ORGUNGRIZ said:
So why are UM and MSU looking to complete all of these upgrades in all honesty?
UM has or will have facilities on par with a good many MWC schools. If MSU follows they will as well and I wonder why?
To be able to compete in the BSC? If that’s the case then that’s sad deal. Especially when you take all of the other schools in the BSC into consideration. No offense to those schools.
I could understand building all new facilities the the Champions Center and all the other upgrades if it was done so with some sort of a plan moving for. Maybe like if you had certain things in place the MWC would extend invitations to join their conference.
But if the plan is to stay in the BSC at the FCS level, then why not just complete remodels and upgrades and not build new buildings.
Heck we may very well see Central Washington and or other current DII programs move into the BSC. Which in my opinion would water it down even more.
The UM weight room (several little connected ones not even at the same level), football and basketball locker rooms, meeting rooms, and some offices, were not fixable with remodels and upgrades. Many high schools in the state had better weight room facilities. That didn't mean that UM needed to build something as big and nice as the Champions Center. There is no indoor practice facility, so any indoor practice facility will have to be built. That doesn't mean UM needs an indoor practice facility.
I don't know what the UM strategy is, or secret plans are, now. But, UM has generally wanted to improve and expand facilities and to keep building more and better facilities, in order to be prepared for anything that may come, including both changes to FBS/FCS structure and opportunities that could come from other or new levels. Even though UM determined years ago that FCS was the right and best level at that time, and presumably now, and that UM didn't have the money to move up; UM still wanted to keep improving, moving forward, and being ready. This is straight from the mouths of Hogan and O'Day. While I don't know, I assume Haslam would say the same thing.