From the desk of Judy Rose

[EE9er]

@JB

[quote=“EE9er, post:38, topic:30873”]Why are we spending money on hitting facilities when we still have the smallest football stadium in FBS???!

Well, if Lambert raises his own money we can expand the stadium.[/quote]

Ha ha, touche… that’s not happening anytime soon.

[ninerID]

@EE9er

[quote=“JB, post:40, topic:30873”][quote=“EE9er, post:38, topic:30873”]Why are we spending money on hitting facilities when we still have the smallest football stadium in FBS???!

Well, if Lambert raises his own money we can expand the stadium.[/quote]

Ha ha, touche… that’s not happening anytime soon.[/quote]
Ogunjobi Stadium will be fun to say.

[Mr_Bojangles]

@NinerGreene

[quote=“JB, post:27, topic:30873”]It’s BS that they wouldn’t kick any money towards the indoor facility for baseball and Hibbs goes out and gets his own funds for the facility and Judy pops it into her newsletter as if it’s something that anyone in her department played a part in. And if this school is all about gender equality as it has always seemed, Devos should have to raise every dollar for her practice facility as well.

The date on the softball rendering is August 15, 2016. The date on the baseball rendering is 2-18-2017. Was the softball hitting facility being planned before baseball? The way we spend money on facilities is a big head scratcher to me. See the tennis facility.[/quote]

The date on the baseball rendering is more recent because they had to revise the design based on Phil’s comments. They have been pursuing this for several years. An indoor facility was actually planned as an additional phase when they built the Hayes in 2006-2007.

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[919R]

@Mr. Bojangles

[quote=“JaMiNNiNeR, post:31, topic:30873”][quote=“JB, post:27, topic:30873”]It’s BS that they wouldn’t kick any money towards the indoor facility for baseball and Hibbs goes out and gets his own funds for the facility and Judy pops it into her newsletter as if it’s something that anyone in her department played a part in. And if this school is all about gender equality as it has always seemed, Devos should have to raise every dollar for her practice facility as well.

The date on the softball rendering is August 15, 2016. The date on the baseball rendering is 2-18-2017. Was the softball hitting facility being planned before baseball? The way we spend money on facilities is a big head scratcher to me. See the tennis facility.[/quote]

The date on the baseball rendering is more recent because they had to revise the design based on Phil’s comments. They have been pursuing this for several years. An indoor facility was actually planned as an additional phase when they built the Hayes in 2006-2007.[/quote]

This.

[919R]

[quote=“moss2k, post:14, topic:30873”]I’d like to know what all that $40m is going towards: track updates, scoreboard in Halton, graphics, etc.

From what I heard, baseball was having to bring in funds for their facility…[/quote]

Baseball didn’t HAVE to bring in the funds on their own, but assisting/working on it as well would obviously help----so they did. This is not that unusual.

[Jackrabbit49er]

@EE9er

Why are we spending money on hitting facilities when we still have the smallest football stadium in FBS???!

Why does it have to be one or the other?

[punkrockcowboy]

@EE9er

Why are we spending money on hitting facilities when we still have the smallest football stadium in FBS???!

I’m more concerned about actually filling said stadium. I hate seeing stadiums that are twice as big as the number of people actually in attendance.

Don’t take this as me being against stadium expansion, I am pro expansion, but I don’t believe we’d come close to filling it, and it’d look bad.

[Ninerfan2012]

^I’d like a stadium expansion as well.

But to your point, we do a pretty bad job of getting people in the stadium. It would be nice if we would prioritize that first.

[EE9er]

@Ben H

[quote=“EE9er, post:38, topic:30873”]Why are we spending money on hitting facilities when we still have the smallest football stadium in FBS???!

I’m more concerned about actually filling said stadium. I hate seeing stadiums that are twice as big as the number of people actually in attendance.

Don’t take this as me being against stadium expansion, I am pro expansion, but I don’t believe we’d come close to filling it, and it’d look bad.[/quote]

We have discussed this is many many many many other threads and times, I’m not going to get into again, my opinion is we should not have the smallest FBS stadium, I also think if we had an AD that knew how to sell it wouldn’t be empty. It is looking more and more like the current AD is not going to tackle stadium expansion, which I think is a mistake, we can agree to disagree on this one.

[NinerWupAss]

[quote=“Ninerfan2012, post:48, topic:30873”]^I’d like a stadium expansion as well.

