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(03-05-2018 01:15 PM)ODUalum78 Wrote:  

(03-05-2018 12:57 PM)monarx Wrote:  

(03-05-2018 12:46 PM)ODUalum78 Wrote:  

(03-05-2018 11:47 AM)ODUBB35 Wrote:  I'm still curious how JMU can afford an $80 million basketball stadium but we can't get that for football. They are under the same law that we are.

Someone at ODU needs to get on the ball. (and if they have, give us a little hint of info.)

That was approved by the legislature in 2011.

Our stadium should have been approved several years ago too. Who dropped the ball at ODU? Then Cox said the stadium could be grandfathered in, and somehow that didnt happen either.

I wish I knew
Maybe someone else has the answer.
We should have been able to "grandfather" the stadium, even Kirkland Cox said he thought we would.

On the surface it would seem that we (ODU) did not react in a timely manner, and lost the window?
I just don't know

I think ODU could have gotten the stadium process started sooner than they did. When announcing the move to FBS in May 2012, they knew a new stadium would be necessary. But instead of moving right away on stadium plans, the admin decided to delay committing on a stadium until the new master plan was completed. So any real stadium decisions were delayed for about a year, for the new master plan to be finalized.

Also, the Populous study was completed about a year later than expected, but that was mostly out of the admin's control. I remember that the general assembly had some delay the year ODU was requesting funding for that study. Then the study took about 6 months longer than expected. Add to that the 55% student fee funding restriction, and here we are nearly 6 years later.