I would expect the stadium cost to be in $150-200m range. When we built our basketball arena it cost $107 million in the 1990's.

The cost will be higher because Utilities will have to be moved. The demolition and foundation work will be extensive to fit it in this original American city. There is a subway line in the way and the ability to close roads will be next to impossible. There will be required payments to civic groups for their support as well. There is no way they will let us build the stadium overtop of power, data, water, sewer. I would guess further we would be hit up for upgrades to all these systems to service the facility. Add in union wages and its going to be an ROI with negative return to the highest imaginable level.

That said I personally think its not a cost issue, simply put will Temple be in a better situation then it is today 5, 10 and 20 years from now. IF you can answer yes with a level of confidence it needs to be looked at like a library and you get it built.

I am not confident it will. I would rather see a join venture with the eagles where we get signage on 1-95 that sates home of the Philadelphia Eagles and Temple owls, including a Temple pro shop inside, Temple flags around the stadium, and you create a home field feel. This could all be done for pennies on the dollar and you spend the extra 150 million on the program training and promotion and continue to grow the brand with free advertisement especially every Sunday. Hell pay for naming rights and name it Temple University- Fox school of business Stadium.

This is unique as Temples' campus should be all of Philadelphia.

(06-19-2015 06:59 AM)HarmonOliphantOberlanderDevine Wrote:  

(06-18-2015 10:45 PM)oldtiger Wrote:  

(06-18-2015 03:09 PM)HarmonOliphantOberlanderDevine Wrote:  

(06-15-2015 12:18 AM)BigHouston Wrote:  

(06-14-2015 11:37 PM)oldtiger Wrote:  Most southerners can't relate to how influential unions are and how costly the associated red tape that accompanies them is in strong union eastern cities, Philadelphia especially. You have to spend some time in the city to understand how expensive it can be.

Several months ago, one Temple fan took some time to outline why the construction process was so expensive and if that was you, perhaps it would be helpful to do so again.

Every program has it's own challenges or we would all be in the B10, SEC, etc. Folks just have do deal with the reality that none of us have Oregon, Texas, Michigan, Alabama, Ohio State, or LSU type resources. All of us do the best we can with our annual budgets and capital investments.

C'mon now, let's not get carried away

Many of those teams/programs were force down (TV) everyone's throat's and it's how they became popular, unlike others who were politically beating while left for dead, Houston for example.

Now if the AAC is fed down everyone's throats... ... ... ... Results by now would be impressive.

To be fair, all of those teams mentioned, with the exception of Oregon, were immensely successful before the rise of TV. They built a product that TV wanted, not a product built by TV.

Agreed. Oregon is the lone wolf of that group that money/TV/hype built. Nike told us to like those garish uniforms and some folks actually did. :)

Seriously, the others were built over decades of hard nosed, knock your helmet off and run over you type football.

Precisely.

According to my Alabama friend, I am the biggest underdog, G5 supporter he knows, but one sentiment I grew weary of is the tearing down of successful P5 teams. Some of those teams received their benefits from years of hard work and struggle. Are there P5 leeches sucking on the same body for generations without contributing to the overall cause? Absolutely, but some G5 fans act as if the P5 were given every advantage because of a name and they weren't. Ohio State started like every other Ohio school in football. They decided to build off Chic Harley's draw. That should be commended.

lol... I'm pretty sure I was not born last night, lol.

I'm well aware which programs did more for themselves, my dislike is directly at those wannabe so called power (lol) programs. lol again.

Anyone can slice it anyway they so fit, but many in this lueague can do a lot more if given the massive resources as those in the so called p5 conferences, but I guess we will never know b/c in their eyes they're no more $25 mil bring to the table worth programs.