"I’ve heard a lot of schools say they don’t utilize it, and if you’re going to build something of that magnitude, you want to make sure you are going to utilize it and put it to good use,” he said.I said back in December that I'm passionately against the idea of an indoor practice facility for football because of many, many reasons. Damon's logical comment that other teams don't even use the ones that they built just adds to my list of reasons why not.
An indoor practice facility, which would allow the Bulldogs to practice out of the elements when there is rain or lightning in the area, could cost as little as $10 million or as much $40 million, Evans said.
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I dislike the idea of an indoor practice facility, probably for the same reasons you dislike it. But, CMR seems overly smitten with the idea. If they do go ahead with it, and make it a multipurpose facility, I would like the to put it in the lot next to the Stadium with a parking deck under it and the banquet area they refer to between the two. That would be the best use of the space I can imagine, and at least the parking would get used all the time.
If we build an indoor practice facility, I still say, go all out, make it also capable of doubling as an indoor track facility, and give both programs a little boost while actually ensuring the facility gets a little work from time to time. Put it where Spec Towns track is now if that's feasible, and move Spec Towns track to a complex all it's own out off Milledge.
If CMR was truly 'overly smitten' with the idea, he would have had one built years ago instead of vetoing the idea in favor of improving the locker room, meetings rooms, etc.
He wants one if he can get it & if it can be used for other things (like hosting recruits on gamedays etc.)
the parking lot for the stadium will be the site of the expanded Tate Center.
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Why would you put it near the stadium? The stadium is no where near anything else football related? In fact, the locker room at the stadium has been gutted of any lockers anyways. They bus now to Ramsey to go indoors and spending $10 mil on a place further away than that would be a waste. If you already think you wont use it very often, putting it away from everything else would ensure that to be the case.
They cant make the whole thing indoors with the track because thats twice the size a building than they are planning now [hence the one guy wanting it put in the tate center parking lot]. It would cost too much. If and when its built it would act as a great recruiting tool and serve many purposes for many different varsity teams. Right now there are a couple of sports teams that use the area [football, baseball, track, basketball, tennis, gymnastics]. The indoor facility could be used on rainy days for a # of things.
I love that Tate Center Expansion btw, nice find!
The reason I think that near the stadium would be good is the stated objective of having a multiuse building, i.e., when it isn't being used by the football team it could be used for large functions (Alumni gatherings at football games, for example, or, receptions after say, graduation, or any number of other things that would benefit from a central location.) Honest, I wasn't smoking crack.;-)
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