Landiegopoke
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Hey McPeachy thank you for making my day!McPeachy said:
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UW holding 1pm news conference on Monday
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soccerhead15
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The plan is for a 80x30ft long scoreboard at the south end which will be the largest board in the mwc.303cowboy said:
wyocowboy2014
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303cowboy said:
Looks like Nebraska on the field. Has to be if the seats are filled. On a serious note, I will miss the trees in the endzone. They give the war a lot of character.
ragtimejoe1
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I haven't seen the renderings. Very nice and I really like the concept of closing off the North end with a building.
Only thing I might change is making the building a little taller. Cost I know, but I think it would look a little better.
Nonetheless, fantastic and I really like it.
Only thing I might change is making the building a little taller. Cost I know, but I think it would look a little better.
Nonetheless, fantastic and I really like it.
ragtimejoe1
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So, was it this or Wyoming President Dick McGinity stepping down?
303cowboy
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soccerhead15 said:
Had to look this up to get some perspective. 30x80 is bigger than the UCLA's! This list says New Mexico is 80x32.. surely we can make it a few feet bigger than that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_college_football_stadium_video_boards
LanderPoke
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I'm glad they had a grand press conference to announce something that was common knowledge. It was nice of them to put out a nicely-written press release with lots of nice renderings and water colors and details of the project... Not! What the hell? for such a "huge" announcement you think they could have a press release ready.
Wyolie Coyote
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By the time this project is designed and bid, wonder if we will have enough money to complete the facility.
Wyolie Coyote said:
I was wondering the same thing. Hope UW isn't going to be like OKC. There's a Native American Cultural Center here in OKC that got started building back in the late 2000s like 2007 or 2008. Anyhow due to construction costs skyrocketing, only half the building was built. The project was short roughly $48 million dollars!!!! Both state legislature and the Indian tribes whose headquarters are in Oklahoma are at each other's throat trying to get the other side to pay for the remaining $48 million to finish the project. Meanwhile, the half finished building has been just sitting there for 5-6 years now acting as an eyesore to the city.
JimmyDimes
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It seems quite a bit of money has already been raised. Aside from the hiatus in phase II of the AA, it doesn't seem like Wyoming leaves projects incomplete.
joshvanklomp
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It wasn't common knowledge. Nothing had been announced about the facility until today. How is that common knowledge?LanderPoke said:
J-Rod
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Hopefully this isn't like CSU's stadium stuff. First renderings had all of them like... :thumb: :thumb: :thumb: :thumb:
Then funding was off, and suddenly the updated renderings had them like :| :| :| :| :|
This is an awesome project, but it's become a theme across the MW of having awesome plans that depreciate over time.
I'd like to see a firm date for when dirt is struck within the year, and when funding will be completed. Actual timelines, not "eventually's" and "soon enough's"
Then funding was off, and suddenly the updated renderings had them like :| :| :| :| :|
This is an awesome project, but it's become a theme across the MW of having awesome plans that depreciate over time.
I'd like to see a firm date for when dirt is struck within the year, and when funding will be completed. Actual timelines, not "eventually's" and "soon enough's"
joshvanklomp
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Well this sounds optimistic...
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ragtimejoe1
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Funding is my concern as well. If I read everything correctly, the cost is 24 mill in private donations and 20 mill in state money. So far we have 3 mill in private and 3 mill in state. That leaves 21 mill to go in private and 17 mill to go in state (although state should be somewhat guaranteed if private is met).
That is a lot of dough to be short. I would also like to know how much they built in for inflation or increasing construction costs. The AA renovations came in 20% or so higher than expected. If the same happens here that would be another 8-10 mill.
That is a lot of dough to be short. I would also like to know how much they built in for inflation or increasing construction costs. The AA renovations came in 20% or so higher than expected. If the same happens here that would be another 8-10 mill.
