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re: OU Stadium Expansion
Posted on 5/13/14 at 11:12 am to idlewatcher
Posted on 5/13/14 at 11:12 am to idlewatcher
That's pretty much what were doing. Were completely renovating it from the ground up. The location of Kyle in the middle of campus makes building a new stadium a bad idea.
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Posted on 5/13/14 at 11:18 am to ironsides
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ironsides
link?
Posted on 5/13/14 at 11:45 am to NGATiger
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CBS wrote an article about it just 5 or 6 days ago. If work isn't starting until after the season anyway, they could be prepping a huge reveal to be done closer to football season. It may very well be false, but there is no reason to think they would have to release the news right now.
CBS's article was based on the Blevins article he linked. You don't prep for $400m worth of renovations without announcing what you are doing. That's backwards because you need to raise the money. The very first thing you do is announce the plans. Then you begin fundraising. Then, once you feel comfortable its achievable, you get bids on cost to do anything.
Even if OU started today, they'd never break ground after the '14 season. We announced in 2011., released designs in late 12, began fundraising during '13 and didn't break ground til after the '13 season. And our project still won't be done til just before the '15 season starts.
Posted on 5/13/14 at 12:02 pm to theOG
Here you go. Only has 2008 but still pretting interesting:
Sooners made $77.09M in revenue
- $35.1 in tickets
- $0.15 from students
- $0.54 from away games
- $13.2 from donations
- $0.0 from university funding
- $0.21 from media rights
- $9.7 from branding / selling t-shirts hats and shite
For the cost breakdown, the $76.9M was:
- $7.3 in tuition / scholarships
- $1.7 for paying creampuffs to come to play
- $12.9 in coaches salaries
- $1.6 in recruiting budget
- $5.2 in team travel
- $6.7 for gameday related expenses (someone has to pay the cops, food vendors etc;
- $1.1 in marketing expenses
I think it's important to realize that if we're talking about this in terms of a business, it's the profit that matters, not the revenues.
From the same example, it's not accurate to say that Alabama "made" $123M in 2008, because that is just revenue. It's more accurate to say they made ~$400k, which I don't think anyone would get mad at.
Sooners made $77.09M in revenue
- $35.1 in tickets
- $0.15 from students
- $0.54 from away games
- $13.2 from donations
- $0.0 from university funding
- $0.21 from media rights
- $9.7 from branding / selling t-shirts hats and shite
For the cost breakdown, the $76.9M was:
- $7.3 in tuition / scholarships
- $1.7 for paying creampuffs to come to play
- $12.9 in coaches salaries
- $1.6 in recruiting budget
- $5.2 in team travel
- $6.7 for gameday related expenses (someone has to pay the cops, food vendors etc;
- $1.1 in marketing expenses
I think it's important to realize that if we're talking about this in terms of a business, it's the profit that matters, not the revenues.
From the same example, it's not accurate to say that Alabama "made" $123M in 2008, because that is just revenue. It's more accurate to say they made ~$400k, which I don't think anyone would get mad at.
Posted on 5/13/14 at 12:07 pm to ironsides
When USC took control of the historic Coliseum this past summer, the university and, more specifically, the athletic department became responsible for the upgrading of the 91-year-old stadium.
USC is required to spend $70 million to upgrade the landmark - but god knows what they can and cannot do because of its protected status.
USC is required to spend $70 million to upgrade the landmark - but god knows what they can and cannot do because of its protected status.
Posted on 5/13/14 at 12:10 pm to Zamoro10
Yea it's a dump
Posted on 5/13/14 at 12:12 pm to hg
It is.
Love how you stalk USC posts.
Like fly to sugar.
Love how you stalk USC posts.
Like fly to sugar.
Posted on 5/13/14 at 12:13 pm to Zamoro10
The coliseum and the rose bowl both look like dumps on tv. never been to either though.
Posted on 5/13/14 at 12:16 pm to Zamoro10
Stalk?
I've been following this thread and there was new posts. One of them was yours and I responded to it. Don't flatter yourself.
I've been following this thread and there was new posts. One of them was yours and I responded to it. Don't flatter yourself.
Posted on 5/13/14 at 12:20 pm to bbap
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The coliseum and the rose bowl both look like dumps on tv. never been to either though.
Rose Bowl is okay. Great location...and despite the lack of modern amenities...it is an amazing experience live in January.
Coliseum is like watching football in the 1920's.
Any improvements are hard to come by because it's protected landmark status (hosting two Olympics, etc.)
If you love college football tradition - shite, people should love the Coliseum and USC...because only USC is playing in a stadium that is the same from the very beginning. Besides removing the track surface...they haven't done shite to the Coliseum since 1919.
Posted on 5/13/14 at 12:21 pm to hg
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hg
Dude, every time I post something about USC - you seem to pop up to take a shot.
You and Rocket.
But whatever.
Posted on 5/13/14 at 12:23 pm to Zamoro10
Link?
Posted on 5/13/14 at 12:51 pm to ironsides
Posted on 5/13/14 at 1:21 pm to ironsides
if you know anything about our society...you know once the establishment sets the status quo, it will take an act of god for a paridigm shift. the money all these educational institutions are putting in, the big contracts with espn, conference alignments, nike, UA, etc. Not to mention NCAA and basically being the minors for the nfl. The nfl would never scrap the current system, not with the quality training these athletes are recieving now. Not happening...all that talk of "drain on talent" to other minor league systems and training camps aint happening bro. Never.
This post was edited on 5/13/14 at 1:23 pm
Posted on 5/13/14 at 2:18 pm to dreaux
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f you know anything about our society...you know once the establishment sets the status quo, it will take an act of god for a paridigm shift. the money all these educational institutions are putting in, the big contracts with espn, conference alignments, nike, UA, etc. Not to mention NCAA and basically being the minors for the nfl. The nfl would never scrap the current system, not with the quality training these athletes are recieving now. Not happening...all that talk of "drain on talent" to other minor league systems and training camps aint happening bro. Never.
I think it could happen to a small extent. Some guys just don't want to go to college, and oddly enough they usually seem to be the most "ready-to-go" physically.
I don't currently have children, but I wouldn't send my kid to a minor league team in a contact sport straight out of high school when he can go to college and get at least 3 years of a free education. If an injury occurs, 1 year of school to finish up out of pocket isn't that bad.
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