Friday Feedback
May 22, 2009 by Mike CasazzaWelcome to the Friday Feedback, which appreciates the idea I’m seen as some sort of Mountaineers mystic.
rekterx said:
Is Mike playing the prophet by mentioning a third party? Did he think the third party was going to emerge today and make today a “big day”?
The thought plickens.
Mike, you should be a mystery writer.
Whoops. My bad. That third-party thing wasn’t the big thing I thought might be coming. And that big thing might not be big, just something we might enjoy. That’s all. Sorry to stir up something that was, so far, nothing.
As for the third party, I know nothing, but I just think there’s a resolution out there and it might need some sort of a mediation to reach the promise land that is common ground.
After all the crap that apparently happened in the past within the athletic department, this is too big and too delicate to let history repeat itself. Do we need a mushroom cloud over the Coliseum?
Along those lines, it’s possible everything works itself before Jack Bauer is called to the scene.
Onto the (funnier than normal) Feedback. As always, comments appear as posted. In other words, learn from your mistakes. Seriously.
Karl said:
Here’s my brilliant idea — rennovate Stansbury Hall and use that as the new practice facility. For those who don’t know, Stansbury was once the WVU Fieldhouse, the very home court Jerry West and Rod Hundley used to defend in the “golden age” of WVU hoops. Now, it’s a run down, underutilized building with a few classes and offices, or at least it was last time I was there. The hoops court is open to students now, and many of them have no idea who’s shared that floor over the years.
The predictable thing to do would be to raise a pile of dough and build some warehouse-looking monstrosity out in Evansdale. Any unimaginative school can do that, and most do. But what about a little adaptive re-use, a nod to the university’s rich history? For half the money they’re talking about, you could do some great aesthetic work on the outside, replace the court inside, even modernize the class/office spaces in its upstairs.
I don’t like this idea. I love it. In fact, care to elaborate, Karl?
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