Below is a rendering of what our AD is marketing to future recruits, SEC, & big donors. Due to Covid, there has been a metal shortage, which explains the delay & why Orange Crush cans are always out of stock. It will have state of the art railings that act as a heat sink and disperses heat from the bleachers.
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Omg!!! Thats going to be so hot in the noon games!!!
One of our playerâs parents is telling folks that the football program has secured funding for an indoor practice facility which will be located on the grass field closest to the stadium.
I donât have any 2nd source to corroborate.
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For all I care, they could purchase pre-fabricated bleachers and move them back and forth between baseball and football. Probably not practical. I do not mind bleachers, especially when I am not sitting on them, and when they are needed.
Having trouble deciphering sarcasm on some of these postsâŚNA, yours is legit?
I canât verify that the content of the statement is true, only that it is being said.
Sounds good. ThanksâŚI know I was told by a current PLAYER (at the timeâjust before pandemic) that we had already been âgiven money for stadium expansionâ, so who knows where anything stands at this point and who knows exactly what that meant anywayâŚtoo many people were around. If not, I would have asked for specifics.
I have heard the same thing - but not from that source.
I would suspect that an announcement with that will come with master facilities plan release and that money is being used to lock in projects so the plan isnât âfantasy dollarsâ but legit funding that will prompt additional big donations prior to the push for smaller donors like us.
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Thatâs fantastic news if true.
Guess I better find some $ laying around.
I know the process of the master facilities plan and the corresponding fund raising is frustrating for many, me included. To know that we have a plan and that significant amounts have been raised for various projects yet we still havent announced it can be aggravating. There is a science behind the process though - this is how every major campaign goes, not just ours. Trust that the people who REALLY need to see it, conferences and big potential donors, have seen it. The awesome thing is when that campaign hits terminal velocity - it isnât going to be a wish list as much as it is a list of here is what we are doing. I was told when we release the plan shovels will be hitting the ground the next day.
I was also told we had to dip into some of the raised money that a donor had made for capital gifts for covid related expenses - with the donorâs permission. COVID, optics and our ridiculous funding/building rules are challenges, but I have no doubt that once the plan is released we will all be very happy.
Yeah, but the question is WHEN will it be released? The longer we wait, the longer it takes for our programs/fans to benefit from the upgrades. We need some major momentum in our BIG sports yesterday!
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I donât get why we canât make a website and upload it there like ALL the other schools that release master plans even when construction is 10 years out
If we havent raised enough money to make it happen then announcing it wonât help at all announcing it. Assuming the news we have heard is true that the IPF is funded, the construction would have been slated inline with the master facilities plan timetable. Announcing it to us doesnât speed it up or slow down that timeline.
This all stinks. It appears to be heavily tied into the ridiculous requirement that we fully fund any project before we even announce it which is absurd. There is no other university in the country that does things this way, and none that I know of in N.C. that are required to. Hell ECU can just take $10 million from their med school or whatever after a huge expansion to fund their operations deficits.
Itâs about keeping this program down. It has always been about that. This entire city needs to be pissed about how the Triangle folks, be they the state legislature or the UNC BOG, do everything they can to keep us in check because they know damn well how much of a powerhouse this university could be with good leadership and with the shackles removed. It terrifies them.
Cannot have any of the academic or college athletics power shifted from the Triangle to the Queen City. Hell no. Not on their watch!
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Because those schools have most likely already completed fund raising for a certain portion of their plans and they are also likely to be allowed to build while still fully funding the projects - while we are not. The plan they release might also just be a vision of what could be not an actual buildable plan. We release one of those like every 10 years with new campus buildings.
Are you announcing something as a loose plan or vision or we are building X. The plan we are going to announce is we are building X, not a dream scenario with the exception of the fully expanded football stadium. You donât want to fund raise for it for 10 years as it makes it look like you canât get it done which actually works against your fund raising goals as you lose steam and donors donât want to donate to something that will take a decade to get done. The idea is you announce plan with a certain % fully funded, drop shovels the next day with top priority projects and then finish the fund raising with small donors and those that were on the fence that are now committed. The reality is making it public before they have it to a certain stage doesnât help us at all and could make it take longer. The only thing it does it help people like us dream.
Also keep in mind that having raised X of dollars doesnât mean we actually have that, itâs just money that has been pledged or promised. It might take 30 years or more for that money to come in. I can put a $100,000 life insurance policy in place and when I die the school gets it. The amount I can specify during the fund raising portion for the facilities plan and it gets credited towards that campaign, but that money wonât actually come in for hopefully a long ass time.
It is completely ridiculous that we and we alone are held to that standard. App started their end zone project before it was fully funded.
The other side of the coin though is that rule has likely helped us be on more solid footing that either app or ECU.
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Watching our Niners play in the baseball regional, I got to see what a fantastic baseball stadium ECU has. And I got the see the âPhysicians Groupâ banners wrapping the walls. I would need to get an attorney to explain to me how it was not fraud to pull $10 million from the sale of that group, and direct it to their Athletic Department to cover debt, instead of into something else that benefits the people of NC who built the medical school. It sure seems improper to me.
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I wasnât just talking about the IPF. We have had this discussion before. I just donât buy the argument that you have to get ALL of the big guys on board before announcing anything. I think some people really underestimate the importance of energizing a fan base and what that can do to raise fundsâŚwe still seem to be of the mindset that we canât create enough new fans to move the fundraising needleâŚAdditionally, I am still amazed at how little corporate sponsorship we have in this booming city. Its time for Hill to close some big deals. Other schools have done it, even over the last 2 years. No more excuses.
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We donât have to get all the big guys on board but the plan is over 200 million. Hill is probably trying to lock in 100-150 of that before going public. If he has 50 million he isnât going to raise 150 from small donors no matter how energized we are.
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Can you explain to me again why we âmustâ raise most of that before doing anything?..$50m would do a hell of a lot of good right now.