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Message: [QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 3456182, member: 27"] Based on your comments in this thread, I have gotten the impression your only interest in the project is to say no one cares about it and defend the decision to cloak the project In secrecy. The university is making an extraordinary investment in the athletic program. Phase 1 was initially budgeted at $118 million and it is only the start of things. This should be promoted more. I agree that today, in the middle of a pandemic, the immediate payoff for this is largely diminished. Cool videos and computer simulations aren’t going to convince the many fence sitters SU has to buy tickets to games. But a number of us have been calling for more promotion of the investment since well before COVID became an issue. The thing that disappoints me the most is that doing flyovers with drones, doing computer simulations of what process for building the roof will look like, showing more drawings of what the inside of the stadium will look like, what the new scoreboards will look like, etc, is not expensive. It is not hard to do. It will cost no money to put on TV either. This stuff can all be posted on SU or contractor web sites and in the current environment, where there is little going on, it will get a ton of press. This is a great opportunity to promote the facilities and the sports programs that is being wasted. The university has rightfully been criticized for not investing in its sports programs in the past. Now that it is actually making a huge commitment, it should be promoting it and showing the commitment it is making. Especially given how easy and cheap it would be to do. People aren’t coming to me asking about the project because I am excited about it. They are asking because they have interest and there is little information out there about it. At least that is what they tell me. [/QUOTE]

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