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Eastern Washington has taken the first steps in exploring the feasibility of improving the school’s athletic facilities.

Responding to an inquiry from The Spokesman-Review, EWU President Mary Cullinan said in a statement this week that the university has hired an outside consultant “to assess the university’s fundraising capacity and help plan a comprehensive campaign that will include fundraising for the university’s athletics facilities.”

The Phoenix Philanthropy Group of Arizona, described by Cullinan as “nationally recognized experts in university development and fundraising,” will be represented in Cheney by senior consultant Peter Smits, a vice president emeritus at Fresno State.

The announcement comes at a crucial time for football and men’s basketball. Both teams have new coaches who’ve never led a collegiate program, while football fans have been chafing for years over the lack of significant upgrades to 50-year-old Roos Field.

Meanwhile, two of Eastern’s biggest football rivals are making significant strides off the field.

Montana State is nearing completion of an athletics facilities master plan that’s expected to include indoor practice facilities and renovations to the east grandstands at 17,777-seat Bobcat Stadium.

At Montana, construction is moving briskly on the Washington-Grizzly Champions Center, a 51,000-square-foot complex that will house a new weight room, locker room and other amenities.

The $14 million building, which adjoins Washington-Grizzly Stadium, is scheduled for completion in early September. Eastern Washington fans will see it first-hand when the Eagles play at Montana on Sept. 23.

“We’ve been recruiting on that facility since our coaches have been playing,” said Grizzlies coach Bob Stitt, and he wasn’t joking. “So they’re excited to finally get in it.”


Top-flight facilities are a major boon to recruiting, and in turn, success on the field. Eastern bucked that trend under former coach Beau Baldwin, who won four Big Sky Conference titles in his last five years in Cheney.

The Eagles also own a five-game winning streak against MSU and have taken five of the last six against Montana, but the uphill battle in recruiting figures to get steeper when regional foe Idaho joins the Big Sky.

Last fall, before a practice at Roos Field, several Eastern assistant coaches expressed their concerns over the addition of another better-funded school.

“How are we going to compete with Idaho with facilities like this?” asked one coach, pointing to the high-schoolish visiting-side bleachers.

Five years ago, Eastern announced plans for the Gateway Project, a multi-use facility that failed to get off the ground for lack of donors.

Four years later, Cullinan gave athletic director Bill Chaves an open-ended directive to “explore options” regarding improvements to Roos Field.

However, since taking office in 2014, Cullinan has offered no comments either for or against any improvements or renovations. Neither has the Board of Regents, the university’s governing body.

Smits will begin work on May 30. An assessment phase is expected to last four months, and will include interviews with more than 30 people on campus. The second phase, implementation of recommendations from the assessment will take eight months.

Eastern’s contract with Phoenix calls for a total payment of $124,000.

At Fresno State, Smits was responsible for development and fundraising, university communications, endowment management, and alumni relations.

Smits is currently a Senior Fellow of CASE International, where his research interests include the methods which universities identify, measure, and cultivate philanthropy.

http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2017/may/12/ewu-initiates-process-to-examine-fundraising-prosp/
 
EverettGriz said:
Eastern Washington has taken the first steps in exploring the feasibility of improving the school’s athletic facilities.

Responding to an inquiry from The Spokesman-Review, EWU President Mary Cullinan said in a statement this week that the university has hired an outside consultant “to assess the university’s fundraising capacity and help plan a comprehensive campaign that will include fundraising for the university’s athletics facilities.”

The Phoenix Philanthropy Group of Arizona, described by Cullinan as “nationally recognized experts in university development and fundraising,” will be represented in Cheney by senior consultant Peter Smits, a vice president emeritus at Fresno State.

The announcement comes at a crucial time for football and men’s basketball. Both teams have new coaches who’ve never led a collegiate program, while football fans have been chafing for years over the lack of significant upgrades to 50-year-old Roos Field.

Meanwhile, two of Eastern’s biggest football rivals are making significant strides off the field.

Montana State is nearing completion of an athletics facilities master plan that’s expected to include indoor practice facilities and renovations to the east grandstands at 17,777-seat Bobcat Stadium.

At Montana, construction is moving briskly on the Washington-Grizzly Champions Center, a 51,000-square-foot complex that will house a new weight room, locker room and other amenities.

The $14 million building, which adjoins Washington-Grizzly Stadium, is scheduled for completion in early September. Eastern Washington fans will see it first-hand when the Eagles play at Montana on Sept. 23.

“We’ve been recruiting on that facility since our coaches have been playing,” said Grizzlies coach Bob Stitt, and he wasn’t joking. “So they’re excited to finally get in it.”


Top-flight facilities are a major boon to recruiting, and in turn, success on the field. Eastern bucked that trend under former coach Beau Baldwin, who won four Big Sky Conference titles in his last five years in Cheney.

The Eagles also own a five-game winning streak against MSU and have taken five of the last six against Montana, but the uphill battle in recruiting figures to get steeper when regional foe Idaho joins the Big Sky.

Last fall, before a practice at Roos Field, several Eastern assistant coaches expressed their concerns over the addition of another better-funded school.

“How are we going to compete with Idaho with facilities like this?” asked one coach, pointing to the high-schoolish visiting-side bleachers.

Five years ago, Eastern announced plans for the Gateway Project, a multi-use facility that failed to get off the ground for lack of donors.

Four years later, Cullinan gave athletic director Bill Chaves an open-ended directive to “explore options” regarding improvements to Roos Field.

