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Richmond Spiders Football Stadium Upgrade
Posted: June 27th, 2007, 3:39 pm
by givemethemic
I was going through the Richmond Spiders web-site and stumbled upon this...I don't think that has been posted before...
http://richmondspiders.cstv.com/facilit ... rings.html
Posted: June 27th, 2007, 4:07 pm
by Sly Fox
I hadn't seen them. Those are pretty sweet. But they seem to somehow find money for those types of projects. They have a small but generous alumni base.
Posted: June 27th, 2007, 4:45 pm
by bigsmooth
when you have first market bank putting their name on it and bobby ukrop from ukrops supermarkets giving cash that certainly helps. UR stadium that exists now is a dump though that old place used to host the NCAA men's soccer final four.
Posted: June 27th, 2007, 8:43 pm
by Stevev
It holds 9,000. Not that much when compared to other 1AA stadiums. I don't think that they draw very well anyway thanks to the small enrollment. I am assumming that they are putting field turf down and not grass.
Posted: June 27th, 2007, 9:24 pm
by PeterParker
bigsmooth wrote:when you have first market bank putting their name on it and bobby ukrop from ukrops supermarkets giving cash that certainly helps. UR stadium that exists now is a dump though that old place used to host the NCAA men's soccer final four.
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$1.388 Billion Dollar endowment doesn't hurt either.
Posted: June 28th, 2007, 1:59 pm
by thepostman
This might just be me, but i hate when football stadiums include the track...in high school it "ok" but not really preferred for me...in college, especially if you are Division I; put the track somewhere else....its brings the fans closer to the field...its just better...
ok thats my opinion...i am done here
Posted: June 28th, 2007, 4:16 pm
by Sly Fox
Obviously it is preferred to have a separate track facility. But that really didn't become commonplace at all up until the past 15-20 years. And some schools don't have the financial wherewithal to be creating track-specific facilities.
Posted: June 28th, 2007, 4:22 pm
by jimflamesfan
I'd like to see JMU, Richmond, ODU, Coastal, Appy State, or some others, and LU jump to 36,000 stadiums.
It'd be great if we could all form a conference and go 1-A together. (I know it's not probably...but I can dream, can't I?)
Posted: June 28th, 2007, 4:23 pm
by Sly Fox
Its not that crazy of a dream, jim.
Posted: June 28th, 2007, 4:26 pm
by SuperJon
jimflamesfan wrote:I'd like to see JMU, Richmond, ODU, Coastal, Appy State, or some others, and LU jump to 36,000 stadiums.
It'd be great if we could all form a conference and go 1-A together. (I know it's not probably...but I can dream, can't I?)
JMU - couldn't fill it
Richmond - definitely couldn't fill it
ODU - they haven't even played a game
CCU - they have trouble filling an 8000 seat stadium for day games
App - they could in a heart beat
LU - let's average full capacity for 12,000 first