Bama has started 10 year & $600M initiative to improve facilities

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Alabama passes halfway mark to $600 million goal:

The Crimson Standard surpasses halfway mark of $600 million goal

The Crimson Standard surpasses halfway mark of $600 million goal
Wanna bet they have this done before we do our first upgrade to a generic Dollar General version of what they used to be a decade ago?

we actually have Twitter idiots talking about how we're going to have the best facility in the land. :lmao2: What maroons.
 

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Old man, are you smoking weed for glaucoma?

Who GAF about the size of the endowment fund?

Only the professors who get funded by it to do their 3-6 hours of work a week.

Old? He was at least a year younger when he wrote that.
 

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Wanna bet they have this done before we do our first upgrade to a generic Dollar General version of what they used to be a decade ago?

we actually have Twitter idiots talking about how we're going to have the best facility in the land. :lmao2: What maroons.

WTF are they going to do w/ $600 million? I just google their university endowment and it's $885 million. So they're raising about 70% of what their endowment is worth.
 

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WTF are they going to do w/ $600 million? I just google their university endowment and it's $885 million. So they're raising about 70% of what their endowment is worth.
Build a mini Dizzy World?

My dream scenario. They build it. Saban calls it quits. The next guy ain't Saban. And they built it but they did not come.
 

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WTF are they going to do w/ $600 million? I just google their university endowment and it's $885 million. So they're raising about 70% of what their endowment is worth.

Priorities
 

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5 months earlier than Bama’s announcement
Florida Announces Timeline for New Stand-Alone Football Training Complex - Florida Gators

Construction for the $65 million 130,000-square foot football training complex will be based on site availability and currently estimated to start in late 2019 or early 2020 with a completion goal of 2021.

Hows that coming along? We breaking ground this month?

Two years before Bama’s announcement, 2016 - Plans For Univ. Of Florida's Stand-Alone, $60M Football Facility Begin To Emerge

Construction is "scheduled to begin in about a year, and the building is tentatively set to open" in June '19

Anyone on here get a chance to visit this standalone football building this season? I missed it.
 

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Build a mini Dizzy World?

My dream scenario. They build it. Saban calls it quits. The next guy ain't Saban. And they built it but they did not come.

I got a stoned from Donkey.. I'm honored. I may take a pic, have it framed, and hang it on my wall to join the rest of my Gator wall memorabilia.




Or maybe that's taking it too far.
 
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Build a mini Dizzy World?

My dream scenario. They build it. Saban calls it quits. The next guy ain't Saban. And they built it but they did not come.
or people who watch college football declines 25-30% and the amount they are willing to pay drops 50%.
 

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Don’t think we’ve even bought one shovel yet. How long of a delay do we expect to be announced this month?
 

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Don’t think we’ve even bought one shovel yet. How long of a delay do we expect to be announced this month?

Were borrowing them from Santa Fe college right down the road and the PK Yongue janitor supply closets...buy shovels...what a spendthrift
 

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Were borrowing them from Santa Fe college right down the road and the PK Yongue janitor supply closets...buy shovels...what a spendthrift
Nah. The engineering/construction firm will have them on stand by. It’s normal. Plus, no way we’d spend money on one.
 

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Were borrowing them from Santa Fe college right down the road and the PK Yongue janitor supply closets...buy shovels...what a spendthrift

PK Yonge, and we used to get all of UF's old weight equipment when I was there.
 

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Bama an TX A&M are crazy.

They still lost to poor LSU and this state has no extra anything but water and crawfish.

This is trend like our National Debt that needs to stop. How are going to pay if this economy ever goes south?
 

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or people who watch college football declines 25-30% and the amount they are willing to pay drops 50%.
Willing to pay has almost nothing to do w it. Tix prices are a tiny fraction of the revenue. Probably max 10%.
 

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Bama an TX A&M are crazy.

They still lost to poor LSU and this state has no extra anything but water and crawfish.

This is trend like our National Debt that needs to stop. How are going to pay if this economy ever goes south?
Well, if we ever have a great recession, they will never make it.

Except, they made it.
 

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Don’t think we’ve even bought one shovel yet. How long of a delay do we expect to be announced this month?
2-4 years.

and another one once we fire Mike White.
 

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