Last_outlaw
Active Member
A LONG TIME COMING!!!
TXSU TIGER FOOTBALL WILL FINALLY GET THEIR OWN HOME!
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A LONG TIME COMING!!!
LAW DAWG
TSU LOVE
There are still hurdles to clear before this can happen. The student body has to vote for it, a fee amount per student has to be determined and legislative action during the upcoming 2019 state legislative session has to be done to permit it.
Students at PV and Texas Southern have taken this approach before successfully. It really is a shame a state as wealthy as ours doesn't allocate auxiliary funding for athletics, but commits a load of funding for incarceration and a funding formula that rewards the haves over the have-nots in higher education.
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Journalist
Listen up maggots! And that's an order!
And this is what folks don’t understand. A school district can do bond issues for improvements, and there are no line item vetoes. A university doesn’t have that luxury.
So is the BBVA Compass thing that bad, or is this one piece to a bigger plan TSU has?
JAG89
THE NEW AMERICA'S TEAM
Is there preliminary designs on how it would ultimately look??? I think this is great that TxSU is renovating there on-campus stadium. I believe TnSt has/is upgrading their stadium to do the same.
LAW DAWG
TSU LOVE
In my opinion BBVA isn't bad. I think what is driving this is the students looking down 290 at PV and wanting the same at Texas Southern.
Journalist
Listen up maggots! And that's an order!
Is it even possible to build a PV-type stadium on the current Durley site? Can TSU get some really breaded entities to throw down with them on this? I'm interested to see what happens next
LAW DAWG
TSU LOVE
I don't know what the wording of that Student Government resolution is. Over in the private forum the key word being kicked around was "enhancement" which is too vague to have an idea what the students want. There are no designs or renderings related to this effort yet, too preliminary. This is solely student driven, not an act by our administration.
LAW DAWG
TSU LOVE
You ask some interesting questions. To answer your first question, if that's what the students desire, land-wise I don't see how it can be done. Expectations would have to be lowered in my opinion. Your second question, well now that presents what is called a dilemma. In our case a hell of a dilemma.
Last_outlaw
Active Member
It isn’t bad but we just want something to call our own and look like our own! Just tired of settling (and yeah we know it was and is for the best to be at BBVA) but a stadium would definitely help attract the 15k enrollment they are striving for and help increase school spirit!
Normal1875
A&M #1
they feel left out of having an hbcu on campus stadium, especially playing in a big orange sunkist soda can!
the band fan
Baseball Fan
That was a new build and even though renderings are nice, the real cost is when bids come in and that’ll determine what the stadium actually looks like as then you have to set what can fit the budget.
Those Texas high school stadiums don’t have to deal with budgets as they go all out with full cement all over the place. If the bids are high you gotta make a decision between an elevator shaft for a future elevator if you can only afford 1 elevator or a space for a suite of You aant build out extra suites
Journalist
Listen up maggots! And that's an order!
I literally just google mapped the campus and was playing mental Tetris trying to figure out what to do with Durley. Maybe change the field orientation from what it is now and just straighten it?
It’s really a dilemna.
JROCK
Preeminent
They may need to consider a parking deck.
MUMFORD
Master Tiger Fricasseer
Yep. Plus they must plan to have the Jaguar Nation park those RVs over in Sunnyside.
Texas Southern Fan
Well-Known Member
I hate to be so negative, but I don’t see how you can fit a decent stadium at the current location. First of all the current stadium runs northwest to southeast. On the northeast side of the current stadium butts up against. the student center. The only room that separates the current stadium and the student center is a narrow walk way. On the south side of the stadium is more room,but you have those massive power lines running through the middle of parking lot c. The tract of land wher the stadium currently sits is pie shape. On the northwest side of the current stadium damn near sits on the Tiger Walk. You can’t fit Delmar Stadium or Waller ISD Stadium where our stadium currently sit.
The voters in those school districts pay for those bonds out of their school district taxes so that's why they can do that. Universities i Texas don't have that option.
The BBVA deal is a great one for stu from a financial viewpoint.
There is no room for something like that there. Remember they have a track around that field and you have to take that into consideration. But then again you have to see what they consider the enhancements they want to do.
Remember we talked about this problem in this thread some years ago.
https://www.hbcusports.com/forums/threads/txsu-stadium-question.122203/
Olde Hornet
Well-Known Member
good luck TSU
Storm96
Well-Known Member
Well that's always the case with TSU,lol. Anyway, at least the student body is taking the initiative. Just add extra bleachers/seating at Durley for home games and continue to play PV and Southern at BBVA
Google HBU Husky stadium. Might be the best option.