Good post. A few nits:
1. Regulation size indoor tracks are only 300 meters as opposed to standard 400m outdoor tracks. If you want to have a competition track (which I think is their intention), then you have to shrink the size of the football field to have a regulation size track.
Yep this is spot on. Track needs played a huge part in how they built the facility. Which worked better because now it is right next to the stadium between parking and the outdoor track.
1) They made it that long to fit a regulation indoor track around it. If it was 120 instead of 100 yards long (giving you 100 field and endzones) it would be too long for the track.
Not a concern, we will just add port-a-potties with players faces all around the stadium
I would advise against that... It may seem like a neat idea, but I bet your rivals will make fun of it for years and years after...Not a concern, we will just add port-a-potties with players faces all around the stadium
I hear ya. GTID explained the track conundrum above. Makes sense. I've seen 80-yard practice fields before. UCLA has two right next to each other, albeit not indoors, and sans track.
Who doesn’t want to take a $hit with their favorite player?
Perhaps Elrod would have the awnser? On second thought probably not
I laughed because I know you aren't serious, you just troll. The answer has been plenty out there for anyone who has paid attention, including to discussion going on as far back as three years ago when it was before the BoR. You could check out those meetings and proposals, if you wanted to read the original. It has also been reported in newspapers. Here is one quote that I found pretty easily --Perhaps Elrod would have the awnser? On second thought probably not
You just copied shit you read somewhere.What are the real answers ? What you copied is just smoke and mirrors ,not the real answer. Why? Because they do not know.I laughed because I know you aren't serious, you just troll. The answer has been plenty out there for anyone who has paid attention, including to discussion going on as far back as three years ago when it was before the BoR. You could check out those meetings and proposals, if you wanted to read the original. It has also been reported in newspapers. Here is one quote that I found pretty easily --
[Once finished, the indoor facility could support itself off of rental revenue and could even be a revenue generator as community groups lease it out, according to Haslam. UM has already signed leases, primarily with youth soccer teams, he added.
"We certainly lost some revenue last spring if we would have had it open, but we also didn't incur any costs of having it open," he said. "The interest in renting it, the leasing has been tremendous. This facility will not lack use. I think the demand is going to get so high that we'll live with this for a while. It may very well be that we don't deflate it because people are going to want to be in it so much." ]
There is also the revenue gained from being able to rent out WaGriz for concerts and have the practice space available, which could possibly be quite a bit at times.
It was paid for fully by donations. If all else failed, I'm pretty sure we would be fine on that front, too.
Lastly, an indoor practice facility is vital to competing at this point, and it is one of the only areas the Griz were behind other teams in terms of facilities. It was necessary, not just a "want." The Griz football team provides a huge amount of the revenue for the Griz sports teams, and will make even more the deeper we go in the playoffs, so some revenue there is also obviously a fair use of funds if necessary.
The part you are missing here is that Griz Athletics are a professional machine, and these plans and budgets go through multiple levels of approval from outside the University at the BoR and OCHE before they ever even begin to get off the ground.
There, I answered yours. Want to go back and get that detailed and answer any of mine back to you?
Maybe it has the ability to shake like a dog after it snows. Woof!
Standard indoor tracks are 200m, since 1993 all USA indoor track championships have been run on 200m tracks. Spokane built a 53 million dollar world class facility in 2021 (known as The Podium) which features a 6 lane 200m track. The USA indoor TF championships were held At the Podium in 2022.
Speaking of rumor, back in August I spoke with someone at the U who asked me if I’d heard anything about stadium expansion plans. I’m certain the dollar figure mentioned in this conversation would easily cover additional seats, luxury suites, upgraded press box, bathrooms and concessions. Guess we’ll have to sit back and wait to see if it happens.
And if you think traffic and parking are nightmares now............
The only part I copied was the part within the brackets. I gave you the real answer, as well as additional resources you could go look at. I quite literally answer your question with where the revenue will be coming from. I suppose we could also tap the donor network, but going to donors for maintenance costs isn't as popular as a new build, so I find that unlikely.
