Football Stadium Talk

[gibbsak]

Don't want to speak for anyone else, but I'm thinking USF will tell you there are more direct and immediate ways to help the football program. Starting a fund toward an on-campus football stadium -- we'll say $200 million on the very low end -- is earmarking money for something that could be literally decades away. Priority now is an indoor practice facility -- they're working to line up support for that, which should run about $14-million.

$14 Million is a lot of money to enclose a football field... even with a few offices and storage tacked on, plus design fees, and all the other stuff, that is a high number.

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There was a thread on this within the past month. It is not a cheap bubble type facility. I think Auburn just spent $16 million for something like we want. FSU should have something similar built within a year. I'm not sure how much they are paying for it, but it's probably close to that.

I remember the thread. I didn't pay enough attention to the costs then, but I still say you can build a quality facility for less, maybe I am overlooking a few features.

[smazza]

usf doesnt need a stadium now

usf needs to win consistently first before this is an issue

[Dogma]

Don't want to speak for anyone else, but I'm thinking USF will tell you there are more direct and immediate ways to help the football program. Starting a fund toward an on-campus football stadium -- we'll say $200 million on the very low end -- is earmarking money for something that could be literally decades away. Priority now is an indoor practice facility -- they're working to line up support for that, which should run about $14-million.

$14 Million is a lot of money to enclose a football field... even with a few offices and storage tacked on, plus design fees, and all the other stuff, that is a high number.

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There was a thread on this within the past month. It is not a cheap bubble type facility. I think Auburn just spent $16 million for something like we want. FSU should have something similar built within a year. I'm not sure how much they are paying for it, but it's probably close to that.

I remember the thread. I didn't pay enough attention to the costs then, but I still say you can build a quality facility for less, maybe I am overlooking a few features.

You can build it cheaper... but it will end up looking like this:

I agree b2b, the design has to be solid... for $4.3 million, our sister to the east got a nice window-less warehouse:

[gibbsak]

Woah, woah, woah.... I said quality facility for less....

I must not be thinking of all the construction costs.

[Bullshutter]

AA and ESPN getting on the action

http://espn.go.com/blog/bigeast/post/_/id/32882/should-usf-build-an-on-campus-stadium

[Triple B]

AA and ESPN getting on the action

http://espn.go.com/b...-campus-stadium

They could opt to build an erector-set type stadium for somewhere in the neighborhood of maybe $70 million, but the stadium would be smaller than RayJay and full of metal bleachers.

Come on, Andrea, you can say it .... "Like the piece of **** they built in Oviedo".

[Bullshutter]

AA and ESPN getting on the action

http://espn.go.com/b...-campus-stadium

They could opt to build an erector-set type stadium for somewhere in the neighborhood of maybe $70 million, but the stadium would be smaller than RayJay and full of metal bleachers.

Come on, Andrea, you can say it .... "Like the piece of **** they built in Oviedo".

hahaha my thoughts exactly... gotta be PC these days but you can tell she was going around it

[Rizman]

She does not want to say it.

[bulls phanatic]

Get the indoor facility and win some more games and a championship and then talk OCS. UCF's indoor field is terrible. Looks ugly

[Dogma]

Get the indoor facility and win some more games and a championship and then talk OCS. UCF's indoor field is terrible. Looks ugly

Just in case a UCF'er chimes in. This is a picture of the interior (since the one above is while under construction.)

Looks horrible. And apparently the fan/AC system doesn't work well, so players nickname it "The Oven"