IUFB Offseason Updates

[jermhoosierfan]

46 minutes ago, Pagoda said:

Good news: money has been allocated for Memorial Stadium renovations.

 

Ahead of larger investments? Wow, how much are they looking at spending on the stadium?

[Pagoda]

44 minutes ago, jermhoosierfan said:

Ahead of larger investments? Wow, how much are they looking at spending on the stadium?

I think the "larger investments" refers to other projects at IU, not Memorial.

Missing in this tweet is $50M was approved for maintenance.  Then on top of that a $150M capital project was approved and for that money the state has to sign off.  I assume they will... IUFB is pretty popular right now.

With that high level of maintenance spend, I think they're going to keep the current East and West stand structures.  As in this won't be a total rebuild of those stands, just making them nicer.  $150M is enough for a new press box and suites.  How many seats they add while doing this... who knows. 

[DChoosier]

7 hours ago, Pagoda said:

Good news: money has been allocated for Memorial Stadium renovations.

 

It’s a HUGE, HUGE stretch but I wish that first digit was an 8 or 9. Instead of a 1, so we could build a new stadium.

Back to reality…….is Northwestern the only school to build a new stadium since forever ? I can’t think of another one although a bunch of them have spent a ton on expansion etc 

[Class of '66 Old Fart]

15 hours ago, Pagoda said:

Good news: money has been allocated for Memorial Stadium renovations.

 

Not a well-written article and the headline was misleading.  The BOT approved $50 million for renovations and will make a $150 million capital project request to the State for improvements to the stadium.  

[LIHoosier]

8 hours ago, DChoosier said:

It’s a HUGE, HUGE stretch but I wish that first digit was an 8 or 9. Instead of a 1, so we could build a new stadium.

Back to reality…….is Northwestern the only school to build a new stadium since forever ? I can’t think of another one although a bunch of them have spent a ton on expansion etc 

Minnesota's stadium is about 15 years old at this point; that's the only one built from scratch I can think of.

[Class of '66 Old Fart]

Better story on the planned stadium improvements funding.

https://www.thedailyhoosier.com/report-iu-board-of-trustee-votes-signal-coming-memorial-stadium-upgrades/

[Pagoda]

8 hours ago, DChoosier said:

It’s a HUGE, HUGE stretch but I wish that first digit was an 8 or 9. Instead of a 1, so we could build a new stadium.

Back to reality…….is Northwestern the only school to build a new stadium since forever ? I can’t think of another one although a bunch of them have spent a ton on expansion etc 

Yea, it’s hard to spend that much when the stadium is only used 7 or 8 times per year.  ROI isn’t good.  I doubt any events could be stolen from Lucas Oil up the road.  And the North and South endzones were recently built and contain all sorts of nice offices and facilities with lots of lifespan left.

New P4 college stadiums aside from Minny I can think of: Baylor (meh) and Kansas is basically a new stadium.  Pretty rare.

[Hovadipo]

Not P4, but USF moves into their new digs next fall, San Diego State is new and incredible and UAB is pretty new too. 

[Demo]

9 hours ago, DChoosier said:

It’s a HUGE, HUGE stretch but I wish that first digit was an 8 or 9. Instead of a 1, so we could build a new stadium.

Back to reality…….is Northwestern the only school to build a new stadium since forever ? I can’t think of another one although a bunch of them have spent a ton on expansion etc 

Gotta say, what they’ve done at NW looks great and good for them, but I loved that lakefront setup so much and it would have rocked if that was just what they did. I mean, after year 1 they’re gonna go back to being 4-8 and drawing 15k to their new stadium and if that’s the the deal why not go a different way and create 1 of the most unique experiences in CFB? I’m sure I’m on an island on that one, but it would have been amazing.

[Hoosier987]

Any thoughts on how the 10th circuit will rule? What chaos it would bring if they ruled in favor of ncaa regarding 2022 class. 

[HoosierReb01]

6 hours ago, Hoosier987 said:

Any thoughts on how the 10th circuit will rule? What chaos it would bring if they ruled in favor of ncaa regarding 2022 class. 

They'll delay ruling until Feb.

[Hoosier987]

15 hours ago, HoosierReb01 said:

They'll delay ruling until Feb.

I thought the ncaa asked for a rush judgment and the 10th circuit was going to rule prior to end of month. Maybe even this week. Did something change?

[HoosierReb01]

8 hours ago, Hoosier987 said:

I thought the ncaa asked for a rush judgment and the 10th circuit was going to rule prior to end of month. Maybe even this week. Did something change?

No, I should have added a DWS to that.