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When the new football operations building have groundbreaking? The sign is already fading on the fence. No update I have heard lately. It's 2016...

They have not selected a design team. I anticipate it to be done within the next two weeks.

The next step will be a budget and a schedule. Then after that we will know when the drawings will be complete. When the project will start. When will it be complete. You can have a ground breaking and not start work for years so to speak. Groundbreakings mean nothing and are a dog an pony show.

I'm sure they will have one for a media show but my questions are listed above.

I still remember the ground breaking on the dome stadium.

Will they serve beer there?

(01-06-2016 01:36 PM)Memphis Blazer Wrote:  Will they serve beer there?

I don't think coach Clark will allow that. I heard you can bring your own though.

No beer sales.

Will there be free parking or parking meters?

What's the policy on throwing socks in the new facility?



Some of you will get this.

(01-06-2016 01:01 PM)dragonbreath Wrote:  When the new football operations building have groundbreaking? The sign is already fading on the fence. No update I have heard lately. It's 2016...

I expect a groundbreaking in mid to late spring. I'd guess construction will begin sometime between April and August, depending on how fast the process goes.

(01-06-2016 01:29 PM)ATTALLABLAZE Wrote:  They have not selected a design team. I anticipate it to be done within the next two weeks.

The next step will be a budget and a schedule. Then after that we will know when the drawings will be complete. When the project will start. When will it be complete. You can have a ground breaking and not start work for years so to speak. Groundbreakings mean nothing and are a dog an pony show.

I'm sure they will have one for a media show but my questions are listed above.

I still remember the ground breaking on the dome stadium.

All those steps could mean not getting any new building until sometime in the next decade. Can UAB afford to take such time when we are raising money from people who want to see something important built more quickly? It seems, to me anyways, that we are looking to originally build the world's first Football Operations Building, something no one has ever done before.

(01-06-2016 01:46 PM)blazers9911 Wrote:  

(01-06-2016 01:36 PM)Memphis Blazer Wrote:  Will they serve beer there?

I don't think coach Clark will allow that. I heard you can bring your own though.

A hip flask or half pint is pretty easy to bring in with you. I imagine they'll be selling Pepsi.

(01-06-2016 02:39 PM)BAMANBLAZERFAN Wrote:  

(01-06-2016 01:29 PM)ATTALLABLAZE Wrote:  They have not selected a design team. I anticipate it to be done within the next two weeks.

The next step will be a budget and a schedule. Then after that we will know when the drawings will be complete. When the project will start. When will it be complete. You can have a ground breaking and not start work for years so to speak. Groundbreakings mean nothing and are a dog an pony show.

I'm sure they will have one for a media show but my questions are listed above.

I still remember the ground breaking on the dome stadium.

All those steps could mean not getting any new building until sometime in the next decade. Can UAB afford to take such time when we are raising money from people who want to see something important built more quickly? It seems, to me anyways, that we are looking to originally build the world's first Football Operations Building, something no one has ever done before.

All those steps are required before anything is built anywhere. The number "steps" are too numerous to mention. I just don't have two days to jot them down.

They can't break ground before the board approves the project, which hasn't happened yet. They can combine/accelerate it, but usually construction projects go before the board for 2 or 3 stages before ground is broken (have to approve the project conceptually--might have already happened, then approve a contractor, approve contracts, etc)

Hurry up and wait

I tried telling everyone a couple months ago to be patient. It will take some time. That said it will happen and it will happen in Clark's time frame he wants.

I am OK with "patience" meaning 2016 to 2017 to begin to build. My concern is with "patience" that means 2021 to 2024. I am not sure even FBHC Clark is willing to wait for that to happen.

(01-06-2016 02:39 PM)BAMANBLAZERFAN Wrote:  

(01-06-2016 01:29 PM)ATTALLABLAZE Wrote:  They have not selected a design team. I anticipate it to be done within the next two weeks.

The next step will be a budget and a schedule. Then after that we will know when the drawings will be complete. When the project will start. When will it be complete. You can have a ground breaking and not start work for years so to speak. Groundbreakings mean nothing and are a dog an pony show.

I'm sure they will have one for a media show but my questions are listed above.

I still remember the ground breaking on the dome stadium.

All those steps could mean not getting any new building until sometime in the next decade. Can UAB afford to take such time when we are raising money from people who want to see something important built more quickly? It seems, to me anyways, that we are looking to originally build the world's first Football Operations Building, something no one has ever done before.

Which of those steps do you think we should skip?

Hiring a design team.

where will we have fall practice once construction starts

On the practice field. The FOB will be in a lot next to it.

(01-06-2016 05:29 PM)BAMANBLAZERFAN Wrote:  I am OK with "patience" meaning 2016 to 2017 to begin to build. My concern is with "patience" that means 2021 to 2024. I am not sure even FBHC Clark is willing to wait for that to happen.

It is not going to take ten years to design and build the thing. Good grief, we're talking about something the size of a walmart and a football stadium, for which dozens of ready-made designs are ready to go with numerous architecture firms. it won't take a decade to plan and build anything.