(03-20-2017 01:32 PM)EagleTough Wrote:  

(03-20-2017 12:25 PM)Ken Barna Wrote:  Dear EagleTough,
I agree. Did you see our friend at the Free Press, Mr. Jesse, report in his first paragraph how Dr. Lyke was leaving, and then go right back to the same old same old baloney about Eastern's struggling athletic department? I think the Detroit media has a vendetta against Eastern.

Haters gonna hate......

New AD just needs to get the Regents to sign off on this facilities project, keep momentum with full renderings.....and shovels in the ground ASAP thereafter, and keep the football program in bowl games, and eventually the MAC Championship hunt.

Piece of cake! Haha

BTW, I would be fascinated to know a timeline for this project.

Why I say this? Well, it sounds like MAJOR disruptions to football and track and field, for starters.

Things like losing the track inside Rynearson. Tearing down the existing football building. Other things like lights, scoreboard, etc. Upgraded lights part of the project. Obviously, the scoreboard is gone when the existing football building is demoed. The new scoreboard wouldn't be up until the new football building is completed.

Don't know if this is a project which would begin after the last home football game and need to be finished by the start of the football season. New T&F facilities would need to be up for the start of the outdoor T&F season.