The practice bubble thread got me thinking, what's you wishlist for facilities? I've listed a few based on what I've seen mentioned & discussed. My order of priority would be:
1 - indoor practice facility - would benefit recruiting & practices in the winter. This would seem to be something that could improve recruiting which should improve the W/L record, which should improve donations/fan excitement, which should improve funding for other projects.
2 - upgrade press box/flatirons club - currently just looks old and crappy compared to the East side. I'm only basing this ranking off the rumor I heard that we sold out club seats on the East side? If so, it'd be nice to improve flatirons side to have more $$ club seating. Plus, it really does look crappy from the east side stands.
3 - improve CU's South Boulder "campus" and build a facility with baseball/softball fields, etc.. Probably wouldn't bring any real money into the AD, but would be great to have. Eventually, I think we need to add these sports now that we're in the Pac.
4 - upgrade Dal Ward - would provide improved offices & weight room & ??? Not sure I'm sold on this really being needed, but I've heard it mentioned, so I'm putting it in here.
5 - closing the north end of Folsom - would increase stadium capacity & noise. This would ideally be my #1 choice, but we can't sell 53K worth of seats, so I don't know why we would add another 10K(?) seats. But, the noise increase and more fans in the house would be sweet.
If anyone knows financial estimates for the projects, that'd be good to hear. The only one I've heard is a rough $50 million estimate for the indoor facility.
Am I missing any others? Remember, this is a facilities wishlist, so a new HC is not part of this discussion :smile2:
1 - indoor practice facility - would benefit recruiting & practices in the winter. This would seem to be something that could improve recruiting which should improve the W/L record, which should improve donations/fan excitement, which should improve funding for other projects.
2 - upgrade press box/flatirons club - currently just looks old and crappy compared to the East side. I'm only basing this ranking off the rumor I heard that we sold out club seats on the East side? If so, it'd be nice to improve flatirons side to have more $$ club seating. Plus, it really does look crappy from the east side stands.
3 - improve CU's South Boulder "campus" and build a facility with baseball/softball fields, etc.. Probably wouldn't bring any real money into the AD, but would be great to have. Eventually, I think we need to add these sports now that we're in the Pac.
4 - upgrade Dal Ward - would provide improved offices & weight room & ??? Not sure I'm sold on this really being needed, but I've heard it mentioned, so I'm putting it in here.
5 - closing the north end of Folsom - would increase stadium capacity & noise. This would ideally be my #1 choice, but we can't sell 53K worth of seats, so I don't know why we would add another 10K(?) seats. But, the noise increase and more fans in the house would be sweet.
If anyone knows financial estimates for the projects, that'd be good to hear. The only one I've heard is a rough $50 million estimate for the indoor facility.
Am I missing any others? Remember, this is a facilities wishlist, so a new HC is not part of this discussion :smile2: