(06-22-2015 09:10 AM)Steve1981 Wrote:  

(06-21-2015 04:36 PM)BearcatJerry Wrote:  

(06-21-2015 03:53 PM)Steve1981 Wrote:  The numbers need to continue to grow, however it's above the 49ers stadium capacity and we also have stadium expansion plans. Our Football Performance Center and BB Champion Center are equal to or better than Georgia Tech and most P5 teams. The stadium expansion and improvements is the missing link.

Dude... No offense or anything, but I have been following your "stadium expansion plans." They are piecemeal at best. Charlotte has built a stadium where you can see the future expansion in the very footprint of the stadium. UMass, on the other hand, is putting a piece here and then promising future pieces there. Whether those future pieces actually ever happen or not is the gamble.

Not to mention the other factor: UMass is not investing in the "Stadium" proper. You are adding stuff for the football players, but the actual parts of McGuirk that paying customers actually use are, as of yet, untouched. How are you going to sell tickets when the fans have to stand in cold lines waiting for the cold port-a-potties? Or waiting for concession stands last touched in the 1950's. Great, your "performance center" is on par with Georgia Tech. Meanwhile your fans...all 17k of them...are sitting on a stadium that has not been substantially improved in 40-some-odd years... And what is most alarming (for those of us outside your conference, at least) is that UMass has no set plans to fix those glaring deficits.

If everything else were equal, give me Charlotte every single time. They at least have a plan for the future.

Wtf Bearcat Jerry. You know Charlotte plans did not come until and as a condition to a CUSA invite and yet you chide us waiting for moving forward with our end zone expansion on a conference invite
You guys on the AAC board advise Temple to build a bear bones stadium like UCF and improve it later and you still chide us for lack of amenities. Going independent and for 2016 most of our games at Gillette is going to make impossible to move forward with OCS expansion. In the near future without a conference invite.

Looking forward to our last season in the MAC. Kittonhead remember this Miami will be playing the last MAC game in Amherst not Ohio

Actually, I (just speaking for myself) think that Temple will never get an on-campus-stadium built and that Temple football is unsustainable at the G-5/AAC level. I just want to be clear on the issue. Now others say that "Temple should build a bare-bones stadium," but that isn't me.