Facilities Project Delayed One Year
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We should start a thread discussing the facilities. I don’t think we’ve ever covered this topic.
Do we need any updates? I thought the cafeteria got a new grill a couple years ago.
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So far, all the UAA has done is suggest they are willing to make upgrades if they can raise enough money. They even have a nice PowerPoint slide showing the funding target. It’s complete BS. Many of us will keep complaining until they actually break ground which still isn’t expected to happen for over a year from now. Meanwhile the powerhouse programs of Mizzu and San Jose State are leaving us in their dust.
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South Carolina approves $22.5 million in renovations to Gamecocks’ football stadium
South Carolina approves $22.5 million in renovations to Gamecocks' football stadium
COLUMBIA — Williams-Brice Stadium is well behind the SEC’s other football palaces, and budgets plus architecture make significant renovations impossible. Still, South Carolina is doing what it can to keep up with the Joneses.
On Monday, it took another step.
The Board of Trustees approved a $22.5 million project to enclose, refurbish and improve the gameday experience at Williams-Brice for more than 20,000 fans. Renovations to several parts of the stadium are expected to be completed by the 2020 season.
“This is an opportunity, and it’s not $350 million, but we’re spending $22.5 million, and it’s going to be impactful,” athletics director Ray Tanner said. “You guys know the trends. It’s not 100,000 seats anymore, it’s the amenities you have, the opportunities for your fan base.”
USC will have three crews working simultaneously to significantly alter several parts of the stadium as soon as the 2019 season concludes.
“It’s an ambitious project in a short period of time,” Tanner said. “There’s a lot that goes on to improve this space.”
USC is next-to-last in the SEC in total money spent to improve its football stadium. Its 18 luxury suites are second-lowest in the league, only above Vanderbilt, which has none.
The SEC average is 80 luxury suites, but the Gamecocks simply don’t have the room to add more. The ambitious facility plan that has improved nearly every athletic venue on campus has also put the department in significant debt.
USC had to spend the $22.5 million now to improve Williams-Brice since its debt ceiling (currently around $194 million) can’t be increased until 2038. Short of tearing down one section of the stadium and starting over, the renovations are nearly all the Gamecocks can do to improve the gameday experience.
Besides win, that is.
Southwest corner and 2001 Club
The Gamecocks enter the field through the Southwest corner of the stadium. That area will be converted into the “2001 Club,” a luxury space fronted by glass, so fans can see the players walking past and lining up for their traditional entrance.
The new loge seating above the 2001 Club that will be at Williams-Brice Stadium for the 2020 season. Staff/David Cloninger
A 132-seat loge will be built above the 2001 Club, enclosing the corner. Fans will be able to visit the club downstairs and enter the South end zone seats if they wish.
Crews Building and South end zone
The Charles F. Crews Building, which used to house the weight room, will be transformed into a space designed to host recruits. The weight room space will be a recruit dining room while the upper floor, formerly housing the team’s meeting rooms, will be another club-like luxury space for fans.
The current area under the South stands has long been derided as too cramped with out-of-date restrooms and poor concession space. It will also be renovated to widen the path, modernize the facilities and relieve congestion under the South end zone.
West stands
A 9,000-square foot club will be enclosed behind Sections 101-105. All fans (sections 101-109) will have access to the space.
The new renovations coming to the West stands at Williams-Brice Stadium. Staff/David Cloninger
East stands
A ramp-to-ramp space for 3,000 fans will be enclosed and turned into a luxury club. Formerly, fans sitting above the East Lower stands but under the East Upper deck had to go upstairs for concessions and restrooms.
Now they will be able to have their own space, which will relieve congestion in the Upper deck.
Floyd Building held up
USC had already approved a $750,000 project to renovate the Floyd Football Building on the North end, which formerly housed the coaches’ offices before the Long Family Football Operations Center was built.
That project, which was supposed to be ready for the Gamecocks’ Sept. 7 home opener, is on hold. USC is undertaking further studies on what to do with the space but it will not be ready for this season.
South Carolina approves $22.5 million in renovations to Gamecocks' football stadium
COLUMBIA — Williams-Brice Stadium is well behind the SEC’s other football palaces, and budgets plus architecture make significant renovations impossible. Still, South Carolina is doing what it can to keep up with the Joneses.
On Monday, it took another step.
The Board of Trustees approved a $22.5 million project to enclose, refurbish and improve the gameday experience at Williams-Brice for more than 20,000 fans. Renovations to several parts of the stadium are expected to be completed by the 2020 season.
“This is an opportunity, and it’s not $350 million, but we’re spending $22.5 million, and it’s going to be impactful,” athletics director Ray Tanner said. “You guys know the trends. It’s not 100,000 seats anymore, it’s the amenities you have, the opportunities for your fan base.”
USC will have three crews working simultaneously to significantly alter several parts of the stadium as soon as the 2019 season concludes.
“It’s an ambitious project in a short period of time,” Tanner said. “There’s a lot that goes on to improve this space.”
USC is next-to-last in the SEC in total money spent to improve its football stadium. Its 18 luxury suites are second-lowest in the league, only above Vanderbilt, which has none.
The SEC average is 80 luxury suites, but the Gamecocks simply don’t have the room to add more. The ambitious facility plan that has improved nearly every athletic venue on campus has also put the department in significant debt.
