UF vs. FAU and FIU facilities?

Swamp Donkey

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How is it that you don't believe in real things (UF locker room) but you do believe in fake things (my i-heart-oleo tat)?
I respect you for the courage it took to get that tattoo of your manlove. #courage.
 

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Here's a video of South Carolina's new facility that opened less than a year ago. That tard Muschamp has new facilities and we don't, unbelievable. If he had some balls when he was here he would have demanded facilities. Instead he was just happy to be a head coach making $3+ million....


 

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And Butters too!!!! He also will have football facility at a MAC school before he would have at UF>

Sadly, Butters will have new facilities at CMU before he would have had he stayed at UF.

***Construction on the Chippewa Champions Alumni Center, CMU's $32 million facility in the north end of Kelly/Shorts Stadium, began immediately after spring practice last month. In his final post-practice speech to the team, McElwain actually told players to clean out their lockers. The program now operates in trailers west of the stadium that contain locker rooms, an athletic training area, coaches' offices and more.***
 

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Article on overall plans for campus (and athletic) upgrades - I guess we know where the football money's going!:

UF has plans for $2.2 billion in projects in next 10 years

UF has plans for $2.2B in projects in next 10 years

“I don’t think there should be a sticker shock here,” said Chief Operating Officer Charlie Lane.

The University of Florida has big plans.

The university’s capital improvement plans include a new honors college, athletic dorms, a new student health facility, academic buildings, and a landscaping plan that would change the face of the university.

The plans coincide with UF’s goal to become top-5 public university. A top-5 university has top-5 facilities and a top-5 campus, according to UF administrators. But getting there will be costly.

The preliminary cost to transform the university, in terms of facilities and campus look and feel, to UF’s top-5 standards is projected at about $2.2 billion over five to 10 years.

Before the plan was presented to the UF Board of Trustees, President Kent Fuchs said it had the “full endorsement of the senior leadership,” but there wasn’t enough money in the bank to make it happen overnight.

“We don’t have the resources right now to make it happen,” Fuchs said. “We have to find the resources to make it possible.”

First on the plan is to address the university’s housing situation. UF’s housing plan puts emphasis on the importance of creating a world-class honors college, while also addressing a need for renovations at UF’s existing dorms. The projected costs are $410 to $485 million.

UF has discussed increasing the number of honors students it admits. Building a facility that would impress the country’s brightest students would give it a better shot at recruiting them, said Chief Operating Officer Charlie Lane. As luxury student housing high-rises are built in Gainesville, it’s important to upgrade UF housing to match or compete in the housing market, Lane said.

“We’re trying to recruit the best and brightest students ... part of that is providing great living situations,” Lane said. “The housing we have right now, we feel doesn’t serve the need in that regard.”

The proposed UF Honors College Complex includes 398,000 square feet of residential space, with 1,400 beds. Plans also show it will have a 27,000-square-foot social and learning space, with a lounge and study rooms. Its 50,000-square-foot commons area would include a library, honors college offices, 14 meeting rooms and several more study rooms.

A recreational facility is also planned for the complex, as well as a park-like lawn behind the college. The buildings will be situated, according to the plan, so that there would be a natural courtyard in the middle. The complex is expected to cost about $175 million.

Also planned is a 500-bed athletic and general student dorm across the street from Hume Hall.

UF plans to finish the honors college and athletics dorm by fall 2023. It’s projected to cost $60 million.

Also in 2023, UF plans to demolish Rawlings Hall, a 352-bed dorm, and start renovating Beaty Towers east. UF says renovating the existing building will cost about 65% of the tab for new construction.

Within 10 years, UF plans to renovate Beaty West, Yulee Hall, Mallory Hall, Fletcher Hall and Sledd Hall. It also plans to demolish Trusler Hall and Simpson Hall.

The biggest change to the look of UF’s campus would be its landscaping plan, which Lane said could be pivotal to recruiting high-profile students to come to the university. Students want to have a campus that feels connected and welcoming, Lane said, and where students have space to interact and network.

