February 27, 2020 · 12:34 PM

A lesson for Greg McGarity

You never have to worry about how spending on athletic facilities will affect the health of your reserve fund if you never spend money on athletic facilities.

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15 responses to “A lesson for Greg McGarity”

  1. Reipar
    February 27, 2020 at 12:52 PM

    And they fired him for spending money.

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  2. FlyingPeakDawg
    February 27, 2020 at 1:09 PM

    By the time they spend $800MM, they’ll be $500MM behind. That’s the real lesson for McFrugal.

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  3. dawgfan1995
    February 27, 2020 at 1:39 PM

    I would not be surprised if at least half or more of that number relates to land costs. Or the cost of building a new football stadium — one of the two. I don’t think they’ve really done anything with the football stadium since I graduated from college there in 1994.

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    • Bulldog Joe
      February 27, 2020 at 6:09 PM

      The national championship baseball program deserves better than what it has. They play on an artificial turf infield in the shadow of the football stadium grandstand. It is shoehorned in worse than Foley Field.

      Vanderbilt will have to move baseball to provide amenities for football. A little imagination like leveraging the nearby Sounds park while a new baseball facility is built would help. It’s also an opportunity to do something with the acres of surface parking across Natchez, which is oddly out-of-place for a rapidly urbanizing area.

      But imagination is not something Vanderbilt is known for.

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  4. W Cobb Dawg
    February 27, 2020 at 2:21 PM

    Vandy leaders laughing all the way to the bank to cash those tv checks…while players limping all the way to the emergency room.

    I say spend whatever it takes to beat utk.

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  5. Bright Idea
    February 27, 2020 at 3:40 PM

    As long as they don’t move Vandy out of Nashville I don’t care what they spend or don’t spend. Stadium improvements would mostly benefit visiting fans but we’re only in there for 4 hours every two years.

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  6. AuditDawg
    February 27, 2020 at 3:55 PM

    As much as I like dumping on McGarity, the improvements to the viewing grandstand at the Magill Tennis Center are quite impressive. 20 years overdue, mind you, but impressive.

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  7. Anonymous
    February 27, 2020 at 10:14 PM

    This is why I have wondered about the stability of the ACC. Syracuse, Boston College, Wake Forrest, Duke, and Miami are going to continue falling behind in terms of revenue and facilities. I can see them voluntarily leaving the ACC. I could see Vandy leaving to join them. Vandy is already considered better than half the Ivies; they don’t need SEC sports for branding. There are several other schools that might be interested in no longer competing against schools that spend 90+M on sports. The ACC distributes about 30M per school. The AAC distributes about 7M. The schools I’m talking about could probably get 15M each as a group. That extra 15M to be in the ACC comes with a lot more than 15M in expenses.

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  8. BuffaloSpringfield
    February 27, 2020 at 10:52 PM

    Well McGoofy could brandish some glitz and glamor on Butts-Mehre, along with dressing facilities at the baseball stadium. I mean during the Florida State regional. It was deemed since the facilities were not equal. Teams both had to dress off site. I would assume that means the visitors dressing area is lacking.

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  9. Normaltown Mike
    February 28, 2020 at 8:57 AM

    Me (dumb): Wow, Georgia has spent 200 million dollars in under 5 years on facilities. That’s a lot of money

    You (smart): MCSCROOGE IS THE WORST!!!! HE REALLY HATES SPENDING MONEY AND ONLY SPENDS IT CUZ KIRBY MADE HIM DO IT AND I PAY $1,000.00 TO THE HARTMAN FUND A YEAR SO I’M THE ONE WHO PAID FOR THIS AND I DON’T WANT TO PAY BECASUE MCSCROOGE SUX!!!!

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  10. Lin Clayton
    February 28, 2020 at 10:23 AM

    I went to the Hoop Dawgs game there last Saturday (buzzer beater!) and was SHOCKED when I sat foot in the gym. The old school wooden bleacher seats had me thinking I was in a time warp. We walked around the area with the football stadium, baseball field (which looked pretty new), tennis courts, etc., and, hand to God, I told my wife that I guess their SEC Network checks got lost in the mail.

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