Didnt all that land out West belong to Jensen? (Bball facility, etc)?AIA’s new facility in waukee looks like it’s going to be unreal, but it’s still crazy that the Fieldhouse is less than 10 years old. I assume it’s a way for Jensen to kick a little more into ISU athletics- does anyone know what the value of the building actually is? Is $15Ma good deal for us?
“The metal for some of the chairs came from Yankee Stadium. The Fieldhouse was modeled after several facilities at places such as Duke and Butler.”
New sports facility opens in West Ames
Young basketball and volleyball players have a new facility for practice and play.www.amestrib.com
I was pretty lucky as hs wrestler my best friend’s family had a great sauna at his house I’d use sometimes. Not always just to cut weight, but it was an easy way and once I did it right after school for a dual weigh in. You could really stretch out some aches and pains in there.Curious... are saunas still illegal?
The similarities to State Gym are uncanny. All the way down to the track. Also, if it's a completely new structure, 'brick' is one of the most costly facing materials. Kudos to them to retain this type of Architectural history, but with a very unique footprint.I just watched the video. Holy Cow!
That will definitely be the best facility in the land.
The Sukup Basketball Facility cost $8m to construct, which included interior finishing. They are similar buildings in terms of square footage, the Sukup was built a while ago so costs have gone up, and the exterior finishing on the All Iowa Fieldhouse is quite a bit nicer.Maybe Ben Bruns can give an idea what it cost to build that building new.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news but when i was at ISU. I was friends with the baseball club president and VP. JP sits down with all the athletic clubs pretty much discussing ways the AD can help out. Well, he was pretty upfront with them at baseball will probably never come back. In fact the one sport ISU has eye'd up in the past was Hockey. The AD actually has some contingency plans if they were to add hockey. Mostly around expanding the ISU Ice arena adding a practice rink and building on to the locker rooms. If a male sport is added it sounds like to them that hockey would be that sport. ISU has a very large club following and won something like 18 club hockey final fours.Completely agree. This would also give us some breathing room with Title IX for potentially adding a men's sport. For some reason I have always felt JP will find a way to bring baseball back before his tenure is done. Women's wrestling is the logical starting point. Regardless of that, we need to add women's wrestling.
I don’t even like hockey, but agree this should be the next sport added.I hate to be the bearer of bad news but when i was at ISU. I was friends with the baseball club president and VP. JP sits down with all the athletic clubs pretty much discussing ways the AD can help out. Well, he was pretty upfront with them at baseball will probably never come back. In fact the one sport ISU has eye'd up in the past was Hockey. The AD actually has some contingency plans if they were to add hockey. Mostly around expanding the ISU Ice arena adding a practice rink and building on to the locker rooms. If a male sport is added it sounds like to them that hockey would be that sport. ISU has a very large club following and won something like 18 club hockey final fours.
I think that was the line of thinking after the proposed practice facility attached to Hilton. At the time that facility/addition was out of our budget and the Sukup was a more bang for your buck solution. However, with there very likely being a renovation to Hilton in the next few years that won’t include a practice facility addition and there now being three sports practice facilities next to each other in west Ames, a renovation or addition to the Sukup would be much more likely at some point than a different facility.I remember when they built sukup it was thought to be a shorter term deal 20 yrs or so. I assume that they will be outlived
Tights/stretchy pants, not much difference.I don't think Lords wear stretchy pants do they?
Call him Liitle Lord Fauntlmoderoy.Keep forgetting you’re a filthy mod. Do I need to refer to you as “Lord JP” at Thanksgiving next month?
I believe it was modeled after State Gym.
So is AIA going to be based in Waukee? Or will they have multiple locations?
This is why I hate this new era. We as fans have to decide to pay players or to the faculties for the players.