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This is the issue for many programs now, especially those like us who don’t have a visionary AD. Capital improvements will rarely be the priority when NIL is more urgent. Meanwhile our inability to address The Barn from 1994 (last material renovation) to 2020 (NIL Era) is going to be a bigger and bigger issue.
Per Shooter:
>> The University of Minnesota met nearly a half-dozen times in recent years with a Kansas City architectural firm about renovating Williams Arena, the storied basketball venue that opened in 1928.
The university was preparing to begin a renovation fundraising campaign but it has been temporarily shelved in favor of raising internal Name, Image and Likeness (NIL) money, as well as an NCAA settlement that allows $20.5 million for schools this year to pay athletes annually.
Now, it appears the university will wait between 12 and 18 months before resuming talks with architects. A renovation of Williams Arena, though, remains on Minnesota’s radar screen.
>> The Gophers’ athletics department has been especially impressed by the Chicago Cubs’ complete renovation of Wrigley Field that concluded in 2019 and retained all the iconic ballpark’s amenities and personality inside and outside. That would be a similar strategy for Williams Arena.
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Per Shooter:
>> The University of Minnesota met nearly a half-dozen times in recent years with a Kansas City architectural firm about renovating Williams Arena, the storied basketball venue that opened in 1928.
The university was preparing to begin a renovation fundraising campaign but it has been temporarily shelved in favor of raising internal Name, Image and Likeness (NIL) money, as well as an NCAA settlement that allows $20.5 million for schools this year to pay athletes annually.
Now, it appears the university will wait between 12 and 18 months before resuming talks with architects. A renovation of Williams Arena, though, remains on Minnesota’s radar screen.
>> The Gophers’ athletics department has been especially impressed by the Chicago Cubs’ complete renovation of Wrigley Field that concluded in 2019 and retained all the iconic ballpark’s amenities and personality inside and outside. That would be a similar strategy for Williams Arena.
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