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An argument for a new indoor track:
Point 1: Bringing the bucks to SDSU and Brookings. This link below has the attendance of the Jacks last regular season meet at Nebraska. The number is 1,553. This meet started at noon and went until about 9 p.m. I don’t know about you but I like eating every 3-4 hours. 9 would be a test for me. The athletes and spectators would purchase food at the concessions stand, drive to a Brookings restaurant or at least go to Hy-Vee and pick up a loaf of bread and sandwich meat. In any case it is money spent in Brookings. Many track meets are two days and some even last for three days. Schools that come from 2+ hours aren’t going to drive home and come back in the morning. They are going to get a hotel in Brookings. Jacks track puts 2 people in each hotel room. So if 10 teams come to a meet hosted by the jacks and have 40 people per team that is 400 people or 200 hotel rooms. These numbers are modest. Meets hosted by Iowa State with a similar track as is planned here have had more than 100 teams. Meet entry fees also bring in the cash. I have heard of 20 dollars per individual or up to 1000 dollars per team. The cost of running the meet will be covered and a profit will be made. If the jacks build a 300 meter indoor track teams will come to meets that we host.
http://www.huskers.com/ViewArticle.d...&DB_OEM_ID=100
Point 2: Money saved for the Athletic Dept. Track meets are expensive. Athletes must be fed and housed, entry fees must be paid, and transportation costs are high. If we don’t travel to other meets we save a lot of money. The link below is the Iowa State schedule. They don’t leave Ames for the indoor season until the national meet. Even the big 12’s are hosted there this year. The Jacks would probably still have to travel once in the regular season to a meet like the ISU classic to find the best competition and also to conference. However, we would stay in Brookings for 5-6 meets that we would typically travel to. That’s a lot of money that could be used for equipment upgrades, coaches salaries, athlete scholarships, etc.
http://www.cyclones.com/SportSelect....26&SPSID=94169
Point 3: Track teams would become much better. A reason that SDSU loses recruits to other universities in the area (Mankato, USD, NDSU mainly) is our lack of training facilities. Although our outdoor track is located at Brookings High School we are still thankful for it. Training in Frost or “the D” as it is affectionately called is rough and even impossible at times. SDSU sprinters can only run 150 meter intervals because they would hurt themselves going around the corner at a high speed. SDSU has poor pole vault and indoor throwing practice areas which aren’t even located near the HPER. We also have no long jump and triple jump practice areas. The distance team also practices in Frost for “track” workouts. The corners have been the cause of stress fractures and overuse injuries for years. A facility with less and gentler corners would reduce these injuries and make them rare occurrences. Also, due to Brookings having poor road care the distance team has to run inside for daily runs occasionally. Running on treadmill more than once a week can cause mental distress to a runner. Overall, a new facility would enable SDSU to recruit many more athletes and better develop the ones we do have.
Point 4: The proposed 300 meter indoor facility will benefit most other sports at the university. Brookings winters are not conducive to any sport practices unless we start a Nordic ski team. As of now the track, baseball, soccer, softball, basketball, cheerleading, dance and wrestling teams use the HPER on a daily basis. The new indoor facility is going to be similar to one at Akron University. The link below is a picture of Akron’s facility. It will have an 80 yard football field with end zones in the middle. The facility is much larger than the Frost and will hold multiple practices at a time. Also, other sports are limited as to what they can do in the frost. The football team can only lift weights and do drills that don’t take up much space. On an 80 yard practice field the possibilities are endless. The new facility would also be able to house locker rooms for sports that don’t currently have them.
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Other than costing about 18 million dollars are there any downsides? I would say it would be a good investment to the city and university. Maybe better for the city than Swiftel expansions?
Point 1: Bringing the bucks to SDSU and Brookings. This link below has the attendance of the Jacks last regular season meet at Nebraska. The number is 1,553. This meet started at noon and went until about 9 p.m. I don’t know about you but I like eating every 3-4 hours. 9 would be a test for me. The athletes and spectators would purchase food at the concessions stand, drive to a Brookings restaurant or at least go to Hy-Vee and pick up a loaf of bread and sandwich meat. In any case it is money spent in Brookings. Many track meets are two days and some even last for three days. Schools that come from 2+ hours aren’t going to drive home and come back in the morning. They are going to get a hotel in Brookings. Jacks track puts 2 people in each hotel room. So if 10 teams come to a meet hosted by the jacks and have 40 people per team that is 400 people or 200 hotel rooms. These numbers are modest. Meets hosted by Iowa State with a similar track as is planned here have had more than 100 teams. Meet entry fees also bring in the cash. I have heard of 20 dollars per individual or up to 1000 dollars per team. The cost of running the meet will be covered and a profit will be made. If the jacks build a 300 meter indoor track teams will come to meets that we host.
http://www.huskers.com/ViewArticle.d...&DB_OEM_ID=100
Point 2: Money saved for the Athletic Dept. Track meets are expensive. Athletes must be fed and housed, entry fees must be paid, and transportation costs are high. If we don’t travel to other meets we save a lot of money. The link below is the Iowa State schedule. They don’t leave Ames for the indoor season until the national meet. Even the big 12’s are hosted there this year. The Jacks would probably still have to travel once in the regular season to a meet like the ISU classic to find the best competition and also to conference. However, we would stay in Brookings for 5-6 meets that we would typically travel to. That’s a lot of money that could be used for equipment upgrades, coaches salaries, athlete scholarships, etc.
http://www.cyclones.com/SportSelect....26&SPSID=94169
Point 3: Track teams would become much better. A reason that SDSU loses recruits to other universities in the area (Mankato, USD, NDSU mainly) is our lack of training facilities. Although our outdoor track is located at Brookings High School we are still thankful for it. Training in Frost or “the D” as it is affectionately called is rough and even impossible at times. SDSU sprinters can only run 150 meter intervals because they would hurt themselves going around the corner at a high speed. SDSU has poor pole vault and indoor throwing practice areas which aren’t even located near the HPER. We also have no long jump and triple jump practice areas. The distance team also practices in Frost for “track” workouts. The corners have been the cause of stress fractures and overuse injuries for years. A facility with less and gentler corners would reduce these injuries and make them rare occurrences. Also, due to Brookings having poor road care the distance team has to run inside for daily runs occasionally. Running on treadmill more than once a week can cause mental distress to a runner. Overall, a new facility would enable SDSU to recruit many more athletes and better develop the ones we do have.
Point 4: The proposed 300 meter indoor facility will benefit most other sports at the university. Brookings winters are not conducive to any sport practices unless we start a Nordic ski team. As of now the track, baseball, soccer, softball, basketball, cheerleading, dance and wrestling teams use the HPER on a daily basis. The new indoor facility is going to be similar to one at Akron University. The link below is a picture of Akron’s facility. It will have an 80 yard football field with end zones in the middle. The facility is much larger than the Frost and will hold multiple practices at a time. Also, other sports are limited as to what they can do in the frost. The football team can only lift weights and do drills that don’t take up much space. On an 80 yard practice field the possibilities are endless. The new facility would also be able to house locker rooms for sports that don’t currently have them.
http://graphics.fansonly.com/photos/...ry/440090.jpeg
Other than costing about 18 million dollars are there any downsides? I would say it would be a good investment to the city and university. Maybe better for the city than Swiftel expansions?
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