(05-06-2022 03:26 PM)Marc Mensa Wrote:  

(05-06-2022 03:13 PM)Claw Wrote:  

(05-06-2022 03:09 PM)Marc Mensa Wrote:  

(05-06-2022 02:21 PM)Claw Wrote:  

(05-06-2022 02:13 PM)UofMemphis Wrote:  somebody has to pay for it, though...I doubt we have 200 million just sitting around. I mean, it took over 20 years to get an IPF funded and built.

Part of the reason the IPF took so long is a lot of folks walked away after the first OCS fiasco.

More will walk away this time.

If the Big XII doesn't happen, the spiral will be deathly.

It looks grim. Very grim.

The OCS groundwork should have been laid a decade ago. I cannot believe we find ourselves in this position again; yet I suppose I can.

Lets just pressure wash the Liberty Bowl & tarp off 20% the stadium. Surely then, the Big 12 will recognize our commitment to the football program.

Actually, it's worse than that.

We're going to do another "upgrade" and in the meantime surround our stadium with millions of new investment in projects that have absolutely nothing to do with our University or our athletic program. Our "upgraded" stadium will sit in the middle of a testament to how our community will invest in literally anything but a new stadium.

and it’s exactly why we’ll get passed over again. The school is paralyzed by interests that use it to anchor their pet projects and refuses to act in its own self interest. There is no long term “win-win” for the U of M in an upgraded Liberty Bowl thats mired in the middle of yet another municipal pork project.