ETSU's planned stadium is a ripoff of The Rich

Collegiate Sports
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As NinerNational said, it looks like they went so far as to just edit our renderings.

Here are a couple more views:

http://csnbbs.com/attachment.php?aid=6325

http://csnbbs.com/attachment.php?aid=6326

(Have to have a CSNBBS account to view)

I’m more than a little offended by this. What’s the story from our AD? Did we know our stadium could/would be copied?

It seriously takes away from our brand if they are allowed to build this. I’d sue, unless we went into our design/build phase agreeing to (god I hope not) or knowing this could happen.

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If I had to guess, I’d think we allowed Jenkins-Peer to sell the design to ETSU.

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That would be my guess too. Doing so would probably greatly reduce the design fees.

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So glad we shoot for the stars like a SoCon school.

How are they funding this?

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Sell… Sell… Sorry not to be a Nazi but that drives me crazy. Sale is a noun. Sell is a verb.

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Sieg Heil! LOL!

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Imitation is the sincerest form of a complement. There IS an uncanny resemblance!

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This doesn’t “offend” me, though I would have preferred The Rich had remained unique.

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This makes me angry. Get your own stadium design!

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That is a damn fine setting.

Scoreboard says 10k attendance, so at least it’s not going to be identical.

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If we ever play there it will be like a home game for us. OK.

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if the same architects did both, and they DIDN’T have our permission or some sort of deal, then we have a law suit would be my guess. the resemblance is NOT a “mere coincidence”!

hell. even if they are DIFFERENT architects!

but my panties aren’t in a wad in any event.

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Never going to play there, so no problem.

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Imitation is the highest form of flattery. I view this as a compliment.

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clt doesn’t see nuh, huh guy. The ETSU mega fan who attends games with self promoting signage.

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Apparently THIS is the new design for ETSU’s stadium:

Compare to us:

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Apparently we were an example for them,

http://www.johnsoncitypress.com/article/115162/etsu-officials-weigh-options-for-stadium-design-site

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I have to agree with the assessment that end zone seating sucks if you aren’t selling out the stadium. Of course the design of ours being in-ground and needing 15,000 seats and being unable to dig deeper; pretty much mandated we have end zone seating. We need to move the walk-up students out there pronto.

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When you use some of the most available, inexpensive materials to construct your buildings, you’re hardly unique and you better be ready for buildings to have some resemblances to yours.