FSU Football: Administration resumes plans for team only facility

FSU football temporarily shelved plans while figuring out the coaching situation – but it seems that all things are back to being a go on the project.

It seemed that, during the final weeks of the previous coaching administration for FSU football, the words “football only facility” were said more than any other phrase on campus or with the media during each press conference. Before bolting town, that former coach made it seem like it out such a thing, he was coaching a high school program.

After that coach abandoned ship, the plans that seemed to have begun on a possible project – including figuring out price, location and what all would be needed – were put on the back burner while the Seminoles figured out who their next head coach would be.

Now, with Willie Taggart in the driver’s seat and his assistant coaching staff in place, those plans seem to have gotten the green light to continue. The Tallahassee Democrat reported that the project had gotten a “reboot” now that the coaching situation is all good.

"“This feasibility study is not ‘let’s just draw the nicest rendering of a building that we can,'” FSU Senior Associate Athletics Director for Governance and Compliance Jim Curry told the Tallahassee Democrat.“We’re really getting into the finer points of this. If we do option one, what’s the impact? What’s the financials? Is there potential disruption of department operations? And let’s look at option two and ask ourselves the same questions."

Right now, the two options that seem to be on the table are renovating the Moore Athletic Center – located in the north end zone and the current facility for the football team and all other sports but basketball, baseball and just a few more – for just the football team or building a whole new complex.

According to officials, Taggart has been involved in the new plans and heeling to decide what is best for FSU football – using what it saw at Oregon with their facilities while realizing that you might not need as much glitz and glamour since our football program actually has a winning tradition.

If I were a betting man, because of the lack of space that comes with being on the smallest campus space wise of any public university in Florida, you can bet that it will end up being a revamp of the Moore Center and moving the other teams that use the area to some other location on campus.

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Of course, a move like that also affects the academic side as the College of Communication has a majority of their classes in that area (which was awesome as a student, by the way) so that would have to be taken into consideration – translation being nothing is going to happen right away.