To do that, the university plans to increase density near its core. A plan presented by Lane and other consultants would close Union Road, which runs next to Tigert Hall and intersects at Newell and Buckman Drives, so it can be turned into a pedestrian walkway.

The idea would be to keep traffic and its fumes out of the core of the campus, near Plaza of The Americas, where students spend most of their time.

Union Road would be narrowed from about 40 feet wide to about 21 feet. The pedestrian walkway would run from Union Road off Southwest 13th Street to Newell Drive. The once-driveable Newell Road section near Turlington Hall would also be turned into a walkable path, and a plaza would be built around Century Tower.

This would cost about $20 million.

New academic buildings, some of which have already received state funding, will also take up a large chunk of the $1.5 billion. UF plans to spend $495 million dollars on academic projects, $390 million on non-academic projects, $378 million on UF Health projects, and $323 million on utilities, landscape and transportation during the next five years.

UF wants to spend $183 million on a new UF College of Dentistry and $125 million on its new Data Science and Information Technology academic building. Other notable projects include:

  • $250 million on a new Central Energy Plant, electrical substation and utility infrastructure
  • $69 million for UF Health Shands offices at The Oaks Mall
  • $65 million UAA Football training complex
  • $60 million on UF Health Operating Room renovations
  • $52 million on the Shands Hotel being built off 16th Avenue
  • $30 million on campus safety and security
  • $30 million on parking structures
  • $22 million on a new student health facility
  • $14 million for the Infirmary renovations (for UF Economics)
Lane conceded that $2.25 billion is “a lot of money,” but noted that UF operates on a budget of $6 billion a year. Therefore, paying more than a billion dollars over the course of five years isn’t insurmountable.

“I don’t think there should be a sticker shock here,” he said.

Lane said the key to bringing in top students is making sure the university looks its part and has the best facilities.

Paying for these facilities will take donations, state funding, and, perhaps, an increase in student dorm rental prices to offset the cost, Lane said.

“People like to put their names on buildings,” he said, jokingly.
 

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What a novel concept. You need top facilities to attract top talent. Who knew? Notice the football facility is back down to $65M. Guess $20M for a walkway is more important.
 

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What a novel concept. You need top facilities to attract top talent. Who knew? Notice the football facility is back down to $65M. Guess $20M for a walkway is more important.

...and $183 million for a dental school? WTF?
 

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A year ago I posted our new athletic "luxury dorms" would be located at the old Hume tennis courts. This is the first confirmation that I was dead on on that info.

Then there's the bad news that I posted a month back that the extra space after building the stand alone was not going to the UAA but instead was commandeered by the UF administration for other purposes but, I wasn't at liberty to say what was going there.
I was hoping for a world class sports science complex, for all sports on that site but instead, if you see the 22 million for a new infirmary that's what will be located next to the stand alone. I haven't been wrong yet and want on this one.

The point being, we have the property and resources to have the #1 sports complex in the country but, again the university chose to half a $$ the whole damn thing.
I fully believe if the administration hadn't had their eye on half the baseball site they would have built the sh! tty stand alone butters and fooley had planned.
 

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Hey, we made 247's top 25 facilities (barely - #25):

Ranking the 25 best facilities in college football

25. Florida

24. Texas Tech

23. Oregon State

22. Arkansas

21. TCU

20. Florida State

19. Washington

18. USC

17. Northwestern

16. North Carolina

15. Auburn

14. Notre Dame

13. Kentucky

12. Michigan

11. Georgia

10. Texas

9. LSU

8. Tennessee

7. OKLAHOMA

6. South Carolina

5. Ohio State

4. Alabama

3. Texas A&M

2. Oregon

1. Clemson
 

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I guarantee, after our stand alone is built we still don't crack the top ten.

I don't know. I heard we were splurging on several oversized shipping containers that will be welded together. Between those and the enclosed parking garage with window A/C units, we might get a harder look.
 

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