Which stadium is best?

[Go Lehigh TU Owl]

Grading the stadiums of the Northeast, apologies if I missed anyone:

A: Delaware, James Madison, Princeton, Stony Brook, William & Mary
B+: Richmond, Maine, New Hampshire
B: Harvard, Dartmouth, Holy Cross, Lafayette, Lehigh, Pennsylvania, Yale
C+: Monmouth, Columbia, Cornell, Norfolk St., Towson
C: Brown, Bucknell, CCSU, Colgate, Hampton, LIU, Merrimack, URI, Villanova, VMI
D: Bryant, Del State, Fordham, Howard, Marist, Morgan St., Robert Morris, Sacred Heart, St. Francis, Wagner
F: Duquesne, Georgetown

Lehigh and Lafayette blow UNH's renovated digs out of the water. It's not even close. Unless things have changed the away side at Wildcat Stadium is still old and need of replacing. Plus it has a track. You can tell it was done with the same mindset as JMU's stadium. UNH's facility is extremely underwhelming and not trying to be a hater. I can't imagine how bad it was before the rebuilt home side. It's a testament to UNH's football culture they're able to sustain national success. I even said to a local politician who I sat near that Lehigh should embarrassed they didn't submit a bid or install lights.



Away seats...

[POD Knows]

Lehigh and Lafayette blow UNH's renovated digs out of the water. It's not even close. Unless things have changed the away side at Wildcat Stadium is still old and need of replacing. Plus it has a track. You can tell it was done with the same mindset as JMU's stadium. UNH's facility is extremely underwhelming and not trying to be a hater. I can't imagine how bad it was before the rebuilt home side. It's a testament to UNH's football culture they're able to sustain national success. I even said to a local politician who I sat near that Lehigh should embarrassed they didn't submit a bid or install lights.



Away seats...

The non-stadium in these pics sucks, nice freaking track though

[Go Lehigh TU Owl]

Lafayette...might be another two years until I return. These two pics are from 2016, a week before the UNH game...

[Go Lehigh TU Owl]

Here's a good pic of Lehigh's stadium and most of its athletic campus. Money and land are a helluva combo...

[katss07]

Yeah, but Wildcat Stadium's nickname is The Dungeon so it's kind of automatically better

[Go Lehigh TU Owl]

Princeton Stadium. Just a beautiful facility!



Palmer Stadium which proceeded Princeton Stadium. I wish I could find a decent "modern" pic of it! I vividly remember watching Keith Elias shred Lehigh here in 1993....

[KPSUL]

Lehigh and Lafayette blow UNH's renovated digs out of the water. It's not even close. Unless things have changed the away side at Wildcat Stadium is still old and need of replacing. Plus it has a track. You can tell it was done with the same mindset as JMU's stadium. UNH's facility is extremely underwhelming and not trying to be a hater. I can't imagine how bad it was before the rebuilt home side. It's a testament to UNH's football culture they're able to sustain national success. I even said to a local politician who I sat near that Lehigh should embarrassed they didn't submit a bid or install lights.

The only thing Lehigh should have been embarrassed about that day was the way they played. The fact that a mediocre UNH Team blew out the most promising Lehigh team in a decade in the only game you attended there might have contributed to your less than complimentary assessment. Coach Mac took it easy on your guys that day, we could have scored 80 points instead of 64. Although the old, now visitor's side of the stadium is in no way aesthetically pleasing when you look at it from a distance, it is a great place to watch a football game. All of the seats are high enough off the field to get a decent view of the game even if you sit in the bottom few rows - that totally negates the effect of the track. Where else in the CAA are you going to attend an away game and get to sit in a box seat between the 40's, behind your team's bench? The answer is no where. Everything about the home field side is comfortable and efficient, from the walk in and out of the stadium, the leg and butt room and the sight lines to the field. We also have the best video board in the conference and I've seen almost all of them. The old Cowell Stadium was, well, the old grandstands you don't like to look at with Bleachers on the other side and bleachers also in the south end zone. But the place was magical for a big game with fans pressed up against fencing all around the stadium. We also had the best food available in college football: Hand cut French fries cooked fresh in peanut oil, waffles with real maple syrup, and several other unique items. By the way you were probably talking with a plumber or a lobsterman, we all drink too much on Boulder Field before the game and say we are politicians to visitors. It's quite believable - little NH has the largest state legislature in the country and all of them went to UNH.

[UAalum72]

Grading the stadiums of the Northeast, apologies if I missed anyone:

A: Delaware, James Madison, Princeton, Stony Brook, William & Mary
B+: Richmond, Maine, New Hampshire
B: Harvard, Dartmouth, Holy Cross, Lafayette, Lehigh, Pennsylvania, Yale
C+: Monmouth, Columbia, Cornell, Norfolk St., Towson
C: Brown, Bucknell, CCSU, Colgate, Hampton, LIU, Merrimack, URI, Villanova, VMI
D: Bryant, Del State, Fordham, Howard, Marist, Morgan St., Robert Morris, Sacred Heart, St. Francis, Wagner
F: Duquesne, Georgetown

Albany, which except for end zone seating is pretty similar to Stony Brook

[Go Lehigh TU Owl]

The only thing Lehigh should have been embarrassed about that day was the way they played. The fact that a mediocre UNH Team blew out the most promising Lehigh team in a decade in the only game you attended there might have contributed to your less than complimentary assessment. Coach Mac took it easy on your guys that day, we could have scored 80 points instead of 64. Although the old, now visitor's side of the stadium is in no way aesthetically pleasing when you look at it from a distance, it is a great place to watch a football game. All of the seats are high enough off the field to get a decent view of the game even if you sit in the bottom few rows - that totally negates the effect of the track. Where else in the CAA are you going to attend an away game and get to sit in a box seat between the 40's, behind your team's bench? The answer is no where. Everything about the home field side is comfortable and efficient, from the walk in and out of the stadium, the leg and butt room and the sight lines to the field. We also have the best video board in the conference and I've seen almost all of them. The old Cowell Stadium was, well, the old grandstands you don't like to look at with Bleachers on the other side and bleachers also in the south end zone. But the place was magical for a big game with fans pressed up against fencing all around the stadium. We also had the best food available in college football: Hand cut French fries cooked fresh in peanut oil, waffles with real maple sugar, and several other unique items. By the way you were probably talking with a plumber or a lobsterman, we all drink too much on Boulder Field before the game and say we are politicians to visitors. It's quite believable - little NH has the largest state legislature in the country and all of them went to UNH.

Lehigh was horrific that day! Absolute awful performance considering they were the favorite!..lol. Colgate's upset in 2015 did them no favors either. UNH was out for blood. Coaching defections and losing the PL POY due to mono made things worse.

The the local politician was very instrumental in the entire process of the stadium. He was there was another gentleman who was the one who reinforced this guys pull in getting funding for the facility. They sat directly in front me on the away side which I thought was weird. To this day I've always wondered the guys name. Any idea?

[Go Lehigh TU Owl]

It's fascinating to see what money gets you. Due to its history and breadth W&M has the extra jingle in their pockets to add a nice brick facade on their renovated home "side". Most FCS state schools (SIU, UNH, JMU, Montana State, SDSU) don't have the resources to cover that extra level of refinement; etc. I need to get to William & Mary sooner rather than later!