Not sure about that...I'm assuming the new basketball palace that Knight built at Oregon in memory of his son has a practice facility.
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New Facilities
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Not sure about that...I'm assuming the new basketball palace that Knight built at Oregon in memory of his son has a practice facility.
TimmyDUBs
Dirty haole
Agreed. I think we just need to keep up with the par, but give it some style and a good design/architecture. little aesthetic additions might be easy and just make it stand out to recruits a little more.
Sometimes you really are a pain in the ass, you know that? Nobody said anything about being average. The point is that we don't need to have the greatest facilities in the world. We just need to be pretty good. We need to be respectable. We will never have the kind of financial backing that Oregon has or that Texas has, so we will never have those kinds of facilities. What we need is something that won't make recruits scratch us off their lists.
Sounds kind of average to me but whatever.
And yes I know I'm a pain in the ass.
SuperiorBuff
Well-Known Member
We will never be able to out do Oregon. 2nd or 3rd best will be great due to the Boulder factor.
Yeah I didn't realize how amazing their facilities are when I posted that but WOW.
dyemeduke
Well-Known Member
Yes football facilities...BUT I personally want Bohn to address our T&F facilities. I'm sure Wetmore would appreciate some money pumped into his program a little. Before expanding sports, let's make our current ones a little better. I think Hempen also deserves some money into his program. T&F and women's soccer are programs where a few dollars could go a long ways.
If you want to do facilities upgrades, now is the time. Construction rates are low, bond rates are low, and the future TV money is actually guaranteed. wait a few years and bonds won't be as cheap and inflation could really cut into how far the same money goes. I believe Cal's stadium bonds qualified for these rebuild america bonds subsidized by the feds- which effectively lowered interest rates by a percent or two and saves a couple million a year (or more) on the yearly payments.
SINKRATZ
PhD in Analogy
You need something to sell recruits on besides facilities. I agree we need upgrades, but we're never going to compete with schools like Texas or Oregon when it comes to facilities. I would much rather have elite coaches and decent facilities than decent coaches and elite facilities. How many championships has T Boone Pickens University won lately? It's because despite endless financial resources it's still an average education, with decent coaches in Stillwater.
CU has more to offer, so it's less important that we overspend on extravagant facilities...really good facilities will do just fine.
CU has more to offer, so it's less important that we overspend on extravagant facilities...really good facilities will do just fine.
Maxer
Member
Del
Well-Known Member
Agree and I think you could kill two birds with one stone if they built the fieldhouse north of Franklin field that they had in mind in the 2001 Master Plan. It had an indoor track going around the practice field which of course could really help out the track and cross country team especially in Jan/Feb snow storm days.
CsquaredCC
Well-Known Member
For those of you who haven't been to Husky Stadium you should definitely make it up that way. I lived in the Pacific Northwest for nearly 4 years and have attended games at both UO and UW. Beautiful place. I think the renovation proposed on the right is scheduled to be completed by the 2013 season.
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NashBuff
CSU Knob-Slobberer
They are removing the track from that stadium and lowering the field to add more seats to the lower bowl. That place is already loud and will get even louder. The Buffs will travel to Husky Stadium this season and then come back to the new Husky Stadium in 2015 (CU will miss UW in '13 and '14).
18 years old explains it.
buffs04
Well-Known Member
In this thread, CU will have the BEST facilities in the WORLD and win NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS!!!!!!!!! in football even though we haven't had a winning season in five years and have 0 legitimate quarterbacks on our roster. Why? Because of the TV contract! Oh and Boulder is really nice.
We know that we can recruit well to the location and the university. Even Hawkins was able to score a top 25 class. We also know that producing a football team that wins consistently is the norm. 1989 to 1996 is an outlier, as is the last 5 years under Hawkins as well as the Fairbanks era. Our norm over the history of the program is to win about 2/3 of our games. I don't think it's a stretch to say that with good coaching hires and a major increase in revenues driving facility improvement (which have always been mediocre), that winning 3/4 of our games on average into the future becomes the norm. It's aggressive, but it's firmly based in reality. CU football is a sleeping giant right now.
I'm excited to go to a UW game. Tailgaiting on boats!
Tractor
Club Member
77buff
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Careful! This sounds like something a Husker Fan would say! LOL!
Mick Ronson
Well-Known Member
aren't there Big Ten boards for you?
Not invited to the Big Ten Boards until July 1st.
Anyway, can't a 2nd rate Buff fan chime in around here? Or is this board becoming only for the "Pac 12 elitists"?
You can stick around. Just mind your manners, boy.
You're like all of those mid-grade professional athletes who want to live the lavish lifestyle with the best of the best stuff: cars, houses, $1k kicks, etc. So then you become bankrupt because you were living outside of your means. We can't afford the best of the best. Deal with it.