(05-12-2022 11:23 AM)Stammers Wrote:  

(05-12-2022 11:15 AM)Claw Wrote:  

(05-12-2022 11:08 AM)Stammers Wrote:  

(05-12-2022 10:36 AM)shere khan Wrote:  

(05-12-2022 10:26 AM)Claw Wrote:  They just killed us.

Another 200 million going to feed developers and city officials that don't give a **** about the university.

It's over folks.

Exactly what happened.

RIP Memphis Tiger football.

A $200 million investment that will produce a stadium that will be 10X nicer than UCF, and nicer than Nippert. How anyone can think this is bad, is insane.

History.

When it was built, the stadium was nicer than UT, Ole Miss, Miss State, and most of the SEC. They came HERE to play because it was bigger and nicer.

That won't be the case this time. It will be half the size of UT. Ole Miss and MisStake will still play at home bringing in tons of money and visitors to their campus. A business that became more lucrative than playing in the Liberty Bowl more than 35 years ago. People on campus generates money. Apparently an SEC education is better than ours. We haven't learned that in 100 years.

There won't be an NFL team to lure here this time either.

So what do have?

We have something that will not set a single foot on campus. It will not improve the campus in any way at all. It will not be a revenue generator controlled by the university. It will not increase alumni giving. It won't do much at all.

This is a 200 million investment that at best will keep the status quo. We could have done that with nothing invested.

The Big 12 is going to say that a $200 million investment isn't good enough because it isn't on campus? Why would they give a ****? They for sure are infinitely more interested in the FACT that we are spending $200 million on our stadium.

Do you think that the Big 12 will look at UCF's high school stadium, which cost $74 million in today's dollars and think that is more impressive than us spending $200 million?

Most of us would rather have an OCS for the reasons you stated. To an outsider, seeing us spend $200 million to make our stadium beautiful and modern along with hundreds of millions of dollars of development surrounding it, making it an destination for the entire city, is much more impressive.

Maybe.

It is equally likely the outsider may look at this and say the university is not capable politically or financially of managing its own destiny.