Thursday, May 29, 2014

Thursday-- May 29th, 2014

I was down in Amherst yesterday on a cool and rainy day. I stopped by the UMass Football Performance center and took some images. Talked with the friendly construction workers.

The outside of both the Performance Center and the new press box is coming along well. The insides still have some work to go.

Click on the image and Blogger displays a larger view. I've set up a Picassa web album with about 15 images here.

The facing of the building is concrete board. Up close, it has a nice texture and weathers to a more attractive visual appearance than concrete  (so say the manufacturers).

Wish they had this stuff back when I was at UMass during the Era of Concrete Buildings. It would have avoided the Post Stalin-Chernobyl look some of those structures now have.

View from the parking lot side

New press box

Concrete board panels 

Ground floor from inside the stadium
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The Steelers have Rob Blanchflower's roster page up.

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MassLive has a story on Josh Maurer, who is in perpetual motion these days.

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iFootball reports former UMass QB Mike Wegzyn has joined Tennessee football.

The Volunteers just lost a potential starting QB.

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