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Yes, I can confirm (again, if necessary) there is one.
The SDSU administration is going slow with making it widely public, largely in consideration that any actual projects will need to be approved by the Regents, and they don't want to get out ahead of their governing board. I can buy that argument.
The Athletic Facilities plan works off of the Campus Master Facilities plan. Basically, the area from the HPER Center north to the US 14 Bypass "belongs" to Athletics.
The plan envisions Coughlin-Alumni Stadium being re-built, with 8,000 seat grandstands on the east and west sides of the field, and a suite/press box on the west side. The stadium seating would be expandable to a full-horseshoe with the open end to the north. An Athletic student development center is envisioned immediately to the north of the football field, and a fieldhouse capable of hosting indoor softball games, as well as baseball, football, track, and other outdoor-sport practices is envisioned to the north of the student development center. Something will need to be done to the west stands at CAS in the next 10-15 years, as the structure is reaching the end of its planned lifetime. The field will almost certainly be Field Turf.
(Note 1: What they have is a high-level facilities plan, not a real stadium design, by the way. It's conceptual, which means that it could possibly change significantly once you start spending money and seriously talking to stadium architects about the actual configuration.)
(Note 2: I personally expect to see a facilities fundraising drive to kick off in the next three to five years, primarily to pay for the replacement of the CAS stands and the construction of the student-athlete development center--that's not from any horse's mouth, but would be logical, at least in my own rabbit-fevered mind.)
The placement of the baseball and softball fields are due to this Facilities plan that engineering consultant HNTB drew up for SDSU.
Something that needs to be stressed is that this facilities plan is actually independent of the D-I move. In other words, it's a plan that SDSU would have been working off of anyway, regardless of whether or not we moved to D-I or stayed D-II. (Editorial comment: I'm guessing the main difference is that the plan will be implemented more quickly with us at D-I vs. D-II.)
There is a full outdoor track envisioned by the plan at the north end of the athletics complex right along the US 14 Bypass, but it's possible that in 20-25 years, there just might be a new basketball arena there instead. (The plan is just a plan . . . it can be modified if it makes sense).
(I'm using the word "envisions" a lot, since none of these projects are actually, you know, approved or anything. Need to keep the Regents happy, you know.)
The fundraising emphasis is still on fully funding the athletic scholarships, because while new facilities are nice, they don't win games--athletes do.
The athletic department is hoping that the new Equestrian Center will be a significant money-maker for the department. The plan there is for it to be one of the top equestrian centers in the country, bar none. They're pretty pumped about the prospects for the equestrian program.
The SDSU administration is going slow with making it widely public, largely in consideration that any actual projects will need to be approved by the Regents, and they don't want to get out ahead of their governing board. I can buy that argument.
The Athletic Facilities plan works off of the Campus Master Facilities plan. Basically, the area from the HPER Center north to the US 14 Bypass "belongs" to Athletics.
The plan envisions Coughlin-Alumni Stadium being re-built, with 8,000 seat grandstands on the east and west sides of the field, and a suite/press box on the west side. The stadium seating would be expandable to a full-horseshoe with the open end to the north. An Athletic student development center is envisioned immediately to the north of the football field, and a fieldhouse capable of hosting indoor softball games, as well as baseball, football, track, and other outdoor-sport practices is envisioned to the north of the student development center. Something will need to be done to the west stands at CAS in the next 10-15 years, as the structure is reaching the end of its planned lifetime. The field will almost certainly be Field Turf.
(Note 1: What they have is a high-level facilities plan, not a real stadium design, by the way. It's conceptual, which means that it could possibly change significantly once you start spending money and seriously talking to stadium architects about the actual configuration.)
(Note 2: I personally expect to see a facilities fundraising drive to kick off in the next three to five years, primarily to pay for the replacement of the CAS stands and the construction of the student-athlete development center--that's not from any horse's mouth, but would be logical, at least in my own rabbit-fevered mind.)
The placement of the baseball and softball fields are due to this Facilities plan that engineering consultant HNTB drew up for SDSU.
Something that needs to be stressed is that this facilities plan is actually independent of the D-I move. In other words, it's a plan that SDSU would have been working off of anyway, regardless of whether or not we moved to D-I or stayed D-II. (Editorial comment: I'm guessing the main difference is that the plan will be implemented more quickly with us at D-I vs. D-II.)
There is a full outdoor track envisioned by the plan at the north end of the athletics complex right along the US 14 Bypass, but it's possible that in 20-25 years, there just might be a new basketball arena there instead. (The plan is just a plan . . . it can be modified if it makes sense).
(I'm using the word "envisions" a lot, since none of these projects are actually, you know, approved or anything. Need to keep the Regents happy, you know.)
The fundraising emphasis is still on fully funding the athletic scholarships, because while new facilities are nice, they don't win games--athletes do.
The athletic department is hoping that the new Equestrian Center will be a significant money-maker for the department. The plan there is for it to be one of the top equestrian centers in the country, bar none. They're pretty pumped about the prospects for the equestrian program.
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