SEC Athletics Facilities Race

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You're welcome.

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Kevin Brockway @gatorhoops  ·  1 minute ago
Wireless here terrible. Will not miss Tad Pad.

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Joe Schad @schadjoe  · 
Florida practice facility image http://ow.ly/i/8l0on

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Kyle Tucker @KyleTucker_CJ  ·  43 minutes ago
Colonial Life Arena is one of the nicest in the SEC.

If IRC that one was done by the same one's that did BWA wasn't it?

[jbcarol]

Brett McMurphy @McMurphyESPN  ·  22 hours ago

UCF stadium adding Florida-themed social area, lounge & sun deck b/w 30-yard lines via @UCFKnights

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Austin Kim @AustinKKim  ·  29 minutes ago

Someone stole the panels from the Mizzou scoreboard...or it's probably under repairs. One of the two...

[NoNC4Tubs]

Austin Kim @AustinKKim  ·  29 minutes ago

Someone stole the panels from the Mizzou scoreboard...or it's probably under repairs. One of the two...

At that altitude, it was nodoubt someone on the basketball team.......... 

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New Atlanta Stadium @NewATLStadium  ·  4 hours ago

Check out the latest #NewAtlantaStadium aerial photos —> http://atlfal.co.nz/1Daikbv 

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Ben Garrett @SpiritBen  ·  Jan 10
The lights are out. Tad Pad gonna Tad Pad.

WIN RT @OleMissAF: Annual "Lights Out" game at the Tad Pad.  Support #ForwardTogether and the Pavilion by donating at ...

You say the Tad Pad is a dump? Pete Boone says it's charming, duh.

A "campus power glitch" knocked out the power, we're told. Should be back up in 15 minutes. And then the boos came, and I laughed.

Pete Boone also thought the Dale was charming. Ugh.

[jbcarol]

Pete Boone also thought the Dale was charming. Ugh.

Hugh Kellenberger @HKellenbergerCL  ·  11 hours ago
It's a week before National Signing Day, so remember: the coaches are recruiting 24/7 so you don't have to.

[jbcarol]

Scott Rabalais        ✔ @RabalaisAdv
#LSU announces largest planned gift in school history - $40 million - half going to TAF for scholarships, facilities; half to LSU Foundation
3:56 PM - 28 Jan 2015

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We Hoop This State @wreckhoops  ·  3 hours ago

"@GamecocksOnline: Latest views of the new football indoor facility construction & practice fields! " @Carvell_AJC FYI

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Jason Yellin @JasonYellin  ·  12 minutes ago
Shot clock issues with the precision timing device here at #Vols game.

Ben Frederickson @Ben_Fred  ·  4 minutes ago
#Vols trailing Auburn 12-9 w/ 11:23 in half. Auburn's Tahj Shamsid-Deen is playing well in his first SEC start this season.

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Brent Zwerneman @BrentZwerneman  ·  19 hours ago
Vine of west side of Kyle Field on last night of January 2015:

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Alabama infielder/catcher Kyle Overstreet (6) warms up for the bottom of the fourth during Alabama's fourth scrimmage of the young baseball pre-season, Saturday, Jan. 31, 2015, at the Hoover Met in Hoover, Ala. The Red and grey teams played to a 6-inning 1-1 tie. Vasha Hunt/vhunt@al.com

Bama's campus stadium is being rebuilt in 2015 and their home games will move to the site of the SEC baseball tournament.

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OleMissPolice @OleMissPolice  ·  31 minutes ago

Due to a complete loss of water pressure on the Oxford campus, the campus is closed for faculty, staff, and... http://fb.me/2kWNQrEUt

[jbcarol]

Auburn planning Jordan-Hare Stadium upgrades, largest video scoreboard in college football

Auburn University's Board of Trustees will meet Friday to approve or deny the construction of a 200-foot wide scoreboard, which is expected to cost an estimated $13.9 million, according to documents.

"If what we are intending to do is approved, it'll be the biggest video board in college football," Auburn athletics director Jay Jacobs told AL.com.

