Kolek planning to go pro
Are you telling me it is against the rules to throw in a few butlers instead of cash in their NIL?
Does anyone have info on the new facility? Are plans drafted and to be announced within a year, or is this more preliminary? How’s fund raising going? Courts, locker rooms, video room, study center, offices? Dorms?
All good questions. I’m curious as well. I thought the AL was one of our prized recruiting tools that has been updated regularly to keep it a state of the art practice facility. Now it’s going to be primarily womens basketball and volleyball only? No practice or offices for the mens bball team? Will they move the AL statue and name the current AL something else? Is this truly needed? I’m all for spending money if we have it but would rather have that Rec Center upgrade first. Future students and students who pay tuition already really care about that stuff.
As others have stated, the two full courts side by side is a big thing for the program. Not having that at the Al is a negative in recruiting. I believe at least 6 other Big East programs have that.
the Rec Center is being upgraded beginning in the fall semester. Sadly it's staying in the same point bc some anonymous Bus Ad donor held MU over a barrel and insisted they tear up their master campus plan and put the Bus Ad building on the McCormick site. Having a new rec center there instead and adjacent to the AMU (as planned) would have served students so much better.
Kind of a strange thing for a donor to be concerned about.
If you are going to pony up millions of $ wouldn't you want the building on 16th and Wisconsin versus 16th and Clybourn? As for the rec center, I don't see a big deal of moving the entrance to the facility a half-a-block. The biggest issue was they needed an updated facility to compete for students.
No, I would not expect the University to alter its campus master plan for my sake.
TAMUI do know, Newsie is right on you knowing ball.
MU made its choice - take the money and run. Hence, a new mast plan is born. Beggars can't be choosers all the time.
My understanding is things fell through with that donor, but the plan was then updated to go with the location on 16th and Wisconsin.
I was on UK's campus in Lexington last year and their rec facility is attached to the Union and has huge windows facing the street. Drivers passing by seeing a state of the art work out facility with activity 18 hours / day vs the drab brown brick we've ended up with at the new Bus Ad building. Also, the plan was Bus Ad would be attached to engineering for an innovation alley. That's now gone too.
Yep. Rec center facilities are a huge deal in attracting tuition paying students. I hope that do the renovation well. This would not be a time to skimp.
one of the main attractions rec centers need to have based on student input is a rock climbing wall. I was part of a planning committee for a university's new rec center and there was significantly more student support for a climbing wall than there was for a pool...so we scrapped the pool. Is MU going to do a teardown and rebuild or a gut renovation of the Rec Center?
They are "reimaging" the facility. (IOW a big renovation)https://www.marquette.edu/wellness-and-recreation/index.htmlThey will still have a pool.
It's a Scoop hallmark of a few members that they keep misunderstanding the same stuff no matter how often it's explained.