Most expensive college football stadiums

Bowdowndub said:
did I miss something? Why does Colorado st have a nice stadium?
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They had a couple good years, or year under Jim McElwain, spiking interest in the program. The old stadium was very primitive and off campus toward the foothills. So with the new interest came a new commitment to a new on campus stadium. Its nice, has a New Belgian Brewery Bar in the north endzone. They added and updated their football facilities at the same time.
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What have they done at Notre Dame over the last 20 years to make it most expensive? I was there when Willingham led the golden domers to a proper throttling of our Dawgs and I wasn’t stupendously impressed.
 
Spent the night in South Bend in 95 on the way to Columbus. Finally got to see the legendary golden dome and Knute Rockne Stadium. Pissant town and unimpressive university and stadium. Made for TV
Its no Gary Indiana
 
RaceBannon said:
Spent the night in South Bend in 95 on the way to Columbus. Finally got to see the legendary golden dome and Knute Rockne Stadium. Pissant town and unimpressive university and stadium. Made for TV
Its no Gary Indiana
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Did not realize you were such a Broadway guy @RaceBannon
 
Cal’s stadium is a really interesting example of what can go wrong in the new world ~ in this case, seismic retrofitting. Who knows how they calculated the potential for risk, who knows how effective the solution is [was]. What you can know is the building and the facilities feature no amenities, have antiquated bathrooms, no real concourse, offer no comforts [cement only bench seating] and leaves you wondering why they quit building our the facility because its only the facade that they have addressed. It is Husky stadium in the 30’s when it was just a low lying cement bowl with no seats Amazing.
 
We went to a UW Cal game a couple weeks after the big 1989 earthquake there. That stadium has survived a lot before retrofit because we used to build things the right way
 
Cal is interesting because the state school system at the university level is impressive in the sense of how many regionalized campuses are supported and offer above average education from an academic standpoint. From the Cal board level perspective, athletics is just a part of student life and the board derives great pleasure from observing the diversity of student involvement in ancillary sports programs ~ definitely the leader nationally in egalitarian notions of student sports involvement. The board does not believe in spending money on sports facilities and favors the intramural sports approach to how to view the importance of sports within the culture. In the great tradition, They are quite simply way ahead of the rest of the country in their view.
 
KatsCanTipToe said:
Cal is interesting because the state school system at the university level is impressive in the sense of how many regionalized campuses are supported and offer above average education from an academic standpoint. From the Cal board level perspective, athletics is just a part of student life and the board derives great pleasure from observing the diversity of student involvement in ancillary sports programs ~ definitely the leader nationally in egalitarian notions of student sports involvement. The board does not believe in spending money on sports facilities and favors the intramural sports approach to how to view the importance of sports within the culture. In the great tradition, They are quite simply way ahead of the rest of the country in their view.
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And as a result Cal fans now have the existential crisis dark cloud hanging over their football program. That doesn't sound like a very fun culture to be a part of.
The sports facilities spending mentality isn't necessarily bad, but it just seems like another footnote in story of Cal just simply not wanting football to dwarf the other sports when that just simply isn't realistic anymore.
But they care enough to go cry to UCLA with their hand out. Not sure if that's at the forefront of anything other than just being a whiny shitty AD.
 
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Yes, it is an existential crisis because the Cal Board I was talking about is the Board of Regents for the University of California which has campuses all over the state and which includes CaL Berkeley, UCLA, UC San Diego, UC Santa Barbara etc… that board had authorized a degree of independent action by the local schools never dreaming that UCLA would go rogue, causing a constitutional crisis for the Cal Board, state senators, blah Blah.
That is why the Cal Berkeley AD is whining like the cousin that didn’t get invited to the cotillion coming out party [they got this, we should get 1/2]. Typical UC school system disfunction that they are famous for.
 
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Went to the Cal gayme in 2016. I was excited to use the port-o-potty's they had on the east end of the stadium, instead of, you know, building actual facilities and bathrooms.
 
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