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Athletic Facilities

Great news!
Now that we are all drunk on euphoria. Here are some serious questions.

A. Why is it taking four years to build?
B. Where will the team play while construction is underway?
C. Where will track & field do their thing?
D. PacX needs teams by 2026. Is MWC willing to wait four years?
E. This is half of the equation: arena?

I remember Gonzo holding a press release to announce the Well, and well, look where we are.
 
HeavyistheClown said:
Great news!
Now that we are all drunk on euphoria. Here are some serious questions.

A. Why is it taking four years to build?
B. Where will the team play while construction is underway?
C. Where will track & field do their thing?
D. PacX needs teams by 2026. Is MWC willing to wait four years?
E. This is half of the equation: arena?

I remember Gonzo holding a press release to announce the Well, and well, look where we are.
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A. It's not designed yet, so the better part of a year to design plus permitting time, then another 2ish years to build. 4 years sounds about right to me. Better, faster, cheaper. You only get two of those when building things.
B. My guess is Hughes Stadium. It seats 20k.
C. Who cares. They haven't stacked hardware since the Raske years are are now an irrelevant program.
D. Neither the Pac or MW can wait that long as they have to get to 8 full members to remain an FBS campus. Our transition to FBS will take 2 years. Timeline is an invite before June '25 to be fully FBS by the '27 season. If either conference wants us to fit in that timeline, we'll need an invite soon. IMO, odds are very high we get an invite.
E. My guess is Golden 1 will be leveraged as a home to entice an FBS invite until we get an on-campus venue built.
 
Oregon State imploded their west stand after 2021, played the 2022 season at reduced capacity with one home game at Providence Park, then opened up in 2023.

I’m sure it’ll take at least a year to go through the planning process (that’s very west coast), but this doesn’t have to mean 4 years away unless the administration decides some land is required for logistical or other reasons.
 
Kadeezy said:
Joe Davidson is reporting this is the last season in Hornet stadium. He says demolition will begin immediately after the season.
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That is not what he reported at all. I quoted it in the other thread. They are working on tear down but we will continue to play at Hornet Stadium until the stadium is complete
 
Heavy: That's not exactly a "new" stadium at Liberty. They did some extensive reconstruction there, to be sure. But that's been Williams Stadium on that site since 1989 (when I was still at Lodi Union High School).
 
Feels like our very Hornet Edition of Field of Dreams, “If we build it, they will come…”

With some of the notes saying that we’ll be able to play while the construction goes on around the field that makes me feel like maybe the field is staying exactly in place? If there is no track that would be an awful lot of dead space between end zone and The Broad. I can’t keep up between this thread and the other thread where certain things were said but there was a mention of us getting possibly a horseshoe design which would be great done correctly. Close off the side to The Well and slide down the field close to The Broad and close this stadium in! I have always thought the premium seating in the end zone was a cool way to keep fans close and where players can celebrate with them after big plays. I would like to see some style of some club seating still available at field level.
 
FootballAlum84 said:
Feels like our very Hornet Edition of Field of Dreams, “If we build it, they will come…”

With some of the notes saying that we’ll be able to play while the construction goes on around the field that makes me feel like maybe the field is staying exactly in place? If there is no track that would be an awful lot of dead space between end zone and The Broad. I can’t keep up between this thread and the other thread where certain things were said but there was a mention of us getting possibly a horseshoe design which would be great done correctly. Close off the side to The Well and slide down the field close to The Broad and close this stadium in! I have always thought the premium seating in the end zone was a cool way to keep fans close and where players can celebrate with them after big plays. I would like to see some style of some club seating still available at field level.
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According to Sting, track will be removed. Also, in press release, it was said that the project will include building track & field facilities, so hopefully that confirms the track will be relocated. To where, dont know or care. Just as long as there is no track in the stadium.
 
stingthemgood said:
That is not what he reported at all. I quoted it in the other thread. They are working on tear down but we will continue to play at Hornet Stadium until the stadium is complete
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I misinterpreted the tweet he posted about demo beginning immediately after this season.
 
I heard both Orr and Wood say stadium will be razed at end of the season. That they could do it with a a few people and a couple of beers. They didnt elaborate if both sides will be razed at once or if the track/turf will also be relocated. I'd imagine that site work couldnt start for awhile needing permits, CSU approval, etc. Should know more in a few 'weeks'.
 
Would like to keep some of the grandstands and new press box and possibly relocate to the new track facility. Or somehow refurbish the John with more seating and there is no press box in the stadium.

I think Hughes would be the perfect temp location.
 
Green Cookie Monster said:
Would like to keep some of the grandstands and new press box and possibly relocate to the new track facility. Or somehow refurbish the John with more seating and there is no press box in the stadium.

I think Hughes would be the perfect temp location.
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Yeah, the new Press Box is certainly relocatable -- it's a series of modular buildings pushed together, seeing as there wasn't the infrastructure in place to have "permanent" buildings up there on the temporary erector set. I think we could potential put part of it in Shea and part of it at the John and kill two birds, and still have enough for a timing room at Track.
 
Green Cookie Monster said:
According to Sting, track will be removed. Also, in press release, it was said that the project will include building track & field facilities, so hopefully that confirms the track will be relocated. To where, dont know or care. Just as long as there is no track in the stadium.
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My thoughts from talking to people in the department over the last few months as with Soccer and Rugby relocating to the "New Stadium" the plan would be to have the track in the footprint of Hornet Field and the Rugby field north of it. There should be enough space there for a Track with bleachers on one side and a throws area closer to the Shea Stadium side.

Unfortunately some of those big beautiful trees we all love on College Town Drive there might have to be relocated, which is a major project. But how good would those look outside the new Football Stadium?
 
stingthemgood said:
Yeah, the new Press Box is certainly relocatable -- it's a series of modular buildings pushed together, seeing as there wasn't the infrastructure in place to have "permanent" buildings up there on the temporary erector set. I think we could potential put part of it in Shea and part of it at the John and kill two birds, and still have enough for a timing room at Track.
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This is a great idea. The benefit of having an erector set stadium is that perhaps some of that can be salvaged at the new track location, perhaps baseline seating at The John, etc.
 
Hornet25 said:
This timeline would mean they're far along in the planning stages and the difference between 25k seats and more will not impact their plans
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Since they are talking about razing the field after this season, the will probably be at least around 30% design by then, if not more. This possibly might even be a design-build project to shorten the schedule. Since a well experienced firm with stadium expertise was brought in to design new Hornet Stadium , they no doubt have other projects that they can pull from for some of the nuts and bolts aspect of things to speed things along.
 
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