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Monday Quick Hits: Basketball Construction Could Cost Over $67 Million
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Leave a Comment- According to an infrastructure report, renovating Crisler Arena could cost more than $46.7 million and building a practice facility would be around $20.5 million. The hopeful plan is to have both projects finished at the same time, but I’m not exactly sure that will happen. Work on Crisler Arena isn’t expected to begin until Michigan Stadium’s renovation is complete, and that isn’t scheduled happen until the summer of 2010. 2010 has been thrown out there before as a potential completion date for a new practice facility as well, which seems to have priority over Crisler Arena.
As far as funding goes for the practice facility, so far not so good. Bill Martin has said that he is willing to incur a debt to make a practice facility a reality, and it appears as though he will have to do just that. Eric Lacy obtained documents detailing funding for a practice facility, and as of right now donations total just over $1.5 million. Obviously that’s not a whole lot when Michigan is looking at spending around $20 million. It doesn’t mean a practice facility won’t be built, but it does mean that Michigan will have to find other ways to fund this if donors don’t step it up.
- Desmond Howard will team up with Gus Johnson to announce Detroit Lions preseason games later this summer.
- Wide receiver Junior Hemingway is having surgery today. I haven’t heard what the exact injury is just yet, but hopefully it isn’t too serious.
- A columnist from the West Virginia Record wrote an article that will be sure to catch him lots of heat as he said that Rich Rodriguez was more believable rather than WVU.
- Last week a story came out about someone from Northwestern stealing Michigan’s signs back in 1997 and how he eventually met one of the people that caught him in the act. The story itself was amazing, and now you can read more about it as the great Northwestern blog Lake The Posts scored an interview with the sign stealer.
- Varsity Blue’s second recruiting podcast is up.
- MVictors found some very, very old footage of one of Fielding Yost’s Michigan football teams.
- Four future Michigan hockey players were selected in the 2008 NHL Draft.
- Incoming freshman Tyler Mills was named the state of Michigan’s co-Mr. Baseball.
- NFL Films decided to use Steve Breaston for a piece on returning punts.
- Ohio State backup quarterback Antonio Henton is going to transfer to Georgia Southern.
- Arguing that the Duke football team sucks held up in court and won a lawsuit.
