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Message: [QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 365886, member: 27"] The cost to build an open air stadium like Minnesota just built, and a good sized basketball facility, like NC State recently did, is the same as the cost to build a multi purpose facility with a retractable roof. When you include real estate requirements, maintenance costs, the ability to use the facility for other purposes (like hosting conventions, Final Fours, major concerts all year long, etc.), ability to tie the facility to privately financed add ons like hotels, a mall, restaurants, etc., it is a no brainer. I can't imagine Syracuse University ever building an open air stadium for football. You can't justify spending the kind of money it takes to build these things in the first place but you really can't justify spending $300 million (UM's cost $303.3 million) for a facility that will only be used a few times a year. [/QUOTE]