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[QUOTE="OttoMets, post: 1045016, member: 716"]
First (minor quibble), Sala's a serious guy, but that's an off-the-cuff remark that the Metrodome staff did everything they should have done; he wasn't up on the roof with them and wouldn't presume to know exactly what they did. I bet his guys are better-practiced in snow removal; further, they're working with a better facility.

Second (as I just noted; not mentioned in most of these threads), Syracuse's circa-1999 replacement roof is not only a state-of-the-art model -- better than those demolished with the Metrodome or replaced in Pontiac and at UNI -- but it's never been lowered and subsequently hasn't suffered the wear that any other roof has had. Structurally it's virtually new.

To put it differently, the original Dome roof was a 20-year model that was lowered four or five times in 19+ years of life; the current roof is a 30-year version that's never come down, has never dropped a speaker, and has been patched extremely infrequently.

SU's not going to replace that roof any time soon. It also won't install another air-supported roof. But they've got at least 15 years left to worry about replacing this one. Meanwhile, the threat of a catastrophic failure is extraordinarily low and doesn't look to increase in the near future (they'll increase the next time a serious blizzard requires deflation or a summer derecho starts to rearrange the structure, or in 2030, whichever comes first).
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