(02-06-2016 05:53 PM)moehler Wrote:  

(02-06-2016 03:14 PM)AppManDG Wrote:  

(02-06-2016 11:18 AM)ark30inf Wrote:  

(02-06-2016 11:08 AM)AppManDG Wrote:  If things go according to plan App will be enlarging their indoor facility in a year or two.

Any particular reason?

It's only 80 yards and not much wider than the actual field. The site was dug out until rock was hit. At the time it was as good or better than anything in FCS and a lot in FBS. Talk is the university is attempting to buy the old Watauga HS site. It has, albeit a little run down after 7 years of neglect, all the facilities App needs in one location. The bones are there, but major renovation and bringing up to collegiate specs is needed. The plan is to mover the softball field, track, soccer field, tennis courts and possibly weight room out there. Then expand the IPF over the site of the softball field which is adjacent to it. I would like to see the old football stadium converted into a practice facility and use KBS for game day. Most players live off campus these days and parking at KBS is tight.

AppmanDG, or any App fan who knows, whats going on with the high school site, I heard rumors last year that we had some land that the town wanted, and maybe we could use it to work out some kind of deal to get the high school, but that's the last I of heard anything.

From what I have been told there is interest on both sides. It's just sittin there and any hope the county had of a major retailer coming into the site has about vanished. App did the county a favor by selling them the site for the new HS. IMO we should have played hard ball and swapped properties. That's about the only thing that disappointed me during Ken Peacock's tenure. Interestingly enough Ken wanted to build a stadium on that site, but the cost of $75-85 million was a little too steep.