Why does Krugar's office look like a basement?

[Big Old Booger]

There isn't room to do individual workouts on the side baskets when a full court drill is being run. So time is lost when individual instruction could be done on the side.
The facility was supposedly state of the art when it was built. Some of this was because it was attached to the main arena instead of being at two sites. I assume it was true but it wouldn't be the first propaganda any university has stated. Remember this was done in the Sampson era which is a long time ago.
I'm not a big donor nor will I become one but I can report what the staff thinks about the situation.

Individual instruction or team drills could be run on the floor of the LNC, it's just a few steps away.

However, if that is truly an issue, then enlarge each court or build a 3rd court for individual instruction/team drills at the existing site. It's not difficult or expensive.

 

[vbdad]

Could but not how they want to do it and not as nice as other places which is the discussion.

 

[Big Old Booger]

Flat parking is the most inefficient format to flow traffic in and out of venue with so many bottlenecks. Have you been to big city arenas with garage parking and more fans the the LNC? The flow is fast, knowing the control of such flow is through traffic controllers rolling cars in and out.

Yes many times. I've been to concerts at the Sprint Center in KC and parked in the parking garage across the street. Also, my office is the next block over and some overflow parking parks in our parking garage for the Big 12 tournament. Both are horrible to get out of after an event.

After the Tom Petty concert we sat for at least an hour in the bowels of the parking lot.

Further, when my stepson graduated from High School in Fort Worth we parked at the parking garage across from the downtown pavilion where the ceremony was held. We sat in the garage for well over 90 minutes to get out.

For a midweek basketball game at 8 pm that ends at 10 or 10:30 not many people are going to want to sit in the parking garage to get out after a game. That's why OU fans are notoriously known to leave basketball games early is because they don't want to wait in the parking lot as it is that has a bunch more exits onto the cross streets than when it was opened. A parking garage is not the answer to that problem. Now, maybe 4 parking garages that each open onto one of the cross streets but with Highway 9 on one side I don't think that's an option.

 

[tycat947]

is it football season yet?

I think it's troll season! :facepalm

 

[HeismanWatch]

If you put a KSU type project or better on a gofund-type platform, OU fans and alumni would raise $12M in less than four months. You're underestimating these new platforms with fans far from Norman that will take pride in a major new project for the basketball team, knowing OU BB hasn't been a real priority for decades.

All OU has to do is state the university will match those funds raised through a gofund type platform $1 for $1 and let the tallies roll in. You'd see alumni and fans calling each, messaging each other and texting each other to make the needle rise and visualize it online. It's the piranha effect these new platforms cause.

OU has earmarked $7M, so they need another $5M to match the potential goal of $12M from the fans and alumni. Draft new renderings for a mega stand alone and get the ball rolling. Fans and alumni would throw $12M and the university matches it, $12M, then OU has their new $24M OVERDUE stand alone practice facilities for coaches, recruits, players and fans to enjoy. (No loading docks or basements involved.)

How does OU fans and alumni get to $12M?

$250 (30%) = $3.6M - 14,400 donations (Free throw donation)
$500 (30%) = $3.6M - 7,200 donations (2 point donation)
$750 (20%) = $2.4M - 3,200 donations (3 point donation)
$1000 (20%) = $2.4M - 2,400 donations (Buzzer beater donation)

$12M Total via 27,200 donations @ $441/average donation. Peanuts Sooner BB fans!

1,370 people have view this thread alone, so online access is an attention getter.

Just do it!