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Props to WYoming, UNM, and now CSU

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Just got done looking at CSU's plans for the new indoor facility and it looks nice. Wyoming's is impressive as well.

It would be cool if we could get a fan from each team to post a link to show off their football facilities since I am too lazy to go to each of your teams' websites to look at them myself.

Here is a link to BYU's: (they are still the biggest and best, BTW)

Student Athlete Center

Indoor Practice Facility

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Just got done looking at CSU's plans for the new indoor facility and it looks nice. Wyoming's is impressive as well.

It would be cool if we could get a fan from each team to post a link to show off their football facilities since I am too lazy to go to each of your teams' websites to look at them myself.

Here is a link to BYU's: (they are still the biggest and best, BTW)

Student Athlete Building

Indoor Practice Facility

It's good for the conference to have these facilities.

Now all schools will have them and it's good coaches and winning that will sway recruits to one school or another.

Saying "our IPF is better than yours" is an absolute joke. Everyone in the league will now have modern facility.

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I can't seem to find pictures of the thing completed, but here is a photo album of the construction of the IPF.

http://wyomingathletics.cstv.com/genrel/040307aaa.html

Here is some info on the RAC (Rochelle Athletics Center).

http://wyomingathletics.cstv.com/genrel/rac.html

I know that Junky could come up with more links to the new sound system / scoreboard at the WAR, renovations, etc.

"They're a bunch of jealous little dicks who use the anonymity of the internet to insult people who're doing what they wish they were doing." ~ Holden McNeil

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CSU's new facilities can be seen at this link:

http://www.colostate.edu/athleticscampaign/

The real long term benefit of these improvements league wide in my opinion goes way beyond just bringing in better athletes and having a pissing contest over who has the best IPF. The BC$'s days are numbered evidenced by dissatisfaction with the system among fans and coaches (both BC$ and non-BC$). When this system finally dies it will be replaced by yet another system that attempts to seperate the haves from the have nots. With these types of facilities and hopefully better OOC performance along with some success at getting more butts into seats, the MWC will be positioned to make an argument to be among the "haves" in the next flawed version of the BC$. A very strong argument. With the population growth in our footprint, a national TV network, and a strong showing in the areas mentioned above the MWC cannot be ignored at the grown up table any longer. CSU's commitment to facilities, while long overdue and yet to be paid for, simply finishes one stage of the conferences commitment to becoming a big time athletic conference.

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Here's the latest. It's from an interview with the AD from yesterday. The construction on War Memorial Stadium will start in 10 months but won't be finished until 2010, due to the high demand for construction firms all over the state of Wyoming. According to Tom it's a very costly project. The plans are finished but aren't available to the public yet, but will be soon.

He talks about the Wyoming facilities improvements and Texas game in detail at the following link....

http://www.kfbcradio.com/sportszone_page.php

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I can't seem to find pictures of the thing completed, but here is a photo album of the construction of the IPF.

http://wyomingathletics.cstv.com/genrel/040307aaa.html

Here is some info on the RAC (Rochelle Athletics Center).

http://wyomingathletics.cstv.com/genrel/rac.html

I know that Junky could come up with more links to the new sound system / scoreboard at the WAR, renovations, etc.

The link I had to the Sound System/Scoreboard project isn't on the facilities planning page anymore. Basically, it stated that they were taking bids for the project and that it would be finished this summer. It will be nice to have a good sound system and a new scoreboard. Sometimes the old one was hard to read. The sound system sounded like an eight track player in a 1970's conversion van.

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I don't think this is so much a pissing contest as it is good recognition that the MWC schools are stepping up. College football is in a arms race, and we all must put out in order to keep up. Nice work, MWC.

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CSU's new facilities can be seen at this link:

http://www.colostate.edu/athleticscampaign/

The real long term benefit of these improvements league wide in my opinion goes way beyond just bringing in better athletes and having a pissing contest over who has the best IPF. The BC$'s days are numbered evidenced by dissatisfaction with the system among fans and coaches (both BC$ and non-BC$). When this system finally dies it will be replaced by yet another system that attempts to seperate the haves from the have nots. With these types of facilities and hopefully better OOC performance along with some success at getting more butts into seats, the MWC will be positioned to make an argument to be among the "haves" in the next flawed version of the BC$. A very strong argument. With the population growth in our footprint, a national TV network, and a strong showing in the areas mentioned above the MWC cannot be ignored at the grown up table any longer. CSU's commitment to facilities, while long overdue and yet to be paid for, simply finishes one stage of the conferences commitment to becoming a big time athletic conference.

Well said. The MWC needs to be positioning itself for any potential change in the system and it pleases me that our conference is doing just that.

GO RAMS!!!

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The UNM IPF is a metal sleleton covered with some sort of synthetic material. The material is somewhat transluscent so that it lets in sunlight as well. We didn't need a brick and mortar facility because it just doesn't get that cold or stormy in NM to justify it. It was the best and cheapest option.

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