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Post by twandswr1 on Jun 17, 2021 10:27:55 GMT -5
Apparently A New Scoreboard will be installed for next season and from what I heard a new halo. The price that was quoted for a new turf playing surface is 1 Million. Anyone know several big donors?
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Post by FLCATAMOUNT on Jun 17, 2021 10:55:11 GMT -5
Apparently A New Scoreboard will be installed for next season and from what I heard a new halo. The price that was quoted for a new turf playing surface is 1 Million. Anyone know several big donors? With the many capital improvement needs for Western Carolina, we need to tally them all up and issue state backed municipal bonds like every other public university in NC does to pay for facility improvements. Conservatively, I would say that we need around $60 to $80 million to start and we do NOT have the alumni or corporate giving base to raise that kind of cash but we can borrow the money by issuing NC backed municipal bonds and pay for it over the next 20 to 30 years. That is how UNCC paid for its football stadium and how App paid for their football stadium expansion. They did not have “big donors” step up to front them the money. Schools like Duke or Carolina can raise that kind of cash but 95 percent of regional universities issue bonds and we will eventually do that if we ever expect to have any upgraded facilities. Not going to happen if you wait for the so called big donors because we just don’t have that many of them. We have been waiting on those big donors for over 30 years. That is why there is not a capital improvement campaign for athletics and the leadership knows this.
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Post by TheRobinsonsDad on Jun 17, 2021 15:27:43 GMT -5
I've been with the baseball program now for 7 years and have talked with previous parents too. The baseball field is below par to say the least. I've seen as good high school fields when my boys were in travel ball. The baseball field and program has had zero changes while I've been there and even before. They deserve to have better. They have performed over the years with the least amount of upgrades. Zero amount of upgrades that is. They should have a locker room at the field and the field, fences, seating area, and scoreboard ALL need to be upgraded to this century. I LOVE WCU and I loved my experience there over the 7 years. Was everything perfect NO. Nowhere is but Coach Mo and all other coaches have loved and made all 3 boys of mine better players. Give them the facility that program, in my opinion and of many of former and present parents, deserve. Quit shafting them guys. They have earned it and deserve it.
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Post by wcu32 on Jun 21, 2021 5:02:16 GMT -5
Apparently A New Scoreboard will be installed for next season and from what I heard a new halo. The price that was quoted for a new turf playing surface is 1 Million. Anyone know several big donors? About time we got new scoreboard. That thing is about as old as me. Well not that old but still from around 1990 or so. The only upgrade we had while I was there from 96-00 was that turf behind plate. As I’m sure everyone knows but I’ll tell if people don’t we had roughly $1m donated to build the clubhouse and other upgrades in 99 that would have been done for my senior year but the school in end turned it down. We have deserved much more and won with much less for longer than the what 25 years I’ve been around program
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Post by TheRobinsonsDad on Jun 21, 2021 7:50:05 GMT -5
It is a crying shame that it's been that long with little to NO upgrades to a Division 1 program. I dare say the program at WCU least funded yet most successful. I hope and pray the new AD and Chancellor will do the right thing and get that facility up to par. Way WAY overdue.
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