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Topic: Final Dollars for Multipurpose Center?

Topic: Final Dollars for Multipurpose Center?

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OUcats82
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Final Dollars for Multipurpose Center?

Posted: 3/20/2012 4:45:44 PM

I really hope that the recent surge of Bobcat fandom across the country will give the Athletic Department the final bump it needs to finance the remainder needed for the multipurpose center. I realize that football will stand to benefit the most but hopefully our hardwood success will generate some new and additional dollars to the department overall.

Looking at the giving percentage spike that I have seen for VCU after their recent run it could happen.

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RE: Final Dollars for Multipurpose Center?

Posted: 3/20/2012 4:52:03 PM

I hope it gets us the money we need to renovate the locker room and improve scheduling.

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RE: Final Dollars for Multipurpose Center?

Posted: 3/20/2012 9:08:15 PM

I just hope it makes more people buy tickets, visit Athens, tailgate, and travel to away games.

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RE: Final Dollars for Multipurpose Center?

Posted: 3/20/2012 11:21:31 PM

How about some bigger/more visible video boards?

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RE: Final Dollars for Multipurpose Center?

Posted: 3/21/2012 9:17:52 AM

Thus far, I agree with everything listed above my post. I really hope it leads to more alumni to come down for more basketball games.

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RE: Final Dollars for Multipurpose Center?

Posted: 3/21/2012 9:40:26 AM

I could care less about this run generating the final dollars for the multi-purpose facility, or for hanging scoreboards / video boards, improvements to the Convo, locker room renovations, etc. All I care about is that this run generates the funds to keep Coach Groce around for several more more seasons. As long as he's here, everything else will take care of itself. The multi-purpose center will get done no matter what. Maybe it won't have some additional bells and whistles we all want, but it will e completed.

However, the b-ball program will lose a ton of momentum if Groce walks out the door. Being able to extend him and give him some additional $$$ would mean way more to Ohio athletics than anything else right now. I'm not naive enough to think he'll be here 5 years from now because likely he'll get an opportunity he simply can't turn down. That being said, being able to keep Groce around for another year or two would generate all the funding we need for scheduling improvements, raises for assistants, locker room renovations, Convo renovations, scoreboards, and anything else you can think of.

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RE: Final Dollars for Multipurpose Center?

Posted: 3/21/2012 9:45:47 AM

OU didn't know wrote:

I could care less about this run generating the final dollars for the multi-purpose facility, or for hanging scoreboards / video boards, improvements to the Convo, locker room renovations, etc. All I care about is that this run generates the funds to keep Coach Groce around for several more more seasons. As long as he's here, everything else will take care of itself. The multi-purpose center will get done no matter what. Maybe it won't have some additional bells and whistles we all want, but it will e completed.

However, the b-ball program will lose a ton of momentum if Groce walks out the door. Being able to extend him and give him some additional $$$ would mean way more to Ohio athletics than anything else right now. I'm not naive enough to think he'll be here 5 years from now because likely he'll get an opportunity he simply can't turn down. That being said, being able to keep Groce around for another year or two would generate all the funding we need for scheduling improvements, raises for assistants, locker room renovations, Convo renovations, scoreboards, and anything else you can think of.

I agree keeping him is important for as long as we can, however it's naive to assume that he's here for the rest of his career. I also agree the longer he is here, the better the odds are that these things get done. It's sort of a snowball effect. These other things are lasting things, some of which are really needed, such as the multipurpose building and locker room improvements.

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