new Carver tunnel
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NO NO NO!!! Students At court side is not the Iowa way.
What students would those be? Pep band, poms, cheerleaders??
Those, plus 8 or 10 others on any given night. That might increase to a dozen or 14 for B1G games.
Is this connecting to the wrestling building? I don’t know what else it would go to as it is going straight underground.
It’s a shelter away from the Brian Ferentz offense
Pretty awesome they've incorporated part of the Millennium Falcon into Carver.
You are lucky you posted this on the more genteel board. I’d let you have it on the OT board. Just like I…
So they are removing prime seating behind the hoop to accommodate this tunnel? I'm a wrestling fan too but it's insane to prioritize it over basketball which can actually turn a profit (men) and can bring a ton of positive attention to the university as the women demonstrated.
Wrestling just doesn't move the needle the same way, even for the second best program in the sport
Wrestling just doesn't move the needle the same way, even for the second best program in the sport
Floor seats directly behind the basket are anything but prime seating for basketball. These are better wrestling seats than anything else. Now they’ll have their own tunnel to come out of separate from the visitors. Will be interesting to see if our bench swaps sides so we don’t have to cross.
Call it prime or non prime, those seats would be filled with excited fans for at least the women this next season and if Fran can ever get people excited about what he delivers.... and that is lost revenue. For wrestling too.
Not a fan but these morons have been ignoring cries to get the students around the court like most real programs for 30 years so whatever. It just sends an awful message to men's bball recruits when wrestling is prioritized over a revenue sport
Not a fan but these morons have been ignoring cries to get the students around the court like most real programs for 30 years so whatever. It just sends an awful message to men's bball recruits when wrestling is prioritized over a revenue sport
I'm sure this is being used to negatively recruit against Iowa to all the gullible and highly impressionable young high school kids...................................
Did anyone else listen to the Connor McCaffery interview on the Swarmcast podcast? He absolutely destroys Carver. Says it’s a terrible arena and all of the players on the team rank it 13 out of 14 in the Big Ten, with only Penn State being worse. He says it’s a disadvantage for recruiting and that the other arenas are unique or difficult to play in. He mentions the RAC at Rutgers as being really loud and a hostile environment even though it’s relatively small. We really need to build a new, smaller arena like Texas. They would be better off playing in the new facility out in Coralville. It’s something to hear coming from a recent former player; a brutally honest assessment.
Connor needs to go away and quickly
Carver is not going away in the next 20 years, especially now that they are pumping millions more to renovate it.
Maybe if his dad could recruit a talent like Caitlin Clark the place would be packed too.
Don’t shoot the messenger, guys. I’m just repeating what a former player said about the arena.
How else were you going to connect CHA to the wrestling facility? It’s like 30 seats. 30 seats aren’t a big deal. Tunnel around the arena? That would have been very expensive, if it could even be done engineering wise.
One of the fab 5 guys, Jalen Rose, said carver was the toughest place to play. Couldn't even hear his teammates on the floor. Times have changed.
Can we please get some seating directly behind the basket on floor instead of the emptiness you see on TV?
It isn't Carver. It's those that attend. Hawk BB just isn't a must attend event for the students anymore.
When I was in school it was. And we played in the old Fieldhouse. I laugh when I read about the poor students now and their poor seats. Sitting behind a post is a poor seat. Or in the upper deck where there weren't any seats. You had the person's feet behind you kicking you constantly.
There is definitely a difference in volume now and during Dr. Toms earlier years. Carver was loud, field house was better.
The people that donated to help build CHA got the good seats. Now they’re 40 years older, if they’re even still alive. Those people aren’t as loud as they were 40 years ago.
Connor contradicted himself in that interview because he said Carver was old and dumpy but then said so is the RAC and praised its environment. Carver is typically a bad environment for MBB the past decade plus and while renovations would make the arena nicer (and should happen someday), the existing facility is not why the environment stinks. Basically CHA as a facility and as an environment are more distinct than they are related.
Also, this wrestling facility will cost $40M when finally completed. The Carver annex from 2010 was ~$50M. Carver is not being replaced anytime soon.
For those still talking about a new home arena outside of Xtreme, I'd like to know where they'd want to build it because there is essentially no undeveloped available land on main campus. The UI Master Plans give insight into what's coming next and the lack of land forces the University to come up with creative project phasing. New Carver isn't on anyone's list.
For the new arena space comment, this is exactly true. The only space available is currently a parking lot for Hancher and close to the river. Plus then if you build there you have no parking for the arena or Hancher without building massive and expensive ramps. Anywhere else close to the main campus would require tear downs of existing buildings and still have the parking problem.
Then why is it awesome for Womens hoops and wrestling?
50 million sounds like a lot but really isn’t when you consider that a new arena probably costs 400 million. I suspect the wrestlers would continue to use Carver if a new arena were built.
There is space by the river to build. You could knock down the English building. Or, as many have suggested, you could knock down the Old Capital Mall.
The picture reminds me of the 1960s show The Time Tunnel. Most of you are probably too young to remember it.
