OT- Ga. St fires coach, buys Turner Field for 23 Million

[Abro1975]

That's a busy week or 2 for Georgia ST ! Their fired coach Trent Miles, took Ga St to the Cure Bowl last season.

http://www.espn.com/college-footbal...te-panthers-purchase-turner-field-228-million

http://www.si.com/college-football/2016/11/12/georgia-state-panthers-trent-miles-fired

 

[AreYouNUTS]

Smart move. An 80% empty Georgia Dome looks stupid when they play there.

 

[rubaseball78]

Off topic here, but speaking of schools and stadiums, can you name the college with a football stadium but no football team?

 

[Ataylor1989x]

Off topic here, but speaking of schools and stadiums, can you name the college with a football stadium but no football team?

I was thinking UChicago, but they do have a D3 team. Boston U. canceled football....are you thinking of Arizona Cardinals stadium?

 

[BigBlockR]

Univ of Phoenix

 

[sherrane]

Smart move. An 80% empty Georgia Dome looks stupid when they play there.

This is the last year of the Georgia Dome and the rent at the new stadium was pricey.

 

[AreYouNUTS]

This is the last year of the Georgia Dome and the rent at the new stadium was pricey.

Gotcha, but my point stands, no need for them to play in a place that big drawing 10K/game.

 

[rubaseball78]

Univ of Phoenix

Correct.

 

[BoroKnight]

Point of order: University of Phoenix bought naming rights to a stadium; they don't "have" one. :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

 

[Bones131]

Off topic here, but speaking of schools and stadiums, can you name the college with a football stadium but no football team?

What about University of the Pacific?

EDIT: Their stadium was demolished in 2014.

 

[RUnTeX]

Correct.

Technically incorrect....as BoroKnight posted, it is not a situation of a univ or college with a football stadium but no football team to play in it. The Univ of Phoenix is a for-profit educational institution and bought naming rights (any other corporation) in order to advertise their name on a stadium. .

 

[rubaseball78]

Technically incorrect....as BoroKnight posted, it is not a situation of a univ or college with a football stadium but no football team to play in it. The Univ of Phoenix is a for-profit educational institution and bought naming rights (any other corporation) in order to advertise their name on a stadium. .

You guys are total jerks sometimes. Can't even have some lighthearted fun without someone jumping all over you. I just happened to be watching recent Cards game and just thought it interesting they played in Univ of Phoenix football stadium and the college was an online school with no team. Forgive me for my ignorance.

 

[chase07470]

Atlanta goes through stadiums quickly. Shea Stadium went from 1961-2012 or whatever. Giants stadium and the new, now old Yankees Stadium were built in '75 or so and lasted until 2012ish...Turner field, 1996-2016 and the Dome was built a few years before Turner Field.

What's wrong with those people? You ave to get more than 20 years out of a billion dollar stadium project...and why did Georgia State pay $23 million? The Braves would have had to pay $2 million just to knock it down and haul it away and the land can't be worth too much more than that...no one else in the market for a baseball stadium down there.

 

[sherrane]

Atlanta goes through stadiums quickly. Shea Stadium went from 1961-2012 or whatever. Giants stadium and the new, now old Yankees Stadium were built in '75 or so and lasted until 2012ish...Turner field, 1996-2016 and the Dome was built a few years before Turner Field.

What's wrong with those people? You ave to get more than 20 years out of a billion dollar stadium project...and why did Georgia State pay $23 million? The Braves would have had to pay $2 million just to knock it down and haul it away and the land can't be worth too much more than that...no one else in the market for a baseball stadium down there.

Absolutely. The people of Atlanta are fighting back. The deal for the Braves new stadium in Cobb County was a shady one. The Cobb County Commission held meetings for the stadium in the hallways instead of conference rooms to avoid being on the record and subject to FOIA requests. The Chairman Tim Lee, the man who "made it happen", was soundly defeated in his (runoff) primary. Cobb is a red county in a red state. In my district, a two candidate race means an election between a Republican and Libertarian and many Republicans run unopposed. This year, Clinton won Cobb County while Libertarian Gary Johnson earned 4.5% of the vote (he got 3.1% statewide in Georgia). I've lived in this county for 21 years and Clinton was the first Democrat to win anything here.

Arthur Blank wanted Atlanta / Fulton Country / Georgia to supply 50% of the financing toward his new billion dollar stadium. There were many protests. He ended up getting $200 million, which is the same amount the government spent for the Georgia Dome. This is the reason why Georgia State ended up buying Turner Field. When the Georgia World Congress Center owned / operated the Georgia Dome, rent for Georgia State was reasonable. That changed now that Blank had to finance the bulk of the stadium.

 

[Abro1975]

".and why did Georgia State pay $23 million"

The underlying real estate value?

 

[Scarlet_Scourge]

Univ of Phoenix doesn't have a stadium, they just brought naming rights like High Point Solutions did.

Yes, it is weird for a school to do that but they are a for profit on-line school, so it is more of a business than a school.

 

[RUfinal4]

Hofstra has a football stadium but no team.

Good move for Ga St. The article said their campus is 1 mile from Turner field. I guess they are a mile form the Ga Dome too. Having an on campus facility that they have control over is good for them. They can also use it for Track, soccer, graduation, and other campus events.

Interesting enough Georgia Tech is only about 2 miles from Ga St. Do they have rivalries in non-revenue sports? (ie. baseball, softball, soccer, volleyball, tennis, etc...)

 

[RU76]

UConn. Stadium. No team.

 

[Scarlet16E]

".and why did Georgia State pay $23 million"

The underlying real estate value?

Interesting line from the article:
"The school plans to fund the project with proceeds from its bookstore, parking operations, housing and other sources, as well as private fundraising. Officials said no taxpayer dollars or new student fees would be used"

Clever way of pretending it's not coming from the University General Fund (i.e. "subsidy").
Rutgers are you paying attention? That's how it's done.

 

[ScarletDave]

UConn. Stadium. No team.

On the contrary, a team, but no stadium. That's part of why they were left out of B1G ;)