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Originally Posted by efoote868
If something like this were undertaken, I'd propose it would be built with the future in mind (I'm thinking 2030s).
To have space to host 25% of the FRC population that far in the future, there probably needs to be space to support 1000-1500, not just 800.
Figure the stars align and everything gets moving tomorrow, I don't see the completion until well after 2020, and building for anything less than a decade of use seems very short sighted and a misallocation of funds.
Also think about what you'd give up to have that venue. $500 million would go a very long way towards growing the program (instead what about $100k per team for 5000 new teams?)
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On the point about the team growth by the 2030's, by then hopefully we'd have transferred to a super-regional model and the Championship could stay at a stagnant 800-1000 teams.
However you're completely right about using that money elsewhere to support team growth. That would be a far better use of funds than a new stadium. The difference, I think, is that the stadium is a thing FIRST could point to as a use for their funds when talking to a potential sponsor of the endeavor, as well as a place for FIRST's champions, Hall of Famers, and FIRST's ideals to be immortalized.
You're definitely right. I spent too much time thinking whether FIRST
could build their own stadium rather than whether they
should.