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Post by beaverbeliever71 on May 31, 2023 8:41:38 GMT -8
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Post by beavheart on May 31, 2023 8:50:54 GMT -8
I noticed that they left the wall in LF out of all the pretty pics of the stadium. That stupid wall can change the way the game is played. Routine pop flies become something else.
If they have money to spend they should just move the stadium somewhere that it would actually fit with a regulation playing field.
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Post by flyfishinbeav on May 31, 2023 9:18:06 GMT -8
I don't give a s%#t about the Vandy boys......until they play hole.....for that game(s) I will be a HUGE Vandy fan!
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Post by Henry Skrimshander on May 31, 2023 10:16:54 GMT -8
Well it's obvious they're not upgrading their football program.
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Post by TheGlove on May 31, 2023 10:20:20 GMT -8
How much artificial turf they putting in?
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Post by beaverbeliever on May 31, 2023 11:25:06 GMT -8
What's insane is adding a second deck to add 300 seats? SEC and Vanderbilt money gets spent, just not well....
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Post by rgeorge on May 31, 2023 11:32:10 GMT -8
What's insane is adding a second deck to add 300 seats? SEC and Vanderbilt money gets spent, just not well.... Quick question... how would you know how and the return on SEC $$ spent?? Vandy does and will continue to sell out baseball games... the stadium remodel and those 300 seats will pay for themselves. Just because the SEC makes a boatload of $$ doesn't mean the $$ are squandered. I've heard Vandy has some pretty sharp minds around the place. I'm pretty sure they take care of their money pretty well. And, last time I read a national report Vandy does quite well in budgeting athletics and is NOT in the red. So, there is that... |
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Post by 93beav on May 31, 2023 11:55:19 GMT -8
What's insane is adding a second deck to add 300 seats? SEC and Vanderbilt money gets spent, just not well.... Quick question... how would you know how and the return on SEC $$ spent?? Vandy does and will continue to sell out baseball games... the stadium remodel and those 300 seats will pay for themselves. Just because the SEC makes a boatload of $$ doesn't mean the $$ are squandered. I've heard Vandy has some pretty sharp minds around the place. I'm pretty sure they take care of their money pretty well. And, last time I read a national report Vandy does quite well in budgeting athletics and is NOT in the red. So, there is that... Wow, hit a nerve somewhere? You have kids going to Vandy? I would think, but cannot speak for beaverbeliever, what he meant is just that you usually don't see people adding second decks just to add 300. It wouldn't seem, from a common sense perspective, to pay out, unless those are incredibly expensive seats. You're talking a major structural addition and the requirements around said addition (not to mention entry and exit points) for 300 seats. |
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Post by rgeorge on May 31, 2023 12:22:06 GMT -8
Quick question... how would you know how and the return on SEC $$ spent?? Vandy does and will continue to sell out baseball games... the stadium remodel and those 300 seats will pay for themselves. Just because the SEC makes a boatload of $$ doesn't mean the $$ are squandered. I've heard Vandy has some pretty sharp minds around the place. I'm pretty sure they take care of their money pretty well. And, last time I read a national report Vandy does quite well in budgeting athletics and is NOT in the red. So, there is that... Wow, hit a nerve somewhere? You have kids going to Vandy? I would think, but cannot speak for beaverbeliever, what he meant is just that you usually don't see people adding second decks just to add 300. It wouldn't seem, from a common sense perspective, to pay out, unless those are incredibly expensive seats. You're talking a major structural addition and the requirements around said addition (not to mention entry and exit points) for 300 seats. No nerve... just commenting about an issue the OP had no knowledge of yet was making a judgement on their spending, "What's insane is adding a second deck to add 300 seats? SEC and Vanderbilt money gets spent, just not well...." He was not nearly as diplomatic as you with how you wanted to interpret it, "... just that you usually don't see people adding second decks just to add 300". Just maybe the way the stadium was built, the addition being added is not a huge engineering/cost prohibitive. Maybe it's a pretty good bang for the buck?? Maybe it is a cool addition that fit the budget allocated. Like a fancy restaurant for big boosters for less than 3% of the fans attending?? Point being, he had no clue about any specifics, let alone judging how SEC teams spend there allotted $$. And, I'm sure some think $160 mil(or whatever the actual cost ends up) is a crazy/insane amount to spend on 2/5's, 3/7's (?) of a football stadium to reduce seats, that is never regularly sold out. |
