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Athletic Facilities

Kadeezy said:
Completely agree with this. The USA stadium is a bare bones bowl, which I would obviously LOVE to have over nothing at all, but the school is counting on building something with design elements that make it more than just a football field. I would love to pull some of the concerts that BMO, SnapDragon and other MLS-style stadiums do. Also, ask the 49ers if they would build an overhang for shade if they could do it all over again!

I will fall to my knees and cry the day I walk into a BMO/SnapDragon-type facility for the first football game there. LOL
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Great chat topics. Another couple of reasons I believe the shade cover is a bonus.

1) Washington Husky stadium many say it’s one of the loudest because the roof directs sound from stand into the field better!

2) Year Round Sports whatever sport(s) that might be (fb / College soccer / rugby / SAC Republic) it would bring families to games that during light rain would not normally attend!

3) That first playoff game yrs ago vs Austin Peay? I think was raining and ruined attendance.

Having cover will add more butts in seats in both winter & summer as the afternoon games were too hot and required 6pm starts. Yes better time slot too but now we have more options!
 
8 lanes worth of turns can't fit in the practice field location. I think they'll have to put the track in the current soccer/intramural field and have the soccer programs play in new Hornet Stadium.
 
Space is getting tight on campus. Limited options if the school ever wants to upgrade facilities, like baseball. Football needs practice fields.
 
SDHornet said:
8 lanes worth of turns can't fit in the practice field location. I think they'll have to put the track in the current soccer/intramural field and have the soccer programs play in new Hornet Stadium.
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A competition track and field venue cannot fit into the current warm up track area. The practice track as I recall only has two lanes on all but the front straightaway. Any chance for a proper track facility at that location ended when the baseball field and the Well were constructed. The venue must include a 8 lane track, seating, enough room for the landing areas for the hammer, javelin etc. and a warm up area adjacent to the venue. I don't know if there is enough room at the current soccer field. Another possible location would be south of the stadium where the current parking lot is. When the track was removed during the Stanford Stadium remodel they built a nice track and field venue across the street.
 
Green Laser said:
A competition track and field venue cannot fit into the current warm up track area. The practice track as I recall only has two lanes on all but the front straightaway. Any chance for a proper track facility at that location ended when the baseball field and the Well were constructed. The venue must include a 8 lane track, seating, enough room for the landing areas for the hammer, javelin etc. and a warm up area adjacent to the venue. I don't know if there is enough room at the current soccer field. Another possible location would be south of the stadium where the current parking lot is. When the track was removed during the Stanford Stadium remodel they built a nice track and field venue across the street.
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If you take the current Hornet Stadium it fits over the footprint of the current Soccer and Rugby fields.
 
Found another article saying they’re building to 12,000. This mean they’re not going MLS, so not to the scale you would want for new Hornet in the first place. It’s very likely for the best.
 
Kadeezy said:
Not ideal.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1854588280085369280
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I don't see why. One has nothing to do with the other.

If Ron Burkle hadn't pulled out of the original deal -- the Republic would already have a stadium in the Railyards and be MLS. And had that happened, I still don't see how it affects the Hornets path forward with their own stadium deal and move to FBS.

College and pro can easily coexist. You see examples of it everywhere. And in this case we're talking soccer, not a competing football team.

It'll take nothing away from what the Hornets are doing.
 
BuckeyeHornetFan said:
I don't see why. One has nothing to do with the other.

If Ron Burkle hadn't pulled out of the original deal -- the Republic would already have a stadium in the Railyards and be MLS. And had that happened, I still don't see how it affects the Hornets path forward with their own stadium deal and move to FBS.

College and pro can easily coexist. You see examples of it everywhere. And in this case we're talking soccer, not a competing football team.

It'll take nothing away from what the Hornets are doing.
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It takes away the following:

1) The new Sac Republic FC owner I believe is / was a big NIL donor which means he might have less capital for SAC ST donations!

2) losing a potential person to sign a lease Hornet Stadium to help us generate revenues to put towards our payments.
 
However.., we are blessed Hornets! Looks like we will get into the PAC12 soon, Even if they lower our initial revenue share by 15-20% compared to Boise St example we will still be bringing in about $8 to $8.5M revenues to support the program.

In addition to student athletic experience fee’s

In addition in my opinion projected Sell out 25K attendance games for every game? TBD

We have Fresno St / San Diego St / Oregon St / Wash State / Boise St etc I think this could all be overflow of 25K seating.

I’d increase ticket prices as well. Have too!

times are good even if our team is struggling this season 🤦🏻‍♂️
 
HornetFootballFan said:
It takes away the following:

1) The new Sac Republic FC owner I believe is / was a big NIL donor which means he might have less capital for SAC ST donations!

2) losing a potential person to sign a lease Hornet Stadium to help us generate revenues to put towards our payments.
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1) Not necessarily if he’s generating more revenue and making more money with the new stadium deal.

2) The Republic FC was never a serious option as a tenant. In fact, they’d never been officially discussed by anyone related to Sac State. That was all fan conjecture, especially on this forum.

I mentioned a while back that even IF Republic FC was somehow involved — it would be short term at best. They’ve been focused on the Railyards for years and that was always the end goal. Further, I also mentioned that you don’t see many instances of pro teams sharing with college teams, specifically on the college’s campus.

There’s good reason for that.

IDK why anyone here was expecting something different in that regard.

Again, I stand by what I said. One has nothing to do with the other. And it doesn’t affect what Sac State is working toward.
 
I agree with BHF. I viewed any Republic agreement as a means to an immediate cash infusion to help with getting the ball rolling on the stadium project, but long term I thought it would be problematic. If grass was really a requirement then that would have been disastrous for maintenance costs and playing surface in mid to late November for football. There would probably need to be additional locker room/team space otherwise everyone would have to jockey around schedule and equipment to accommodate each other, etc.

Ideally we want to be the only show in town during the fall but there is a little overlap with the soccer season and football season but I wasn't too worried about it. FBS football against name opponents will out-draw any level of soccer being played. If the Republic were/are smart, they will not schedule home games the same day/time as home FBS Hornet football games.
 
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