McPeachy said:
Cowboy Junky said:
This has been debated before in Laramie. I think the saying goes, "If you're going to build a dome in Laramie, you're going to have to build a dome over the interstates that go to Laramie."
By the time CSU does build this we should be finishing the AA and Corbett Pool, which will cost us about 40 million. Where do we go after that, because a dome isn't going to happen, and even if it did, we're not going to put more then 25,000 in it, even during our best seasons. The only thing it might push us to do is to renovate the west side. Would new concessions on the west side of the stadium give us an advantage over CSU's brand new stadium?
I tossed the dome out there - as something very forward thinking. I don't agree with the saying (above), but I do think it is WAY out of the box for anything Wyoming at this time. I imagine having a facility like that, the infrastructure to support it would need to be there first (hotel rooms, etc) - and that isn't going to happen. At least not in my lifetime.
That said, I would like to see UW build for the future a bit more, instead of the dummied-down version we have seen the last 10 years. Horseshoe the south side, with luxury boxes and 10K additional seats.
I don't think that's out of the realm of possibility for Wyoming. I just don't think it's realistic yet. The entire state is going to have to continue to grow(although we are one of the fastest growing states), Laramie is going to have to reach their stated goal of 50,000 Laramie residents, and Cheyenne and Casper are going to have to get much larger. If all that happens, we could support 40,000, but we're looking 20 years down the road.
For now, if CSU builds that stadium and fills it, we're kind of f'd in the facilities race.
The only we could really respond with is more luxury boxes and press boxes on the west side to generate more revenue, but I don't think that's possible unless we tear down the fieldhouse.