Roos Field Renovation

[Vic E. Wallace]

clawman,
I have been visiting the University constantly the last few days. I ran into the lady that write tickets for EWU Parking. I ask her how much it will cost parking for the 550 parking spaces (New Lot adjacent to the Water Tower)? she told me they are not paying for it, it is supposed to be part of the "GATEWAY PROJECT", :thumb: :thumb: :notworthy: :notworthy: :notworthy: maybe this good OMEN. :thumb: :thumb: Also we have had all types of Camps, Women Basket Ball Call Camps, up from 24 teams to 37. Everything was busy on campus, Jim Thorpe Field House, Upper Gyms, Reese Court, and Cheney Middle School was also utilized.
Met one of our Former Player Todd Burnell QB 91-94, he is here with British Columbia High School Football camp, over 650 young men for football Camps.Coach Hayford stated we have over 1000 men on campus for Camps Spoke to one of the Contractors working with the New Parking lot today, mentioned how many days the rain have set them back? He stated they haven't worked for at least a week, they were out there today working, he stated they are going to be completed for the first FB Game. :nod: :nod: :nod: Two of the Recruits for this year are on Campus, Albert Havili, LB fm Federal Way, he is staying with the Pulu Brothers, and I think Joe Douglas DL fm Hanford, I could be wrong on Joe, I couldn't remember. These Players worked the Camps, Andru Pulu, John Goldwire, Dylan Zylstra, Anthony Larry, Nick Washburn, Cedric Gonzalez, Josh Butorac, Jabari Wilson, Mario Brown, and many more. These are the ones I saw. Roos Field, Grass Field in back, upper Grass Field are busy all day. So much for my Book. Go Eagles!!!!! Vic Wallace

 

[Vic E. Wallace]

dozy,
Dylan, my daughter, and myself, talk about you, your wife, Days, Boutarac, and Washburn family, the fun we have had at the Killin Dinner Dance, how you claimed to have had a bad knee, later we caught you out the floor doing your "THING". Dylan cracked up ( :lol: ). We sat and talked for a while, with him, Andru Pulu, Anthony Larry, Jabari Wilson, Nick Washburn, Josh Boutorac, Cedric Gonzalez, Mario Brown, John Goldwire. I taught Dylan was a Senior this year, he told me he had two more years left. Hope you and the family are doing fine, along with the Crews on the West Side. Have a Great 4th Of July, the same goes to our Bloggers. Go Eagles!!!!! Vic Wallace

 

[EWURanger]

Looks like it's going to be right behind the press box? Also, I thought that a new bookstore was part of the Gateway Project. Weird. Something tells me me this isn't going to be the "main" bookstore, but something more along the lines of a place where merchandise is sold, with concessions. This makes more sense than re-locating the actual bookstore right behind the pressbox at the football stadium.

 

[Vic E. Wallace]

EWURanger,
I noticed there are some construction going on the North side of the Press Box. The area is framed in as if they are waiting for concrete. Not very big, maybe you are correct for the selling of things during a game. Take a ride out and see what is going. FB Camps will be there until Saturday. Our Players will be back on the field Aug. 6th, can't wait. Vic

 

[EWU98]

I love this idea of having more stuff up top...can't wait, but where is the new information on the GATEWAY Project!!???

 

[eaglesfootball]

yeah, it looks like someplace that would sell Eagles merchandise on game days. definitely not a new book store IMO.

 

[FormerEag]

I didn't mean to imply it was a full fledged bookstore. It seems it will take the place of the current merch trailer they bring in on game days, which is operated by the university bookstore.

 

[clawman1]

Nice addition to the game day experience.

 

[Seattle Eagle]

yeah, it looks like someplace that would sell Eagles merchandise on game days. definitely not a new book store IMO.

This is exactly what it is. Confirmed on the comments section of the facebook site.

 

[eaglesfootball]

I didn't mean to imply it was a full fledged bookstore. It seems it will take the place of the current merch trailer they bring in on game days, which is operated by the university bookstore.

either way a nice and welcome addition.

 

[Dozy]

how you claimed to have had a bad knee, later we caught you out the floor doing your "THING". Dylan cracked up ( :lol: ).

I got a cortizone shot from the trainer...

