Of course, if you really feel that is too much, you could always build your own and determine how much to charge others to rent it out. A decent indoor track bubble facility costs about $3M to build and probably about $100,000 or so a year to maintain. If you were to host a dozen events each year, you would need to charge about $20,000 per event just to make the interest payment on the loan and pay for the maintenance, let alone any profit or salary for yourself. Just FYI.
Buffalo winger197 wrote:
Coach Wetmore has done very little to support the Boulder running community at large.
This is hilarious for two main reasons.
One is the idea that it is anywhere in a college coach's official or unofficial job description to play any role at all in the local running community.
The second is the idea that there aren't already about 5,000 different people or entities trying to contribute to the Boulder running community.
The truth is that no one gives a shart about distance running except the people who visit this board, roughly 30 to 35 percent of whom are both literate and free of obvious autism.
are you running in 2020, I'd like to get involved early?
Ivanka Palin, Jr. wrote:
Buffalo winger197 wrote:
Coach Wetmore has done very little to support the Boulder running community at large.
This is hilarious for two main reasons.
One is the idea that it is anywhere in a college coach's official or unofficial job description to play any role at all in the local running community.
The second is the idea that there aren't already about 5,000 different people or entities trying to contribute to the Boulder running community.
The truth is that no one gives a shart about distance running except the people who visit this board, roughly 30 to 35 percent of whom are both literate and free of obvious autism.
Plus, what is "the Boulder running community at large" doing to support his program?
AynWouldBeProud wrote:
John Utah wrote:
You may be talking about operating expenses, but tell me how the campus was funded, the land, the buildings, etc.
Certainly the voters of a century ago valued the public good and invested a lot; and obviously legally it's all publicly owned. But more recent buildings, most importantly including the building in question, were not financed by the public at large. Without a doubt the need for the school to pay off the debt for this new building is a driving force behind the the high rental cost. And the current taxpayers have made it very clear that CU is on its own to figure out how to cover its costs and decide where to put its money. They expect CU to run like a business which means paying attention to future paying customers (i.e. students, rich alums, researchers who can bring in grant money) and not past customers (the citizens of the state). So this is very much a natural consequence of the public disinvestment (which given the sunk costs of their earlier investments may indeed not be the wisest idea).
Frankly it's not a bad idea on how to approach higher education. There are no checks and balances at present for most schools. Wanton spending on facilities and zero accountability in terms of philosophical directions (i.e. absolute and utter left wing extremism echo chambers in many departments, worthless and nonsensical "fields of study", etc.).
Please name one All American in sprinting, or a field event under Wetmore's program... good luck trying.
Too easy, Jeremy Dodson. You must not be familiar with the program.
critic 100 wrote:
Please name one All American in sprinting, or a field event under Wetmore's program... good luck trying.
Sorry, that's your job. It's not my fault you're too ignorant to already know this. Keep being clueless!
He definitely doesn't seem very educated in a variety of subjects.
I will give that one to you. Now name a field event athlete. One every 20 years?
Critic: NAME ONE ALL AMERICAN NON-DISTANCE RUNNER
Letsrun: *names one*
Critic: OH.... YEAH WELL NAME TWO ALL AMERICAN NON DISTANCE RUNNERS THEN! ALSO COULD YOU PLEASE HOLD MY HAND AND WALK ME THROUGH HOW IGNORANT I AM!?
By the way, Janay DeLoach. Long Jump. Read a book or something idiot.
fsfasdfsdf wrote:
By the way, Janay DeLoach. Long Jump. Read a book or something idiot.
Oh yeah, I forgot Jenny Simpson the hurdler
"Wetmore over charges"
Your whole thread hit a false premise three words into your subject title. You failed.
fdsadfsdfadsf wrote:
fsfasdfsdf wrote:
By the way, Janay DeLoach. Long Jump. Read a book or something idiot.
Oh yeah, I forgot Jenny Simpson the hurdler
Oh yeah, and Jenny Barringer the other hurdler.
Trevor Brown and Justin Green get a clue
But in all seriousness here are actual all-americans for Colorado:
Joe Morris 60m
Alex Kizirian WT
Abrianna Torres Hep
All of these were recent enough for any casual NCAA field event enthusiast like yourself to know.
inthebuff wrote:
The building in question is called the CU Indoor Practice Facility. i.e. it was built for and controlled by football and the track just happens to be in there. So, it would be more accurate to say Mel Tucker (new CU coach) is charging $22k.... thought I bet the price/policy was set before he arrived.
This is absolutely correct. This facility is an indoor football practice facility, built to replace the inflatable practice facility the CU football team used to use. The fact that there’s a track in it and the track team is allowed to practice in there is out of the kindness of the athletic department’s heart and a nod to Wetmore’s success. There is no reason for them to give access to anyone else, it sucks but that’s the reality. Over time maybe they’ll be less protective of it and lower the price for the community to rent, but that’s all we can hope for.
The Air Force Academy hosts 4 USATF all-comers meets every year plus a two day high school invitational (last weekend) and Colorado School of Mines hosts 6 high school meets from December to February and a number of open track nights. Western State also hosts a high school invite and I think CU Colorado Springs hosted at least one AAU meet this year. Having said that the greater Denver/Boulder area could really use a track facility like the Amory, it would be a huge boost to youth track in Colorado. I’ve heard many people talk about it, I’ve even heard rumors that Jeremy Dodson (former all American sprinter from CU) had sponsors lined up and was ready to break ground on such a facility but they are just rumors.
CO Coach wrote:
This facility is an indoor football practice facility, built to replace the inflatable practice facility the CU football team used to use.
Except, for whatever reason, CU still puts up and maintains that inflatable bubble.
Wetmore is a typical Christian hating democrat piece of trash. We will all rejoice when that piece of trash is terminated.
RIP: D3 All-American Frank Csorba - who ran 13:56 in March - dead
Great interview with Steve Cram - says Jakob has no chance of WRs this year
RENATO can you talk about the preparation of Emile Cairess 2:06
2024 College Track & Field Open Coaching Positions Discussion
Hats off to my dad. He just ran a 1:42 Half Marathon and turns 75 in 2 months!
I’m a D2 female runner. Our coach explicitly told us not to visit LetsRun forums.