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Auburn Trustees offer support for Football Performance Facility
Posted on 6/7/19 at 12:23 pm
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Editing to add this: Leath announces group to explore football only facility
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AUBURN, Alabama--At Friday's Auburn University Board of Trustees meeting officials offered support for what they called a "Football Performance Facility" and Auburn's head football coach, Gus Malzahn, attended the meeting to ask for the facility to be built.
"We all agree we need to do it," said board member Charles McCrary, who said the project was discussed in a committee meeting prior to the board meeting and there is general consensus the facility needs to be built as soon as possible. No formal vote was taken on the project, but the direction of the board to President Steven Leath was to make the project a priority.
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"Dr. Leath, board of trustees, I really appreciate your support for this project," Malzahn told the group. "It is not big just now, currently, but more importantly for the future and it will allow us to continue to have a good chance to compete for championships so this is really big. I really appreciate the support."
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Following his comments to the board Malzahn left the meeting. He said he will discuss the project more at a later time, but it was currently not appropriate for him to say more than he said on Friday. The head coach has pledged $2 million of his own money for the project.
Trustee McCrary, who is from Birmingham, noted that the project is needed to support "our team" as well as "our coach" and Auburn. The athletic department and Tigers Unlimited are currently raising funds for the project, which is estimated to cost between $60-$80 million to have a facility competitive with other programs around the Southeastern Conference.
Currently, there are a large variety of construction projects on the AU campus. Officials said there is 1.3 million square feet of buildings in various stages of construction.
Also at the meeting the board commended Athletic Director Allen Greene for the athletic and academic performance of men's and women's teams during the 2018-19 academic year.
Editing to add this: Leath announces group to explore football only facility
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Auburn University president Steven Leath announced via Twitter on Wednesday the creation of a work group to explore avenues for the construction of a football-only facility
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Head coach Gus Malzahn was asked about the facility at the SEC Spring Meetings on May 29 and said, “We’re getting closer. Hopefully in the near future, we’ll get that thing kicked off.”
Auburn COO Ron Burgess will be the chair of the group, which includes trustee Mike DeMaioribus, board member, Earlon McWhorter, as well as leadership from Auburn University.
They hope to have recommendations from the group by early fall.
AD Allen Greene said on the same day that they were continuing “to have conversations” about the football facility.
247Sports reported in early May that the $60 million project was more than half funded.
The tweets from Leath on Wednesday contrast to what he told 247Sports on May 31 when he said, “This is a complicated process, like any big, complicated building. We’ve got to do a lot of due diligence of what would be involved, what would be the estimated cost, these kind of things. So, there’s no decision if we’re even going to go forward. It’s still a due diligence period."
This post was edited on 6/12/19 at 8:05 pm
Posted on 6/7/19 at 3:35 pm to AUFan2015
At this rate bama will renovate theirs first. :)
Posted on 6/7/19 at 3:52 pm to AUFan2015
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The head coach has pledged $2 million of his own money
What a total dick move. Fire his arse, amirite?
Posted on 6/7/19 at 11:38 pm to RockyMtnTigerWDE
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Fire his arse, amirite
Yea because we all KNOW that money fixes everything.
Is it his money that runs it up the gut 17 straight times after a first down? Is it his money that makes it where someone on staff couldn't count to 5? Is it his money that has lost 20 SEC games in the last 7 years?
Sure... Lets keep him around just because he puts up 2m of his own money...
Top 5 money at that.
Posted on 6/8/19 at 6:07 am to RockyMtnTigerWDE
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What a total dick move. Fire his arse, amirite?
I think the reply below you shows that no good deed goes undone.
Trump syndrome.
Posted on 6/8/19 at 6:32 am to LanierSpots
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good deed
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Trump
#oxymoron
Posted on 6/8/19 at 6:38 am to auburn2eugene
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runs it up the gut 17 straight times after a first down
For 1-2 yard gain
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Posted on 6/8/19 at 8:43 am to LanierSpots
It took a bit longer than I expected.
Posted on 6/11/19 at 3:53 pm to RockyMtnTigerWDE
Board insider on fambly called passthebiscuits ( medical staff or something) had this to say today:
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The future coach is already selected. It’s just a matter of time. The only thing that would muck it up is if Gus somehow pulls a rabbit out of his hat and gets 10 wins. The football-only complex is a go (finally). The $ will come in slowly at first and then once the season ends it will go full blast with the announcement of changes. The huge $ in Auburn is tied up now in the hands of one dude. The local GPAC has taken a lot of the art-supporters $, so there will be a lull before the uptick in revenue. You read it here first.
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Posted on 6/11/19 at 4:26 pm to jangalang
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The future coach is already selected. It’s just a matter of time. The only thing that would muck it up is if Gus somehow pulls a rabbit out of his hat and gets 10 wins.
frick these people who post stuff like this. What good comes from saying this?
And for what it's worth, no one should believe that dumb shite anyway
Posted on 6/11/19 at 4:36 pm to HailToTheChiz
Yeah, that's a stupid and toxic mentality to have... But it better be Bill Clark
Posted on 6/11/19 at 5:30 pm to jangalang
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The future coach is already selected. It’s just a matter of time.
This post was edited on 6/12/19 at 6:51 am
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