who ya got?
the ninja's entry:
cost: 72.3 million
seating capacity added/removed since renovation: -1,371 (overall capacity down to 56,029)
amenities: project with seats and luxury boxes atop a four-story complex housing locker rooms, football offices, a weight training area, a cafeteria for student athletes, the new Sands Club, and new concessions and bathrooms.
facility tour attire:
the grasshopper's entry:
cost: 75 million
seating capacity added/removed: +6,255 (overall capacity up to 61,337)
amenities: project with seats and luxury boxes atop a four-story complex housing visitor locker rooms, the new State level, Scoreboard Club, Gridiron, new concessions and bathrooms, and a large high definition video board.
facility tour attire:
my estimation:
overall value added: advantage grasshopper...cost per seat and what it brings....the grasshopper wins in a landslide.
exterior asthetics: advantage grasshopper (the exterior of arizona stadium looks nice, but i question its longevity and it is asymmetrical...in 25 years, theirs might look like soviet block housing).
interior asthetics: advantage ninja (just looks nice and clean)
premium seating: advantage ninja (although i didnt do a seat-for-seat analysis, the eye test says that sea of chairbacks puts the ninja ahead)
overall cost: advantage ninja...nearly a push and our final numbers arent in (to my knowledge), but they probably have us beat by a couple mil.
visual impact: advantage grasshopper...its night and day
cost per seat added: advantage grasshopper...since arizona lost seats, this was easy.
amenities: advantage grasshopper. states expansion has everything arizonas does except offices, weight room, and cafeteria. it matches the premium seating opportunities in type (not number) and adds loge seating, a field level viewing area, and huge jumbotron just to make sure our fans are saturated with enough ads and atmosphere killing promos to deflate us just when things get interesting on the field.
facility tour attire: advantage ninja. i know what you were thinking....they look exactly the same and upon initial inspection, you would be right, however, the ninja has shades on (indoors no less) and thus the point is awarded to theninja for being slightly less dorky looking.
score:
ninja: 4
grasshopper: 5
i also toyed with deducting additional points because arizona went from natural grass to field turf, but a tie-break was not necessary. where it counts the most, we got the most for our money, added seats, and made the expansion/renovation one of the most dramatic changes in the nation.
well done grasshopper....
if reading this was a big waste of your time, i offer this as a consolation:
the ninja's entry:
cost: 72.3 million
seating capacity added/removed since renovation: -1,371 (overall capacity down to 56,029)
amenities: project with seats and luxury boxes atop a four-story complex housing locker rooms, football offices, a weight training area, a cafeteria for student athletes, the new Sands Club, and new concessions and bathrooms.
facility tour attire:
the grasshopper's entry:
cost: 75 million
seating capacity added/removed: +6,255 (overall capacity up to 61,337)
amenities: project with seats and luxury boxes atop a four-story complex housing visitor locker rooms, the new State level, Scoreboard Club, Gridiron, new concessions and bathrooms, and a large high definition video board.
facility tour attire:
my estimation:
overall value added: advantage grasshopper...cost per seat and what it brings....the grasshopper wins in a landslide.
exterior asthetics: advantage grasshopper (the exterior of arizona stadium looks nice, but i question its longevity and it is asymmetrical...in 25 years, theirs might look like soviet block housing).
interior asthetics: advantage ninja (just looks nice and clean)
premium seating: advantage ninja (although i didnt do a seat-for-seat analysis, the eye test says that sea of chairbacks puts the ninja ahead)
overall cost: advantage ninja...nearly a push and our final numbers arent in (to my knowledge), but they probably have us beat by a couple mil.
visual impact: advantage grasshopper...its night and day
cost per seat added: advantage grasshopper...since arizona lost seats, this was easy.
amenities: advantage grasshopper. states expansion has everything arizonas does except offices, weight room, and cafeteria. it matches the premium seating opportunities in type (not number) and adds loge seating, a field level viewing area, and huge jumbotron just to make sure our fans are saturated with enough ads and atmosphere killing promos to deflate us just when things get interesting on the field.
facility tour attire: advantage ninja. i know what you were thinking....they look exactly the same and upon initial inspection, you would be right, however, the ninja has shades on (indoors no less) and thus the point is awarded to theninja for being slightly less dorky looking.
score:
ninja: 4
grasshopper: 5
i also toyed with deducting additional points because arizona went from natural grass to field turf, but a tie-break was not necessary. where it counts the most, we got the most for our money, added seats, and made the expansion/renovation one of the most dramatic changes in the nation.
well done grasshopper....
if reading this was a big waste of your time, i offer this as a consolation:
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