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here goes:

https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2021/03/29/v...athletics/

https://southeastern14.com/football/vand...es-to-come

nice to have beer/other options at Vandy Stadium Saturday night.  we should beer garden one end of our stadium (and make it a Red Coat free zone).  it definitely enhances fan experience to the point you don't mind year 11 of clock mismanagement.

Curious what the clock mismanagement you are referring to?  Shaw stole us three points by calling a time out after the Vandy second down play and getting the ball back at the end of the half for a field goal attempt as the clock expired.  I only counted one time out on offense, but I don't think it was because the clock expired; it was taken with 9 seconds on the game clock.  I guess we did have a delay of game on a field goal attempt.  Is that what drove you to hit the beer garden?

BC

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Didn't Memorial stadium cost $321 million to renovate in 2011?  Throw in a $153 million Student-Athlete High Performance Center, and Vandy's outlays look cheap.  That albatross didn't buy Cal much in terms of the arms race, though to be fair, the old stadium was a seismic hazard so they didn't have much of a choice.

By way of comparison, renovating Stanford stadium cost $85 million (but came with the Arillaga discount).  Renovating Maples cost $26 million.  Bob can probably tell you about the other Sports-related construction projects in the last 20 years (renovating the Field House, the Arillaga practice facility), but I doubt they get to $300 million in total.

BC

[BostonCard]

here goes:

https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2021/03/29/v...athletics/

https://southeastern14.com/football/vand...es-to-come

nice to have beer/other options at Vandy Stadium Saturday night.  we should beer garden one end of our stadium (and make it a Red Coat free zone).  it definitely enhances fan experience to the point you don't mind year 11 of clock mismanagement.

Curious what the clock mismanagement you are referring to?  Shaw stole us three points by calling a time out after the Vandy second down play and getting the ball back at the end of the half for a field goal attempt as the clock expired.  I only counted one time out on offense, but I don't think it was because the clock expired; it was taken with 9 seconds on the game clock.  I guess we did have a delay of game on a field goal attempt.  Is that what drove you to hit the beer garden?

BC

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Didn't Memorial stadium cost $321 million to renovate in 2011?  Throw in a $153 million Student-Athlete High Performance Center, and Vandy's outlays look cheap.  That albatross didn't buy Cal much in terms of the arms race, though to be fair, the old stadium was a seismic hazard so they didn't have much of a choice.

By way of comparison, renovating Stanford stadium cost $85 million (but came with the Arillaga discount).  Renovating Maples cost $26 million.  Bob can probably tell you about the other Sports-related construction projects in the last 20 years (renovating the Field House, the Arillaga practice facility), but I doubt they get to $300 million in total.

BC