guys, I am writing this a lil PAK'd but when i read this:
This is timely. I had the most awesome dream the other night. There were new TV contracts recently announced.....and Currie announced that we were going to use the windfall to renovate Ahearn so we could play there TWO seasons. Then, we were going to completely refurbish Bramlage.......stripping the entire exterior structure. This would leave the "hole" and basic interior to allow for a new outer structure that would basically be a replica of Ahearn (and would tie in beautifully with the style of the new pressbox). The large windows would be back in the "new" Ahearn which Currie explained why the designed the BB practice facility that way they did. Guess I'm getting old, but was darn near a better dream than ______.
I emailed my sources in the Ahearn Fund, Athletic Department (ticketing/marketing), and Alumni Association. Most of you know of these sources if you keep up in the Football ticket thread over in the football board but the Ahearn Fund, and Alumni Association people emailed back and both told me there is not an ounce of truth in it.
the Ahearn fund source said they have discussed money to spruce up Ahearn to host a once a year game called the: Throwback Classic in which they would schedule a team like: Colorado, Mizzou, or Nebraska for a non con game or have that host one of the non-KU former Big 8 schools once a year. they have said for it to one day be fiscally worth doing it would have to be 75 bucks a ticket and a 1000 seat student section and the students would have to pay 50 dollars. This would have to go 6 years before it would make a profit for the Athletic Department This has never had even close to the amount of support it needed. Frank was not in favor of doing it (for the longest time it was just a regular non con not the big 8 connection), and oscar isn't sure about it, and John Currie doesn't think it would be fiscally worth it.
So in short, it has been discussed, but IT AIN'T HAPPENING HOES