Jacobs said the video board above the south end zone will measure roughly 200-feet wide and 55- to 57-feet tall, which would surpass Texas A&M's recently-installed board that measures 7,661 square feet. Exact dimensions for Auburn's video board were not included in documents provided to Auburn's trustees. The scoreboard will be operational in August 2015 if the project is approved Friday.

"That's what our fans deserve and what our football team deserves," Jacobs said.

Auburn is also in the early steps of upgrading Jordan-Hare Stadium and is seeking approval to engage an architect and construction manager for the project. The project does not yet have a price tag.

Upgrades at 87,451-seat stadium could begin as soon as December, according to documents, with a completion date prior to the 2017 season. Construction could also be delayed until December 2016 or December 2017 with completion before the 2018 or 2019 seasons.

"The timing is right," Jacobs said. "We're one of the few schools to play in front of a sold-out crowd in every game, home and away. Some schools, because of their demand, they've increased stadium sizes and sometimes that's not, in retrospect, the best thing to do. ... For us, we're great with the size of our stadium right now. We just need to continue to have the best game-day experience in the nation."

Auburn is exploring options, including widening the concourse and upgrading restrooms, but plans will not be discussed or finalized until the summer. The first step will not occur until the trustees approve initial discussions at the meeting Friday.

The small scoreboard in the north end zone will remain in place, Jacobs said, but he hopes to replace it with a state-of-the-art video scoreboard in the next two years. Structural upgrades must be discussed before adding a larger scoreboard to the stands.

http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2010/08/scarbinsky_auburn_works_on_mas.html

[jbcarol]

Break Orbit Studios @BreakOrbitLive  ·  Feb 1

If @jayjacobsauad has his way, @FootballAU will have the biggest video board in the NCAA. Big. #WarEagle

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GoGamecocks.com @gogamecocks  ·  2 hours ago

At Quandeski Whitlow signing, held inside Opelika High's indoor facility. Yeah it's nice.



UGa and Florida take note.

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Brent Zwerneman @BrentZwerneman  ·  3 hours ago

The West Side of Kyle Field on Wednesday afternoon, taken from inside SE tunnel:

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Blake Toppmeyer @btoppmeyer  ·  1 hour ago

UM Board of Curators approves $16 million funding plan for new softball stadium http://m.columbiatribune.com/sports/mu/um-board-of-curators-approves-million-funding-plan-for-new/article_f394864e-e1f9-5e94-a61a-f0a3e73877d7.html ...

Private gifts are slated to supply $13.5 million of the project funding. The other $2.5 million will come from debt financing as part of the $72 million approved by the board in 2012 for athletics facilities projects.

Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin, in comments to the curators, said he's confident MU will meet its private funding goal...

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AL.com sports @aldotcomSports  ·  1 hour ago

Auburn approves construction of college football's largest video scoreboard http://ow.ly/ICMEx 

The Auburn Board of Trustees approved a plan Friday to install the scoreboard above the grandstands in the south end zone of Jordan-Hare Stadium. The project, budgeted at $13.9 million, will commence in March and is expected to be completed in August.

The scoreboard structure will be 200 feet wide and 105 feet tall. The video board will measure 190-by-57 feet and 10,830 square feet, surpassing the current scoreboard at Texas A&M, which measures 7,661 square feet and is considered the largest video board in college football.

"This is going to be an enhancement that moms and dads are going to have to come to because their kids are going to want to see this video board, the biggest in college football," Auburn athletics director Jay Jacobs said. "It's going to be a great asset, not only for our fans, but also our students and our perspective student-athletes."

The current video board in the south end zone will be removed in March. A video scoreboard will not be in place during Auburn's A-Day spring game on April 18.

[jbcarol]

Adam Sparks ‏@AdamSparks

Do any @VandyBaseball stadium sections/areas have an identity? Any more lively than others? (I've heard RF). Kids/dads in OF seats?
9:59 AM - 6 Feb 2015

Clark Ramey ‏@UncleClark 54 minutes ago
@AdamSparks @VandyBaseball 3B line, especially when the FB linemen get out there and heckle the 3B.

