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Official Construction Update Thread
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Idot Buff
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Wow I had no idea they hit the bottom and started the parking garage. If weather is nice, that indoor facility will pop up so fast. I watched the Broncos facility go up and it is amazing how quickly they can build if things go right. I think the Broncos indoor facility was completed two months ahead of schedule.
So, to be clear, the IPF is a full size, 100 yard field, correct?
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Yes. Encircled by a 300 yard track
And 85 ft to the roof. How high do punts go? Supposedly they can kick in this bad boy. What does csu have? A 50 yard field or something?
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If the locker room ends up being finished anywhere near as nice as that render, it is going to be so bad ass.
Wait a second, 120 + 120 + 53.3 + 53.3 > 300. Somebody's gonna have to investigate this mystery.
I think it doesn't go all the way around. It doesn't go across one of the end zones. See Washington's indoor practice facility
It is going to be more like this:
The track cuts the corners of the endzone. Vanderbilt's is similar.
The track cuts the corners of the endzone. Vanderbilt's is similar.
And the uniform thread comes full circle!
Washington's is just a couple years old. Think our project will stack up very favorably.
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Bit disappointed with the size and look of this one. However it will probably bring our film study tech to the 21st century, and the seats look to be big enough to fit football players unlike our current set up. It is not impressive to me, but it works. But if they were going to skip on one thing, I am most ok with them skipping and cost saving here.
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I think you'll change your tune when our auditorium is finished and you're not looking at the cartoonish rendering of it.
Potentially, I work with construction renderings pretty much every day though, I am fairly confident in how the design choices will translate to actual construction. The finishes are fine. I am more concerned with the size of the room. Oregon and Washington look to be full 2 story rooms, like movie theaters.
Consider the ultimate point of the room: coaches working with players studying film. A long and narrow two story theater doesn't facilitate that nearly as well as a shallower, wider and rounder room does. Sure, the room may not "look as impressive," but I would rather have the most distant player 7-8 rows back instead of 20.
I love the shape of ours and look of the walls (more or less.) What stands out to me are those awful ****ing carpets compared to OU's wooden floors. Changing that would make it my favorite of all your photos.
Oregon's looks to be 10 rows deep and 17 seats across (170 seats for you idots). Didn't someone say ours was going to seat like 155-160? Are we really making a fuss because theirs seats a few more?
These facilities will be state-of-the-art when finished, but comparing ourselves to Oregon in every aspect of facilities is a losing battle. We aren't Oregon and we shouldn't try to be. We are the mother****ing University of Colorado!
Couldn't care less about # of seats, I am more concerned about the "wow factor". The facility IS going to be state of the art, and it IS going to be great for the future of colorado football. I was just expressing my own personal dislike for the particular room. It will probably be more functional than Oregon's, because as was pointed out the players will be 7 or 8 deep which makes it easier for "teachers" to keep the room focused on the lesson. The other rooms I posted just look more impressive to me. That's all.
As was stated UW look pretty similar, to what we are planning, but the ceiling and the space just look more impressive to me. Maybe it is just the flooring as Timmy pointed out.
It's been stated several times already, but I'll go ahead and say it again: We're not trying to build something that's comparable to Oregon. That's a fools errand. We're trying to build something that will allow a recruit to say "This works", not "This is the greatest thing I've ever seen". The film room looks great, and will be more than adequate for our needs. What we need to avoid is having recruits come in and say "this place needs a lot of work". They won't be saying that with what we're building now. At least, not for another few years.