Moody Renovation - $80 million

by **Mitch McConnell** » Wed Apr 06, 2011 4:37 pm

I think the Big East is hoping Villanova gets the football side of its situation resolved. As I recall, the Wildcats were pretty good in I-AA for some time. Is their program less than 20 years old but has made very good strides?

If I'm remembering that correctly, that mirrors UConn to an extent.

Houston is a big market that's also filled with apathy. Houston can boast about what it has but it doesn't have anything close to the track record that TCU had when the Horned Frogs accepted their invitation. I just don't see how attractive they would be.

Football is marginal. They would get smoked in hoops just like TCU will and like USF and DePaul are.
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For the record, I don't think the SMU renovations are not being done for anything related to the Big East.

They are being done for a couple of reasons:
1. They need to be done.
2. The school is doing this for the next tidal wave of conference realignment. Haven't we heard that when the FOX contract runs out on the Big 12 in something like 2016, there could be another shift?

Very bold move for Orsini to get himself on the NCAA basketball committee. He's in the room with other power players getting a feel to where everything is trending and wants to see how SMU can secure a chair at the table -- a total theory but worth throwing out there.

by **NickSMU17** » Wed Apr 06, 2011 4:43 pm

How messed up is this conference going to be if they go to 12 in football. That means something over 20 bball teams...I just feel like something will have to give and this will be over soon after it begins...

by **SMU89** » Wed Apr 06, 2011 4:57 pm

RE Tycoon wrote:
Mitch McConnell wrote:
The Crum Center cost $13M? I would guess that a radical Moody makeover is $10M.

If the number reaches $80 million, expect the best venue for its size in the entire country, maybe even gold plated urinals.

If they touch those urinals, Im not renewing. Don't mess with tradition.

by **One Trick Pony** » Wed Apr 06, 2011 6:02 pm

Worst urinals in CUSA = UAB hands down.

by **PonyKai** » Wed Apr 06, 2011 6:13 pm

One Trick Pony wrote:Worst urinals in CUSA = UAB hands down.

Disagree. The whole campus functions perfectly fine as a urinal.

by **One Trick Pony** » Wed Apr 06, 2011 6:30 pm

They have a nice logo however.

by **lwjr** » Thu Apr 07, 2011 9:18 am

[If they touch those urinals, Im not renewing. Don't mess with tradition.[/quote]

hysterical!!! :lol:

by **Treadway21** » Thu Apr 07, 2011 10:16 am

SMU89 wrote:
RE Tycoon wrote:
Mitch McConnell wrote:
The Crum Center cost $13M? I would guess that a radical Moody makeover is $10M.

If the number reaches $80 million, expect the best venue for its size in the entire country, maybe even gold plated urinals.

If they touch those urinals, Im not renewing. Don't mess with tradition.

With you on the urinals. Those urinals are works of art. Has anyone ever seen anything like them? They should get historical landmark status.

by **Mustangsabu** » Thu Apr 07, 2011 11:59 am

I had no idea that others felt the same. If they got rid of the urinals I would buy at least one of them....

I'm serious, those things are fantastic and add to the remarkable, and oft under commented upon nature of the SMU toilet. Take Meadows for example where the stalls have the very rare pygmy dividers. Any grown man, seated amidst his daily movement finds his head, and maybe even shoulders, above the dividers and able to survey the bathroom like a prairie dog. I had to take a Daily Campus every time because making eye-contact mid-push is just plan awkward.

by **ponyboy** » Thu Apr 07, 2011 12:21 pm

as is reading your post, abu

lol

by **couch 'em** » Thu Apr 07, 2011 12:30 pm

Someone really needs to get a picture of a Moody urinal to post on urinal.net while we still can.

On a related note, urinal.net is awesome-even has Taj Mahal urinals and female urinals at UT.

by **shadowman** » Thu Apr 07, 2011 6:09 pm

SMU89 wrote:
ponyboy wrote:Anybody remember Kappler's "Aesthetics of Architecture?" Greatest class ever.

Oh ya. Was just thinking of that class.

Hah, I took that as my Capstone in 89....we mighta been in the same class.

by **couch 'em** » Fri Apr 08, 2011 3:08 pm

In case nobody noticed, that engineering firm has removed the Moody project from it's website.

by **couch 'em** » Fri Apr 08, 2011 3:09 pm

Also, I really have to reiterate the glory of urinal.net.

by **PoconoPony** » Fri Apr 08, 2011 4:07 pm

Urinals smell like urine in any SMU bathroom that does not have excellent airconditioning. Entire men's locker room at the natatorium is permeated with the srong smell of Pi$$.