My guess is this will suffice for now. Lots of schools have bubbles. Quite frankley we have a real indoor facility (only its only 80 yards). Renovating the locker rooms, lounges, offices, training facilities etc is money well spent and buys them time.
Agree with this. Once you're on the field, as long as the turf is good, does it really matter what else is around?
Or somebody is getting back one hell of a kickback!
I think any student who had season tickets all four years should get a brick or something. '08-'12 were not exactly banner years in the Dome on the football side of things. Before this post is shredded, yes, I am being sarcastic.
I was just up at Skytop today with an individual showing him where the new stadium was being proposed just before the stock market went into the crapper. Several things happened which I'm not going to get into here that put everything in the wrong direction. There were investors who were fast trackers who met with TGD. The OK was given from the top to proceed. Sometime take a ride to the very top of Sky Top, you'll see there is plenty of land for a stadium/hotel/restaurant. Parking and access were to be on the perimeter taking out part of Drumlins Golf course. Some of the people at the meeting were investors another individual had been involved in other stadium projects. It was a business deal whereby the university provided the land and the people getting the financing would get parking/concessions and other rights. The university would get their state of the art stadium with retractable roof and the football program would get the shot in the arm to get jump started back to relevance. They were looking at an el system for use to transport fans and students back & forth to the main campus. The restaurant would be a hall of fame type with the decor in SU colors, trophy & picture displays, rooms where you could view videos of great games. The talks were serious.
I never say never but that was a glorious opportunity that got away from us. I hope someday, someone puts together another package that is pleasing to all sides and gets it done. There is one thing that I learned, the university would love to have all academic buildings surrounding the quad. A project like that takes a point man to organize. Someone who has connections to movers and shakers. Someone who is bold enough to push through the obstacles and who can make it attractive to all parties involved. People who know how & where to get financing. That group back in 07-08 had all of that.
