BuckeyeHornetFan
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Remind us all again, which program/school do you root for?
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Athletic Facilities
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Remind us all again, which program/school do you root for?
stingthemgood
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Hope they are addressing the beams -- that looks much too short to play high level basketball in
Kadeezy
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I’ve played in there plenty - this shot is from the second level, so it’s deceiving. There’s plenty of clearance, probably more than the Nest.
HornetFootballFan
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weak clown is an FUCdavis fraud
Good to see updates from the admin, hope this continues for the duration of the project, as well as the stadium construction. Hard to tell from these photos but I'm pretty sure the volleyball nets and gymnastics equipment need anchors cast into the slab. I wonder if those anchors are going to be constructed or will those programs remain in the Nest.
You don't have to worry about that.
Temperature check.
You sure we don't have to worry about tarrifs?
Do we want Chinesium steel? Buy American.
I am sure it will be an excuse for any further delay.
FWIW I've seen some significant infrastructure projects with low bids well under engineers estimate in the last few weeks. Hard to tell if it means anything yet, could just be the low bid contractors whiffing on their bids.
Wood said baseball and softball next for facility upgrades. I know both need a pressbox and restrooms. Both facilities received lights in the last few years. Always enjoyed watching a game above in the parking deck.
Kadeezy
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They are small, but our baseball and softball facilities are not as far behind on the D1 scale.
That being said, there is an opportunity to build expanded permanent shared restroom/locker room/concession stand facilities for baseball and the new track facility. For the love of god, the track has to go after next April.
Then build the same permanent shared restroom/locker room/concession stand facilities between soccer and softball facilities.
OR, move softball to where practice track is now and let softball and baseball share.
Then relocate track and soccer to the IM fields area to share a new layout. You'd have beach volleyball, M/W Tennis, M/W Soccer and M/W Track all in that block behind Yosemite Hall.
Softball doesn’t have lights. It supposed to be added in the next year or two with soccer, beach, tennis and the intramural fields.
Soccer/Softball got their concession/restroom building 5 years ago.
Shea Stadium is a permanent facility. They won’t relocate it next to John Smith Field.
HornetFootballFan
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Chinese Steel - From the SF Bay Bridge to the Aloha FB Stadium for Univ Hawaii. RUSTED OUT condemned Stadium. Total disaster. We don’t want Chinese steel.
I like Concrete w US Steel for durability! Might be 25-30 yrs before next major build? Not sure if this stadium has another upgrade option in the build to hit 40K seats?
With FUCD going 30K seats. I feel we are definitely going to build 30K seats instead of 25K seats.
30k was an old NCAA requirement. No brownie points hitting 30k today, unless it is true demand. When the Surge were in town 26,000 seemed like a consistent sellout achievable number.
None of the fields are getting relocated with the exception of the track being removed form Hornet Stadium. Where the track goes, who cares. It would be more of a sticking point if the T&F program was still a championship caliber program, but it's not and hasn't been for the better part of a decade.
More stadium details released. $100M can get a significant structure built which is great news. Sounds like the bowl idea it out so that will make expansion beyond the initial 25k capacity more difficult/costly. No track and real shitters is a massive upgrade no matter what the doomers and haters are going to claim.
More stadium details released. $100M can get a significant structure built which is great news. Sounds like the bowl idea it out so that will make expansion beyond the initial 25k capacity more difficult/costly. No track and real shitters is a massive upgrade no matter what the doomers and haters are going to claim.
Wood indicated there was a donor(s) that he can't divulge yet. So it will be more than $100 mil. Probably some naming rights, etc. I still contend that the Wilton Rancheria purchase of the Sac Republic threw a wrench in our stadium plans. They were lining up to be major partners.
The full bowl does appear to be out. But dropping the field 15-20 feet would allow for some seating in the footprint of the track.