NotMrC ‏@mrcommodorenope 28 minutes ago
@AdamSparks There's old ladies with season tix behind the backstop who like hooting and hollering "Git em____, Git em!"

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AL.com sports @aldotcomSports  ·  1 hour ago

Auburn approves construction of college football's largest video scoreboard http://ow.ly/ICMEx 

Now they can watch Ernest Goes to Camp in all of the HD, jumbotron glory it deserves.

[Hogfaniam]

AL.com sports @aldotcomSports  ·  1 hour ago

Auburn approves construction of college football's largest video scoreboard http://ow.ly/ICMEx 

How spoiled am I?  That just doesn't look like that big of a deal anymore.

The new Atlanta stadium will have the biggest of any venue when done.  A full 360° around the top.

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[Inhogswetrust]

Auburn planning Jordan-Hare Stadium upgrades, largest video scoreboard in college football

http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2010/08/scarbinsky_auburn_works_on_mas.html

They need new elevators I've heard.................................

[jbcarol]

The University of Alabama baseball team will hold its annual Fan Day this Saturday at Hoover Metropolitan Stadium, where all the team's home games will be played this year.

Activities begin at 10 a.m. with a free youth baseball clinic for children ages 12 and younger. Members of the Alabama coaching staff and players will teach the fundamentals of hitting, fielding, pitching and base running.

After the youth clinic ends at 11 a.m., Alabama coaches and staff will lead fans on a tour of the Hoover Met, showing off the Tide's new home for this year. The tour will begin at home plate and go all through the stadium, including the locker room, party deck and banquet room areas.

The coaching staff really wanted to show the fans how good a job the city of Hoover has done in making the Alabama team feel at home at the Hoover Met, said Alex Thompson, an assistant sports information director for Alabama. The stadium is decorated with Alabama Crimson Tide signs and logos, and the field is in great shape for the 2015 season, he said.

The tour ends at the banquet room, where the Grandslammers booster club will have its annual barbecue...

The free full-game scrimmage is scheduled to start at 2:30 p.m.

Seats still available for season ticket packages will be marked, and fans will be able to buy tickets Saturday or online.

Reserved chairback season tickets cost $125, or $100 for Alabama faculty and staff and $65 for senior citizens. General admission season tickets cost $60. Single-game tickets cost $10 for reserved chairs with backs, $8 for adult general admission and $5 general admission for youth ages 18 and younger.

Fans also can pay $21 for general admission seating to three weekend series games, $36 for six weekend series games or $45 for nine weekend series games. Those "mini-plans" are good for any weekend series except opening weekend.

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Greg Blackman @Lil_BucCoach  ·  6 hours ago
photo of an intramural fball game AUvsGa b4 sanctioned teams

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They need new elevators I've heard.................................

AL.com sports @aldotcomSports  ·  3 hours ago
Auburn aims to update Jordan-Hare Stadium, build new locker room, recruiting lounge http://ow.ly/IFyAu

Auburn could begin upgrading and installing a new locker room at Jordan-Hare Stadium as soon as December.

The Auburn Board of Trustees approved Friday a plan to engage an architect and project manager for the potential upgrades. Plans should be finalized in the summer, with approval needed from the board at a later date.

The plans will include a new locker room and recruiting lounge beyond the north end zone, and updates to premium seating, amenities and a wider concourse in the grandstands. The north facade could get an upgrade, too, after years of exposed steel visible outside the stadium.

Auburn is in the process of conducting a feasibility study for upgrades, which is scheduled to be completed in the spring. The first step of that plan will focus on the north end zone.

"It gives us a chance also to come in there and make the facade of the north end so much nicer, maybe with a brick (composition)," Auburn athletics director Jay Jacobs said. "Now I don't know if that's how it's going to turn out, but that's our vision. That's my vision: to have the best-looking stadium in college football."

No elevator.

