Athletic Campus Construction
Construction began a few weeks ago on the site of what is (or was previously) the Red Lot on the west side of State St just south of the Stadium Blvd bridge. Anyone privy to what facility is being built here? Certainly this was a plan that had been put in effect prior to the dismissal of DB.
It's back and cheesier than ever!
I never could get my head around the anger and hate on this blog and board concerning the momentary appearance of the noodle that day at the Stadium.
Anyone been to Yost for a hockey game? There are advertisements plastered all over the boards and scoreboard, just like at any other arena.
Does that seriously detract from anyones' enjoyment of the hockey game?
And yes I would love for the boards to look like the boards in South Bend (no advertisements).
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Kid Rock's ad budget > Anheuser Busch > ATT/Chevrolet > McDonalds (and equals Samsung's)?
If you did well enough running your city, the city council would approve erecting a statue of you, which you could place anywhere at no cost. Selecting it would reveal its year of origin and "number of pigeons perched."
Just make sure you don't use "erection" and "Dave Brandon" in the same sentence.
Maybe it's part of the Victors for Michigan campaign. I thought part of that was building graduate school residence.
http://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/index.ssf/2013/11/university_of_mic…
Operations building for the athletic dept. Laundry, shipping, receiving, some offices...nothing terribly exciting.
Concept pictures if you click around in that link. Kinda boring looking
I like how it's the same brick style as all the new buildings, including the 3d block M.
That is the new Athletic Operations Center, I believe. We actually did our conduit runs to feed it just last week despite the cold. If anyone in that area experienced a short shutdown sometime in the middle of the week, that was related work. It is supposed to be open this summer, from what I understand.
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300 foot Harbaugh statue pointed towards the stadium
When David Brandon presented the FY 2015 budget last June, he outlined twelve construction projects for an estimated cost of $346.5M.
See http://www.mlive.com/business/ann-arbor/index.ssf/2014/06/12_constructi…
Projects planned for 2015 include:
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$15 million Golf Course Clubhouse/Hole #1/Stream Renovation
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$87.7 million South Athletic Performance and Team Centers
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$50 million Indoor Track
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$13.5 million Stephen M. Ross Academic Center Expansion
The four projects planned for 2018 are:
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$50 million Canham Natatorium Expansion - Aquatics Center
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$6 million Golf Course Restoration
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$3 million Athletic Campus Walk of Champions
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$18.3 million Outdoor Lacrosse Stadium
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$12 million Outdoor Track & Field Stadium
There are no projects planned for 2016. The two in 2017 include:
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$19 million Athletic Administration Building
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$54 million Multi-Sport Competition Venue
The only project planned for 2019 is:
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$18 million Cliff Keen Athletic Performance Center
Another $14.3 million in construction – for the Donald R. Shepherd Softball Center and the Schembechler Hall Renovation Project – wrapped up earlier this year, while two projects totaling $19.5 million – the Field Hockey Renovation Project and the Operations Center – are expected to be finish by July 2015.
Construction is slated to start in 2015 on the $5.8 million Yost Arena ice plant replacement.
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The regents approved a $168M project called the South Athletic Performance and Team Center last August. It appears this center combines a number of the projects listed above into one facility. See http://www.mgoblue.com/genrel/091814aaa.html
What you guys are going to hate is this is essentially Brandon's vision for the U-M Athletic Department. He always said that he wanted to have the non-revenue sports enjoy the same support as the more high profile athletic events, i.e., football, men's basketball and ice hockey.
Well, now it's happening and part of the reason why appears to be due to his fund raising ability and because he reorganized the AD in order to better contact and interface with potential donors for the department.
While Bacon's new book is on the football program and Brian will never say Brandon did anything good, perhaps people will someday recognize that a significant part of DB's legacy at UM will be displayed in mortar and concrete. Hackett will have to pick up the baton from Brandon on the "other" part of the Athletic Director's responsibilities to Michigan's student athletes to see it through. It'll be interesting to see if this plan stays as envisioned and on the timeline Brandon laid out eight months ago.
As I see it, his only positive contributions were his willingness to pay market rates for assistants and his facilities upgrades.
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Brandon botched the hire and thing that mattered the most - Head Coach of the Michigan Football Team.
That is his legacy whether he likes it or not.
Sure he upgraded facilities and improved things for the non-revenue sports, but he screwed up the team that everyone is focused on - football.
He had to get the football hire right for anything else to matter and he didn't get the job done.