USC had to spend the $22.5 million now to improve Williams-Brice since its debt ceiling (currently around $194 million) can’t be increased until 2038. Short of tearing down one section of the stadium and starting over, the renovations are nearly all the Gamecocks can do to improve the gameday experience.
Besides win, that is.
Southwest corner and 2001 Club
The Gamecocks enter the field through the Southwest corner of the stadium. That area will be converted into the “2001 Club,” a luxury space fronted by glass, so fans can see the players walking past and lining up for their traditional entrance.
The new loge seating above the 2001 Club that will be at Williams-Brice Stadium for the 2020 season. Staff/David Cloninger
A 132-seat loge will be built above the 2001 Club, enclosing the corner. Fans will be able to visit the club downstairs and enter the South end zone seats if they wish.
Crews Building and South end zone
The Charles F. Crews Building, which used to house the weight room, will be transformed into a space designed to host recruits. The weight room space will be a recruit dining room while the upper floor, formerly housing the team’s meeting rooms, will be another club-like luxury space for fans.
The current area under the South stands has long been derided as too cramped with out-of-date restrooms and poor concession space. It will also be renovated to widen the path, modernize the facilities and relieve congestion under the South end zone.
West stands
A 9,000-square foot club will be enclosed behind Sections 101-105. All fans (sections 101-109) will have access to the space.
The new renovations coming to the West stands at Williams-Brice Stadium. Staff/David Cloninger
East stands
A ramp-to-ramp space for 3,000 fans will be enclosed and turned into a luxury club. Formerly, fans sitting above the East Lower stands but under the East Upper deck had to go upstairs for concessions and restrooms.
Now they will be able to have their own space, which will relieve congestion in the Upper deck.
Floyd Building held up
USC had already approved a $750,000 project to renovate the Floyd Football Building on the North end, which formerly housed the coaches’ offices before the Long Family Football Operations Center was built.
That project, which was supposed to be ready for the Gamecocks’ Sept. 7 home opener, is on hold. USC is undertaking further studies on what to do with the space but it will not be ready for this season.
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What color?
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Do you know how expensive any red based paint is?
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My favorite color: Putty.
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Miami at 24 tells you this is an absolute joke. FAU is better than Miami. Maybe FIU. Not so sure about that.
Our facilities are worse than Houston, UCF, Western Ky, San Diego State. That's a fact. Really the only facilities I've seen worse than ours are MAC or worse. And Vandy.
I guess they are giving credit for just the sheer number of seats in the stadium. Not the general ghetto worthy status of the whole place.
You notice the only picture is of the IPF. The one that Fooley resisted until just before he got canned. And from a distance. I'd like to see how they call it "one of the nicest". Most other schools have things attached. We have nothing.
"Completion is scheduled for June 2019"
more evidence of how much "research" went into this sham article. Maybe it was a typo and they mean to say 2029.
Even after they build an all in one in 2029 or so, we will still be putting our kids in those stank azz ghetto dorms. They won't even show the kids those dorms on the visits. It's pathetic.
People act like this doesn't matter. But these kids are going to be spending 4 years of their life there. Hell, when I go on a three day business trip I try to get the best place I can find. Who the hell wants to spend 4 years of their life in Sanjay's Cheap Stay Motel? We can't PAY these kids and we aren't going to give them gold plated everything like Bama, Barn, Texases, OSU, Clemson and LSU but it at least could be something better than a roach-infested section 8 housing from the 50s.
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The good news is that Georgia’s weight room sucks. From what I’ve gathered it’s still the same. Although I’m sure it’s slated to be upgraded.
Not all SEC weight rooms are created equal
Not all SEC weight rooms are created equal
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Have you seen their recruiting coordinator? I think I'd be able to handle some rusty dumbbells
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Theirs ours. About what you'd expect from Fooley.
A little know fact is that Fooley kissed every single drop ceiling styrofoam tile in the whole football dept. He really really loves them. And those little sticky carpet squares too.
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Pink. It was leftover from the women’s softball renovation and Foley save $50, so he rolled with it.
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That's pretty damn nice for a weight room that "sucks"....and they are currently raising funds to expand the weight room:
Details emerge on new UGA football project
Details emerge on new UGA football project
The Athens Banner-Herald reported in August that Georgia was exploring an upgrade to its football facilities that could include, among other things, more office space and a larger weight room.
Georgia could construct a new building on the site of the current upper practice turf field adjacent to the $30.2 indoor practice facility that opened in 2017.
“There is limited room to expand the facility and the Design-Builder will need to design to expand and renovate in a multi-phase approach while keeping (UGA Athletic Association) groups operational, minimizing disruptions to the football program, and maintaining a safe environment for all building and field occupants,” am online document says.
Georgia completed its $63 million West End Zone project in Sanford Stadium that included a new home locker room and a recruiting lounge in time for the 2018 season.
The timeline for this latest Georgia project appears to be based on funding.
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Don’t forget that’s the shared weight room: football team doesn’t have their own.
Theirs ours. About what you'd expect from Fooley.
A little know fact is that Fooley kissed every single drop ceiling styrofoam tile in the whole football dept. He really really loves them. And those little sticky carpet squares too.
