10-21-2012, 11:10 AM
Here's the reality most California fans and alums won't admit or realize.
CMS should have been razed, a new sports training facility constructed, and the California football team should have leased the Oakland Coliseum and played its games there.Â
Given how little California's alums and administrators are committed to a winning football program, The University of California does not need or deserve an on campus facility, and certainly not one that costs over $300 million and is built on an earthquake fault. Look at it now. You have a half-renovated stadium, the financing plan to pay for the first half was DOA (poorly conceived and based on fantasy projections), and now it is anyone's guess as to when the other side gets its face lift. And oh, by the way, California tax payers are on the hook for the reckless spending orgy to build an incomplete stadium.
The reality is California football's brand is perfectly embodied by the debacle that is the CMS renovation. Or is it the other way around?
CMS should have been razed, a new sports training facility constructed, and the California football team should have leased the Oakland Coliseum and played its games there.Â
Given how little California's alums and administrators are committed to a winning football program, The University of California does not need or deserve an on campus facility, and certainly not one that costs over $300 million and is built on an earthquake fault. Look at it now. You have a half-renovated stadium, the financing plan to pay for the first half was DOA (poorly conceived and based on fantasy projections), and now it is anyone's guess as to when the other side gets its face lift. And oh, by the way, California tax payers are on the hook for the reckless spending orgy to build an incomplete stadium.
The reality is California football's brand is perfectly embodied by the debacle that is the CMS renovation. Or is it the other way around?