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AL.com sports @aldotcomSports  ·  3 hours ago
Auburn aims to update Jordan-Hare Stadium, build new locker room, recruiting lounge http://ow.ly/IFyAu

No elevator.

No wonder we are losing assistants.............................

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AL.com sports @aldotcomSports  ·  3 hours ago
Auburn aims to update Jordan-Hare Stadium, build new locker room, recruiting lounge http://ow.ly/IFyAu

No elevator.

I guess that row of port-o-lets outside the locker room will finally disappear..........

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Kevin Brockway @gatorhoops  ·  7 hours ago
Florida AD Jeremy Foley did not comment when asked whether UF would decline hosting NIT games due to O'Dome renovations, due to start in mid-March.

Foley chose not to comment on NIT because he thinks Gators "still in the hunt" for NCAA bid. Gators need to win next 7, imo, to get in it..

Foley also said there are plans to expand/improve the weight room at the Florida basketball facility,

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Kevin Brockway @gatorhoops  ·  16 hours ago

Foley: Facilities will get done at UF - via @Gator_sports http://www.gatorsports.com/article/20150209/ARTICLES/150209620 ...

Jim McElwain has made it clear he thinks UF's football facilities are in need of an upgrade.

UF athletic director Jeremy Foley made it just as clear Monday that McElwain is going to get what he needs to rebuild the Gators into a championship program, including probable future renovations to the locker room and dorms.

"We're going to do all we can to help Mac be successful," Foley said. "I do think as I go around the league and look at some other places, we probably need to do some more in our locker room. I also said I don't think that's the reason that we're not where we need to be.

"At the end of the day, the University of Florida is still a special place. At the same time, we are going to evaluate our facilities and make sure coach Mac has everything he needs to be successful and we're moving forward with that."

The movement has already begun. Construction recently began on a $15-million indoor practice facility that is expected to be completed by September. Foley said UF also is looking into making improvements in the dorms and will evaluate the football locker room and where that needs to be.

"We have a history of getting stuff done. And we will get it done," Foley said. "We're going to rebuild this football program. We want a national championship program."

Doug Finger/The Gainesville Sun

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Hugh Kellenberger @HKellenbergerCL  ·  Feb 9

Andy Kennedy just said the Tad Pad is not "amenities rich." Suffice to say, AK is not "emotion rich" about leaving the Tad Pad behind.

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Adam Sparks @AdamSparks  ·  9 hours ago
Putting up National Champions lettering at @VandyBaseball's Hawkins Field

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Zach Abolverdi @ZachAbolverdi  ·  Feb 10

Cool shot of the construction of #UF's indoor practice facility. #Gators

[Hogball]

Did Ole Miss really build a NEW basketball stadium that only seats 9500?

Whats up with that!

[PigDaddyKane]

Tad pad only seats 8,867.  How many times do they sell that out?

[regi]

I heard their AD talking during their Spring game, they really do not have large numbers to satisfy. The football stadium may go the UK route, more premium seating, but not more total seating. It is a State with around the same Population as Arkansas, but they have to split that population with Miss State and Southern Miss. Arkansas splits nothing with Major programs in state, also, Mississippi is a poorer State than Arkansas, So really, no shock they are building a small arena.

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ATHENS — Georgia has focused on one spot for its proposed indoor practice facility and is planning for it to be very expensive.

That's the major news from the meeting of the Georgia athletics board Tuesday, when the plans for the facility were discussed in executive session for about 20 minutes. No news was announced afterwards, with no firm date set for an opening or even a groundbreaking.

But athletics director Greg McGarity said the project ultimately could cost "in the ballpark of $30 million." That's twice as much as similar projects, such as the just-announced indoor facility project at Florida.

"We have one chance to get it right," McGarity said. "We do not want to compromise. This building will be here forever. So you have to think that way."