However, since taking office in 2014, Cullinan has offered no comments either for or against any improvements or renovations. Neither has the Board of Regents, the university’s governing body.

Smits will begin work on May 30. An assessment phase is expected to last four months, and will include interviews with more than 30 people on campus. The second phase, implementation of recommendations from the assessment will take eight months.

Eastern’s contract with Phoenix calls for a total payment of $124,000.

At Fresno State, Smits was responsible for development and fundraising, university communications, endowment management, and alumni relations.

Smits is currently a Senior Fellow of CASE International, where his research interests include the methods which universities identify, measure, and cultivate philanthropy.

http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2017/may/12/ewu-initiates-process-to-examine-fundraising-prosp/

Go play at Joe Albi.

srx_Joe_Albi_Stadium_r910x513.jpg


There, I would have sold them this analysis for a pint of draft and saved them $123,995.
 
Go play at Joe Albi.

srx_Joe_Albi_Stadium_r910x513.jpg


There, I would have sold them this analysis for a pint of draft and saved them $123,995.

Yeah. Pretty Sad when the highscool teams in the area have better facilities
 
RayWill said:
Go play at Joe Albi.

srx_Joe_Albi_Stadium_r910x513.jpg


There, I would have sold them this analysis for a pint of draft and saved them $123,995.

Yeah. Pretty Sad when the highscool teams in the area have better facilities

Having more seats doesn't mean nicer facilities. Albi would need A LOT of work to be better than what EWU already plays in. It's a very old facility in itself and has no press box, suites, video board and dirt parking areas. It would probably cost just as much to renovate Albi as it would to remove the track add 5k seats to the East side of Roos.
 
ewueagle2010 said:
RayWill said:
Go play at Joe Albi.

srx_Joe_Albi_Stadium_r910x513.jpg


There, I would have sold them this analysis for a pint of draft and saved them $123,995.

Yeah. Pretty Sad when the highscool teams in the area have better facilities

Having more seats doesn't mean nicer facilities. Albi would need A LOT of work to be better than what EWU already plays in. It's a very old facility in itself and has no press box, suites, video board and dirt parking areas. It would probably cost just as much to renovate Albi as it would to remove the track add 5k seats to the East side of Roos.

Advantages of Albi:

Real stadium
No track
There's a bar within 15 miles
Much better sight lines
No junior high bleachers
No oil filters
More than one concession stand
More than one shitter
Green field

Roos Advantages:

natura-matematica-zero-un-video-visionario-per-la-pi-emozionante-vlViOi-clipart.jpg
 
Yeah. Pretty Sad when the highscool teams in the area have better facilities
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Having more seats doesn't mean nicer facilities. Albi would need A LOT of work to be better than what EWU already plays in. It's a very old facility in itself and has no press box, suites, video board and dirt parking areas. It would probably cost just as much to renovate Albi as it would to remove the track add 5k seats to the East side of Roos.
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Advantages of Albi:

Real stadium
No track
There's a bar within 15 miles
Much better sight lines
No junior high bleachers
No oil filters
More than one concession stand
More than one shitter
Green field

Roos Advantages:

natura-matematica-zero-un-video-visionario-per-la-pi-emozionante-vlViOi-clipart.jpg

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Advantages:
More seats
No Track
Better sight lines
No junior high bleachers
Closer to the population center

Disadvantages:
Not on campus (20 miles away)
Likely needs just as much money for renovation (i.e. parking, scoreboards, press box, TLC)
Likely less student attendance
Less college football atmosphere
Share with local high schools

Red turf is staying no matter what. :thumb:
 
Yet that shitty school, with a shitty stadium, in a shitty town has dominated UM the last 5 years.

Shhhtitt.
 
Well, I guess they must not be happy with that, because it sounds like they're still trying to close the gap facilities-wise?
 
Raider said:
griz5700 said:
Yet that shitty school, with a shitty stadium, in a shitty town has dominated UM the last 5 years.

Shhhtitt.

+1
Remarkable the negative influence Stitt had on our program 3 years prior to being hired!

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Htowngriz said:
Well, I guess they must not be happy with that, because it sounds like they're still trying to close the gap facilities-wise?

.......as they should. If they can further their dominance (and our mediocrity), then they are wise to do so. I’d try to step on our throat too.
 
Raider said:
Htowngriz said:
Well, I guess they must not be happy with that, because it sounds like they're still trying to close the gap facilities-wise?

.......as they should. If they can further their dominance (and our mediocrity), then they are wise to do so. I’d try to step on our throat too.

We'll see. I'm not going to argue with the on-field results in the last several years, but I don't think we've been losing guys to them that we've pursued because of it.
 
casewinter13 said:
Raider said:
griz5700 said:
Yet that shitty school, with a shitty stadium, in a shitty town has dominated UM the last 5 years.

Shhhtitt.

+1
Remarkable the negative influence Stitt had on our program 3 years prior to being hired!

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They both fail to mention EWUs record in the same time span compared to their beloved Cats....just let them be.
 
BadlandsGrizFan said:
casewinter13 said:
Raider said:
griz5700 said:
Yet that shitty school, with a shitty stadium, in a shitty town has dominated UM the last 5 years.

Shhhtitt.

+1
Remarkable the negative influence Stitt had on our program 3 years prior to being hired!

Sent from my SM-N920V using Tapatalk

They both fail to mention EWUs record in the same time span compared to their beloved Cats....just let them be.

1) I am a Griz fan genius, and
2) Why do we care what their record against the cats is?
 
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