Good to hear from you, Vic!

 

[Screamin_Eagle174]

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“We needed to catch up off the field,” Eastern athletic director Bill Chaves said. “We’re a top-10 program nationally (on the field), and I feel like it’s my job to make sure that we’re doing everything else in a top-10 fashion.

“And although we may not be there right now, we have a vision to be top 10 in everything we do,” said Chaves, who foresees a red soccer field and a red basketball court, too.

“That’s on the radar screen,” Chaves said. “I’m not kidding.”

That depends on financing. According to Mike Westfall, Eastern’s Vice-President for University Advancement and Executive Director of the EWU Foundation, the Gateway project won’t move forward “until we know we can fund the entire project.”

Chaves is optimistic. “People do have the capability to fund things they are interested in,” he said. “With that funding, we’d be off and running pretty quickly.”

The Gateway Project presents a bit of chicken-and-egg dilemma for Eastern, which last year averaged 8,089 fans – less than half the Gateway’s projected capacity. In other words, if they build it, will the fans come?

Until donors step up to fund the Gateway, Eastern has an opportunity to increase attendance and at the same time build greater demand for expansion. Boosting attendance to 10,000 would stabilize the athletic department budget, leaving it less dependent on payday games such as this year’s road trips to Oregon State and Toledo and thus affording the Eagles a chance to play more home games.

 

[EWU98]

MAN if I could only win POWERBALL it would be paid for or at least as much as my wife would allow!

The sad thing about this is the longer it takes to get it going the more $$$ it is going to take to pay for it.
Why can't the state float some of the money like it did for WSU?
Maybe McFarland will throw us some money when the new Spawn movie comes out in a year or so.

 

[BLACKFALKIN1]

http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2013/aug/29/playing-catch-up/

“We needed to catch up off the field,” Eastern athletic director Bill Chaves said. “We’re a top-10 program nationally (on the field), and I feel like it’s my job to make sure that we’re doing everything else in a top-10 fashion.

“And although we may not be there right now, we have a vision to be top 10 in everything we do,” said Chaves, who foresees a red soccer field and a red basketball court, too.

“That’s on the radar screen,” Chaves said. “I’m not kidding.”

That depends on financing. According to Mike Westfall, Eastern’s Vice-President for University Advancement and Executive Director of the EWU Foundation, the Gateway project won’t move forward “until we know we can fund the entire project.”

Chaves is optimistic. “People do have the capability to fund things they are interested in,” he said. “With that funding, we’d be off and running pretty quickly.”

The Gateway Project presents a bit of chicken-and-egg dilemma for Eastern, which last year averaged 8,089 fans – less than half the Gateway’s projected capacity. In other words, if they build it, will the fans come?

Until donors step up to fund the Gateway, Eastern has an opportunity to increase attendance and at the same time build greater demand for expansion. Boosting attendance to 10,000 would stabilize the athletic department budget, leaving it less dependent on payday games such as this year’s road trips to Oregon State and Toledo and thus affording the Eagles a chance to play more home games.

That doesn't sound good at all. Chaves is good for EWU football tho.. It would be so easy to add a "small fee" into student tuition to get this thing paid for!!! Husky stadium got a renovation, Martin stadium got a renovation, Woodward field......... got red turf. Don't get me wrong I luv the turf and the video board and that was def the catalyst for the National Championship. However, EWU needs to stop being so passive and build this thing. NOW!!!!

 

[Screamin_Eagle174]

http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2013/aug/29/playing-catch-up/

“We needed to catch up off the field,” Eastern athletic director Bill Chaves said. “We’re a top-10 program nationally (on the field), and I feel like it’s my job to make sure that we’re doing everything else in a top-10 fashion.

“And although we may not be there right now, we have a vision to be top 10 in everything we do,” said Chaves, who foresees a red soccer field and a red basketball court, too.

“That’s on the radar screen,” Chaves said. “I’m not kidding.”

That depends on financing. According to Mike Westfall, Eastern’s Vice-President for University Advancement and Executive Director of the EWU Foundation, the Gateway project won’t move forward “until we know we can fund the entire project.”

Chaves is optimistic. “People do have the capability to fund things they are interested in,” he said. “With that funding, we’d be off and running pretty quickly.”

