Looks like a great facility. What a win-win for football and T&F.
OT: New UK T&F facility
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That’s state of the art and well deserved. The track team has been pumping out World Record holders and gold medalist.
Steiner not being on the “olympians” wall is odd tho
Steiner not being on the “olympians” wall is odd tho
Maybe Cal can put up a couple of portable hoops in there and claim we have improved our basketball facilities?
I'm not seeing spectator seats. Am I missing something? Looks like there is an outer running surface - outside of the banked track. I'm hearing the track itself is world class but there's a big question.
It’s a training facility and not meant to hold large meets. They can hold some small meets, but there is very limited capacity for fans
That's what I thought. So no chance of a big Wildcat Indoor Invitational, SEC Championship or KHSAA Indoor Championship.
Maybe it was rushed through too fast to accommodate the football big ask.
They spent $20 mil on it and it's been in the works for years. I don't think they rushed it at all.
Wow, was built much faster than I thought but after looking at its basically a butler style building that they painted up real nice inside with some other stuff. Doesn't take very long to construct something like that plus am sure they wanted it done before winter really starts. Zero clue how it stacks up against others across the country but have to think it's up there. Been in the works for a long time now.
It's very nice, but I initially read that as new T&A facility, and I'm mildly disappointed...
I think it was probably more around price. TAMU is opening one up in 2024 with a seating capacity of 4,000 at the cost of $55 million. UK's cost $20 million.
Well good, sounds like we saved $35M, and I would not put A&M up as the best example of how to spend athletic dept money.
Won't be necessary. I think they have modified the Nutter facility to make it a football only facility.
