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If I could change the design to something a little more timeless? Yeah! We dont want buildings that in 50 years people are going to look at and say "lol, you can tell that building was designed EXACTLY in 2021"
Does it matter in the end? No. I'd rather have an awesome building we need, with a not perfect design, than not having the building in the first place
very excited for this project, much needed, and very thankful to Blattners for their unbelievably generous gift
1. The FCS was the Best option for NDSU for a very long time.
2. As a general rule- the FCS sucks at football and has proven that is not committed to football at all.
3. It's time to go FBS
Personally I like practical buildings not a fricking castle with stupid impractical and costly shit every where. One of the stupidest things architects seem to do around here is throw extra roof peaks all over which does absolutely nothing but catch snow in our region and add construction costs to boot. Obviously there's something to be said for aesthetically pleasing buildings as well so you can have extremes both ways I guess. Personally I'm for keeping all public buildings as practical as possible. If you want to spend your own cash on impracticality have at it.
When it's third and ten, you can take the milk drinkers and I'll take the whiskey drinkers every time. -Max McGee
“I really thought you had to run the football to control the game,” Erhardt once said. “You had to throw the football to score but had to run the football to win.” - Ron Erhardt
To your point, this building forces into the design several impractical features that: 1) corrupt the design, 2.) create extra transitions in the exterior skin that all provide opportunity for leaking, both in terms of water intrusion as well as energy consumption, and 3) cost more. The building would be much better if they'd simplify the forms a bit.
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ML is not the big thinker next level guy. However that is not necessarily a bad thing considering when he took over. He has kept football on the train tracks which was job Numero uno. Secondly, when he came in, we were at a significant facility deficit compared to the other Dakota's. We have made huge strides but also have a long ways to go. The IPF completion will be a major accomplishment and vault us to #1 there. However, the SHAC arena portion is a joke and is not a MWC/MVC mid major level facility. We either need to build a new arena or gut it and start over. Dacotah is a huge eyesore and needs to reconfigured and permanently altered to a soccer first facility. The softball project needs to be finished up as do the track facilities.
The point is that I see Matt's tenure as AD being the guy who cleared the facility deck so we could make the FBS jump. He is doing a great job of that and finishing the above projects allows to really focus on FBS success when the move happens.