The biggest hindrance, to me, with fixing Peden is the two late-'80s curved sections that have never felt like actual pieces of the field. Plus, they were built at a time when there was still a track in the stadium. I haven't sat in those seats in a long time, but I don't remember the view being that close.
Victory Hill will never look right, either, because it wasn't built while being mindful of the antiquated scoreboard structure behind it. What should have happened was "squaring off" the field and having some rows of endzone seats on that end of the field with a much more subtle grass slope behind it (perhaps like Akron's or a little smaller).
Akron's grass slope, if you were there and noticed, isn't just a random hill like ours is. It's there in the actual context of the stands. In other words, on the off chance that Akron football goes bigger time, they can gut that hill and put the seats in that they'd need to have to boast a bigger capacity. They could do the same thing with those two notches on the other end that currently have shrubs in them.
This is what I'd do at Peden before even adding a second deck:
1. Tear down those two curved sections and make the north end of the stadium more inclusive and more closely tied to the area on the north end closer to the field. Include in the structure's "ground floor" a men's and women's restroom and another concession stand or two.
2. Level Victory Hill and establish a south end of the stadium that's more in the same style of the revamped north end. Ditto restrooms and concession stands. Leave some grass, but maybe as a midsection between a couple of sections of seating.
3. Raze the existing scoreboard structure. It's had its day. Hell, if you want, rebuild it bigger and better and in the same look - BUT closer to the action and in the context of the actual stadium. This time, enable camera placement atop it, since it'll be a lot closer. That way, we'll move into the 1980s, when you could see field goal cams on TV broadcasts from both endzones, not one endzone and the other looking all the way downfield toward the other end.