New VB Facility Open

[theshadow]

Team moving in...

 

[Erik4Cy]

Team moving in...

This is why we donate to Cyclone athletics. Thank you to those posting this video. Look at how happy our Cyclone athletes are!

 

[CY9008]

Looks great. Great for them to have a home in one place.

 

[JP4CY]

OK, yeah that kitchen is awesome!

 

[theshadow]

 

[theshadow]

 

[SuperTrooper]

Wow. Money that could have went to baseball...
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[SuperTrooper]

= silly. Some of you are the biggest smooth brained people around.

 

[1TwistedCyclone]

Don't follow much volleyball, but that facility looks fantastic. Always like new buildings for ISU, regardless of sport or academic department.

 

[CloneFanInKC]

Is this the former AAU site that was slated to be wrestling facility?

 

[Cytasticlone]

Is this the former AAU site that was slated to be wrestling facility?

Former tennis facility I think?

 

[OKClones]

Volleyball at ISU gets a new facility over Wrestling. Head scratcher since we haven't made the final 16 in what 10 years.

 

[Cytasticlone]

Found this:

Starting this summer​

McKee Indoor Tennis Complex remodel

With the Cyclone tennis team moving to a facility in the ISU Research Park, its seven-year-old training facility on South Dakota Avenue in west Ames is being converted to a home for the Cyclone volleyball program, which currently is based at Hilton Coliseum.

Because the volleyball roster includes more student-athletes than the tennis team's, existing locker, training and team rooms will be demolished and larger ones constructed. A new mezzanine level creates space for volleyball coach offices. The practice facility will feature two courts with a rubber athletic floor.

Demolition will begin by the end of May and work should be substantially completed early in spring semester 2025. Athletics department funds will cover the $4.2 million cost.

 

[theshadow]

Volleyball at ISU gets a new facility over Wrestling. Head scratcher since we haven't made the final 16 in what 10 years.

Volleyball = $4M to renovate a tennis facility; practices held at Forker, Hilton

Wrestling = $15M+ (?) to renovate a basketball facility; current wrestling room has 4 mats, weights, and lockers

 

[Cytasticlone]

Volleyball = $4M to renovate a tennis facility; practices held at Forker, Hilton

Wrestling = $15M+ (?) to renovate a basketball facility; current wrestling room has 4 mats, weights, and lockers

Also, that wrestling facility was a go until the athletic dept NIL fund/cap was brought into play. I think the uncertainty of the athletic budget as a whole, because of NIL considerations, caused them to hold off on the wrestling facility for now. I could be wrong and there's more nuance than that, but that's how I understood it.

 

[Cytasticlone]

This is probably way more than anyone wanted, but...

Here's the facility announcement video:

And, the postponement thread:

As always, thank you for the support Jamie

 

[Cytasticlone]

Now, I'll get back on topic and say that the new VB facility looks sweet! I think for the amount of investment it looks like it could pay big dividends in recruiting. We're never bad and almost always good or better under CJL. Hopefully, this gives her some needed firepower to step up a level again.

 

[jcisuclones]

Really hoping this improves recruiting and the program can get back where it's been in the past!

 

[theshadow]

Also, that wrestling facility was a go until the athletic dept NIL fund/cap was brought into play. I think the uncertainty of the athletic budget as a whole, because of NIL considerations, caused them to hold off on the wrestling facility for now. I could be wrong and there's more nuance than that, but that's how I understood it.

IMO, the only way any new (note: tennis, VB, and Scheman were already on the books for awhile) construction gets done from this point forward is via 100% private funding. AD isn't going to chip in or bond with a new $20M annual expense coming down the line.

 

[theshadow]