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Re: Athletic Facility Masterplan
By: Chairman of the Board Date: May 20, 2015, 7:22 pm
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[quote]ATHLETICS UNVEILS NEW $100 MILLION FIVE YEAR PLAN
We have seen the future of Seawolves Athletics, and boy is it
shiny.
Renderings of an expanded 20,000 seat LaValle Stadium and
accompanying field house emerged this week, highlighting the
direction that Shawn Heilbron, now entering his second year as
Athletics Director, intends to steer the program.
“This is what the future looks like,” said Heilbron at the
inaugural event of Seawolves United, a new athletics fundraising
initiative. “The arena, Island Federal Credit Union Arena, is an
example of what big time college athletics looks like. This
indoor practice facility is what big time college athletics
looks like.”
The proposed field house would cost somewhere in the
neighborhood of $12 million to $16 million, money that Athletics
is hoping to raise quickly through private donations. All told,
Seawolves United wants to raise $100 million within five years
to finance the major facilities upgrades, and according to
Heilbron, the hope is to break ground on the field house as soon
as next summer.
Coach Priore stressed the importance of the indoor facility to
his program.
“When you go on campus on recruiting visit, unfortunately young
adults want to see things that they think they’re going to
utilize all the time. When you have an indoor facility like
that, where you can walk them in, that the Univeristy of
Delaware has, we lose a recruit when we don’t have that
opportunity.”
From his very first day on campus last summer, Heilbron has
stressed the importance of football to the athletics department
and the entire university. Men’s and women’s basketball may be
more successful and lacrosse may be Long Island’s biggest
export, but football remains the largest draw for fans and, more
importantly to the athletics department, donors.
“For us to get to where we want to go, as a big time university,
not just the athletics department, football has to be big time,”
said Heilbron.
The stadium expansion will likely be incremental, first adding
seats near the scoreboard, then building out the rest of the
bowl to raise the official capacity to 20,000, big enough to
meet the BCS’ capacity requirements. Funding for the intial
expansion had initially been allocated in the New York State
budget, but it was ultimately vetoed by Governor Cuomo.
Heilbron also alluded to other, smaller (and cheaper) changes
that fans will begin to notice this fall. Perhaps the most
notable will be the introduction of Seawolves Town, a designated
tailgating area in the La Valle Stadium parking lot where fans
can set up tents and grills before home games.
Monday’s event wasn’t all about football. Men’s basketball Head
Coach Steve Pikiell and Women’s basketball Head Coach Caroline
McCombs were also on hand to schmooze with the dozens of
supporters and alumni in attendance and answer questions, and
Heilbron was quick to remind everyone that his goals for
athletics include far more than just success on the gridiron.
“One of the goals of our plan is, we want to go to the
postseason in five sports a year,” he said. And our goal is to
advance beyond the first round in each of those.” Another goal:
to bring home at least one national team title within the next
five years.
“We’re going to do it,” he said through a knowing smile.
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Re: Athletic Facility Masterplan
By: Chairman of the Board Date: May 20, 2015, 7:23 pm
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btw has anyone heard of brook.land before??? how is it thats its
been open for over a year and no one's posted a link nor heard
of this site???
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Re: Athletic Facility Masterplan
By: Seawolf97 Date: May 20, 2015, 8:30 pm
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I was at Danfords also last night and I had a great time .
I think the whole plan is to make us to look very good to an
FBS Conference. Our AD in his talk said he is very happy
staying in the CAA and AE for a longtime but in his next breath
mentioned if the ACC comes a calling we go. These facilities
and spending a 100 million are not for a CAA Team or AE team .
This is big time money to make us look attractive to a major
conference for FBS football which is now King . Is it doable?
I think it is remember he managed the Wooden Foundation at UCLA
which is their mainstay for UCLA athletics. so why not us .
The next 5 years should be very interesting and nothing should
surprise us in a positive sense. We have to give him credit
for being bold this is a major change in direction .