As for the location, the focus now is on the area just beyond the football team's current outdoor practice fields, off of Lumpkin Street, and leading up to Stegeman Coliseum. It likely would force the removal of the Hoke Smith annex and its parking lot, among other things. It also would likely knock out Smith Street, a two-lane road that runs between the current practice fields and the Hoke Smith annex. It also potentially could cut into the team's current lower outdoor practice fields.

The area including the proposed site is owned by Georgia and not the athletics association, which are two separate entities financially.

"It's not within our fence line," McGarity said of the proposed site. "It complicates things."

So Georgia president Jere Morehead requested the board go into executive session to discuss a "real estate transaction."

[Cresthog]

New Atlanta Stadium @NewATLStadium  ·  4 hours ago

Check out the latest #NewAtlantaStadium aerial photos —> http://atlfal.co.nz/1Daikbv 

Is that the football stadium? Already?

Looks super small? Or is that basketball arena?

[jbcarol]

Is that the football stadium? Already?

Looks super small? Or is that basketball arena?

http://newstadium.atlantafalcons.com/overview

Football

The seating capacity can be expanded to up to 75,000 to play host to a potential future Super Bowl or FIFA World Cup, or to up to 83,000 for other events such as the NCAA Final Four...

Pics and video tour at the link

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Scott Spurrier @SctSpurr  ·  Feb 17

Construction of the new Indoor Football Facility is moving along. Excited to get that finished and move in

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Scott Spurrier @SctSpurr  ·  Feb 17

Construction of the new Indoor Football Facility is moving along. Excited to get that finished and move in

Is that at Florida or South Carolina? 

[jbcarol]

Is that at Florida or South Carolina? 

South Carolina

[NaturalStateReb]

Did Ole Miss really build a NEW basketball stadium that only seats 9500?

Whats up with that!

We can't really fill more than that.  It's better to have a nicer, smaller facility than a big facility that's a 1/3 empty many nights.

I don't think we're going to see many huge arenas built anymore.  I also don't think we're going to see tons of radical stadium expansions most places either.  The move is going to be making what's there better.

[The_Iceman]

We can't really fill more than that.  It's better to have a nicer, smaller facility than a big facility that's a 1/3 empty many nights.

I don't think we're going to see many huge arenas built anymore.  I also don't think we're going to see tons of radical stadium expansions most places either.  The move is going to be making what's there better.

Smaller, nicer stadiums are really the way to go. Look at the NFL. Most new stadiums are around 60-70k seats.

If Arkansas was building a new basketball arena, they'd probably go with 12,000 seats, but have multiple different luxury type seating.

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Tennessee Basketball @Vol_Hoops  ·   39 minutes ago
A view (literally) from above here at Tad Smith Coliseum. Vols at Ole Miss tonight at 7:30 pm.

[Inhogswetrust]

GoGamecocks.com @gogamecocks  ·  2 hours ago

At Quandeski Whitlow signing, held inside Opelika High's indoor facility. Yeah it's nice.



UGa and Florida take note.

Some high schools in Arkansas have something as nice if not nicer.

[jbcarol]

GoGamecocks.com @gogamecocks  ·  1 hour ago

Tom Glavine on Carolina Stadium: 'Oh my gosh, this place is unbelievable' http://www.gogamecocks.com/2015/02/22/682531_tom-glavine-takes-in-the-gamecocks.html ...

Tom Glavine, the National Baseball Hall of Fame member who won 305 games over 22 seasons with the Atlanta Braves and New York Mets, took in the game in support of his younger brother Mike Glavine, the Northeastern head coach.

Glavine drove over Sunday morning from his Atlanta-area home to watch the Huskies, who dropped a 6-4 decision to the Gamecocks. He liked the close proximity of his brother's team for a change.

Glavine, the left-hander who pitched in the major leagues from 1987 to 2008, started the game sitting in the third-base stands before moving up to one of the suites to take in the action. He was impressed by what he saw of Carolina Stadium.

"Oh my gosh, this place is unbelievable. It's as nice as many minor league ballparks as you'll ever see," Glavine said. "It's a great facility, and South Carolina has done a great job with their program. It looks like they've got another solid team again this year."