Facility Upgrades
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This is exactly right. Building the NEZ out the way some on here want it does little for recruiting. But the year round amenities that the players can utilize are huge.
It appears that they will be doing some work to make the hillsides more symmetrical. I can see them terracing the hillsides as well in order to make them a little more fan friendly.
But why orange? Orange isn't even one of our colors. Can't we do any branding correctly?
This addition could tremendously help recruiting. Would be a big draw for recruits to have all of the facilities they use daily in one central location.
The only thing missing is a housing complex next door for the jersey chasers to live.
Exactly! JP was talking about that in the Murph and Andy (is that the show name?) podcast that got posted here earlier in the week. He was basically saying that the athletes, except for class, would be able to do all of their sports activities in a much smaller area than in the past.
I'm glad this is happening. I never understood Rhoads' take that that place should be for business only.
I was never a fan of the aesthetic of the Olsen Building. I think the upgrade looks like a nice improvement. That is my input.
That's not a surprise. The Olsen building literally was the only football building over there (well, besides the stadium, of course) for a very long time. It has been past time for it to be gracefully retired for many years now.
1. Addition by subtraction but in reality is just being replaced by the olympic sport facility.
2. Yes olympic sports...you know those non-revenue sports that no one here wants to talk about but still exist.
3. D-1 Sports if you aren't upgrading you are losing. Plus I would imagine that a very quickly growing university like ISU would love to have more space for those services for the general population.
This will look 1000000x better than it currently does.
And I don't even think it currently looks all that bad.
Maybe that is what was intended by olympic sport addition
Glad to see it spent here and not an improved press box.
The media can cowboy up.
The media can cowboy up.
Sororities are just a few short blocks away. Everyone will be happy.
I was talking about the yellowish-orange labeled as public access. That brighter orange is the main building, yes.
It seems that many of those ******** about cost are totally ignoring the green building that is the full length of the indoor practice facility and would house pretty much all of sports offices that aren't FB and BB. I realize that scale gets misleading when you have a huge building like that one in the middle of it, but this is a big project.
The main reason i could see people being disappointed is that there was talk of a multi-story building placed in the north end.
That being said, most of this is outside of the stadium's footprint, and thankfully doesn't put another major item in the way if someday we want to knock down the jake and video board and have the north end mirror the south.
That being said, most of this is outside of the stadium's footprint, and thankfully doesn't put another major item in the way if someday we want to knock down the jake and video board and have the north end mirror the south.