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Re: Athletic Facility Masterplan
By: sbufan Date: May 20, 2015, 9:13 pm
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[quote author=Seawolf97 link=topic=109.msg13404#msg13404
date=1432171821]
I was at Danfords also last night and I had a great time .
I think the whole plan is to make us to look very good to an
FBS Conference. Our AD in his talk said he is very happy
staying in the CAA and AE for a longtime but in his next breath
mentioned if the ACC comes a calling we go. These facilities
and spending a 100 million are not for a CAA Team or AE team .
This is big time money to make us look attractive to a major
conference for FBS football which is now King . Is it doable?
I think it is remember he managed the Wooden Foundation at UCLA
which is their mainstay for UCLA athletics. so why not us .
The next 5 years should be very interesting and nothing should
surprise us in a positive sense. We have to give him credit
for being bold this is a major change in direction .
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Thanks, 97. It's exciting times.
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Re: Athletic Facility Masterplan
By: sbufan Date: May 20, 2015, 10:03 pm
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[quote author=Chairman of the Board
link=topic=109.msg13402#msg13402 date=1432167792]
btw has anyone heard of brook.land before??? how is it thats its
been open for over a year and no one's posted a link nor heard
of this site???
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I think it was called What's a Seawolf (or I'm a Seawolf), but
recently changed names to Brook.Land and rebranded. Either way
Adam Peck is doing a terrific job with it.
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Re: Athletic Facility Masterplan
By: Chairman of the Board Date: May 21, 2015, 8:05 am
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oh ok yes good thanks.
also, here's a problem we've been talking about that confronts
heilbron's ambitious plan- yes we have a student body of 20k,
half of which lives on campus.
but the larger problem is that football games happen (mostly) on
weekends.
anyone want to guess what % stay on campus for the weekend?
suddenly, then, it becomes much more difficult to fill 20k
seats. or even 8216.
unless we are planning on more of the local community coming?
queue up the traffic issues, but quadruple them.
same discussion on same problem here:
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Re: Athletic Facility Masterplan
By: sbugold Date: May 21, 2015, 11:42 am
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Assuming that the goal of putting nearly 20,000 in the seats for
the majority of games ( a real stretch, I think), there's one
additional issue that must be addressed, which is conspicuous by
its absence in the plan--PARKING!!!.
It seems to me that a reasonable portion of either the Gym Rd.
lot or stadium lot would have to be converted into a stacked
garage-type facility, don't you think?
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Re: Athletic Facility Masterplan
By: Chairman of the Board Date: May 21, 2015, 2:16 pm
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yeah its a good point too.
again if you have 75% of seats go to students, likely not a
problem. its not like people are taking the train en masse.
I truly hope that Heilbron is reading this! but I also know
that there is no way they've omitted these issues. i'd just
love to hear how they are going to fill it.
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Re: Athletic Facility Masterplan
By: sbufan Date: May 21, 2015, 2:39 pm
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I would think a decent portion of the proposed funding is for
these infrastructure improvements to make getting to and leaving
a 20k person event possible. 80 million dollars seems like too
much to just be adding 12k seats to Lavalle. On twitter they've
announced that a new website will up soon
(
HTML http://www.seawolvesunited.com/)
for proposed 5 year plan.
Hopefully some of the details will be better laid out there. I'm
sure Heilbron and the department are aware of these issues.
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Re: Athletic Facility Masterplan
By: Seawolf97 Date: May 21, 2015, 4:09 pm
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The student issue was discussed Tuesday night with no real
solution . Our Admin is aware of the problem and also of the
weather issue as games go into November and the temps drop or
snow happens. They are working hard to rally the students and
the local communities to fill those 20k seats they plan. This
to me is critical since there is nothing worse than an empty
stadium on game day . I'm sure they are open to any ideas. We
will have a new tailgating area in front of the stadium so that
might help. But attendance is critical if this is to work
especially late in the season when we play our CAA home games.
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