will be converted to a full-time baseball field. The city just put a large sum of money in their budget for a new concession/bathroom building at Bob Shelden Field which is currently being built (good riddance to the old building) so they're planning on that facility as a whole being there for awhile.
Brookings desperately wants to be back on their own campus for football games. Coughlin-Alumni has been a great host since 2000 but admittedly there is no atmosphere for high school games. The crowd is too spread out and it feels empty even when there are 4,000 people at the game.
All this stuff is just rumors at this point so take them with a grain of salt...
That new complex would take care of those that don't like BHS playing on SDSU's field. On a side note, argue all you want, but with the weather the way it was, SDSU/SIU would have done the exact same amount of damage in warm-ups that Brookings/Harrisburg did to it the night before during the entire game. That field would've been awful no matter what since it's a poor excuse for a grass field to begin with.
Related to Daktronics, awhile back I'd heard that Daktronics won't do much for "demo" products in Brookings because it does them no good to advertise in a town where their products are built, and to that I see their point. They do cut them some breaks but it's not as much as one would think with them being in the same town. But it definitely is frustrating with them being across town yet not doing as much for the city they share as a lot think they should.
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