Lynah renovations

[nyc94]

Keith, I was only thinking about new locker rooms when I mentioned expansion during the Fieldhouse construction, not more seats.  Blast a tunnel through section F and there you go.

[KeithK]

[quote nyc94]Keith, I was only thinking about new locker rooms when I mentioned expansion during the Fieldhouse construction, not more seats.  Blast a tunnel through section F and there you go.[/quote]Oh, OK.  But I think it's still relevant to think about the difference in standards back then.  I think back then many fewer programs had the shiny new facilities that everyone touts now as being critical for recruiting.  So the pressure to keep up with the Joneses wasn't there.  Maybe Cornell should've been farsighted, but I find it hard to fault the AD back then (was Laing Kennedy there yet?) for that.

[jy3]

[quote nyc94]I guess I keep coming back to the attractiveness of the design and the fact that since Bartels was completed in 1990 they have slapped on the Friedman weight room and now the Lynah addition.  Can anyone at Cornell see down the road further than five or six years and anticipate future needs?  Maybe when they built Bartels they could have expanded Lynah in that direction.[/quote]
i think all of us know that cornell does not plan well, nor do they plan well in advance. the tearing up of tower road x 2.5 while i was an undergrad is a great example. didnt they improve the drainage at alumni fields in the 90's, now only to have a huge hole there now? i may be wrong with that one, but u get my point

[Jim Hyla]

Universities are also at much greater difficulties than the private sector in regards to long range planning. When Coach Schafer came the facilties were OK, not great. However we certainly were not a national power, nor could we have been planning to be. However he brought us there and rightfully needs better facilities. So here we go. Couldn't have planned it.

The Alumni fields, biotech and nano tech are other examples. Fifteen years ago who'd a thunk it? Now we need to do it, so... When a company needs to add on or start another plant, it's not often we get this kind of discussion about their facility. I haven't heard much discussion about Kodak maintaining the ambiance of their plants as they go from film to digital; all most people in Roch care about is whether there are jobs there. Now if the U of Rochester wanted to drastically change their campus, then there would be much discussion by people who really would not be significantly affected by whatever they did.

Universities have many masters, students, faculty, alumni, townspeople and workers, many of whom feel that they are the true important ones. Try it sometime, or think back when you were growing up, you were "important", wanted your rights, but your family often had different ideas. Sometimes you won, often they did.

[Beeeej]

[quote Dpperk29]that announcement would be followed by the mass suicide of most of the faithful.[/quote]

On the other hand, with Arthur skating defense, I'd get to announce.

Beeeej