But to your point, we do a pretty bad job of getting people in the stadium. It would be nice if we would prioritize that first.[/quote]

At the parade saturday one of the IMG ticket guys was there. He was handing out vouchers to the spring game, so that was a great idea. The bad is that even though I told the AD there would be 100K people there, we ran out of vouchers way early. It’s a great idea though and hopefully gets some new folks in the stadium

On another note I explained to him about CFI. He had never heard the story and said this is a great story, why don’t we talk about it? It would sell tickets and encourage donors! I said I don’t know, you will have to ask Judy that.

[Ninerfan2012]

[quote=“NinerWupAss, post:50, topic:30873”][quote=“Ninerfan2012, post:48, topic:30873”]^I’d like a stadium expansion as well.

But to your point, we do a pretty bad job of getting people in the stadium. It would be nice if we would prioritize that first.[/quote]

At the parade saturday one of the IMG ticket guys was there. He was handing out vouchers to the spring game, so that was a great idea. The bad is that even though I told the AD there would be 100K people there, we ran out of vouchers way early. It’s a great idea though and hopefully gets some new folks in the stadium

On another note I explained to him about CFI. He had never heard the story and said this is a great story, why don’t we talk about it? It would sell tickets and encourage donors! I said I don’t know, you will have to ask Judy that.[/quote]
This post makes me sad in so many ways.

[donkeyjaws]

@EE9er

[quote=“Ben H, post:47, topic:30873”][quote=“EE9er, post:38, topic:30873”]Why are we spending money on hitting facilities when we still have the smallest football stadium in FBS???!

I’m more concerned about actually filling said stadium. I hate seeing stadiums that are twice as big as the number of people actually in attendance.

Don’t take this as me being against stadium expansion, I am pro expansion, but I don’t believe we’d come close to filling it, and it’d look bad.[/quote]

We have discussed this is many many many many other threads and times, I’m not going to get into again, my opinion is we should not have the smallest FBS stadium, I also think if we had an AD that knew how to sell it wouldn’t be empty. It is looking more and more like the current AD is not going to tackle stadium expansion, which I think is a mistake, we can agree to disagree on this one.[/quote]

I’d like to add that expansion would produce more quality seating. I can’t stress this enough. More seats along the 50 would sell tickets. I actually prefer to sit higher up, and would jump at the opportunity to lock up those seats.

[919R]

@EE9er

[quote=“Ben H, post:47, topic:30873”][quote=“EE9er, post:38, topic:30873”]Why are we spending money on hitting facilities when we still have the smallest football stadium in FBS???!

I’m more concerned about actually filling said stadium. I hate seeing stadiums that are twice as big as the number of people actually in attendance.

Don’t take this as me being against stadium expansion, I am pro expansion, but I don’t believe we’d come close to filling it, and it’d look bad.[/quote]

We have discussed this is many many many many other threads and times, I’m not going to get into again, my opinion is we should not have the smallest FBS stadium, I also think if we had an AD that knew how to sell it wouldn’t be empty. It is looking more and more like the current AD is not going to tackle stadium expansion, which I think is a mistake, we can agree to disagree on this one.[/quote]

[font=montserrat][size=14px]“We will also be adding another women’s sport shortly and we continue to look at ways to upgrade our current sports, up to and including stadium expansion.”------Judy Rose[/size][/font]

[EE9er]

@919R

[quote=“EE9er, post:49, topic:30873”][quote=“Ben H, post:47, topic:30873”][quote=“EE9er, post:38, topic:30873”]Why are we spending money on hitting facilities when we still have the smallest football stadium in FBS???!

I’m more concerned about actually filling said stadium. I hate seeing stadiums that are twice as big as the number of people actually in attendance.

Don’t take this as me being against stadium expansion, I am pro expansion, but I don’t believe we’d come close to filling it, and it’d look bad.[/quote]

We have discussed this is many many many many other threads and times, I’m not going to get into again, my opinion is we should not have the smallest FBS stadium, I also think if we had an AD that knew how to sell it wouldn’t be empty. It is looking more and more like the current AD is not going to tackle stadium expansion, which I think is a mistake, we can agree to disagree on this one.[/quote]

[font=montserrat][size=14px]“We will also be adding another women’s sport shortly and we continue to look at ways to upgrade our current sports, up to and including stadium expansion.”------Judy Rose[/size][/font][/quote]

Ha ha, ok… I continue to look at ways I can be a millionaire… big whip…

[chidave]

This is a good start, but I like Hibbs’s philosophy of two good one bad, along with the good things are happening what are we doing poorly and what is the plan to improve upon our shortcomings.