The Gateway Project presents a bit of chicken-and-egg dilemma for Eastern, which last year averaged 8,089 fans – less than half the Gateway’s projected capacity. In other words, if they build it, will the fans come?

Until donors step up to fund the Gateway, Eastern has an opportunity to increase attendance and at the same time build greater demand for expansion. Boosting attendance to 10,000 would stabilize the athletic department budget, leaving it less dependent on payday games such as this year’s road trips to Oregon State and Toledo and thus affording the Eagles a chance to play more home games.

That doesn't sound good at all. Chaves is good for EWU football tho.. It would be so easy to add a "small fee" into student tuition to get this thing paid for!!! Husky stadium got a renovation, Martin stadium got a renovation, Woodward field......... got red turf. Don't get me wrong I luv the turf and the video board and that was def the catalyst for the National Championship. However, EWU needs to stop being so passive and build this thing. NOW!!!!

Any student fee wouldn't be small, unless it were stretched out over a LONG period of time. 10K students at $100 each per quarter, is 3M per year. This building is gonna be 60M plus. Wazzu and UW have a lot more big $ alums that EWU does. I think UW got state funding as well.

 

[GoldenEagle]

NO! This should not be funded on the backs of students. If it takes longer to happen than that is OK by me. Let's not lose perspective here.

 

[jtayewu]

NO! This should not be funded on the backs of students. If it takes longer to happen than that is OK by me. Let's not lose perspective here.

I am going to have to agree here.

 

[EWURanger]

http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2013/aug/29/playing-catch-up/

“We needed to catch up off the field,” Eastern athletic director Bill Chaves said. “We’re a top-10 program nationally (on the field), and I feel like it’s my job to make sure that we’re doing everything else in a top-10 fashion.

“And although we may not be there right now, we have a vision to be top 10 in everything we do,” said Chaves, who foresees a red soccer field and a red basketball court, too.

“That’s on the radar screen,” Chaves said. “I’m not kidding.”

That depends on financing. According to Mike Westfall, Eastern’s Vice-President for University Advancement and Executive Director of the EWU Foundation, the Gateway project won’t move forward “until we know we can fund the entire project.”

Chaves is optimistic. “People do have the capability to fund things they are interested in,” he said. “With that funding, we’d be off and running pretty quickly.”

The Gateway Project presents a bit of chicken-and-egg dilemma for Eastern, which last year averaged 8,089 fans – less than half the Gateway’s projected capacity. In other words, if they build it, will the fans come?

Until donors step up to fund the Gateway, Eastern has an opportunity to increase attendance and at the same time build greater demand for expansion. Boosting attendance to 10,000 would stabilize the athletic department budget, leaving it less dependent on payday games such as this year’s road trips to Oregon State and Toledo and thus affording the Eagles a chance to play more home games.

That doesn't sound good at all. Chaves is good for EWU football tho.. It would be so easy to add a "small fee" into student tuition to get this thing paid for!!! Husky stadium got a renovation, Martin stadium got a renovation, Woodward field......... got red turf. Don't get me wrong I luv the turf and the video board and that was def the catalyst for the National Championship. However, EWU needs to stop being so passive and build this thing. NOW!!!!

Any student fee wouldn't be small, unless it were stretched out over a LONG period of time. 10K students at $100 each per quarter, is 3M per year. This building is gonna be 60M plus. Wazzu and UW have a lot more big $ alums that EWU does. I think UW got state funding as well.

I agree, although EWU has a little over 12.5k students. Not that it changes much.

 

[ewueagle2010]

There is absolutely ZERO chance of the students being charged for this cause. Get it out of your minds now, don't think about it again. As a recent grad and member of the student government, this item has been discussed and there is NO CHANCE of this happening with the constant rise in tuition costs! Not to mention, students are still paying for the URC and now there is plans being worked for a new PUB with a price tag of around 35 million dollars.

I want this Gateway Project to be done just as much as all of you, I hope it happens soon, but students will never agree to another fee to help pay for it. I personally would be willing to downgrade the plans a bit just to have something done on the East side, because right now, it's holding this program back. Plain and simple. WE NEED A REAL STADIUM!!

 

[Spoeagle]

good report telling it like it is, 2010