[gailtate]

I mean, on the one hand, it is awesome.  On the other hand, this is not a trend I think Stanford wants to be a part of, and I think there is probably a straight line between facilities like this being the price of entry into elite Div I athletics and a backlash against making these expenditures at Stanford.  The line "we are not Nebraska" may have been somewhat silly at the time, but was probably prescient.  We are not Oregon, and I don't think we should be.

BC

OK, so if "We're not Oregon", with its "Insane new track and field" facility, why do we blithely charge insane premiums for seat licenses and push all the other affectations associated with the "blue-blood" $ports $chools -- those proverbial Nebraskas, et. al., we so vehemently deny that we are?

[gailtate]

I mean, on the one hand, it is awesome.  On the other hand, this is not a trend I think Stanford wants to be a part of, and I think there is probably a straight line between facilities like this being the price of entry into elite Div I athletics and a backlash against making these expenditures at Stanford.  The line "we are not Nebraska" may have been somewhat silly at the time, but was probably prescient.  We are not Oregon, and I don't think we should be.

BC

OK, so if "We're not Oregon", with its "Insane new track and field" facility, why do we blithely charge insane premiums for seat licenses and push all the other affectations associated with the "blue-blood" $ports $chools -- those proverbial Nebraskas, et. al., we so vehemently deny that we are?