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UCF considers building stadium on campus

Wednesday, January 5, 2005

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) The University of Central Florida is considering building a football stadium on its main campus and moving its home games from the Citrus Bowl in downtown Orlando.

The design under consideration would cost about $40 million to build. UCF President John Hitt says it would be paid for and supported by boosters and ticket and concession sales, not state dollars.

Construction could begin as early as this summer and be completed before the 2006 football season.

UCF has played at the Florida Citrus Bowl stadium near downtown Orlando since the team's inaugural season in 1979.

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This post is fine here unless the usual USF/UCF garbage breaks out.  so, if you UCF fans are proud of this news story, leave off the smart remarks and the post can stay here for all Bulls fans to see.

I think it is relevent and should be seen by Bulls.  I also congratulate UCF on at least getting this far in the process.  

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40 million?

that wouldn't even cover  cost of roads to stadium

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www. reidsteel.com  has some interesting stuff on steel stadiums.. from all I have heard.. odds of this happening are pretty good..

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Any more details?  Number of seats?  Bench or individual seats?  Many questions for a price that cheap.

Did they hire that crook Steve LaBrake to estimate the construction costs?  He sure was good at fudging numbers until they busted him.

(More info on LaBrake if you are too lazy to google his name http://www.sptimes.com/2004/11/18/Hillsborough/LaBrake_takes_stand__.shtml)

If they can build it than good for them.

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$40 Million is the same figure FAU used when speaking about building a stadium on campus for them.  If I remember correctly UCONN just built a stadium on campus and it cost them $90 million I do not remember how big it was though.  I think USF would need almost $200 million to build a nice stadium on campus and have the seating capacity we would want.

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Found a more complete version of the article on Yahoo. www.orlandosentinel.com/news/yahoo/orl-locucf05010505jan05,0,5747562.story?coll=orl-newsaol-headlines

Doesn't seen to be such a slam dunk as of yet. But hopefully they could find a way to get it done. The Citrus Bowl is an old pile of junk, and you can only keep polishing that turd for so long.

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Their official site has this headline:

UCF Exploring Possibility of Building Football Stadium on Campus

Well, it's a step - but certainly is a far from anything concrete (or steel).

http://ucfathletics.collegesports.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/010405aaa.html

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We should have a stadium.  I've always had that opinion but several of you disagree.  We pay the Glasser's for everything.  If we had a stadium say with 40k seating capacity (design it so it can expand) and include luxury boxes ($$$$ for USF) that money could go to the program and somewhat shed that commuter school image.  

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I also agree with having own stadium. I find the cost for the proposed UCF stadium very low. BUT if they get it done more power to them. USF could just stand by and see the results. If its a bad situation we lose nothing, if it works out for them it could serve as a blueprint for our own.

Right now they play in the Citrus Bowl which is no comparison to RJS and as it goes into renovation they might be homeless for a year in 2006 so they are more desperate than us when it comes to stadium to play in.

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