Viator Getting A Home Field Advantage?

[Lion4Life01]

Hope this ends up happening!

After six decades, will St. Viator football finally have a home-field advantage?

The Chicago Bears aren't the only ones who want to build a football stadium in Arlington Heights. St. Viator High School has proposed construction of a stadium as part of a four-field outdoor athleti...

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[SiuCubFan8]

Looks sweet.

 

[ramblinman]

This looks really nice. What a great use of limited space. Hope the neighbors don't hold things up.

 

[tomloner]

A football field without the running track gets the fans closer to the action. As long as the visiting stands are high enough to see over the players it should be a great place to watch a game. Sort of similar to St. Ignatius facilities on the south side of Roosevelt Road.

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[Lion4Life01]

A football field without the running track gets the fans closer to the action. As long as the visiting stands are high enough to see over the players it should be a great place to watch a game. Sort of similar to St. Ignatius facilities on the south side of Roosevelt Road.

Similar to MC's stadium too. Really a unique/awesome experience to be so close to the field.

 

[4Afan]

Not much I love more then new stadium renderings!

 

[dweise]

Similar to MC's stadium too. Really a unique/awesome experience to be so close to the field.

Barda-Dowling is awesome.

 

[SiuCubFan8]

This looks really nice. What a great use of limited space. Hope the neighbors don't hold things up.

Oh the rumblings have started!

 

[Lion4Life01]

Barda-Dowling is awesome.

Best stadium I've been too, hands down. Truly a unique experience. The walk through the driveway into the stadium with all MC's accomplishments, the bleachers being on top of the field, the bleachers in the end zone, the train roaring by, the jumbo-tron.....all awesome! MC is extremely lucky to have such a facility! Really changes the gameday "experience"

Fuels my excitement for Viator to have its own unique gameday experience if this can be pulled off.

 

[ramblinman]

So, here's a question: If they take away that big wide open field behind the school, consolidate two baseball fields into one, add room for permanent stands, etc., will SV teams that currently practice there get displaced and, if so, where will they go?

 

[Lion4Life01]

Oh the rumblings have started!

My folks live a block from Viator....they said the community reaction has been positive so far, but not sure if that holds true overall.

 

[ramblinman]

Oh the rumblings have started!

We know all about neighbor rumblings at Loyola.

 

[SiuCubFan8]

My folks live a block from Viator....they said the community reaction has been positive so far, but not sure if that holds true overall.

To be fair there will always be a few that complain, and they are usually the loudest.

Good to hear most support around SV has been positive.

 

[tomloner]

We know all about neighbor rumblings at Loyola.

I would like to know how many of those who rumble the loudest moved there AFTER the school was built?

 

[ramblinman]

I would like to know how many of those who rumble the loudest moved there AFTER the school was built?

Unless they have lived in the same house for 65 years, all of them.

 

[SiuCubFan8]

I would like to know how many of those who rumble the loudest moved there AFTER the school was built?

Agree…

 

[MS4EVER]

Wow!! Awesome for them!

 

[CCHS-Fan]

Nice!

 

[DadCoachSports]

The drawings look great! I can see the lights being an issue.

Also, dont love the baseball field butting up to Dryden would imagine so balls flying out onto the street.

Taking care of everyone but the track program. If you are going to do it might as well figure out a way to add a track.

 

[Double O 7]

The drawings look great! I can see the lights being an issue.

Also, dont love the baseball field butting up to Dryden would imagine so balls flying out onto the street.

Taking care of everyone but the track program. If you are going to do it might as well figure out a way to add a track.

The new LED lights have next to no spillage and resolve a lot of what the neighbors would complain about (at more places than just Viator). The balls flying out onto Dryden could be solved by a blue monster wall (or a net).

 

[MC63]

I would like to know how many of those who rumble the loudest moved there AFTER the school was built?

I lived in Park Ridge for 18 years. and the loudest O'Hare complainers were those who moved in but a few years earlier. About a decade ago, a slate of aldermen were elected who were pro-airport. I loved it.

 

[kpjasion]

I have to plead ignorance..where do they play right now?At Forest View?

 

[MC63]

Hope this ends up happening!

After six decades, will St. Viator football finally have a home-field advantage?

The Chicago Bears aren't the only ones who want to build a football stadium in Arlington Heights. St. Viator High School has proposed construction of a stadium as part of a four-field outdoor athleti...

www.dailyherald.com

Great for them. I hope it's built while I can still attend.

 

[MC63]

I have to plead ignorance..where do they play right now?At Forest View?

yes - not a bad placee (actually it's Robert Morris University stadium). Parking's not bad - the lights are a bit dim, but so is my eyesight.