(06-25-2017 10:37 PM)WSUbballer Wrote:  

(06-25-2017 10:28 PM)panama Wrote:  FBS. I know we,have not spent even $100M on football even with the stadium renovation. Nobody has.


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Renovating a stadium doesn't cost near as much as tearing down an old stadium and building a new 50,000+ seat one completely from scratch, no?

It depends on the existing structure and what work it would take to renovate it to get it to where you would want it to be including changes to building codes, ADA compliance, etc...

TCU ended up tearing down about 95% of the old Amon Carter Stadium to build the new one. Only the first 10 or so rows and the playing surface were left. I'm not 100% familiar with the entire process TCU went through but I find it hard to believe that renovation wasn't also explored to see what the more cost effective option would be. Given that TCU mostly tore down and rebuilt I'm guessing it was more cost effective for what our end goal was.