OT: Irish Stadium expansion
$400 mil. to add 4,000 seats and luxury boxes. Now, I know that ND is private, and I'm no engineer, but this renovation cost is nearly double of most renovations, including the recent one at UM.
So, is NASA building this?
January 29th, 2014 at 11:20 AM ^
looks like they are adding a student center and classrooms as well - among other things, so that could explain the extra expenses
January 29th, 2014 at 11:20 AM ^
If it's the part of NASA that has contracts with Boeing and Lockheed, you get a couple toilets for $1M apiece.
If it's the part of NASA working with SpaceX, you get 4,000 luxury seats, 82" TVs for each seat, and a robot that'll hold your beer for you while getting you the private phone numbers of each of the blonde cheerleaders, all for $10 a head.
January 29th, 2014 at 11:24 AM ^
10 dollars a head...i see what you did there
January 29th, 2014 at 11:40 AM ^
Glad you see what I did there... cuz um... I have no idea what I did there....
January 29th, 2014 at 11:52 AM ^
I think he's commenting on the juxtapostion of "cheerleaders" and "head." Or maybe I just have a dirty mind.
January 29th, 2014 at 12:06 PM ^
Military calls a restroom/toilet the head. As opposed to $1M for a toilet, it's $10s a head. At least that's how I took it.
January 29th, 2014 at 1:59 PM ^
A slight quibble though, it is the Navy & USMC that use the term "head", the Army and Air Force use the term "latrine."
January 29th, 2014 at 2:34 PM ^
it all depends on who you're talking to. In the fighter pilot community, "head" is a verb, not a noun.
January 29th, 2014 at 3:34 PM ^
Who said head?
I'll take some of that,
So I did, and it was good
And there was much rejoicing.
We screwed for hours and hours
Uprooting trees & bushes & flowers,
We screwed like Vikings
With horns on our HEAD!
HEAD!
Who said head?
(Hash House Harriers UNITE!!)
January 29th, 2014 at 11:21 AM ^
doing any other structural repairs? Could add quite a bit of cost to the project.
January 29th, 2014 at 11:21 AM ^
In the interest of fairness the $400 mil is for a lot more than the stadium.
January 29th, 2014 at 11:22 AM ^
They are building other school related buildings along with stadium expansion... if you read the article you linked.
January 29th, 2014 at 11:22 AM ^
I was at ND Stadium in 2012. I was also there in 1990 before the last expansion. They did a nice job with the expansion in adding the additional 25,000 seats but I don't think they did an overall renovation of the stadium and it lacks many of the amenities that the renovated stadiums have. $400 million seems like a lot but if there is a lot of deferred maintenance and if they are adding luxury boxes and other modern amenities then I could see it costing a lot.
January 29th, 2014 at 11:22 AM ^
...part of the contract is to fix the ObamaCare website.
January 29th, 2014 at 11:30 AM ^
Those funds were jacked as soon as HHS got them
January 29th, 2014 at 11:24 AM ^
Will they have video on their scoreboards, turf, benches that aren't made from trees?
January 29th, 2014 at 11:28 AM ^
"As for adding video boards for instant replay or switching to an artificial playing surface -- two issues that divide fans -- Jenkins said there's no decision on that yet."
January 29th, 2014 at 11:25 AM ^
Hey, it's all legit just like his stock tips.
January 29th, 2014 at 11:28 AM ^
The ACC money is coming through.
January 29th, 2014 at 11:37 AM ^
9 stories seems high, although i do recognize they have a fully above ground stadium.
will be interesting to see how the mixed-use facility is actually designed and implemented. sounds like they've been talking to some urban planners, although it is innovative and could be a pretty interesting thing, particularly for an on-campus stadium.
as an aside, what other schools have an on-campus (like part of their central campus) football stadium?
edit: also surprising - nobody has updated the notre dame stadium wikipedia page yet!
January 29th, 2014 at 12:13 PM ^
Of the places I have seen, BC is the closest campus resemblance to ND, and their stadium is right on their main campus in a similar fashion. It's the only campus I've visited that I thought was nicer looking than ND, plus they have downtown Boston right there as opposed to South Bend, Indiana.
January 29th, 2014 at 11:37 AM ^
They can spend their money however they want. They are adding some school buildings, but I can't imagine this costs more than $50 mil. And this isn't so much about ND; it's more about how much these things cost, and no one seems to bat and eye...
January 29th, 2014 at 11:39 AM ^
Get some new scoreboards pleeeease!
January 29th, 2014 at 11:42 AM ^
"To hell with notre dame!"
January 29th, 2014 at 11:47 AM ^
That's quaint
January 29th, 2014 at 12:03 PM ^
Only 4,000? Hmmmm, I thought they would try to get more than that.
January 29th, 2014 at 2:39 PM ^
They are going to have to charge a lot for those seat to make any money. I would think they would try for a stadium closer to Michigan's capacity, but their fairweather fans wouldn't fill the stadium except for "big" games.
January 29th, 2014 at 2:04 PM ^
Of course the Board of Trustees wouldn't want to meet in South Bend:
"The plans were presented to the university's board of trustees during their meeting Wednesday in Rome."
January 29th, 2014 at 2:51 PM ^
Notre Dame capacity could reach 84,000?
That's adorable.
January 29th, 2014 at 4:33 PM ^
At least they don't have to worry about building a memorial for their BCS victories.
January 29th, 2014 at 4:52 PM ^
But when I was in the Army (Ft. Bliss, Tx), it was the "Head". And no, Ft. Bliss was not blissful.
January 29th, 2014 at 4:52 PM ^
But when I was in the Army (Ft. Bliss, Tx), it was the "Head". And no, Ft. Bliss was not blissful.
January 29th, 2014 at 5:20 PM ^
To Hell with Notre Dame
January 30th, 2014 at 1:12 AM ^
and their little stadium. And their shitty non-college town. And their everything else.
January 30th, 2014 at 1:22 AM ^
Expect Fieldturf or something just as drastic to happen once the North Pole decides to shift back North and we thaw out.