Athletic Facilities across the Nation
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UNI announced that Phase II of the UNI-Dome Renovation will start in April with work being completed by August 2026. New seating will be in for the 2025 season and the Dome will be available for the full season. It will expand space on the sidelines, reduce capacity to approximately 12,250 and add suites, party decks and beer gardens to the West Side.
Looks pretty neat, like a European soccer stadium with the overhang. Maybe the bears should just rent it on sundays....
Ho does one know if college sports has a spending problem? When their facilities are better than most professional teams
VCU has a pretty passionate fan base and some of these schools that don't have football and put all their resources into basketball have some damn good facilities.
Hilton needs a renovation so badly. It seems like all of our sports venues are either outdated or bare bones in appearance compared to our other league counterparts.
Not saying I disagree with you, but college facilities NEED to be better to attract recruits. In the pro leagues players don't have as much freedom of movement, so facilities aren't as high of a priority.
Seems like those plans have been put on a serious hold or maybe even just flat out dead now that the Athletic Dept has to pay $20 million a year to the athletes.
I just find it a little funny. A college football player gets drafted in to a team with a net worth over $1 Billion. They step foot onto their practice facilities, look around, and say "This is it? College had way more and better stuff"
Sad that despite the growth in revenues the last 20 years, we can’t both invest in revenue generating infrastructure and pay the most important revenue generating input
The thing is NFL and College Football are very different. The NFL roster size is half of the college rosters so they do not need the same size of weight rooms / training facilities etc. Also many do not train there in the off season, they have their own trainers and training facilities so in reality the facilities are used less than half the year. Also there is no need for the lounges / entertainment areas, these are adults that go home to their homes / families after practice, no need for the off practice time facilities. IMO justification why NFL facilities may not match college ones.
I wish we would have updated HIlton before we did the Cytown thing. Hilton is just shabby right now. For some reason our greatest sport at Iowa State get's the least amount of money going to it.
Updating Hilton would not generate any real material increase in revenue. Maybe CyTown can create revenue to update Hilton since profits are earmarked for improvements to the Iowa State Center that Hilton is a part of.
Fair point. But some of the stuff showcased (such as the video board across a field to mimic presnap movements of their opponents) are things that you don't find in NFL facilities. Even the food at the practice facilities are often nowhere near the quality at college. Here's an excerpt from an article last year regarding the Bengals food at the practice facility
When asked what was the difference between his Power 5 college food program and the Bengals', he said there was no comparison.
"Just diversity of what we had [in college]," the player said. "Diversity of what you can eat that was catered to you. Diversity from a standpoint of having a nutritionist that really could set a certain plan up for you in essence of what your goals were and what catered to you. I mean, that's really the biggest thing when you get here. It's a little more basic. Some guys don't eat at the stadium."
