there may or may not be a couple businesses that would find issue with this. Starbucks and Einstein Bros. would love it though. For the restaurants we could build in spaces into the stadium and lease them out. But the other businesses would be SOL
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Colorado Needs To Be Proactive
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there may or may not be a couple businesses that would find issue with this. Starbucks and Einstein Bros. would love it though. For the restaurants we could build in spaces into the stadium and lease them out. But the other businesses would be SOL
underground garage underneath stadium?? Or new parking garage by the law building.
If we're going to do it, do it right ..... plant shrubs ..... and add a gate.
What I found most interesting about those renderings is that they're going to move the soccer & track facilities to the South Campus. I know that was mentioned somewhere in this thread, but I still find it interesting to see it actually on a master facilities plan as opposed to just a bunch of goofs like us talking about it.
I like the stadium expansion plans. My best guess is that they would add about 10,000 seats, bringing the capacity up to around 65,000. That's not enormous, but it's not tiny, either. Ultimately, I'd love to see the stadium at around 80,000. If CU can regularly fill an 80,000 seat stadium, the Denver media would have to re-think their attitudes towards CU.
I like the stadium expansion plans. My best guess is that they would add about 10,000 seats, bringing the capacity up to around 65,000. That's not enormous, but it's not tiny, either. Ultimately, I'd love to see the stadium at around 80,000. If CU can regularly fill an 80,000 seat stadium, the Denver media would have to re-think their attitudes towards CU.
IF we are regularly filling 80,000 we would most likely be the most premier football program in the state (including the donkeys). I think 80,000 would be the next step, and would be achieved by closing in the north endzone.
The renderings are showing a 2nd tier on the West side, with a revamped/renovated press box/Flatirons Club. If they closed in the North side, it might add another 4-5,000 seats.
Not only that, but that location would be a logistical nightmare on game days.
My point exactly. If we are in a position where we out-draw the Broncos, we can no longer be ignored by the Denver media. I know that CU will never be more popular than the Broncos, but we can out-draw them. That's all still a long way in the future, though. 20 years if we're lucky.
Troof - that location is a logistical nightmare all the time, not just on game days.
Ok, found it ... hmmm .... that 2nd tier looks fairly small in those renderings.
I think it would mirror the 2nd tier on the East side, with the press box and Flatirons Club on top, making the elevation the same as the club level & boxes on the East side. Eventually, I think the South side will need to be expanded in order to bring the stadium up to 80,000. Make the second tier the same level all the way around.
Again - this is all so far in the future it's kind of laughable. But it's fun to dream.
you can build underpasses for broadway and baseline roads and in the rtd parking lot, turn that into a parking garage. Most likely this will be around 5k seating or so, so we really don't need a ton of parking.
I would bet that the South Campus will be a tailgate lot. Might have to bus people over, though.
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the only south campus I want to see is my baseball stadium at baseline and broadway.
must admit getting a baseball team and eventually competing in Omaha would be amazing. The CWS is a great thing to watch. The players get it, the coaches get it, and they come out playing with all they have. I enjoy MLB but the world series is not the same at all.
The plan had a huge parking lot along with the baseball/softball fields, t&f stadium, indoor/outdoor tennis courts, soccer field and the cc course.
yeah I was going off the plans in my head, not the ones on the master plan. To be honest we really don't have to follow it anymore, that was made before we got the huge PAC media deal so we have a lot more options now. There are some things to be prudent about, but I think if we want to be serious about baseball we shouldn't have a stadium on the outskirts of town.
Unless we intend on paying off a ton of businesses and land owners in order to build it elsewhere, that is the only place we can put it.
Have to be careful with South side expansions as I´d hate to block the view. From an architectural stand point I really love the job Alabama did with Bryant Denny and much prefer their style over say the expanded and revamped Michigan stadium (just using those 2 as examples for the stadium style).
Potts and Prentup are getting relocated off the East Campus. All of that land is being used for academic buildings with the new $1.5 billion initiative. That's my understanding, at least.
A lot could be done in terms of these new sports programs adding facilities if we gutted the housing at folsom and arapahoe. For that matter all the family housing down there. Move the housing over to south campus, add in an express bus straight to the new housing so it really isn't much longer travel time for those families to get to campus and now all athletics have that whole space to use.
who said anything about paying them. I saw we give Kotoa a bag of bricks and set him loose.
Interesting. I do not think a big investment in an indoor track makes much sense, but it does make more sense to invest in an outdoor track. You could potentially host a big meet during the high school season, ala the Texas Relays, along with the state meet. When you are talking about the XC/Track programs, you are talking about very limited scholarships where it makes sense to have many in-state kids on the roster . So hosting a couple big meets a year in Boulder would serve as great recruiting opportunities.
Plus you get more training use out of an outdoor track than an indoor one.
Building Football back into a powerhouse should be our only priority. It's disappointing to say but no other sport matters one iota, not even basketball (see KU in realignment discussions). No baseball, no indoor track, no hockey. With the Pac12 money, invest in a top-notch coaching staff and unbelievable facilities to lure blue chippers, polish up Folsom, and build the CU brand into a position of strength for the next round of realignment/consolidation.
too bad we can't do that anymore because of title IX. there is no way we would have ever gotten a practice facility for men's basketball if we didn't allow the women's team and volleyball team to practice there. The people here are smart (and so is the AD). They won't make a men's football indoor practice facility. They will make an indoor track and field center and allow the football team to practice there whenever they want.
exactly why they are calling it a Field House. Implies track and field stuff