(10-04-2019 10:43 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  Let's get our friends in the IBEW in on this.

Skilled labor isn’t cheap…

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Grungy posted a photo on Facebook about a week ago that showed fencing around the infield of the Beer Bike track. So someone is thinking something might start. This Spring? In time to conflict with Beer Bike activities? I get that football may want an alternate place to practice during spring storms, but this is going to be interesting.

+1

From Rice Athletic's Facebook:

Quote:Rice Athletics
‪BUBBLE WATCH | The first phase of work on the Robert L. Waltrip Indoor Training Center has begun. ‬

‪Steps of this phase include:‬
‪ Site Utility ‬
‪ Foundation Installation‬

‪Next Steps:‬
‪️ Placement of Playing Surface‬
‪️ Assembly of Inflatable Structure ‬

I hope that somebody is really on top of this as if this somehow screws up Beer Bike-that will be the last shovel of dirt on the coffin that is student interest in athletics. They have 8 weeks......

It shouldn't be hard at all to deflate the bubble once a year, or just move Beer Bike to the track stadium altogether.

Rice students don't care anything about athletics because the product is always bad, and because we play in a terrible conference with no regional, like-minded universities or state schools.

(01-31-2020 12:55 AM)Ourland Wrote:  It shouldn't be hard at all to deflate the bubble once a year, or just move Beer Bike to the track stadium altogether.

Rice students don't care anything about athletics because the product is always bad, and because we play in a terrible conference with no regional, like-minded universities or state schools.

I don't think that this will happen. But, if it did happen or has even been suggested, why are we wasting money on a bubble when we could build a proper IPF?

(01-31-2020 11:54 AM)Pan95 Wrote:  

(01-31-2020 12:55 AM)Ourland Wrote:  It shouldn't be hard at all to deflate the bubble once a year, or just move Beer Bike to the track stadium altogether.

Rice students don't care anything about athletics because the product is always bad, and because we play in a terrible conference with no regional, like-minded universities or state schools.

I don't think that this will happen. But, if it did happen or has even been suggested, why are we wasting money on a bubble when we could build a proper IPF?

We couldn’t build a permanent structure because we didn’t donate enough money for that.