Recruiting Auburn set to open brand new $28 million "recruiting center"

[BMF]

When is our football upgrades set to open again??

Renovations at Jordan-Hare Stadium on schedule to be finished for Auburn's home opener



Renovations at Jordan-Hare Stadium on schedule to be finished for Auburn's home opener


The renovations to the southwest corner of Jordan-Hare Stadium are nearing completion and are expected to be finished in time for Auburn's home opener.

The stadium has been in the midst of a $40 million facelift since the spring, with a renovated home locker room, new press box and brand new Harbert Family Recruiting Center, as well as suite renovations to the west side of the stadium where the press box once was.

"It's coming along," Auburn athletics director Allen Greene told AL.com last week. "It's coming along."

The southwest corner renovations were expected to cost $28 million, while the 10,800 square-foot premium seating upgrade on the west side of the stadium was slated to cost an additional $12 million.

The new Harbert Family Recruiting Center, a 44,000 square-foot gameday and recruiting facility, includes recruiting space for football and Olympic sports. Auburn released a video of the new facility earlier this month, with Greene providing a tour and updating the progress of the project. Within the Harbert Family Recruiting Center will be a "Heisman Room," as well as a two-level club space referred to as the "Tiger Walk Club."

"The upper floors are just being finished up," Greene said, "and they'll be ready to go by our opening game."

Auburn's home opener is set for Sept. 8 against Alabama State after the Tigers open the season a week earlier in the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game against Washington in Atlanta's Mercedes-Benz stadium.

The locker room renovations include an expansion that doubles the size of the home locker room to 16,000 feet, as well as a new training room.

According to Greene, the first floor of the facility "should be turned over to football pretty soon, if not already." That means the new locker room area should be available for the team in time for the start of fall camp on Aug. 3, as the team typically holds preseason scrimmages in Jordan-Hare Stadium.

 

[Zambo]

Recruiting center? Is it a whorehouse?

 

[BNAG8R]

 

[Swamp Donkey]

When is our football upgrades set to open again??

Three to five years from now....

Maybe.

Dorms? Not even on the long range projections yet.

 

[Gatorraid81]

“We’re not getting into the arms race” Fooley

Thanks A**hole

 

[-THE DUDE-]

When is our football upgrades set to open again??

Three to five years from now....

Maybe.

Dorms? Not even on the long range projections yet.

They’ll be completed in enough time to make sure they are still obsolete

 

[Gatorraid81]

They’ll be completed in enough time to make sure they are still obsolete

My God, this is so true. Lol

 

[deuce]

It's the END!



Again.....


Simple fix, raise more money, I'm sure everyone here is ready to drop a few thousand on the Building Committee.

 

[Swamp Donkey]

Simple fix, raise more money, I'm sure everyone here is ready to drop a few thousand on the Building Committee.

Football makes 140 million fvkking dollars a year ALREADY, and would be making more if our admin wasn't so intent on strangling it out of existence.

The problem isn't money. The problem is convincing these azzholes to spend football money on FOOTBALL.

 

[BruceWayne]

This is absolutely the most frustrating part of the program right now. UF should be on the cutting edge. There's room and money for us to be doing stuff like this right now. No time to wait. We are losing in recruiting because of **** like this here. There's not a ton of room around the stadium. But there's definitely enough space to put something up NOW. We can't wait another season. UAA needs to do something. Unless they are just giving up. If that's what they're doing, just say it. Put out a statement saying "We at the Uaa are giving up at football ".

 

[G8trwood]

Tomorrow the should trespass Fooley from the property

 

[78]

Football makes 140 million fvkking dollars a year ALREADY, and would be making more if our admin wasn't so intent on strangling it out of existence.

The problem isn't money. The problem is convincing these azzholes to spend football money on FOOTBALL.

Is 140m revenue or net income? Seems high.

 

[BMF]

Is 140m revenue or net income? Seems high.

Does it really F'ing matter?

 

[ThreatMatrix]

Is 140m revenue or net income? Seems high.

Revenue.

 

[78]

Does it really F'ing matter?

Um, just a litttle.

 

[BMF]

Um, just a litttle.

Really? We've been pulling in this kind of money for 6+ years (since the SEC Network came on line), $100 million+. I can't believe ANYONE would try to justify this. You've been around long enough to know the UAA dropped the ball....and still haven't picked it up.

 

[78]

Really? We've been pulling in this kind of money for 6+ years (since the SEC Network came on line), $100 million+. I can't believe ANYONE would try to justify this. You've been around long enough to know the UAA dropped the ball....and still haven't picked it up.

What you "make" and what you clear are very different. We ran a deficit.

 

[78]

So much for the screencap. Anyway, it was 13m for 2016-17. To simply say we make 140m a year is ludicrous.

 

[crosscreekcooter]

 

[YLGator]

The UAA may have run a deficit, but football certainly doesn't. Football generates about 60% of revenues for the UAA and only accounts for 18% of expenses resulting in Football generating about $50M net. The UAA choses to spend that $50M on other sports. If we were really serious about competing for championships, we could easily commit $150M to football facilities immediately. Capitalizing that over 20 years would be only a $7.5M hit to the P&L every year. We've lost $9M in booster contributions in the past year or so. If the UAA made this kind of commitment, I bet those contributions would return and fund the whole thing. Its not rocket science, just business 101. Just requires a commitment to be great and a willingness to take a little risk once in a while.