But I thought they were going to get a Big 12 invite!
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CSU gets major facility upgrade
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CVilleBuff
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Along with that much needed expansion of Hughes to 50k. The shrub planting "facility upgrade" this year was just the first stage.
wow, really? I knew lambnation was lame, but I didn't know they were that lame...
CUFan
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It was just a post I read. I have no idea if true or not. The poster seemed like a legitimate CSU fan (I know, I know I am surprised there is one as well) and not some troll.
somebody
Well-Known Member
They're on the 10 year plan - in 10 years, trees will be big enough for the luxury tree house suites.
Rep.
Man, CSU is so far behind everybody else the can't even see the rest of the pack. I mean, hey, we've been behind in the facilities race for a long time, but we always knew what we had to do to catch up. There's been a concerted fundraising effort going on here for years - basically since Bohn showed up. With the move to the Pac 12, we now seem to have a blueprint for how to get to where we need to be. CSU? CSU is paving their parking lot and planting some shrubs.
Making improvements at Hughes Stadium is like putting lipstick on a pig.
If they ever actually got a full house, even with it being a small stadium access would be a nightmare, bathrooms are inadequete, concessions are on the level of a good high school facility.
I don't have anything against CSU, I did my masters program there and wish them well but they lack the financial resources to compete effectively on a BCS level. They have talked for years about marketing efforts, working donors, etc. and they still average less than 24k per home game, even at cheap ticket prices.
They, along with a lot of their mid-major bretheren have this fanatasy about some court case or legislation turning college football into a big socialist cooperative and them getting millions from the AQ conferences and schools, ain't going to happen.
I often think that CSU would be much better off dropping down to the FCS level where they would have a real chance to be competitive and win, even with the budgets they would have. They would lose the whopping 1.5 - 2 million they get from the MWC and attendance would drop some but that would be more than made up for in significantly lower cost of operation.
If they ever actually got a full house, even with it being a small stadium access would be a nightmare, bathrooms are inadequete, concessions are on the level of a good high school facility.
I don't have anything against CSU, I did my masters program there and wish them well but they lack the financial resources to compete effectively on a BCS level. They have talked for years about marketing efforts, working donors, etc. and they still average less than 24k per home game, even at cheap ticket prices.
They, along with a lot of their mid-major bretheren have this fanatasy about some court case or legislation turning college football into a big socialist cooperative and them getting millions from the AQ conferences and schools, ain't going to happen.
I often think that CSU would be much better off dropping down to the FCS level where they would have a real chance to be competitive and win, even with the budgets they would have. They would lose the whopping 1.5 - 2 million they get from the MWC and attendance would drop some but that would be more than made up for in significantly lower cost of operation.
fify.
Tractor
Club Member
The Guest
Guest
Was traffic congestion really that much of an issue?
Tractor
Club Member
I guess if they increase the size of the parking spaces, the horses won't kick each other as often
BehindEnemyLines
beware the habu
No Wally, the gate is so they can let the livestock out to make room for parking. That was a real issue.
somebody
Well-Known Member
Sweet. I also like that they took the time to annotate each picture, with the same caption every f'in time. :nod:
I know they'll never do it, but what CSU really ought to consider is moving the stadium back on campus. There's a ton of open ground just South of the main campus that they could use. Hughes is an embarassment. Talk about a disaster. That school's athletic department is a series of one bad decision followed up by 10 more equally bad decisions.
Buffs@5345'
Club Member
And leave all the shrubs, disc golf basket/hole thingies, and a gate behind.....NEVER!
The Guest
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I will leave no gate behind!
Well, I can think of one, actually. Where is she, these days?
Well, I can think of one, actually. Where is she, these days?
dply
Doble hoja
I was on the other site yesterday (hey when the wife, allbuffs in this case, doesn't put out you need something. Even if it is a crack head hooker. Amirite denny neagle?) Anyways she is over there and says that she is way too old for us over here.
The Guest
Guest
Is she over 35? If so, then she's right.
she is a GILF, minus the ILF part.
fify
I thought she had to be excited?
Lt.Col.FrankSlade
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So I have purposefully ignored this thread forever - but I had to come in and see exactly what facilities upgrade generated 10 pages worth of responses.
I saw the slideshow, but I can't tell exactly what facilities were upgraded. Did they build a parking lot? Is that what is being called a facility upgrade?
I saw the slideshow, but I can't tell exactly what facilities were upgraded. Did they build a parking lot? Is that what is being called a facility upgrade?
The Guest
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See bolded:
Apparently this entire thread could have been handled in one post consisting of two interrogative sentences.
Cyberbuff
New Member
I actually feel sorry for the Rammies. . . .Not only are they so far behind the field of BCS schools, they are near the very bottom of the MWC in terms of fan support, budget, facilities. The past 18 months have been bad ones for the Rammies, first losing their three best MWC teams to the PAC 12/Indenpendence/Big East, then the explosion of TV money for the PAC 12 and the long term implications of that for competitive balance.
It's hard to paint a future College Football landscape that includes CSU in any meaningful way. As an aside, our annual game with them gives them legitimacy that they will increasingly find difficult to obtain through any other means, given the above.
I vote we end it.!
It's hard to paint a future College Football landscape that includes CSU in any meaningful way. As an aside, our annual game with them gives them legitimacy that they will increasingly find difficult to obtain through any other means, given the above.
I vote we end it.!
Junction
Club Member
This is a completely unfair characterization of what CSU has done.
They also put in sidewalks. And planted shrubs. This wasn't some half assed parking lot job. This was some SERIOUS facility upgrades... :lol:
CVilleBuff
Well-Known Member
They've also put new lights in the Alumni Athletes lounge along with a new service counter. Big **** guys, big ****.
Dont forget that new sandstone wall, they used a different color sandstone then CU but still... they used sandstone.
