Don’t think of it as a “party deck” as much as a really populated concrete ceiling for a parking garage and a kitchen.

Athletic Director Oliver Luck said Monday that his desctiption of a party deck was a “bad description” — and to be fair, he said last week it would be “almost” like a party deck.

Certainly the initial arrangement of words generates an array of reactions and his vision is not necessatily in line with a certain variety of those reactions.

And that was all before anyone in the southern part of the state got a hold of it.

In Luck’s mind’s eye, the party deck is actually outside of the stadium bowl and not a place from where someone could see the game as it happens on the field. Think behind and beneath the scoreboard feature in the north end zone.

If you’ve ever walked toward the stadium from the north end, either from the parking lots or beyond the hospital area, you know there is an incline toward a level that plateaus at Touchdown Terrace. WVU would like to perhaps build out level from the entrance of Touchdown Terrace to a point that’s above where the hill that climbs to that aforementioned plateau begins.

By doing so, WVU creates some vertical space by merely using space that is used already, but maybe isn’t being maximized. That deck really would be the roof of a functional space where TV trucks could park and a kitchen could be built.

Those trucks take up some valuble space outside the stadium. Luck said, “Everyone complains about the food, and rightfully so, but the only way to get better food is to cook it on-site. We don’t have anywhere to cook.”

Sure, above that kitchen there would be a deck, but Luck said the only plans discussed thus far have it serving as a place for pregame events and requiring no special or additional admission.

It would probably have added concession stands and/or restrooms and that would help thin out the overcrowding problem that developed as colateral damage last season when WVU started sellng beer and ended its re-entry policy.

Truly, the concession and bathroom areas were sometimes impossible to navigate and Luck really, really doesn’t like the sight of empty seats or a line of people filing to their seats at the start of a game or a half.

So in summary, not really a party deck, but rather a way to make game day a little better a Mountaineer Field and not deal with the side effects.

“Everybody has the option to stay at home and watch the game on the couch,” he said. “That’s a very attractive option financially and people can drink their own soda pop and drink their own beer and eat their own food and invite their own friends over. When I was with the NFL and the MLS, we would spend a lot of time, as would the other leagues like the NBA and Major League Baseball, studying the game day experience and making sure it would always remain special.

“Otherwise, you suffer consequences. You have to look at everything you do, how we sell tickets, how we sell food, the quality of the food. That was the driving force behind selling beer. That was not so much about money, but cutting down on the drunks who come into the stadium after guzzling liquor. Let’s give them a chance to buy a beer.”