Video- The new (old) Rutgers stadium with Doug Graber
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Remember that well. Graber had a great personality, too bad he wasn't more successful.
Graber certainly deserves a big thank you for his efforts with the NJ legislature in getting the improvements done. If only FEG and the administration would have provided him we with the academic support and total commitment needed at the time we might have been in either the B1G or ACC a lot sooner. But as we all know that's both another and yet has been part of the same old story at the Rutgers. Hopefully this is changing going forward.
Thank you for posting the Video.My former son-in law and I sat all the way up for a Cincy game and walked to the very top. It was a great view.
That's where my seats were up top at the 35 yard line great view up there. Then when Schiano got hired we moved down.
One thing you can easily say about the expansion back then.. They didn't build one bad seat!! I've sat basically everywhere over the years.. Every seat has a good view of the field!!
So you stayed there during the Shea years. How many times were you tempted to jump?
Think the Opening game was against Kent State.
Remember being in the Upper Deck on the West side for the RU inaugural victory.
Was there for the Expansion opening game as well vs. Cincy. Not so good outcome.
I just bookmarked the video, I'll watch the whole thing later.
Does anyone recall....the stadium expansion was cut back - what did they eliminate because of the cutback? Someone mentioned that the upper decks were supposed to be bigger - is that true?
Does anyone recall....the stadium expansion was cut back - what did they eliminate because of the cutback? Someone mentioned that the upper decks were supposed to be bigger - is that true?
It wasn't pretty by it was "OUR HOUSE". If you look at the beginning of the video players were taking off their pads to show the shirt that said "OUR HOUSE" to the fans. It was the last game (11/14/92) in the old stadium against West Virginia. We won 13-9.
Well I was not an RU fan until the new stadium was built. RU fan now for 20 plus years and season ticket holder for 18 yrs so I'm more than happy they knocked down the old stadium otherwise would probably still.be an ND fan a team I now despise
Thanks for sharing. Graber was articulate but did not last long enough to gain the benefits of the new stadium (don't mean to suggest his termination was unwarranted; but he did face a significant handicap in having to play so many "home" games at the Meadowlands).
It was supposed to be a "C" instead of the "U" we ended up with.
While we are talking stadium.. they need to fix the exit area on the home/east side. The lower bowl and upper deck all merge at the ramp down... it is ugly when a game ends and people try to leave at the same time. The noncompetitive games this year has alleviated that a bit. but I hope that work-around doesn't get used too often in the future.
He was also hamstrung by the fact that the Athletic Department had almost nothing in terms of academic support. Part of Grunninger's plan to go big time in athletics.
Really? Wow, I didn't know that. Would be interesting to see that original design.
If you remember the concourse on top of the lower level extended past 101 and 130? into the open end,but no section built below the extensions. The lower level should have been two sections bigger and formed a slight C instead of a U.
Also, the area on the upper concourse where the concessions are was supposed to be covered. If you look the vertical supports are there but no covering on them forming a roof. It wouldn't take much money to do this.
The missing sections in the open end would have matched sections 110 and 121 that were on the then closed end
Moms Skillethead was on the Building and Grounds committee as the (graduate) student member from the Board of Trustees at the time. (This was not long after Sonny Werblin had died.) She asked me what she should say at the meeting about whether they should go for the most expensive of the rebuild plans. I told her the state was picking up most of the tab and we should get whatever we could.
So at the meeting, the head of the committee asks, "What do the students say?" Moms says, "The students say, 'Go for the gusto!'" The head of the committee says, "Sonny would've loved you!"
So at the meeting, the head of the committee asks, "What do the students say?" Moms says, "The students say, 'Go for the gusto!'" The head of the committee says, "Sonny would've loved you!"
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