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Post by beavs6 on May 31, 2023 12:25:32 GMT -8
Wow, hit a nerve somewhere? You have kids going to Vandy? I would think, but cannot speak for beaverbeliever, what he meant is just that you usually don't see people adding second decks just to add 300. It wouldn't seem, from a common sense perspective, to pay out, unless those are incredibly expensive seats. You're talking a major structural addition and the requirements around said addition (not to mention entry and exit points) for 300 seats. No nerve... just commenting about an issue the OP had no knowledge of yet was making a judgement on their spending, "What's insane is adding a second deck to add 300 seats? SEC and Vanderbilt money gets spent, just not well...." He was not nearly as diplomatic as you with how you wanted to interpret it, "... just that you usually don't see people adding second decks just to add 300". Just maybe the way the stadium was built, the addition being added is not a huge engineering/cost prohibitive. Maybe it's a pretty good bang for the buck?? Maybe it is a cool addition that fit the budget allocated. Like a fancy restaurant for big boosters for less than 3% of the fans attending?? Point being, he had no clue about any specifics, let alone judging how SEC teams spend there allotted $$. And, I'm sure some think $160 mil(or whatever the actual cost ends up) is a crazy/insane amount to spend on 2/5's, 3/7's (?) of a football stadium to reduce seats, that is never regularly sold out. Neither do you on half the things you spout off on this board. Doesn't seem to stop you, skullcap.  |
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Post by beavs6 on May 31, 2023 12:26:25 GMT -8
How much artificial turf they putting in? 😎 All!(I guess?) WAYYYYYY better financed than those cajun tigers. |
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Post by chinmusic on May 31, 2023 13:41:09 GMT -8
Vanderbilt prides themselves on academics. Entrance requirements limit their ability to compete in SEC football, so they turn to America's game with smart guys to excel athletically. Baseball is a big deal in the SEC and it's religion at Vanderbilt. Nationally ranked teams, national recruiting appeal, trips to Omaha and the highest paid coach in college baseball.
They value college baseball, just like Oregon State does.
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Post by Judge Smails on May 31, 2023 13:46:09 GMT -8
Vanderbilt prides themselves on academics. Entrance requirements limit their ability to compete in SEC football, so they turn to America's game with smart guys to excel athletically. Baseball is a big deal in the SEC and it's religion at Vanderbilt. Nationally ranked teams, national recruiting appeal, trips to Omaha and the highest paid coach in college baseball. They value college baseball, just like Oregon State does. The have had some success in basketball as well. They just need to spend some money on moving the team benches off of the end lines in their basketball arena. That's just stupid. |
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Post by nabeav on May 31, 2023 13:51:48 GMT -8
Quick question... how would you know how and the return on SEC $$ spent?? Vandy does and will continue to sell out baseball games... the stadium remodel and those 300 seats will pay for themselves. Just because the SEC makes a boatload of $$ doesn't mean the $$ are squandered. I've heard Vandy has some pretty sharp minds around the place. I'm pretty sure they take care of their money pretty well. And, last time I read a national report Vandy does quite well in budgeting athletics and is NOT in the red. So, there is that... Wow, hit a nerve somewhere? You have kids going to Vandy? I would think, but cannot speak for beaverbeliever, what he meant is just that you usually don't see people adding second decks just to add 300. It wouldn't seem, from a common sense perspective, to pay out, unless those are incredibly expensive seats. You're talking a major structural addition and the requirements around said addition (not to mention entry and exit points) for 300 seats. So this might be the record holder for most benign disagreement to elicit a "are you related?" response. Good job, everyone! |
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Post by Henry Skrimshander on May 31, 2023 14:45:55 GMT -8
Given their astronomical TV rights fees, an AD would have to be an absolute moron to run a deficit at an SEC school. So "not running in the red" is about as low as one can go in praising an SEC AD.
What they do with their money is their business. But just because it's Vandy, don't assume they're all brilliant. Stanford's a great school too and it still produced Herbert Hoover, the Voodoo Economics guy and the child-abusing placekicker.
And some might see spending about $160 million on a new grandstand, a student health center and a welcome center for admissions is a smart expenditure, especially seeing as how it was going to cost us about half that much in the near future just to retrofit the old grandstand to make it seismically safe.
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