Originally Posted by Sousaclone 
I've gotta be honest I think BBall needs the practice facility more than football needs the bowled in endzone. From an aesthetic standpoint the stadium looks better but let's face it, the basketball team is practicing wherever they can get space at the moment. Plus the BBall facility supports what has traditionally been our stronger sport. Toss in the fact that the BBall facility will serve three sports and it becomes an even stronger case. We need both, but I think it's harder to justify the endzone when we don't sell out JTS all that often and all we are doing is adding some pretty crappy seats.
I agree. Football does pay the bills, but our Basketball team has been better over the last 20 years. The football team has got a lot of new things that they did need. Yes JTC needs to be improved, but bowling in the staduim is not going to add capacity just real seats instead of grass seats. It will add some cash to the Dept.
We have to keep coaches happy. The U of I has been saying they will build a BB facality and upgrade CH, that is yet to happen and it doesnt set well with some. When
GMac came he was told he would get a BB facality. The VB team is doing well and I would think Christie Johnson is a hot name for coaching openings. We already lost a great gymnastics coach due to poor facalities. We all know we can compete in BB, but inorder to stay on top year in year out, they need a state of the art Facality before the bowling in of the endzone.
If nothing else the basketball team is due for something nice, new, and just for them.
