Maybe the money isn’t as much in place as some on this board think it is.
…and/or the donor was waiting to see if he/she approved of the chosen site and plans before final committal of funds
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Which is pretty much the same thing as I said.
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Best choice!
Just a FYI…. Miami Field was located across the street (west) of Farmer School of Business. To my knowledge there was never a stadium on Cook Field.
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Pearson Hall, home to the biological sciences, is where Miami Field use to be. I know of no other location where Miami football was ever played.
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This is the old Miami Field! It served as home to the RedHawks from 1896-1982, prior to Yager Stadium opening in 1983. Not on Cook.
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The JohnnyMac Plan will survive. It doesn’t sound like anything is getting built any time soon.
Didn’t Miami play some games in the 1880s and 1890s near Slant Walk?
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Boy, is my face red. Because they put the ticket booth there, I had assumed that was the original location of Miami Field. Derpy derp derp.
In my defense, I was born in '82, so I never actually saw Miami Field in the flesh. But yeah, full knucklehead moment here.
Cook Field is just out of the picture at the top right of the Miami Field pic above. In fact, that looks like a softball field there so that little grassy area may actually be a part of Cook Field.
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I’m guessing that was Band Day, or Miami had one big ass band.
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Yeah was done on the cheap a bit. Most here are aware that they only built the one new side of Yager and brought down the old steel bleachers from the west side of old Miami Field (30 rows), and reconstructed them for the Yager Stadium student side.
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They built the BSB (now Pearson Hall) my freshman year, and we had to organize a phone chain to call Roudebush Hall every twenty minutes to complain until they agreed to stop the construction cranes (and associated noise) during finals week. This was relevant because I lived in Reid Hall (RIP), which was torn down to build the new business school building.
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Does anyone know how long it would take to build this arena after it gets approved?
Too bad KC Redskin the architect is no longer actively posting on the board…he would’ve known.
Probably about 2 years from the time they would break ground.
Definitely band day. Our band would sit in the empty section on the non press box side, the high school bands squeezed into the end zone. The students sat behind the visitors.
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The Reid hall door with the handprint. That was a wild story. I saw the door my freshman year.
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