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jonmoxon
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Construction has begun on UT's new Indoor Athletic Practice Facility. The front page of the most recent Development News featured an article and artists' renditions of it (toledobiz.com). It will cost $11 mil and encompass 74,800 sq ft. It is due to be completed by the end of the year.
I went by yesterday and dozers were prepping the site (next to Savage Arena).
According to the article, UT was one of the few D1 schools around without one.
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C-Dawg Njaim
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While it is odd for a D1 school not to have this, I think this money could be more well spent elsewhere...
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jonmoxon
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While it is odd for a D1 school not to have this, I think this money could be more well spent elsewhere...
C-Dawg, I can't really disagree. The construction guy in me says 'alright, more work', but the pragmatist and informed citizen says 'really? this is the best use of $11 mil for UT?'. I think someone made a rather large donation to get this started (Savage?) so if it's being privately funded, what's the school gonna do?
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zipsrifle
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It seems to me there is a bit of an athletic arms race going on in the MAC right now. This type of facility is going to be par for the course here in a few years. Just off the top of my head, quite a few MAC schools have done some significant upgrades. Miami seemed to start it off with the Cradle of Coaches plaza, the upgraded scoreboard and an entirely new visitors side of their stadium. I think they have a fieldhouse in the works too. I know that Ball State, NIU, and Kent have recently made upgrades. Both CMU and WMU have very nice stadiums. Akron has been leading the charge recently with a new practice fields, a new field house (very similar to Toledo, maybe a bit better), new softball field, upgraded track and field facilities and an entirely new football stadium. There are also rumors of a new soccer stadium and also a new BB arena in Akron too. If the MAC schools want to compete in DI-A, they are going to need to have top facilities.
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