USF Football Center... It's real!

[USFWayne]

looks good to me. how will it be paid for? $40m is a lot to ask for in private donations. when will construction start?

[bullsbucsfan426]

35 minutes ago, Bourbon Bull said:

 

????  That works out to $40 million.  At least according to my Bowmar Brain.

I am an accountant and it makes sense to my brain. Put together all the zeros (there are 7 of them) and put the 4 on the front, that's $40,000,000. 

[Triple B]

That looks ******* awesome ....

 

 

[Who'sYourData?]

41 minutes ago, Bullrush33 said:

40,000 x 1000 = ? $40,000,000. Am I missing something?

Yes, you are missing that Trip was not an accounting major.  

[Bullrush33]

4 minutes ago, Who'sYourData? said:

Yes, you are missing that Trip was not an accounting major.  

I was beginning to think my Finance/Econ degree from USF was not worth the paper it was printed on.  

[Mama_Bull]

38 minutes ago, Bullrush33 said:

If 40,000 of us donate $1000 this is a done deal

It cost UCF $5,000,000 to build their IPF.

Leavitt was talking about needing one as far back as 2005.

Saw this mentioned in thread from 2009:

thatBULL

Posted September 16, 2009

lets all pony up and make it happen. ;D

 

5 million at $500 a piece is 10,000 donations.

There have been many threads on an IPF since then.

I remember one estimating the cost at $14,000,000.

In fact, I remember one with renderings of it which was to be used as a multi purpose athletic facility. That might have been an official USF release at the time.

I'm not going to try and find all of them, but for anybody who is interested they can search the archives.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Triple B]

5 minutes ago, Who'sYourData? said:

Yes, you are missing that Trip was not an accounting major.  

 

1 minute ago, Bullrush33 said:

I was beginning to think my Finance/Econ degree from USF was not worth the paper it was printed on.  

Geezus, people, I fessed up after getting out my abacus .....

[USFWayne]

how many donors were signed up to fund this prior to its announcement? 

[Mama_Bull]

I came across this thread in 2012 which has some renderings and a price tag of $14,000,000.

Some links within it are broken.

Flashback:

Mama_Bull

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Posted April 18, 2012

APRIL 18, 2012

Woolard: Indoor practice fieldhouse next on list

 

 

 

 

USF is just days away from completing a massive wave of faciliity upgrades with the Sun Dome renovations nearly finished, and USF athletic director Doug Woolard said Tuesday night that the next project on his list is an indoor practice facility, intended not only for Skip Holtz's football program but for other Bulls athletic teams as well.

 

"That's certainly on my radar screen, and I know it's on Skip's and our other coaches," Woolard said in Clearwater at the "Around the Horns" booster gathering at Island Way Grill. "Just so you know, we're not finished. We're going to continue. We've been on certainly a fast track, and we're not going to hit the pause button very long. We're going to continue to do this."

 

USF isn't looking for a "bubble" facility as many schools have, but an actual fieldhouse, big enough to house an entire 120-yard football field but also give an indoor practice option for other teams like soccer, softball and baseball during inclement weather. Such a facility, done the right way, would likely cost in the neighborhood of $14 million, and Woolard and his staff are now challenged with raising the funds to make that happen. The fieldhouse would likely go on the current site of USF's soccer practice fields, which are directly east of USF's Morsani Football Practice Complex, which opened in fall 2010.

 

"It could be utilized by all our sport programs," Woolard said. "The reason we want to do that is to

 

make sure we don't miss days of practice during the season because of inclement weather. Other institutions are doing that."

 

Posted by Greg Auman at 11:08:41 am on April 18, 2012

 

Edited November 9, 2017 by Mama_Bull

[flsportsfan83]

Why not put that 40 M towards a stadium and build that first?