Be Thankful

[NJCat]

NU is miles ahead of Vandy when it comes to capital projects to support athletics. Imagine if Pat Ryan could not be contacted for athletic projects.....

Two years after pondering preliminary plans, Vanderbilt is no closer to building a new football stadium or renovating its current one, and that lack of progress may be self-inflicted.

Multiple sources told The Tennessean university administrators undercut efforts to raise funds for a stadium project to focus on building other campus structures. Athletics fundraisers were prohibited from soliciting certain donors already targeted by university fundraisers. Vanderbilt is amid a $600 million capital project, which includes no athletics facilities.

According to Vanderbilt financial reports, the university invested $308 million combined in capital projects and acquisitions in 2016 and 2017, but only $15 million were in athletics. That was mostly spent on a new $12 million baseball facility, which was capped by a $2.5 million donation from former player David Price.

https://www.tennessean.com/story/sp...dium=newsletter&utm_campaign=college-football

 

[StreamCat]

I thought that was a new stadium.

 

[DarthCat]

Fifteen years ago, this WAS NU. What Phillips and Fitzgerald have done to turn that around is beyond belief. Yeah, he may not be the best at using time outs effectively. I’ll grant that. But the idea that this program would be anywhere close to what we have now, without him at the helm, is ludicrous.

 

[Hungry Jack]

Daddy Warbucks Pat Ryan has moved mountains for his alma mater. They should give him jersey #1, if just for one day.

 

[Deeringfish]

Daddy Warbucks Pat Ryan has moved mountains for his alma mater. They should give him jersey #1, if just for one day.

Actually that might be a good idea this year.

 

[ubercat]

A lot of Vol posters called us "Purple Vandy" a while back. It was intended as a put-down, apparently, but not for reasons of athletic funding.

But VU does have a great, although idiosyncratic, basketball arena. One of the few (only?) in the country where the team benches are actually behind the baskets. The open out-of-bounds areas outside the sidelines extend for twenty feet.