Somebody’s about to spend some money.
The University of Georgia is planning a major, and expensive, structural change to Sanford Stadium, which will be presented at a meeting Tuesday of the athletic board.
The project is expected to include moving the locker rooms to the west side of the stadium, and adding a recruiting room next to the locker rooms. UGA athletics director Greg McGarity will make a funding request to the board about the project, according to an agenda of the meeting, which begins Tuesday afternoon.
The cost of the project is unknown.
Is the project fan friendly? You know, the people who actually pay to use the place?
As for the west end zone project, there are plans and documents, which are scheduled to be presented at Tuesday’s meeting of the UGA athletic board, and may already have been viewed this past week at a meeting of the finance committee.
The construction project includes the recruiting room, long sought by Georgia coaches, first Mark Richt and now Kirby Smart. Smart has mentioned that the current locker rooms, located on the east end of the stadium, are the same ones he dressed in as a player in the late 1990s.
The recruiting room would then be adjacent to the new locker rooms, which would make it more convenient for coaches.
Yeah, yeah, we get all that. What about us?
The project would also include improvements to public restrooms and other facilities close to the west end zone area.
Lucky ducks. Sometimes in life, it’s not what you know, or even who you know. It’s if you’re located close enough to the right people.
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UPDATE: The check has been presented. $63 million and it’s yours. And it wouldn’t be a major undertaking for the Georgia Way without this:
The UGA athletic board on Tuesday approved an overhaul to the west end of Sanford Stadium that athletics director Greg McGarity said would “not exceed 63 million.” But the school plans on fundraising the vast majority of it.
The board approved a plan to raise $53 million from private funds, which the rest coming from the athletic association’s reserves.
Wallets out, peeps. We must defend this reserve fund!