If Time Weiser was to be believed, Snyder was offered essentially an entirely new Vanier Complex back in the early 00's and he didn't want it. Didn't want to deal with the hassle of putting the football program in temp facilities even if it meant moving back into a Vanier complex that had been gutted from top to bottom, and completely over hauled from a layout perspective. Instead, what happened was a whole series of renovations to various parts of the facility that were all done one or two areas at a time. All that did was create was a series of nice rooms/areas of various forms and functions cobbled together in a rat maze. Now, he complains about how Vanier isn't that efficent for moving around large groups of football players. The thing is, all those renovations, once you add them all up totaled over $10 million dollars. So now some of the stuff that Snyder wants gets to move to the back of the line.
He also wants a new practice complex built across the street from Vanier. They're looking at doing a whole bunch of stuff that will go along as future phases to the West Stadium project, but completely overhauling Vanier as in gutting and completely rebuilding is out there on the backside of the time table now. They aren't going to go in and tear up stuff that they just spent millions of dollars on.
