Literally.

This gem came from today’s press conference where Oliver Luck was finally allowed to go on the record and speak in detail about the proposed $106 million project for WVU’s athletic venues.

Oliver Luck just said Coliseum is 102 restroom units and 21 concession units short of federal standards for venue of its capacity.

— Mike Casazza (@mikecasazza) April 8, 2014

One-hundred and two! And you wonder why they don’t sell beer at the Coliseum.

A lot of people are gasping at the ideas contained within the plan and at the price tag. They wonder why what has worked for so long for WVU’s teams can’t continue to work longer.

That’s antiquated thinking.

In short, WVU is doing now what it couldn’t before. This is the difference between maintaining facilities, which the university did for a long time, and renovating and expanding facilities, which is possible now through a variety of income streams, and namely those provided by the Big 12 and IMG College.

This is probably trite and cliche, but darn if it isn’t true about college sports today: If you’re not getting bigger, you’re not getting better. And if we’re being completely honest, these ideas are more about improving the fan experience and venue functionality than they are about coddling student-athletes.

That said, we’re silly to assume those student-athletes won’t benefit because, you now, visitors deserve to do pre-game and halftime in a locker room and not a tent at soccer games and because, I don’t know, the tennis courts ought to be regulation size.

WVU wants to have a new scoreboard (not the video board), the LED boards in the four corners and the wall redesign done in time for this season. The team room could be complete in December. The concourse expansion projects at the football and basketball venues will take time, and it’s possible WVU won’t be able to do all of the football expansion at once.

People have told me the concourse project at the football stadium will cost about $50 million and the one at the Coliseum will cost $25 million. (Also, there are no plans for suites at the Coliseum. Which is smart, if you ask me. I don’t know if you asked me, but I’d rather them replace 44-year old seats patrons complain about constantly.)

If you want a pecking order, Luck said it’s fair to say the concourse expansion on main level at the Coliseum, the improvements to the shell building and the addition of a second locker room at the soccer stadium, as well as the smaller aforementioned football projects, would be included in the first wave.

There’s a lot to this plan — Hawley Field is probably going to become a parking lot, at least temporarily, for example — and we can talk plenty about it as we move forward. But how would you like to take a look at it?