(11-24-2020, 10:28 AM)StroudCrowd1 Wrote:

(11-24-2020, 10:21 AM)jagman Wrote: This post will cause many negative comments but I'm beyond caring.  Maybe it's time for ownership to do something to turn this team and franchise into a winner instead of making demands concerning stadium upgrades.  What good is it to have a great looking stadium if the players, coaches, and general manager constantly under perform.

One could argue Khan's plan all along was to make people lose interest in the team to a point of apathy like your post indicates. Consumers are smarter these days andd "Generation Jaguar" never materialized like we thought it would.

At the end of the day, I think the city will do whatever it takes to keep the Jags here. I also think the stadium could stand to be in a different part of town. Maybe that is why they are slow playing Lot J and Shipyards?

They could buy a chunk of that Davis/Skinner property off of Butler, and build it there. Take the scoreboards with you and incorporate them into the new construction.  That area has already grown like weeds in Spring, it would fit perfectly there.  Leave the old stadium there for Fla/Ga, Gator bowl and monster trucking, it'll be fine.  Daily's place will probably survive as its own entity. Consolidation in the seventies killed any possibility of downtown Jacksonville growing. Downtown Development is a myth and has been ever since I moved here in 1980, and I worked downtown for many years.  Consider this; other than the Berkman Apartments, which obviously ended very badly, the last high-rise skyscraper to be built was the Bank of America building in 1988 (I'm not counting the South bank as 'downtown'). That's how much our downtown has grown.  Since then, we've torn down more than we've built . Build the Renaissance Center just south of the Town Center on whatever land you can acquire out there along with a new stadium, and you're good to go.

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