JPN06 said:bigfoot10s said:
You say that's not how A&M does things, yet we were in an agreement with the City of Bryan to get partial use of a half-a$$ indoor multi purpose public facility for a measly price of $675k a year for facility NOT ON CAMPUS that wasn't even ours.
1. A&M does not build trash on campus. Let's not get into an argument about aesthetics, but at least we can agree that all of the new buildings lately have been high-quality. I don't want to call Baylor's indoor trash because it's very decent and useable and hey at least they have one, but if we built on campus I think we would build something nicer. So I'm with you that it would probably be more like $20M.
2. Aggie Athletics job is to make money. $675K per year and Trev will be long gone before you get to anywhere near 20M. From a business point of view, he looks a lot better to the masses that don't give a f about tennis if he spends 675 (nothing to A&M) per year as opposed to 20M, which is a game-changing amount to most sports.
So don't get it twisted, I'm not sticking up for the "Aggie way". But I think what I said above is accurate, don't you?
I don't disagree with what you said at all. I just hate that we have left space for indoors behind Mitchell, yet there has been zero push to fill it.
Last number I heard a year or two ago was $17mil I believe for an indoor facility where we want it built. It was gonna be really nice too.
If I recall correctly the $675k was annually for 30 years. The 20mil that could have been added to the Centennial campaign could have been donations, so no cost to A&M. It just feels like they aren't even trying. That's my gripe.
IMO, the city of Bryan agreement was a disaster waiting to happen and a huge waste of money. I'm glad we dumped it, even though it would have somewhat solved the problem.