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How did Florida International manage to build a $3 million stadium in 1995?

FIU still doesn't have a full press box. Radio broadcasters sit under a tent.

(06-04-2015 01:12 PM)BeliefBlazer Wrote:  FIU still doesn't have a full press box. Radio broadcasters sit under a tent.

I remember our crew saying they sat in a corner waaaaaay far away. Also that is the scoreboard that went out at the end of the game in the McGee era.

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1...3809&hl=en

For reference the city of Northport and Tuscaloosa county contributed $5 million dollars to Bryant-Deny expansion. SO I don't want to here crap about UA never took public money.

(06-04-2015 01:10 PM)thebernreuter Wrote:  How did Florida International manage to build a $3 million stadium in 1995?

The built it in planned stages starting with little more than a high school stadium. See link below for its expansion(past, present, and future).

https://metroatlantic.wordpress.com/2012...n-history/

The stadium was originally built in 1994, opening in 1995 as “FIU Community Stadium.” The stadium sat only 7,500 on mostly temporary bleachers, but it served its purpose for local high school football teams.

(06-04-2015 01:58 PM)rook360 Wrote:  https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1...3809&hl=en

For reference the city of Northport and Tuscaloosa county contributed $5 million dollars to Bryant-Deny expansion. SO I don't want to here crap about UA never took public money.

Holy cow. I forgot about that. If there was EVER a program that didnt need to tap into public dollars, it would be that one. They sure took it, didnt they?

Someone needs to tweet the article about Bryant-Denny to John Hammontree...

(06-04-2015 11:19 AM)KevMo4UAB Wrote:  http://www.al.com/opinion/index.ssf/2015...sta_1.html

It says university funding for Johnny Red Floyd Stadium in Murfreesboro. It was funded by an increase in student fees.

If Bradley Bammer can increase our undergrad enrollment to 40,000 based off unsustainable out-of-state recruiting of sub-20 scorers, we can easily increase student fees to build a new stadium.

(06-06-2015 04:22 PM)FNblazer Wrote:  If Bradley Bammer can increase our undergrad enrollment to 40,000 based off unsustainable out-of-state recruiting of sub-20 scorers, we can easily increase student fees to build a new stadium.

tHE amazing thing is they have higher test scores and enrollment both at the same time

(06-06-2015 05:15 PM)uabbean Wrote:  

(06-06-2015 04:22 PM)FNblazer Wrote:  If Bradley Bammer can increase our undergrad enrollment to 40,000 based off unsustainable out-of-state recruiting of sub-20 scorers, we can easily increase student fees to build a new stadium.

tHE amazing thing is they have higher test scores and enrollment both at the same time

Yeah that's ridiculous. The only students they are taking with sub 20 test scores are from in-state.

(06-04-2015 01:58 PM)rook360 Wrote:  https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1...3809&hl=en

For reference the city of Northport and Tuscaloosa county contributed $5 million dollars to Bryant-Deny expansion. SO I don't want to here crap about UA never took public money.

As I recall, that was about the time when Bama was dickering with Northport AND Tuscaloosa merchant organizations - as well as gov'ts - for money to lure them from playing their last few annual games at Legion Field. Bama was all too happy to oblige - for a price. The Tide was very successful at getting bribed to do what they wanted to do anyways.

Note that at the time B-D Stadium was building toward 80,000, only slightly more than LF now, but they could charge the greatest "Tide Pride" premium for ALL their best seats at B-D.