Nebraska announces $450 million renovation plan to Memorial Stadium

[Duncan Idaho]

Bellyache all you want. No one is building an on campus stadium for a team that has averaged 3 wins in the last decade, and has been in the bottom 10 for several of those years.

And that doesn’t even include community opposition, moving further away from a large chunk of the fan base, and yes overwhelming roads that get backed up after Gampel BB games.

It’s not happening. You are fooling yourself if you think otherwise.

And a new Civic Center and a renovated concourse for Gampel or new facility and a new...
Nebraska volleyball home attendance will outdraw our football team's.
We can raise Syracuse Greg's taxes.

 

[CONN78SEJ]

Ha! Could you ever envision a headline like that about a Stadium Renovation Project costing $450M—and it‘s embraced with glee by all the stakeholders? The Rent needs $63M for renovations and the screaming can be heard all the way up here in Boston.

For $450 million UConn could almost build a new on campus stadium and fix up the Rent. Or ditch the Rent and use the leftover money to upgrade the traffic infrastructure around Storrs.

 

[CONN78SEJ]

Bellyache all you want. No one is building an on campus stadium for a team that has averaged 3 wins in the last decade, and has been in the bottom 10 for several of those years.

And that doesn’t even include community opposition, moving further away from a large chunk of the fan base, and yes overwhelming roads that get backed up after Gampel BB games.

It’s not happening. You are fooling yourself if you think otherwise.

You’re totally wrong. You’re actually moving much much closer, like walking distance, to a much larger chunk of the fan base. That larger chunk is 20,000 students and employees on campus and in the surrounding area.

 

[CONN78SEJ]

They need to ditch the Rent, period! Build an on campus stadium. Don't give me the traffic stuff anymore either, ever been to Boone, NC on a fall saturday?

The Rent actually is a rusty monument to Connecticut’s efforts and dreams over the years to get NFL and Pro soccer franchises. Years ago if CT had sweetened the pot for Robert Kraft who knows what might have been. If that had happened, UConn football would have had it’s on campus stadium 20 years ago, RE 1.0 would have been a miracle, and Storrs would have had a beltway, and UConn would looking at a multi year anniversary in the ACC or B1G.