Also I am a little worried as well that stadium expansion is off the table with her. She has said things in the past about filling up the existing seating first, if that is the case then the first, second, third, and fourth priority of the AD should be how to drive demand so that it is required. I can understand not addressing it in the first newsletter, but we need to know the plan to get the stadium expanded.

[Nugget]

[quote=“NinerWupAss, post:50, topic:30873”][quote=“Ninerfan2012, post:48, topic:30873”]^I’d like a stadium expansion as well.

But to your point, we do a pretty bad job of getting people in the stadium. It would be nice if we would prioritize that first.[/quote]

At the parade saturday one of the IMG ticket guys was there. He was handing out vouchers to the spring game, so that was a great idea. The bad is that even though I told the AD there would be 100K people there, we ran out of vouchers way early. It’s a great idea though and hopefully gets some new folks in the stadium

On another note I explained to him about CFI. He had never heard the story and said this is a great story, why don’t we talk about it? It would sell tickets and encourage donors! I said I don’t know, you will have to ask Judy that.[/quote]
I hope they can and do track those vouchers. I am sure most of those people have never been to a game and probably have never been on campus, so it would be good to know how many show up. If they have to exchange the voucher for a ticket and we can somehow get contact information on them that would be a touchdown.

[NinerWupAss]

[quote=“Nugget, post:56, topic:30873”][quote=“NinerWupAss, post:50, topic:30873”][quote=“Ninerfan2012, post:48, topic:30873”]^I’d like a stadium expansion as well.

But to your point, we do a pretty bad job of getting people in the stadium. It would be nice if we would prioritize that first.[/quote]

At the parade saturday one of the IMG ticket guys was there. He was handing out vouchers to the spring game, so that was a great idea. The bad is that even though I told the AD there would be 100K people there, we ran out of vouchers way early. It’s a great idea though and hopefully gets some new folks in the stadium

On another note I explained to him about CFI. He had never heard the story and said this is a great story, why don’t we talk about it? It would sell tickets and encourage donors! I said I don’t know, you will have to ask Judy that.[/quote]
I hope they can and do track those vouchers. I am sure most of those people have never been to a game and probably have never been on campus, so it would be good to know how many show up. If they have to exchange the voucher for a ticket and we can somehow get contact information on them that would be a touchdown.[/quote]

They can and do. He mentioned they had handed them out at something in Harrisburg (because our AD I think sometimes thinks our name is UNC Harrisburg) and said that they could see how many were used. The voucher isn’t even 1:1 - its 1:how ever many tickets you want. I think there is like a $5 processing fee or something. Either way a great idea. Just need the AD to think bigger and get engaged with the city. Ticket guy was blown away at all he stuff we were talking about. The AD is so disconnected from the city and events it’s not even funny.

[system]

clt says we need to announce plans for the fb expansion. this would help

-increase momentum
-recruiting

• the perception that you cannot get a seat at the rich
• fundraising

[sportsman1417]

Harrisburg was the fourth of July parade.

[919R]

@EE9er

[quote=“919R, post:53, topic:30873”][quote=“EE9er, post:49, topic:30873”][quote=“Ben H, post:47, topic:30873”][quote=“EE9er, post:38, topic:30873”]Why are we spending money on hitting facilities when we still have the smallest football stadium in FBS???!

I’m more concerned about actually filling said stadium. I hate seeing stadiums that are twice as big as the number of people actually in attendance.

Don’t take this as me being against stadium expansion, I am pro expansion, but I don’t believe we’d come close to filling it, and it’d look bad.[/quote]

We have discussed this is many many many many other threads and times, I’m not going to get into again, my opinion is we should not have the smallest FBS stadium, I also think if we had an AD that knew how to sell it wouldn’t be empty. It is looking more and more like the current AD is not going to tackle stadium expansion, which I think is a mistake, we can agree to disagree on this one.[/quote]

[font=montserrat][size=14px]“We will also be adding another women’s sport shortly and we continue to look at ways to upgrade our current sports, up to and including stadium expansion.”------Judy Rose[/size][/font][/quote]

Ha ha, ok… I continue to look at ways I can be a millionaire… big whip…[/quote]

Apparently you don’t know how our AD (and Judy Rose in particular) operates. If she even hints at something being a possibility, it is most likely a done deal. She would never broach the subject if she didn’t plan on following through.