Dahill,
Your stadium is nice, but you don't have a better playing surface than we do, you don't have a better fitness and wellness center/ field house that us, and your seating compacity is no where close to being as large as ours. I like your press box design and home side seating area, but I understand the visitor side at your stadium is much, much smaller. Our is uniform on both sides.
Actually, we have only acheived phase one of our fieldhouse complex and the final goal is to have the structure wrap all the way around the north endzone to complete the horseshoe. That is why is is just in the northeast corner of the endzone right now. We could have stalled for time like JSU and waited for 20 years to build the whole thing at once, but our progressive leadership decided to spend 2.7 million immediately and fufill some of our more pressing needs sooner.
TP,
I dont care if you went to Ga Tech or MIT. You do not know what your are talking about concerning our fieldhouse. You don't know how much money we had "layin around." Trust me, it is more than you broke swamp negroes have. Edward Fort , our chancellor in 98, had nothing to do with it. We had been needing a fieldhouse for quite some time but he never wanted to make that kind of investment to our athletic department. That is why some of you say we are playing "catch-up" now. He was mostly concerned with making our school's engineering department the best in black college academics, and he suceeded. But to be truthful, he was never a big sports guy.
Dude you are busy telling me my leadership is not progressive, but they have done 15 times more to improve our football program in the last three years than your's has, and they have done more to improve our academic facilities too. They made the upgrades to our stadium in addition to constructing a new communication and business buidling complex ($37 million), renovating the student union, renovating the cafeteria ($8 million), building a new co-ed dorm on campus ($26 million), building a new 400 car parking lot ($1.7 million), renovating most of the older academic buidlings on campus($10.8 million), and a bunch of other stuff I really don't care about.
It's not like our leadership was spending all our money on the football stadium while your's was busy spending money to improve your academic buildings. That is not the case . We have done more than JSu in both those areas
at the same time.
<img src="http://web4.ncat.edu/engineer/pictures/parking4.jpg" width="200">
new parking area
<img src="http://web4.ncat.edu/engineer/pictures/parking3.jpg" width="200">
new student union
<img src="http://web4.ncat.edu/engineer/pictures/union.jpg" width="200">
new cafeteria
<img src="http://web4.ncat.edu/engineer/pictures/wcafe_exterior_view.jpg" width="200">......<img src="http://web4.ncat.edu/engineer/pictures/wcafe_from_parking_area2.jpg" width="200">
Lastly, I think our stadium can be expanded for 1-A football without being torn down. If we can sit 34,000 in our current stadium, I think we should be able to add another 10- 15k with not much problem. Especially with the new pressbox design. A 45k stadium is all we need in Greensboro.
A&T is as "major" as it gets right now with black college football. We might not have the legacy of a Grambling or Tennesse State, but right now we have all our ducks in a row and present the srtongest overall BCF program in America. JSU doesn't even come close . That's why you weren't even considered in Watkins vision. Dude is a millionaire and he knows where he would just be wasting his money. I think he chose ASU with his heart (since he is a home town guy) but after that failedd he decided to choose A&T with his head. We are the most logical choice right now.
However, I still don't think our adimistration even wants to go 1-A.
