OT: Cal's Stadium Woes Continue

Cal had to cut sports a few years ago, almost losing baseball. It doesn't look good for them.

Can someone 'Bail' them out? They are such a good school its tough to see their athletics crap out.

I'm thankful for no hurricanes, volcanos, earthquakes, and limited tornados. Screw natural disasters. I don't have time for them.

Glad Michigan students don't have to subsidize the athletic department like 95% of the rest of Div. 1.  I don't know how I would've felt paying extra for someone to play a game while getting (potentially) a full ride to school, while I'm forced to take on the extra debt.

First the tree guy and now this?  Poor saps...  (see what i did there?)

I haven't read the other threads on the topic, so I'll apologize in advance if these have already been shared (I know, no SIAP).  There are a few somewhat interesting articles from some trade magazines I've seen on the Cal Stadium project.  One from POB and one from Technology & More.  I'm not surprised the project cost has ballooned with all the on-site obstacles they are attacking.

There must be something I'm missing here.  Maybe there's no land away from the fault to be had?  Seems like a smaller, more intimiate stadium is just what Cal needs . . .

A University in California spending money they don't have on projects most don't care about?  Isn't this normal operating procedure in that state?

This sounds like the state of California in general: swimming in debt, unable to get anything meaningful accomplished.

That's amazing that the stadium is right on the fault line.  Has it ever been damaged by an earthquake?

This doesn't surprise me at all.  Berkeley's a great school of course, but it's very poorly managed...so much so that the Haas business school essentially needs to become private to insulate itself from the rest of the school's budget issues.  

Michigan students complain about a lot of various things, but the difference in how the two schools are managed and run is night and day.  Everyone at Berkeley considers it the best public school in the country, but there's no doubt in my mind that Michigan is the better all-around school.

that might do it.

For anybody that doesn't click to the WSJ article, Cal and Michigan stadiums are completely different problems.  

Michigan was about building executive suites to increase revenue.

I live less than 5 miles from Cal's stadium.  It's an historic building that sit's right on top of the Heyward fault.  Here is a couple of pictures:

Photo of top edge of stadium at one end.  Do you think that will hold in a 8.0 quake?

Drawing of Heyward fault going "goal post to goal post" (a nicer one is in the WSJ article)

For those of you old enough to remember the '89 world series, that stadium was miles from any fault.  

Maybe Michigan can play Cal in the B10 Pac12 series.  You're all invited out to enjoy the game.  

Since, the Cal earth quake renovation and overuns cannot be compared to Michigan's renovation, we should compare it to the overruns of another major Bay Area earth quake renovation:

I think building a new stadium would be more expensive then renovating.

I don't understand how a school with as many problems as Cal manages to retain its elite academic ranking. They're so strapped for money that they've had to scale back basic services like cleaning and trash removal. Michigan was very wise to have reduced its dependence on state funding to the point that some schools within the University are quasi-private. Cal would have been even wiser to do so, since California's state legislature is among the most chronically dysfunctional in the country.

As for their football program, I don't see them being able to remain competitive in the Pac-12 if they can't pay their coaches market salaries. The reason Tosh Lupoi bolted is because Washington more than tripled his salary (from $164,000 to $500,000). Cal fans are calling for Tedford's head because he can't seem to get them over the hump, but if Cal caves and fires him, there's no way they'll be able to attract a decent successor given their budget constraints. 

How can a stadium be a historic place? Seriously? There are only how many other stadiums in Cali/USA/World so your not unique by any means.  Didnt the Silverdome host mass or some BS like that with the Pope, is that dump a historic place? Its purpose by nature is to hold events, just because you've held alot of them doesnt make the place any more special.